Blood & Thunder

• Dave Sim makes a very important distinction between "going three rounds" and "boxing," which apparently are not the same thing at all. Plus, a massive corrections section that enjoys being larger than the entire magazine.

Newswatch

• Danse Macabre:
  Another Date for Ted Rall and Danny Hellman
  By Michael Dean
• EC Artist George Evans Dies at 81
  By Greg Stump

Reviews

• Ghost Story: the Ghost World movie reviewed
  By Michael Dean

• Spot On!
  By Rhea Patton

Essay

• Hack's Progress, or Hogarth's Harlot and the Establishment of Creators' Rights
  By Mathew Surridge

Marv Wolfman Trial

• Lawyers, vampires and Marvel Comics: the tragic story of a mainstream journeyman learning copyright law the hard way. In other words, he loses. (Part one of two; click here to read the introduction.)
  Transcript edited by Michael Dean, Gary Groth and Anne Elizabeth Moore

Showdown: the Pirate and the Mouse, Part 1

• Man or mouse? Our Roving Reporter investigates the trials and tribulations of Dan O'Neill. (Part one of two)
  By Bob Levin

Comicopia

• Remembering Hank Ketcham: 1920-2001
  By R.C. Harvey

Euro-Comics for Beginners

• Actus Tragicus:
  The Case for Considering Israel a European Country
  By Bart Beaty

Minimalism

• Slamming or Slumming?
  Kapow! Matches Poets with Cartoonists
  By Tom Spurgeon

Endtimes

• The Horrific Intoxicant of Omnipossibility III:
  Proliferant Nihilism
  By Kenneth Smith

Hey, Kids! Comics!

• 19è Saló Internacional del Còmic de Barcelona
  Comics by Lorna Miller