Daily OCD: 10/13/10

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions:

• Review: "Love and Rocktober" continues with Sean T. Collins at Attentiondeficitdisorderly: "…[T]he comics in Penny Century look less dense and read that way, too. Maggie and Hopey seem to have settled down, somewhat — no longer careening from adventure to adventure or disaster to disaster, still involved in the lives and schemes of their eccentric friends but no longer completely swept up by them, still romantically (or at least sexually) entangled with one another but not to the all-or-nothing extremes of the past."

• Review: "Released at last, Blake Bell's biography [Fire & Water] devoted to Bill Everett… helps correct an injustice: Giving an author whose importance and personality are not recognized at their fair values a shot at the spotlight. […] This is not a book that exhausts, by itself, Everett as a subject. But the book is moving (without falling into whining), documented and rich as Blake Bell restores a lot of truths about an author who did not 'merely' create Sub-Mariner and Daredevil." – Xavier Fournier, Comic Box [translated from French]

• Plug: "Wow, does this ever look good: Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film, coming soon from Fantagraphics. Somehow this book completely evaded my radar, which is unforgivable of me." – Sean T. Collins, Attentiondeficitdisorderly