Various Thoughts

Publishers Weekly on the Manga Censorship: "It's the equivalent of removing an encyclopedia because it has a chapter on sex."

Tom Spurgeon links to a great article about the future of comic strips in newspapers.

Museum of Hoaxes tackles an oddly perfect image of a plane flying in front of the moon. The real fun of the article for me, though, is in the comments.

Galactic Catastrophe. Call in the Green Lantern Corps!

Canadian recording artists reject suing customers, create own organization.

Here's a fun story: David Copperfield mugged.

The illusionist and assistants Cathy Daly and Mia Volmut were walking near CityPlace toward their tour bus parked at the Kravis when thugs approached them about 11:15 p.m. The group had gone to a steakhouse for dinner after Copperfield's sixth and last show here.

According to the police report, this is what happened next: The Malibu pulled up behind the group, and two of the four young men in the car came out holding handguns. One ordered Daly to "give me what you have." Daly handed over $400 from her pockets. Riley, meanwhile, allegedly stuck a gun in Volmut's face and asked for her purse, and she, too, gave it up. In it were 200 euros, $100, her passport, plane tickets and a Razr cellphone.

When Copperfield's turn came, Riley was bamboozled.

Copperfield told Page Two he pulled out all of his pockets for Riley to see he had nothing, even though he had a cellphone, passport and wallet stuffed in them.

"Call it reverse pickpocketing," Copperfield said.