Over here Warren Ellis posted a link to Alan Moore’s Killing Joke script, which is just one of many wonderful old Alan Moore works online. There’s Moore’s parody of Miller’s Daredevil, the song Old Gangsters Never Die (with the lyrics in an 8-page comic), an old rant about Stan Lee, and a few pages of the WATCHMEN script, written in Moore’s trademark rambly stream-of-conscious style, with Dave Gibbons’ highlights of the bit he needs to actually draw.
[link from Fanboy Rampage]
I’m still sorting through my comics collection, and last night I pulled out of the bag a complete run of Hellblazer, the John Constantine comic, issues 2-44 (I have lots of other issues too, this was just what was on the shelf when the original shelf went into a box). There’s the faint whiff of mildew to these, rahter than the more appropriate brimestone.
I never got around to getting issue 1, regretably, so this is a good occassion to link to the free pdf of Hellblazer #1 available at the DC comics website. You can clearly see that back then, Constantine was still very clearly “the character that looks like Sting”. [ via LinkmachineGo ]
Ananova: Hotel creates Batman room
A hotel has dedicated a room to Batman.
The room at the Hilton hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina resembles a cave and is full of interactive games and videos showing sequences of batman movies.
It even has a secret passage that leads to the adjacent room.
A spokesperson for the hotel said: “We decided to dedicate the room to Batman because we think he is the coolest superhero and with the new movie out lots of people got into the batmania again.”
[ via Uncle Bear ]
Update: Boojie found a picture: 
Dark Phoenix Rises Again (via some guy’s blog). Very funny flash if you’ve been reading X-Men both when they were (a) good the first time (1986 and up?) (b) recently (when Grant Morrison was doing New X meN).
Patricia Storms has drawn a cute parody strip called The Amazing Adventures of Lethem and Chabon, about the Comics-obsessed literary saviours of the modern intellectual male
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