* this is a post that comes up at some point every year: a group of Jay Lynch Christmas cards from the 1970s.
* Brian Cronin picks five sad deaths from the various X-Men comics. The only one I was reading as a fan was Jean Grey's death, which had a bit more oomph for not being repeated a bunch at that point and for it to be yet to be walked back. I liked the Thunderbird death -- not reprinted here -- when I was a kid because I thought it was kind of scary and made the X-Men more dramatic to me than the other comics where this wasn't likely to happen.