* Andy Warner walks us through the situation facing Syrian refugees via comic. I don't think I've ever seen "cartoon infographic" used in that forthright way. Sounds like something you could sell even the most skeptical editor.
* a new direction for the Spectre character created by Bernard Baily. I can't imagine that character was doing them much good in its classic incarnation as a kind of pissed-off super god, although this one sounds even less commercial in a sense and the comic they show seems kind of clumsy to me. I don't know! Radical change can work for these character. Comics is an art form of execution.
* speaking of that kind of move, I'm kind of lost as to what exactly Marvel intends end-game wise with its reworking of the Inhumans into a more prominent place in the overall Marvel universe including a bit of overlap with its X-Men properties. I know that when I was a kid I liked the idea of a advanced civilization storing weapons in the form of super-beings on a backwater planet; hell, I still that's a pretty clever pulp concept. But once you put them into contact with that wider universe, and Marvel is far past that, you kind of have to find other things for them to be. Again: execution.
* the cartoonist Daryl Cagle writes about the Times' relationship to editorial cartooning. It's a weird one.
* Zainab Akhtar on 
