* still fascinated by the depth of feeling and sharp contrasts of Murray Ball vs. Bill Leak. It's an interesting dry run in Leak's case to see how we'll forgive or perhaps not forgive those around who develop terrible opinions and articulate them.
* Scott Cederlund writes admiringly of Jaime Hernandez's greatest early work, The Death Of Speedy, particularly its last three astounding pages. I love the book's one-page epilogue and always took it as a reinforcement of the notion just how arbitrary and even delicate some human connections can be.
* Joe Gordon on 
