* not comics: J. Caleb Mozzocco writes about Iron Man toys. He does note something I felt just watching a bunch of commercials: the Iron Man armors in this new movie seem pretty unattractive, at least to me.
* finally, one of the Sports Illustrated blogs has a piece up on Slam Dunk and the passion for basketball it helped ignite in Japan. I always thought that comic was pretty interesting just for the super-deliberate pacing of its serial aspects.
* Wilfred Santiago, in the midst of work on a Michael Jordan book, posted 
