* perhaps the most interesting thing about this Trouble With Comics group post about the newspaper comics page is that only two of their writers chose to send along a response. I enjoyed Joe Gualtieri's analysis of his local metropolis comics page and the role that the ubiquity of bland features has in terms of the way people perceive the age of strips.
* Mark Evanier dips into comics history a bit to help explain why he has no interest in seeing the film where Superman and Batman fight. Speaking of which, Steve Weissman draws the property icons here.
* Todd Klein on 
