* Brian Cronin writes about Batman stories where part of the point of the story is that Batman is recast outside his traditional milieu and standard narrative. There are some fun stories in there, although I'm not enough of a fan of the character that I find anything automatically interesting in the twists themselves.
* I've enjoyed the publicity campaign here. It should be a big deal what comics are coming out. Comics right now are fantastic, and that kind of anticipation is mostly missing on the top books like this Bryan Lee O'Malley one will be. It's almost completely absent from books that don't have this kind of reach and built-in fanbase. I get books in the mail now that I have almost no pre-knowledge of, from authors I like, and that's not 100 percent me doing my job poorly. Eighty percent, maybe. We could all work on this.
* Todd Klein on 
