* Timothy Callahan takes a long, loving look at early Nexus by Baron and Rude. Nexus was one of those early-1980s comics that redefined comics for me, along with Cerebus, Elfquest, Love and Rockets and The First Kingdom. I never much cared for Baron's other work, and Rude has been institutionally misused and neglected by corporate publishers to a degree that is both shocking and foolishly short-sighted, but man, those early issues of Nexus (Flexi disc! Regeneration tank! Ylum!) were pure magic.
* I have this Jack Kirby Iron Man comic hanging on my wall. It's one of my favourite Kirby images of all time.
* Here's a list of the ten worst superhero movies of all time. I can't argue; the ones on the list that I have seen were really awful. Of course, my list of the best superhero movies would have Avengers at #1 and then Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman: Year One and all the Justice League/Unlimited movies/movie-like-arcs on it before we got back to any live action superhero movies.
* Tom Spurgeon's holiday interviews with comics industry folks is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's a long interview with writer Mark Waid that kept me entertained and interested from beginning to end. Waid is the rare comics figure who is both super-talented and super-outspoken, a combination the culture of comics has never really quite seemed to know what to do with. Waid's Daredevil and Hulk titles are currently two of the most readable and entertaining books being published by a corporate comics publisher.
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