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I’m still on hiatus, but I may actually get to read some comics tonight, so a return could happen sooner than later.

In the meantime, those who are jonesing for a fix of my stellar with can check out my recap of last night’s Heroes episode over at CinemaBlend.

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So…You may have noticed that posts have been very scarce on here lately.

Here’s the thing, folks. I work for a disaster recovery company and, as you might expect, things have been insane since Hurricane Ike hit the Texas/Louisiana coast. I’ve been working 14-hour days, which means next to no writing time. Something had to give and, since I feel that I have to fulfill the obligations that I’ve made to others before I work on my own projects, I’ve decided that For The Love of Comics will have to go on hiatus until I either find someone to do some guest posting or things slow down enough at work to let me read comics - much less write about them.

Incidentally, if you would like to do some guest posting on here, drop a comment on this post or e-mail me at crackerbob@fortheloveofcomics.com. This is really a standing offer, even after I get back to regular posting.

The good news is that things seems to be slowing down into a sustained, regular level of insanity, so I may be back to regular posting sooner than later.

I’m really sorry to disappoint all two of my regular readers; I’ll do my best to get back ASAP.

In the meantime, you can read my episode recaps of Heroes, 90210, and Grey’s Anatomy on CinemaBlend.com.

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Okay, I’m dying to have this Baby Godzilla T-shirt. It’s almost as good as that Batman: The Beginning T-shirt that always sells out before I can get one in my size.

Threadless is also still having that huge sale where all tees are $12 or $9, including the little guy above. Just click on the image to pick up some cheap t-shirts!

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Google apparently hired Scott McCloud to write a comic to explain their long-rumored browser, now called Chrome, and put a happy face on their impending integration with SkyNet and eventual world domination. Incidentally, what color are the Terminators underneath all that fake flesh? That’s right, chrome! But that’s not the point today.

You can view the comic by clicking on the panels below

The comic currently directs you to a download page that doesn’t seem to exist, but it appears that this is because the comic wasn’t supposed to be leaked quite yet. According to blogoscoped, who has a breakdown of features for those who don’t feel like reading the comic (to whom I ask “What the hell are you doing reading a comic blog?) and some interesting commentary on what this could mean for the browser market and internet as a whole, Google has announced that Chrome will be released tomorrow, September 3rd. Look for it at http://www.google.com/chrome

In the meantime, check out the comic and read Scott’s FAQ on the subject:

Google Chrome

Yes, it’s true: I drew a comic for Google explaining the inner workings of their new open source browser Google Chrome.

Details have been leaking all over the Web since a few copies apparently went out pre-launch by mistake, so here’s the skinny on my small part of this very cool software project.

Is this a webcomic?

No. It was designed as a printed comic for journalists and bloggers. Lots of people have had fun scanning those advance printed copies and posting them however, which is fine with Google (and me) since it’s published under the creative commons license.

The scanned-in versions are clunky, Mr. Webcomics Guy! Will there be a more readable web version?

Sure. We’ll whip something together soon.

Who wrote the script?

The engineers, for the most part! I helped conduct interviews with about 20 engineers who worked on the project, then adapted what they said into comics form. Some paraphrasing, lots of condensation, and one or two late drop ins, but basically it was a very organic adaptation and I had a lot of latitude.

Is the food at Google as good as they say?

Better.

More details soon.

You heard the man.

Update! It appears that the Chrome Beta is now available for Windows. Those of us on Mac will have to wait a bit longer.

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Over at I Love Rob Liefeld (which is quite possibly the ballsiest name for a blog like, ever.), Sandy Bilus decided to celebrate Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s “economic use of pages to tell an epic story.” in All-Star Superman by trying to summarize the entire storyline in exactly eleven panels and does a damn good job.

Click the panels below to see Sandy’s summarization. I’ll wait here.

If you like that, Sandy decided to follow up by seeing if he could summarize Frank “The Goddamn” Miller’s All-Star Batman and Robin in nine panels. This one didn’t turn out quite as well, but it’s still entertaining.

I’m sure someone could draw some kind of argument about compression vs decompression and all that shit, but who cares? Like Grant Morrison says, “Just write good comics!”

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Even further validating my calling bullshit on that Daily Telegraph article last week, Johnny Depp denied the rumors that he’s been cast as the Riddler in the next Batman movie on a radio show here in Florida.

Host: Hey Johnny, a listener called in earlier said you have to ask about the rumors on the internet of you doing the Riddler.
Depp: Oh yeah I heard about that. Not that I know of.
Host: You’d be a good choice.
Depp: It seems like it’d be a fun gig for a while, yeah.

You hear that WB? You just might be able to talk him into it!

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