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‘Twas the Night Before Wednesday…
Blog@Newsarama — ... of his dreams in this 128-page, $14.95 book from NBM. Preview here. Phonogram 2: Singles Club #1: Kieron Gillen and Jamie McElvie’s critically-acclaimed series gets a seven-issue sequel series, each issue of which will be a stand-alone story featuring different characters but occurring in the same club on the same night. (Ohhhh…Singles Club. Now I get it). The first issue will feature back-up stories by artists Marc Ellerby and Lauren McCubbin. PX! Book 2: In the Service of the Queen: I really ...

What I bought - 10 December 2008
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources — ... (artist/letterer) and Matthew Wilson (colorist). Back-up stories by Kieron Gillen (writer) and Laurenn McCubbin (artist, “She Who Bleeds For Your Entertainment”) and ...

‘All the hip kids have been in buying Phonogram this week’…
Mindless Ones — ... away on keys, but they’re really not as bad as that image suggests. The annotations/glossary section is still quite a painful read- the ‘did you see what I did there?’ aspect of it is representative of the worst ego-prose tones of the common music-journalese dialect, and actually highlight weaknesses in the comic itself that I’d managed to miss. But, and this is the big butt that saves the whole issue, you then have two excellent back-up strips, illustrated by Laurenn McCubbin and ...

Station Ident: Remember…
Warren Ellis — …Laurenn McCubbin? Course you do. She’s been busy lately. But now she has a big gallery show coming up, and to mark it she’s selling a signed, numbered print for $50 a pop. Which, given her CV, is a stupid low price. Treat yourself. Good morning. This is warren ellis dot com, making your world a nicer, dirtier place.

I hope you guys like linkblogging because that's all you get tonight:
Every Day Is Like Wednesday — ... The above is from "A Vulgar Display of Power" written by Alex Getchell and drawn by Laurenn McCubbin, in which a young man gets in a fight with "this big townie asshole." The above is my favorite sequence; he's trying to do a martial arts maneuver in which he grabs the big townie asshole by the shirt and throws him over his hip to the floor, but, instead, something rather awkward occurs. ...