Friday morning. Where is my oatmeal?

There's been much discussion of Colleen Coover's controversial new comic Banana Sunday. I'm confident that the message I posted to Newsarama on page two of this thread should clear up any lingering difficulties.In all the talk about new stores like RIOT opening up, I haven't seen any mention of the two fantastic new shops we have here in Portland: Bridge City Comics and Cosmic Monkey Comics.

On Hahn.

From David Hahn: three pages of his current project at Vertigo. A Pete Woods interview with sketches, at The Pulse.Jeff Parker talks to the press about his Fantastic Four stories.

Monday, playing catch up.

Everything you need to know about the net in two sentences: "I discovered MuggleNet that first-ever afternoon and I went in the chatroom, and it was so funny. I was treated with outright contempt." - J.K. Rowling on her first visit to a Harry Potter chatroom.Over on the TCJ board, someone asked a question about learning to ink with a brush. I wrote the following reply which I hope might helpful

It's late on Friday, so of course I'm blogging.

First things first- there've been lots of questions about Jeff Parker. The answer is he's fine. He's taking care of some family business back east, working on a bunch of scripts for Marvel and reportedly conducting experiments to resolve the age old conflict of tractor versus fire safe. We were bewildered, too.Nonetheless, we understand that many of you were disappointed that he wasn't there at