links for 2009-06-10

Whoa, I had no idea Barnaby Ward was quietly releasing new pages of his fantastic Sixteen Miles to Merricks online every week. You should still buy the book — it's one of the best dreamy/surreal comics I've read in quite a while — but I guess you could start here, too.

Only partially related to the last: "You would totally hate me as your girlfriend. I'd be all needy and dramatic and slowly growing to love you. If I was your girlfriend, I would never be able to tell you all about the other asshole guys I date and pretend I don't see how much it crushes you. Let's never lose that. That's what makes us us."

"Indeed, love is the rarest of all creatures, more rare even than those yellow stingrays that zip past you at supersonic speeds. It is stronger, and draws you in faster, than any tractor beam imaginable. Love will make you the fool, will make you act unlike yourself. For instance, instead of waiting by the leftmost edge of the screen in order to pick off incoming space-bugs, love will make you wait in the center—the very nexus of enemy fire."

Excited for this! "Marvel Comics is proud to announce the release of Strange Tales MAX #1 (of 3) in September 2009, featuring … 48 pages of all new stories [on] your favorite Marvel heroes-from Spider-Man to the Hulk [by] Paul Pope, Peter Bagge, Molly Crabapple & John Leavitt, Junko Mizuno, Dash Shaw, James Kochalka, Johnny Ryan, Michael Kupperman, Nick Bertozzi, Nicholas Gurewich, Jason and more!"