* there's a Red Hulk? A She-Ghost Rider? Flash Thompson is Venom? Apparently so. There was once a character called Adam-X The X-Treme? This says it's true. I have a feeling I'm not going to do very well with the mainstream creators whose comics references are going to go back to about 1995.
* Matt Seneca looks at a sequence from the recent "Love Bunglers" by Jaime Hernandez.
* Graeme McMillan muses on death in superhero comics. Basically, it's been done a lot. He also looks at some odd statements about a new Marvel comic and its sales levels -- basically, he suggests that unless they doubled the comic as they say they're going to, it would have done super-poorly.
* the late Martin Skidmore once asked why Thor generates almost no interest with comics fans. That's not quite true anymore, but I wanted to link to it because a) I like that they're re-running Skidmore's essays, and b) I wanted to underline that Marvel has been really good the last five to ten years in terms of resuscitating their Avengers-related properties.
* via Gary Tyrrell 
