– The MTV Movie Blog shares a poster from the New York Licensing Expo of … Marvel movie logos! Or at least one semi-official movie logo and some old Marvel Comics logos. I always did love that classic Avengers one with the arrow.

– The big movie companies are preparing for Comic-Con … and are going a little overboard.

– Speaking of Comic-Con, ComicsPRO is hosting a breakfast on Friday morning with free food and free gifts. While I’m not exactly sure what they’re doing, they had me at free food …

– Paul Cornell is turning his blog into an “unofficial” letters page for Captain Britain and MI-13.

– Jennifer de Guzman wants to know: What do comics creators want?

– Dan Piraro shares a controversial Bizarro comic strip that never ran on the funny pages.

– I thought this review of Salvation Run was really interesting, as I didn’t realize the idea for the comic came from George R.R. Martin:

Salvation Run is like some sort of paragon of editorial mandate, the sum total of all unnecessary top-down plotting that, invariably, falls flat on its ass in the end. This is the end, and damn, has it fallen flat. Looking at Salvation Run as a project on its own merits, it started out as a decade-old Elseworlds pitch proposed by fantasy writer and geek paragon George R.R. Martin. His original plan was a long-term look at a society founded by the DCU’s villains on a sort of cosmic Australia. This pitch sat in DC’s “maybe we’ll use this shit sometime” files until it was inexplicably dragged out as part of the lead-up to Final Crisis. Of course, there’s one major problem with adapting the premise for this purpose: If it takes place before Final, and it’s in continuity, the villains sort of have to get back at some point. And if the villains get back, then they can’t do any of the long-term sociological view. And if they can’t do that, then what the fuck is the point of the book?

– For comic art process junkies, D’Israeli explains several pieces of art he’s done on his blog, including The Vort:

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