Interesting links spotted over the past week.

Art, webcomics and humor:

• Calamities of Nature: Bad Investments looks back at the comics speculator boom and bust of the 1990s.
• Comic Critics: Please Turn the Dark Back On takes on the hazards of the Spider-Man Musical.
• The Alarmingly Specific Comic Book Ratings You Won’t Be Seeing at ComicsAlliance
• Gutters: DC Drops the Comics Code Seal (NSFW Language)
• Comic strip mashups by Ryan Dunlavey
• Batman Vs. The Internet by Caldwell Tanner and Kevin Corrigan on CollegeHumor
• Huge round-up of fan art at Comics Alliance.

Reviews:

• Review: DC Super-Pets Books 1-6 at Trade Reading Order. (The Fastest Pet on Earth is about Wonder Woman’s kangaroo? OK, I can see the cheetah connection, but talk about a missed opportunity! On the plus side, they have Dex-Starr…)
• Flash Mego Retro Review by That F’ing Monkey
• Review: Born to Run at Trade Reading Order

Other:

• Original 1959 ad for The Flash at Comics Should Be Good.
• The Beat on the end of Wizard Magazine and Toyfare
• DC Comics Characters in Need of Showrunners at Television Without Pity – Imagine Aaron Sorkin writing The Flash! (via @SpeedsterSite)
• The Life, Death and Life of Superheroes at the New York Times. (And for extra-coolness: they linked to my bio of Barry Allen!)
• Newsarama’s Eulogy to Wizard Magazine.
• Building a Better Digital Comics Marketplace – IGN
• John Ostrander: Exclusive Interview with Firestorm Fan
• Defending Quicksilver at Written World.

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