* Top Shelf Productions has launched its biggest digital comics sale yet, but it only lasts through tomorrow, so act fast and get in on the bargains.
* The Eisner awards were handed out last night. Behind the Panels has the list of winners.
* Uncomics: Firefly is returning as an online game, and the trailer looks like a whole lot of fun. Stay til the very end.
* Uncomics: The Simple Dollar runs down 9 ways to find free music online.
* Uncomics: I watched David Lynch's 1986 masterpiece Blue Velvet last night for the first time in many years and was blown away all over again by its intensity and the directness with which Lynch channels his obsessions. Its innocent high school girl, charming hometown diner, giant rumbling lumber trucks, an inquisitive Kyle Maclachlan and many other elements obviously prefigure the more polished and TV-friendly (if still weird and demented) Twin Peaks (which is out on Blu-ray next week), but the demented Frank Booth, the despair of Dorothy Vallens and the random moments of chaos suggest darker works like Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. I popped Blue Velvet in as part of an informal film series I am sharing with my daughter's fiancee, and I warned him it was the darkest, strangest one I'd sprung on him yet. Some of the other films we've watched recently include Dark City, The Man from Earth, Synecdoche, NY, Ghost World, Donnie Darko, Glengarry Glen Ross, Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil.
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