An analysis of more than 30 years of House general elections suggests: Don’t nominate someone who will motivate the other side to show up.

— Lynn Vavreck

A missed opportunity! Yes, it’s time to stop celebrating racists like Tom Yawkey, but “Jersey Street” is not a very good name.

Everybody gets to contribute something. And what’s good tends to stay. It’s a collective work, all together.

– Frank Miller on Martha Wayne’s pearls

Abraham Riesman for Vulture:

If names like Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Ebony Maw can’t pique your interest, I’m sorry that you’re dead inside.

Kai Stinchcombe:

Projects based on the elimination of trust have failed to capture customers’ interest because trust is actually so damn valuable. A lawless and mistrustful world where self-interest is the only principle and paranoia is the only source of safety is a not a paradise but a crypto-medieval hellhole.

Moving from “monthlies” to graphic novels going forward. From Kurt Busiek, series writer and co-creator:

Astro City is a mature series that makes most of its sales in book form (and digital), so why not do it in that format first, and put the prime solicitation and promotion into the form that most people will be reading it in?

It’s always great to see comic book creators willing to break with the past in the face of the new realities of the marketplace. And also a TV show sounds promising too.

Btw was introduced to Astro City via an episode of The Incomprable. You should listen and read. It’s a super fun series.