Pop links: Back to the Batcave! New Dylan! Kirby! Feldstein! YouTube TV! Evel Knievel!

Man, I'm just like Fred Hembeck! Not only do I have little squiggles for elbows, but I also taped the "Return to the Batcave" TV movie back in 2003 and have never watched it. Except Fred has! And he really liked it. So now I better find that video... or I could just click the YouTube links Fred has posted on his blog.



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Mojo mag reviews the new Bob Dylan album.

More so than Modern Times - a good record, but (can it now be said?) one which lacked a 24-carat humdinger, a Mississippi or a Love Sick - Together Through Life is an album that gets its hooks in early and refuses to let go. It's dark yet comforting, with a big tough sound, booming slightly like a band grooving at a soundcheck in an empty theatre. And at its heart there is a haunting refrain. Because above everything this is a record about love, its absence and its remembrance.

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents stories from 1948's Justice Traps the Guilty #6, featuring work by Jack Kirby, Al Feldstein and others.



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Via Journalista: TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" nails what's wrong with today's superhero comics.

Penny - “Do you think my nephew would like this (comic book)?”

Sheldon - “Perfect. He just has to be familiar with Infinite Crisis, 52, Countdown, Final Crisis and the re-emergence of the multiverse.”

Penny - “What’s the Multiverse?”

Sheldon - ….exactly

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YouTube has created a page for full episodes of new and old TV series, including "The Addams Family," "Star Trek," "Outer Limits" and more.

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Plaid Stallions presents the 1976 Evel Knievel toy catalog. Boy, I was an Evel Knievel fan back then, him being a fellow Montanan and all. I'll never forget my disappointment seeing his rocket cycle plunge into the Snake River Canyon.