Happy 7-8-9 day… today's Online Commentary & Diversons update is extra short:
• Review: "…[M]y favorite comics collection of the year so far [is] Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations… Think of [Peter Bagge's] strips as angry but really funny protest songs on paper… Bagge wickedly and wonderfully shows a truly individualistic viewpoint, an actual bullshit detector raging full blast (occasionally to the point of anxiety-induced overload), with ideas and observations both fearlessly marginalist and unabashedly mainstream (like the best rock and roll, in my opinion)… it is HOT and FUN. Just out from Fantagraphics, pick it up now!" – Chris Estey, KEXP
• Review: "Jordan Crane is, to be polite, a bit of a disturbed individual… Not that I'm complaining… The [first] story [in Uptight #3 is] a refinement of past themes that, while not as chilling as usual, still can leave you emotionally drained… The second story is "Freeze Out"… The drawing is immaculate… And just when you think the story is over, it twists right at the end from a gentle children's fable… into something else." – squiggly lines!