Comics

Regarding Secret Invasion, Nick Fury knows his wife is a skrull yet believes Earth isn’t big enough for humans and skrulls. This does not seem a tenable moral position.

Because the Marvel intro music is replaying in my mind’s ear (composed I believe by the great Michael Giacchino), I went to YouTube and found Every Marvel Intro. Turns out the first time we heard this brief yet potent bit was Dr Strange.

Well all this looks like too much fun: trailers for upcoming Marvel TV shows. It is indeed the best of times, the worst of times.

Steve Ditko, world builder, at 90.

Joss Whedon on making The Avengers: “There’s very little that I didn’t look at. It’s like, This is a Dr. Strangelove moment. This is The Abyss. This is His Girl Friday. It’s constant. You have to have all that stuff sort of in a blender in your head.”

Nice piece by E. E. Knight on James Bond as mythic hero.

And for their next trick… Marvel’s Daredevil TV show is ‘extraordinarily good’, says Den of Geek.

An illustrated evolution of the Star Wars typygraphy/logo.

A brief interview (with longer run-up) with Stan Lee.

Harry Knowles lovin’ on the perfect _Captain America: The First Avenger_.

My favorite movie reviewer, FlickPhilosopher Maryann Johanson, on Captain America, what I am about to see tonight.

“You come for Crumb, you stay for Harvey.” ⁠— Neil Gaiman.
Harvey Pekar, comics writer, 1940-2010

10 good reasons to avoid talking on the phone, by Oatmeal.

Interview with the guys behind the wonderful closing credits for WALL•E.

Watching Watchmen. For: Ebert (wants to see again), Travers. Against, Scott (withering), Podhoretz.