Three more:

* 25 Twitter projects for the college classroom.

* Are you a decidophobe?

* Behold The King of Crayons.

Who's Barack pallin' around with now?





The attack ad just writes itself.

Time for a quick linkdump.

* Even Lex Luthor needs a bailout.

* Two for fans of last night's comics archetype times table: A Sketch Towards a Taxonomy of Meta-Desserts and Fun to Draw.

* Is this the end of capitalism? David Harvey and The Nation's Alexander Cockburn report. (This time for sure.)

Of course, if we're talking about superheroes and presidential politics, we can't leave out Watchmen.



Or Reagan in Dark Knight Returns.



Or Luthor.



Or JFK.



Or Superman himself, in the classic and criminally underrated Red Son.



A few more here and here...

Captain Marvel and the zeitgeist: You can have Heath Ledger's Joker or you can have Billy Batson in Shazam!, but you can't have both.

The irony here is that the comics version of Captain Marvel can actually get fairly dark: witness a lobotomized Captain Marvel as a stooge for Lex Luthor in Kingdom Come, the quasi-reformed Black Adam committing genocide in 52, or what they've done to poor Mary Marvel. And that's not even getting started on Miracleman.

Via io9.

Again with the Comics takes a brief look back at the fourth-worst president in American history, President Lex Luthor.

This Livejournal has scans of the origins of Superman villains, drawn in the style of Windsor McKay's Little Nemo in Slumberland. It's a little high-concept, but apparently these actually ran as part of a "Secret Files" issue in the 1990s, with the idea that these were the origins as told by Lex Luthor to his daughter Lena (who was later merged with Brainiac 13, but that's a whole other story).