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I found this mini-comic at Copacetic in the quarter bin. Bongo Dick.”The rejected strips of Dennis Worden.” Remember Stickboy? He makes a few brief appearances in this mini from 1986. But, for me, the best part of these “rejected” strips are the one pagers, like this one. Also, Worden fills in the negative space at the bottom of some pages with TV Guide capsule reviews from ’86. Channel 42 was showing: MOVIE – biography “The Winning Team” (1952) Ronald Reagan, as the immortal Satan’s son, eyes the Presidency. Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon. (1hr., 50 min.) I dunno if Worden had a computer back then or not to emulate TV Guide’s font but I sure was fooled. Channel 13 was showing “Ramrod” -western (1947) A sheep herder’s daughter (Veronica Lake) starts a bath with cattle barons, giving everyone a hard time. Joel McCrea.

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Magical Mike Reddy, Comics Comics designer, husband, father, and hamburger-lover has released a fab new book in collaboration with The Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat. It’s an excellent collection of illustrated fantastic lyrics for that record. Fans of great drawing and wordplay should not miss this one. You, kind audience, can get it from PictureBox, natch.

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Numerous Comics Comics contributors have wound up on Top 10 lists, and here‘s an unusually nice mention of project close to Frank’s inky heart: the Cold Heat Special, co-created by Jon Vermilyea.

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What? You don’t know who Shaky Kane is? We’ll shed light on the British artist who was the first to really turn Kirby inside out. A look into the mysterious Shaky Kane, coming soon from Comics Comics!

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His homicidal Santa Claus story from Vault of Horror (which I recommended for Holiday reading last year) has just been posted in three parts on Golden Age Comic Book Stories. It’s just as good a year later.

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Here’s some market research for you, Dan. Surprise purchase at the 5:55 mark.

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I take it all back. Steve Rude rules. But I’m saying it for Mike Baron, too. I want to see Nexus be as popular and relevant as it used to be — for Rude, sure, but for Baron more. He’s a great comics writer and I miss his new wave ’80s brand of sci-fi. It feels perfect for today. Kind of P.K. Dick, kind of retro, but still fresh — Baron’s Nexus this time around might just be what comics needs right now.

Baron sounds optimistic in the afterword for Nexus: The Origin: “[Rude] and I expect to spend the next 15 years finishing up our long running, but briefly interrupted saga. And in the end we will hopefully have found ourselves having said it all.”

Baron also explains what happened to issue 100 of Nexus, which has been delayed for months: “Glitches attacked. Nexus 100, already ambitious to start with, grew exponentially as [Rude] painted and expanded the … story.”

Nexus: The Origin is a great deal and a great chance to plug in to the Nexus channel; it’s a reprint of a 1993 Eisner-winning book that retells the Nexus origin story in stunning fashion. Forty-eight pages in full color for four bucks. Rude is awesome. Who cares if he blows his deadlines? Maybe they did this all on purpose to get Nexus fans like me cagey enough to want to abandon all hope only to go bananas for a reprint! It’s almost sad how excited I am about this comic. It’s just so refreshing to see Nexus on the new comics rack. It’s a pretty amazing comic book. Baron and Rude are in a class by themselves.

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I haven’t had a chance to listen to this yet, but I can not wait.

Resident genius and co-blogger Frank Santoro was interviewed for this week’s episode of Inkstuds. You haven’t heard someone talking about comics until you’ve heard Frank talk about comics.

Download the excitement here.

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I just got around to picking up the new Comics Journal, and was surprised to find an extended, thoughtful, and kind (too kind, really) review of Comics Comics written by Rich Kreiner.

It’s never a good idea to respond to critics, I know, especially overwhelmingly positive ones, but I do have to say that it’s a little unfair to use a quote from Dan’s Moebius review as an example of my “more directed and workman-like” prose. Dan‘s the one who’s more directed and workman-like than Dan, not me!

Also, in general, Kreiner likes Dan and Frank too much. Otherwise, good article!

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Sorry I haven’t posted for a while — still recovering from a surprisingly turbulent Thanksgiving. I’ve been mulling a review of the Black Dossier, but am not sure if I have much to say that hasn’t already been said — though I liked it a little more than most people apparently did. We’ll see.

In the meantime, in the comments to Frank’s Galactikrap review, reader Luke Pski pointed out a really terrific post written by cartoonist and all-around great guy Tom K. on Yokoyama’s New Engineering. The J.G. Ballard comparison is brilliant, and I can’t believe I didn’t think of it first.