* not comics: this article on Pulp Fiction not being any good reminded me of Gary Groth's long-ago article on Pulp Fiction not being any good. To be clear that's Gary's good article on Quentin Tarantino, whose movies do not impress him. I have a hard time processing Tarantino as a substantive writer/director, but Pulp Fiction was certainly an interesting moment for non-mainstream junk culture. The thing most like it for me was watching the first Wolverine scenes in the first X-Men movie and thinking, "Okay, all of this stuff is going to be mainstream pop culture now."
* Rob Clough has some thoughts on 
