* At Comics Comics, Jeet Heer visits The Beguiling, North America’s best-stocked comic shop. [Edited to remove inaccurate characterization of Heer’s post.]
* At The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon profiles this week’s most promising new releases.
* Tom also points to cartoonist Steve Bissette’s lengthy and essential look back at how corporate comics companies and the creators that produce the comics they sell clashed over censorship a couple of decades or so back. Here are parts one, two, three, four, five, six and seven.
* At Spatula Forum, Nik Dirga loves Man-Thing.
* Michael Crawford reviews what looks to be one fantastic, Mego-style Superman action figure.
* Uncomics: Roger Green on the ridiculous proposal to ban salt in New York restaurants, and Christopher Allen looks at Peter Gabriel’s new album of cover songs.
— Alan David Doane
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