So things have been quiet here for the last week, mostly because I've been in San Diego, helping to cover Comic Con for io9. It's been a wonderful, crazy, hectic week, and I'm hoping to have something up over at io9 soon about webcomics and Comic Con.

Of course, I've been out of the loop for a few days and I come back to a backlog of 200 comics in my reader (not that I'm complaining), plus all this crazy news. Axe Cop is crossing over with Dr. McNinja! Bellen! is ending! Probably other things that have escaped my notice!

In the meantime, I'm just going to link to this sequential article (see what I did there?) from the Bay Area online magazine The Bold Italic. It's about three of the larger comic shops in the San Francisco city limits, and includes Isotope, my personal Wednesday haunt. That's James Sime, the proprietor, at the top, and yes, he really looks like that.