* In reviewing Jaime Hernandez’s The Girl From H.O.P.P.E.R.S., Sean T. Collins finds common ground between Xaime’s comics and David Lynch’s film oeuvre. Sean also sees the beginning deepening of the Locas neighbourhood of the municipality of Love and Rockets, to strain a metaphor way beyond breaking.

* Must-read: Jog on Alan Moore’s Neonomicon #2, at Comics Comics.

* Also at Comics Comics, Dan Nadel talks to author Steve Brower about his new Fantagraphics release, From Shadows to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin. Good news, everyone: Brower is compiling a book of Meskin’s comics for Fantagraphics, too.

* I’m not at the NYCC this weekend, and frankly unless your convention is close enough that I can drive there without listening to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon more than twice (it’s permanently stuck in our car’s CD player, y’see), chances are I won’t be coming. That said, a lot of comics-interested folks are in NYC for the big show this weekend, and to coincide with that, Tom Spurgeon talks to event organizer Lance Fensterman.

* Uncomics: Christopher Allen unpacks Blondie’s 1977 album Plastic Letters.

— Alan David Doane