* I like moments in comics like this now that they've become these cauldrons of collective creativity for me to watch bubble and percolate and let off strange gases. Drove me nuts when I was a kid, though.
* no way of knowing how this ancient Beatniks In Comics post got into my bookmarks, but I'm grateful it did. Using comics as a kind of general, unaffected canvas on which pop culture paints itself every now and then is appealing to me.
* finally, I'm not sure what's going on here, but I like it.