Random thoughts, outbound links.

• Look, if you don’t want to celebrate Kick A Dude That Talks Like A Pirate In The Junk Day, that’s fine, but don’t ruin the fun for me.

• Here’s a PDF for the first page of Mister Wonderful, Dan Clowes’s “graphic novel” for the New York Times Magazine. I find it annoying that Mister Wonderful is going to end up being a 20-page comic book but they’re apparently embarrassed to call a spade a spade and lunge for the cloying, increasingly-misused “graphic novel” in order to keep up appearances. However, I’d be delighted if they started using “graphic novella,” because that’s just plain funny.
• Every time the Star Wars comics editors describe their upcoming Vector event as being a Civil War-like crossover, I wonder if that means that Wicket is going to become a bad guy and Ackbar’s going to get shot as he leaves the Senate floor.
• Here are four things I care about more than the Green Arrow/Black Canary wedding: Alfonso Ribeiro selling a breakdancing book, Wes Anderson’s new AT+T commercials, the release of the first Fart Party book and mulch.
• It should be noted that I did read and enjoy the JLA Wedding Special, despite the fact the book was misnomered and featured Batman using the first names of other JLA members at a crime scene. (I also think that the whole Injustice League story should have started in the main title, but that’s just good marketing, much like not titling the book The JLA Bachelor and Bachelorette Party Special.)
• The word “Countdown” may only be used 16 times in DC’s December solicitations, but that’s in reference to thirteen comics across five titles featuring the branding. “Countdown” is the new “X-Men,” apparently.
• People are shocked by Kevin Smith cursing a blue streak? Huh.
• Does anyone read DC’s Confidential titles? I was checking out the Superman book, but the scheduling on that got shot to hell and, frankly, I wasn’t crazy about the story anyway.