Time to take a quick break from the mundane reality of your day-to-day life and hang out with me, your Velocity Comics newsletter scribe. Let's dive right in an enjoy this weeks installment of out newest feature, Billy Baldwin/Alec Baldwin.

This week we've got a new feature for you fine people to enjoy, and we're calling it HIGH/LOW! It's extremely complicated, so please try to follow along. See, the 'high' is going to be the best comics news of the week, and the 'low' is going to be something that IS NOT good. So one is good things and the other is not good things. We'll do a practice one first. LOW: getting murdered. HIGH: Finding a bag of cash. I think you probably get it now, and if you still don't then I'm sort of at a loss. So now let's do this for real---

Hey Velocipedes! Award season is right around the corner, so I thought maybe it would be fun to share some of Velocity Comic's official Oscar predictions with you all! I can say with a high, high, high degree of certainty that this years big winner will be one of the following:

Paul
Red Riding Hood
The Green Hornet
The Beaver
The Lincoln Lawyer
Sucker Punch
Hop
Arthur
Scream 4
Water For Elephants
Fast Five
Hanna
Soul Surfer
Thor
Source Code
Bridesmaids
The Hangover: Part 2
Jumping the Broom
Tree of Life
Priest
Bad Teacher
Super 8
X-Men First Class
Green Lantern

Holy cow you guys, it's 2012. Doesn't that make you think about how old you are? You are so much older than you ever thought you would be, right? You know, people complain about getting older, but aside from the fact that it brings you closer to death, it's not really that bad! Think of all the great things that never would have happened to you had you not aged! Think about it right now. Now write down the things you thought of. Now go downstairs into your neighbors apartment. Knock on the door. No one is home.

Hello, all...

FIRST UP! we are OPEN REGULAR HOURS ALL WEEK! We'll be closed Sunday January 1st, but otherwise it's business as usual. To that end, new books will still be on sale WEDNESDAY! We should never have to deal with the horror that is a new book day Thursday ever again.

Once again it's that special time of year when we break from the day-to-day and lose ourselves in tradition, embracing ancient traditions and joining with like-minded brethren worldwide to celebrate and eat too many pretzels and paint our feet orange and pay women less and work our teeth loose with our tongues and then spit them at strangers and update wikipedia to reflect easter eggs hidden in episodes of Quantum Leap and photograph our grandparents and whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah or nothing or Christmas ironically or Hanukkah ironically, even thought I don't think anyone does

Hey Friends! Check out this tight review of Craig Thompson's Habibi that I wrote! It's at http://rvanews.com/entertainment/habibi-one-of-the-years-best-graphic-no....

Can we all come together now and agree that it's time for Justin Long to just straight up leave the planet? Because it's not enough that he just retire or something--if he were to do that he might accidentally stumble back in front of a camera again one day and I might have to spend another second looking at his dumb faux-proto-hipster-gen z face. What does this have to do with comics? Um...Justin Long said he hates Thor in an interview with Italian Vogue. Look it up.