* Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon interviews comics journalist Joe Sacco. This is a good one, make a cup of tea and grab a muffin and settle in for a long, engaging read.
* Tom also posted a thoughtful list of comics-related New Year's Comics Resolutions. I'm resolved to try to not let comics make me crazy this year. Only reading two comics and almost no blogs or sites about comics has to help, right?
* Tony Isabella concludes his 2012 year in review with part 2.
* At The Comics Journal, Tucker Stone looks at a bunch of old and new comics in that way he does. How is it I never knew BWS drew an entire issue of Daredevil other than the three issue Starr Saxon arc he drew in the '60s? I love Tucker's description of the artwork, and would love to read the entire comic based on that and the panel used to illustrate the post.
* Uncomics: Actress Diana Muldaur is featured in a two part interview at startrek.com, in which she discusses her roles on two original series episodes, as well as her one season on TNG as chief medical officer Dr. Kate Pulaski. Hey, well, I liked her.
* Uncomics: At Collider, The emotional heart of TV's Fringe, John Noble, gives an exit interview in which he touches upon the end of his character's five-year story-arc and his relationships with his fellow actors on the series. His performance in last Friday night's episode was wondrous, as Walter Bishop explained to his son what regaining his memories of his original timeline had done for his state of mind. It served as a heartening reminder of how the show and its characters have evolved over time, and also laid the groundwork for whatever is to come in the final two episodes. I'm really going to miss this show and these people when Fringe concludes.
Uncomics: Speculation at Collider on how Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson will be revived for the SHIELD TV series after his momentous on-screen death in The Avengers movie. Anyone who remembers how Joss Whedon earned, emotionally and narratively, the return to life of Buffy Summers in season six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer knows there's little doubt Whedon can pull it off without diminishing the impact of Coulson's movie-death. The only real question is if Disney/Marvel/ABC will let him do it his way, which, after the success of The Avengers, I kind of think he's got some political capital to spend. So, I'm looking forward to SHIELD, and curiouos but unconcerned about how Clark Gregg will fit into the grand scheme of things.
* Roger Ebert reflects on one of the best films of 2012, Django Unchained. Like Ebert, I saw it too late to include it on my year-end best-of list, but Django is one of Tarantino's best. See it.
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