Note to writers, artists, cartoonists and other people who make stuff: No matter how negative, nasty, mean-spirited or just plain harsh a critic is in reviewing your work, posting a smart-ass reply in the comments section of their blog is never a good idea.

The Onion’s AV Club does their regular comics round-up, this time looking at Luba, Potter’s Field, the Unwritten and Optic Nerve, to name but a few. Speaking of round-ups, Matthew J. Brady looks a some recent manga offerings while Johanna Draper Carlson picks through last Wednesday’s titles.

The Mindless Ones review that new Wolverine movie, podcast-style. The KURUTTA blog takes an interesting look at Osamu Tezuka’s adaptation of Crime and Punishment.  Sarah Boslaugh reviews Emmanuel Guilbert’s The Photographer for PLAYBACK: stl.

Todd Klein likes Eric Shanower’s Age of Bronze. As well he should. Speaking of Bronze, let me offer a shout-out to Andrew Wahl’s Comics Bronze Age, which devotes itself to critiquing and assessing the Marvel and DC comics from that rich swath of time.