* missed it: the 24 Hour Comics Day people have set their date for the event in 2009: October 3. Registration for sites is to begin June 1. (thanks, Nat Gertler)
* not comics: in a tighter than expected vote this weekend at an emergency meeting of the International Federation of Overweight Men With Beards, Brian Blessed was named world's leading fat, bearded celebrity following the recent death of comic actor Dom Deluise. Deluise had served in the largely ceremonial position for nearly 20 months after the passing of long-time title holder Luciano Pavarotti. Blessed won by three votes over surprise fringe candidate Jorge Garcia, who emerged when John Rhys-Davies was stricken from the field after a qualifications challenge and a last-minute effort to draft chef Mario Batali failed. Blessed's first action in his new position was to order his hawkmen to dive.
* finally, noted on-line comics critics Jog and Tucker Stone are apparently done with their 18-part review series on "each and every book released via the DC Comics/Humanoids Publishing alliance, 2004-05, as well as other relevant topics of purported interest." You can find an index here. I pretty much stayed the hell away from this thing while it was in process, and look forward to reading it at some point in the near future.
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