Your midweek Online Commentary & Diversions:
• Review: "Crude but powerful drawings; an eye-shattering color palette; helter-skelter plotting, often with anticlimactic, fall-off-a-cliff endings; unintentionally manifested author obsessions; stupendous indulgence of schadenfreude, terror and glee at the misery of humanity, salted with some token morality. Yes, that's the Fletcher Hanks formula for a unique, unforgettable, Golden Age comics masterpiece, and all these bizarro traits are indeed on glorious display here [in You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!]…" – Paul Di Filippo, Sci Fi Wire
• Plug: "I'm very impressed with Fantagraphics's restart of this wonderful series [Prince Valiant]. The reproduction quality is much improved over their old softcover series; it's the best I've seen… This is the perfect series to introduce kids to great comics adventure." – Bud Plant
• Plug: "Abstract Comics: The Anthology: I'm one of those who considers the first two words of this title to be an oxymoron. That, ironically, probably makes me a good candidate for reading this book… You can’t argue with the list of contributors…" – J. Caleb Mozzocco, Newsarama
• Commentary: At ArtsJournal, Regina Hackett on our Nancy announcement
• Comic-Con: In his column for Comic Book Resources, Steven Grant offers some rebuttal to our own Eric Reynolds's initial analysis of the show… slicker marketing and products, eh?
• Things to see: The rejected alternate cover for Abstract Comics: The Anthology (link fixed)
• Video: Scenes from Zak Sally's Fear of Song record release show