1. Pal Sean, the quietest member of the ACAPCWOVCCAOE (which is ironic, if you know him in real life), has finally updated Fleshhead’s Treehouse with the first of a series of articles on his preparations for the San Diego Comic Con.
2. Sooner or later, someone was going to customize Smurf figurines to look like the Hulk, Freddy Krueger, Spider-Man, and, yes, Batman and Robin.
3. From the Marvel solicits: actually, I kind of like the idea of a Giant Size X-Men #3. And while that Maximum Fantastic Four hardcover (an annotated overview of Stan ‘n’ Jack’s first FF, with essays and such) sounds pretty neat, it’s still going to be a hard sell at $49.99. And I know someone else on the comicsweblogosphere noted this, but I’m going to agree: Machine Teen is a great title. No idea if the comic’s any good, but that title and the James Jean cover are going to be hard to match.