I only read it for the cartoons: Professional Playboy Hugh Hefner discusses his interest in cartooning—obvious from the talent that’s contributed to the magazine over the years—with Geoff Boucher of the LA Times. Never let it be said that liking comics will prevent you from getting laid

Was turning into Tyler Mane a secondary mutation?: You’ll hear no complaints from me about anyone casting Liev Schreiber in anything, but man, he sure doesn’t look a whole heck of a lot like the Sabretooth in X-Men, does he? And while I’m linking here, “the iconic role of Victor Creed, AKA Sabertooth?” I think the entire Internet needs to engage in a discussion about the exact definition and connotations of the word “iconic.”

You know a good way to make sure tons of people who don’t normally read a comic strip poking fun at you read it?: Try to sue the cartoonist for it.

Attention every artist who somehow landed a gig on a superhero book without already knowing all this: Check out this 15-page how to draw pretty girls lesson presented on Comiccrazys.com. (Link stolen from Dirk Deppey, an excellent source of steal-able links)

Noooooooooo! Ah,well, whatever: The Captain Marvel movie, which would have been called The Shazam! movie because Marvel and DC have lame-os for lawyers, is apparently dead in the water, according to this Wired piece. The reasons cited were the success of The Dark Knight versus the failure of Speed Racer, and studios’ desire to go darker and more serious.

No Captain Marvel movie is probably better than a dark, serious one, judging by how dark, serious Marvel Family comics have turned out. If the “Dark Knight made gazillions, Speed Racer did not” logic is indeed the rationale, it’s a rather weak one, since Speed Racer seems a rather arbitrary movie to compare a potential Shazam flick too (Why not light-hearted, family friendly superhero movie The Incredibles? That made a few coins at the old box office). But hell, what do I know? Not only am I not a studio executive, I actually thought Speed Racer was one of the best movies I saw in ’08, and far superior to Dark Knight in a few areas.

Screenwriter John August had more on his blog, as Lucas pointed out the other day. Maybe August can sell DC on turning his unused script into a miniseries?

This should be interesting: Smart writers about comics Laura Hudson and Leigh Walton are tackling all 300 issues of Dave Sim’s Cerebus at their just-launched co-blog Cereblog. I guess I never realized how old Cerebus was, or how young Hudson and Walton are, but it should be interesting to see the next generation (or half generation…or whatever) looking back at that seminal work. Sim has definitely earned a spot in comics history, and not that his epic has been completed and put to rest and new, younger writers are taking a fresh look at it, we might begin to see exactly what that place could look like. (Link first seen at Tom Spurgeon’s linkatorium)

One thing will be slightly different from now on!: Blog@ alum and Savage Critic Graeme MacMillan takes a look at Marvel’s new, post-Secret Invasion status quo, and isn’t exactly impressed. Obviously he just doesn’t seem to get it. Norman Osborn got a promotion! Tony Stark got a demotion! What could possibly be more earth-shattering than that?!

Now if only President Obama could empower them to actually enforce people getting off the Internet…: Get Off The Internet rounds up some of the more hilarious responses to the Barack Obama/Spider-Man team-up.

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