* The Nashua Telegraph explains The Miracle Behind Miracleman. I want to live in a world where you have to explain that Todd McFarlane is famous.
* At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson runs down her top graphic novels of 2013. I love how casually diverse this list is, actually fulfilling the remit of a site called "Comics Worth Reading." You realize most popular comic sites seem actively dedicated to promoting the opposite, yes?
* Tom Spurgeon's Five for Friday hits another grand sweet spot with readers responding with five hoped-for but so far non-existent comics and comics-related collections. My list is in there somewhere, probably with zero surprises for anyone who's followed my interests for five minutes or more out of the past 15 years I've been writing about comics.
* Mr. Spurgeon interviews Rich Tomasso. I was keenly interested in the part about colouring Carl Barks for Fantagraphics.
* You should read Jed Alexander's thoughts on the future of comics vis a vis casual readers and Heidi MacDonald's followup. (Warning: Brian Hibbs comes in to explain "reality" in the comments on Jed's post. As always, take him with a planetoid of salt.) I think Jed's piece is simpatico with my 2008 Comics Journal essay "A Future for Comics" (that link is to the PDF version), which I somehow totally forgot Noah Berlatsky started a discussion on at The Hooded Utilitarian. The Me that wrote that article in 2008 finds it a bit discouraging that we still need to debate the need for casual readers of all ages and genders eight fucking years later.
* My comments on Justice League: War, a DVD movie based on the first arc of Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's New 52 JL series: There's something really wrong with the writing when my visceral, gut response to the bad guy breaking Green Lantern's arm is "GOOD!" More of my thoughts are at Trouble With Comics.
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