I meant to blog a few times since I uploaded the podcast last Wednesday, but life just gets in the way. Thursday I had to deal with my eye insurance and while I was driving around, I got a flat tire 20 minutes before the kids got off the bus! Patrick also had a baseball game. I got everything fixed and all was OK, I was planning on recording with John Mayo that night, but everything came crashing down. Friday I had to take Patrick to the doctor, don’t fret, he’s doing just fine. Good thing, too, because we all had to get up at 6:00am on Saturday and go to Chicago for my nephews first communion. Thank goodness Patty drove, which allowed me to relax and read Whiteout Definitive Editions Volumes 1-2 by Greg Rucka. It was a long day but I did manage to get away and get to a local comic book store for FCBD, I’ll talk more about that on the next podcast. Sunday was a whole lot easier. Patty drove most of the way home and I read the first story from Queen and Country Definitive Edition 02 (also by Rucka – see a pattern?) and watched Night at the Museum and part of Alvin and the Chipmunks. The kids and I agreed that Museum was a much better movie. I never did get to see Iron Man this weekend, perhaps this week. So now that I caught you up with my life, let me catch you up on a bunch of links:

• Top 100 Graphic Novels Actual–March 2008. The Killing Joke Special Edition HC came in at #1, I’m not surprised. John and I are working out our schedules and plan on recording sometime this week. As always, I’ll post when it is available for download.
• DC’s Paul Levitz doesn’t say much about Collected Editions; which leaves all of us to speculate.
• Another mini-collection from Marvel. This time it’s X-Force #1-#3 ($4.99 on sale 5/28/08). this is called “Wait for Half of the Trade”.
• Star Wars and Indiana Jones Mad Libs Books. Why wasn’t this put out sooner? Like in the 1982?!
• Download a free copy of Star Wars: Legacy Of The Force: Betrayal. Free as in: free digital PDF, free Audiobook, free Amazon Kindle e-book, and/or free Sony Reader e-book. Hurry, offer expires at midnight, May 13, 2008.
• PB Weekly has some hardcore information on the upcoming Jules Feiffer’s Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips 1956-66, the first of four dense hardcover books collecting the all of Feiffer’s strips, which contains roughly 500 strips from the series’ first decade. Initial printing is 5,000 copies.
• A collected edition of the first series of Cla$$war is coming out soon. I meant to blog about this weeks ago, but I lost the URL in my bookmarks and forgot about it. Thanks to an e-mail from listener Mark, I remembered.
• Now available Mome Vol. 1-10 Mega-Bundle and the beautiful The Complete Love and Rockets Library Vol. 1, both from Fantagraphics.
• Hermes Press to reprint entire Buck Rogers newspaper run. This is great news, but am I alone in thinking that this was announced before? Ah yes it was, by Dynamite Entertainment, who will be publishing anew series of Buck Rogers. The initial Press Release reads: Dynamite’s agreement with the Dille Estate allows for the creation of Buck Rogers comics, collections, including classic material, comics-based fine art prints, posters, action figures, trading cards, statues, and other high-end collectibles.
• Bob Greenberger’s work schedule. Damn! is he ever busy.
• Good friend of the CCL, Jeff from the Graphic Novel Archive revisits the Transformers graphic novels.
• A 20th anniversary Dilbert book is set to released in September according to E&P. The book will be about 600 pages, 4,000 strips and a CD that contains every ‘Dilbert’ strip and that can be updated as new comics are released. The cartoons were personally selected by Scott Adams and offers his comment and humorous asides throughout the book.
• Mark Anderson has released his first cartoon collection, Rub My Tummy and It’s a Deal. 109 pages of business related cartoons.
• Review: Randy Lander, Comic Pants, on Too Cool To Be Forgotten HC (Top Shelf)
• Reviews: Collected Editions Blog on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 2 (DC Comics), Bizarre New World: Population Explosion GN (Ape Entertainment) and the highly underrated series Manhunter: Unleashed TPB (DC Comics)