Giant Lego Man: Threat or Menace?
Baffling News Story of the Day: Dutch children discover and befriend a giant Lego man in the sea. AOL claims that he’s “smiling,” but I’m more familiar with the standard Lego faces than they are – that, my friend, is a smirk, which means this story is not yet done. (Hey, I just had a thought — any chance that this guy is the monster from the secret "Cloverfield" movie?)
Comics Reporter reaches way back to review 1967’s Marvel Collector’s Item Classics #13.
Neil Gaiman talks to NPR about Stardust (you’ll have to listen to it, not read it).
Comics Alliance interviews Eddie Campbell.
Sequential Tart interviews Gail Simone about her plans for Wonder Woman.
USA Today has a graphic novel roundup.
The Ephemerist thinks that Garfield is the new Nancy. When I see Jim Davis drawing three lasagna pans in the background, then I’ll worry.
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog reviews Nick Abadzis’s graphic novel Laika. (Which I’ve just read; look for a review here in a few days, Gawd willing and the creek don’t rise.)
Comics Should Be Good’s latest Reason to Love Comics: Fin Fang Foom, baby!
Ralph’s Comic Corner of Ventura, CA was recently robbed. But it’s not as bad as it would have been – the robbers “walked by actual cash money to steal Spawn and Witchblade.”
Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing thinks Brian Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland is the “single weirdest graphic novel [he’s] ever enjoyed.” I smell a pull-quote for the second edition!
Dana of Comic Fodder reviews her usual weekly batch of Marvel comics.