I liked this review: X-Men x-pert Paul O’Brien reviewed the new New Mutants on his blog, and did so by framing it in the greater history of Marvel’s mutant comics. As that’s a real blind-spot in my comics knowledge, I appreciated the take on the comic, and I enjoyed reading the review despite not actually having read the comic being reviewed.

But I don’t love prequels: Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr waxes on about the appeal of prequels in an article headlined “Backstory: Why we love prequels.” He talks about nerd movies of the moment X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Trek, dubbing this the “summer of the prequels,” and he even namedrops “Lil’ Archie” in there. You know,  I don’t think I’ve ever heard Lil’ Archie referred to as a prequel before.

The Man of…coal?: A staff writer for a local Pennsylvania newspaper writes about a 25-year-old comic in which Bob Rozakis and Kurt Schaffenberger had Superman save a fictionalized version of the town Centralia.

Yes, I know I just linked to him last Monday: But I have to link to Tom Spurgeon’s Sunday interview again this week, as it’s another doozy. Spurgeon talks with Craig Yoe about his recent books Boody and Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster. I thought it particularly significant since Yoe has been getting a lot of ink from the mainstream media regarding the latter, and it was refreshing to hear him talking about it with an interviewer as well-versed in comics as Spurgeon, instead of simply with whatever daily newspaper arts feature writer got assigned the interview.

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