The Gentle Scent of Pee in Your Longbox

"Warner Todd Huston Is Angry About Comical Books" (mightygodking.com)

Frank Miller gets mentioned in this Roy Edroso post about a crank who says he's giving up on American culture, all of it.

This is like when somebody says "I'm leaving the fandom forever!  Baawwwllll!"

http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2009…

Hey! so that Batman: Arkham Asylum game has gotten a lot of great reviews. Quite probably because it is great. Of interest to our little community here: people have been modding it on their PCs in order to re-skin the batfellow. 

http://forums.eidosgames.com/showt…

My favorite is the Zur-En-Arrh bat. I would play the hell out of this game if I could look like that. (As it is now, I'm playing the hell out of the game even though he doesn't.)

http://superfunadventuretime.com/2…

Has anyone been reading The Marvels Project? What's your opinion of it so far?

There are two Al Hartley Christian books for sale at my local library.  If you want, I could mail them to one of you guys so you could write about them.

They are "Barney Bear: Lost and Found" and "Noah's Ark."  The first one is about a little bear who discovers a town full of crazy adults who act like kids because they don't know about Jesus.  The second one is a modern retelling of Noah.

Disney to Acquire Marvel Entertainment in $4 Billion Stock and Cash Deal

"Worldwide leader in family entertainment agrees to acquire Marvel and its portfolio of over 5,000 characters - Acquisition highlights Disney’s strategic focus on quality branded content, technological innovation and international expansion to build long-term shareholder value"

Source: http://news.toonzone.net/articles/…

An interesting post over at a horror blog, the Groovy Age of Horror, about Blackest Night and superhero decadence:

http://groovyageofhorror.blogspot.com/2009/07/blackest-night-superhero-horror-or.html#links