Mark Evanier reports that the ailing Irv Novick has died.

NOTE TO ALL MONITOR DUTY POSTERS: I am suspending our usual rule of “only one post per news item” so that we can all post reactions to Christopher Reeve’s death. (Of course, additional links on the topic are welcome as always.) Here is the extended AP obit, now that they have been able to elaborate…

ICv2 News has the top 300 comics. Identity Crisis is #3. Makes sense. But Superman #208 is #2? What? What did I miss? I don’t think I’ve bought a Superman comic since Emperor Joker. As I scan down the list, the first comic that I am currently buying and enjoying is Teen Titans at #19.…

A simple question: Which comic book needs a TPB collection? My vote is Ostrander’s Suicide Squad. What’s yours?

Joe Crowe asks interviewees about their favorite pudding, and now he has assembled The Pudding List.

Roz Terrill (a runner-up in the Small Press Idol, and a former cover artist for Fanzing) is sponsoring this week’s Dimestore Chat. She was supposed to tell me ahead of time, instead we’re about 10 minutes in…but if you’re reading this from 7-8:30 on Tuesday night (Central Time), come on over and join us!

Everyone misses Unca Cheeks’ site, right? For several years, Kent “Unca Cheeks” Orlando wrote one of the funniest and most insightful Silver Age comic analysis sites around. Then the Internet bubble burst, all those “free unlimited hosting and unlimited bandwidth” deals disappeared and Cheeks was faced with a massive site and nowhere to put it.…

Allah Pundit can do cheap photoshop attacks too! Okay, I’ll be honest: what always bugged me about Micah Wright was not really his politics. Oh sure, that bugged me…but about as much as a guy selling Marxist books at a San Fran rally. I mean, that’s irritating but it’s not making much of a dent…

Variant Covers–Are They Back?

More fun with Micah! I don’t wish to become “All Micah, All the Time” but there is more to report. First off, someone tried to sell Micah Ian Wright’s Credibility on eBay. In addition, here’s a new twist to this whole mess: Wright is now even lying in his confession. He tried to backdate his…