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Season 3/Episode 10:  I Smell a Rat Episode nine ended with some bloody messes to clean up. Franklin’s entrails were all over the Merlotte’s parking...

This week: Kieron Gillen on the prospects of more PHONOGRAM; Axel Alonso on that X-Men crossover with the vampires; and the conclusion of EX MACHINA.

You cannot say that indicted former Illinois governor Rod Bagojevich is not a smart and pragmatic man. Although recently convicted on a single count of federal corruption, Blago, as he is known to fans, had a mistrial on 23 others, so he's still out and about. And what does a pol do while out on bail to feed the family? He takes it to the people, and makes a little spending money by signing autographs at Wizard World Chicago/Chicago Comic-Con. Blago is well aware that cashing in on celebrity is the best follow up to a political fall, and while thwarted in his attempt to appear on 'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!, has been a contestant on The Apprentice. So he's gone where all reality stars go.

Cartoonists Ted Rall, Mat Bors and photographer Steven Cloud are in Afghanistan to tell "the people's story" and send back cartoons. They've been uploading them as often as possible using satellite phones.

Jordan Crane's great storage room of comics, WHAT THINGS DO, posts What Am I Doing Here? by Abner Dean, a lovely mid-century comics collection....

Via Comic Book Bin, info on the new Felix the Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails from IDW, compiled by inexhaustible Craig Yoe.

Season 3/Episode 9: Everything is Broken Everything in this episode was indeed broken.  It felt fractured, like it was in between something else finishing or...

o “Batman Can Take It” Grant Morrison talks to Los Angeles Times blogger Geoff Boucher about his plans for Batman: “Supple is the word. It's really...

Oh yeah, that's how the Federation rolls.

The New York Times has a story on how Comic-Con has become a venue to market to -- gasp! -- girls with lots of info on various toy and clothing lines, including gymnast Nastia Liukin's Supergirl line of clothing.

Jillian Tamaki And Gabrielle Bell -- this one is an EPIC. We could have SWORN there was a third...but can't find it now. Readers?

More at Cracked.com. Although shouldn't that be "If Green Lantern WERE A Pervert"? Junior editors?