“Why Does This Glee Comic Book Exist?”: Writing for Vanity Fair, Brett Berk takes a look at one of Bluewater’s biosploitation comics, and asks himself the same question so many do when faced with a such a comic—of course, his asking also provides the answer, since this particular book has now been covered by Vanity frigging Fair. Berk is quite familiar with the Glee television show and the various ways in which various folks have attempted to cash in on its popularity, but has very limited experience with comics, and it’s always intersting to see someone who can communicate really well engage a comic book from that outsider’s persepective. Well, it’s always interesting to me, anyway.

“8 Superhero Movies That Broke The Mold (Please Copy Them!)”: That’s the headline for this i09.com story, which I found quite amusing. The premise is basically that these eight superhero movies were good or interesting superhero movies because they differed from the pack, therefore the pack should imitate them…a sort of “I wish everything could be unique exactly like that thing is!” construction. I found quite alarming the particular movies listed, some of which are just terrible, terrible films, and only one of which I would classify even as a very good film. But hey, it’s the Internet—everyone’s entitled to their opinion, and the propagation of it.

This headline is just tempting God to send a meteor hurtling towards Broadway: “Could the Spider-Man Musical Saga Get Any Worse?”

The Daily Planet‘s funnies page is even less funny than your local paper’s funnies page: Using the modern “miracle of DVD technology,” Mike Sterling is able to scrutinize the funnies in a scene from an episode of Superman: The Animated Series (my favorite episode, if anyone cares). Does Paul Dini’s last name rhyme with “meany?” I always thought it was pronounced “Dinn-y”…this could radically alter the way I yell at his comics as I read them…

Today’s must-read: Tom Spurgeon’s holiday tradition of interviewing various comics folks during the traditionally slow weeks at the end of the year is always worth paying attention to, although today’s interview is with perhaps one of the most fascinating figures in cartooning in the world at the moment: Zulkiflee Anawar Ulhaque, better known by his pen name of Zunar. If you read much about political cartoons or cartooning in general—say, if you have a Google News alert set up on those subjects, to aid you in your linkblogging for Blog@Newsarama—Zunar’s is one of the names you’d see most often, although his struggles with his country’s government doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves here in the states.

Christmas left-overs: Ty Templeton has been blogging up a storm about Santa-related comics covers of late, although his list of The Seven Most Inappropriately Naughty Comic Book Christmas Covers is probably my favorite list so far. Meanwhile, renaissance elf James Kochalka made a Christmas song identifying various DC super-folks in the lyrics. I love the fact that Hawkman’s villain slot goes to “Thanagarian criminals,” while Wonder Woman Man’s goes to “Steve Trevor.” I hope to hear Kochalka’s “Super Christmas Men” playing in malls while I do my Christmas shopping next year…

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