Catching up after the vacation edition:

• David Welsh reads far more comics than I do, but has similar tastes, so I found his year-end Year In Fun as well as his second list a good guide for the next time I’m ready for a new title (that said, I just picked up Hikaru No Go volume 3). 12 Days, Emma, ES and American Born Chinese are pretty high on my lists already.
• Wow. So, the ghost writer who wrote an official, fictional blog for Archie Comics heroine Betty complained about an upcoming revamp of the character and then moved to another blog off of Archie Comics’ website to air greviences against the new look? How strange.
• Tim Gunn tops Reality Blurred’s year-end list of 2006’s Top Reality Whores, which turns into a compliment noting how he did all those reality TV whore things while still seeming classy.
• Brian K. Vaughan joins the writing staff at Lost. It’s almost enough to get me to consider giving the show another chance, considering the level of skill with serialized storytelling that Vaughan’s comics work show, but I suspect Lost is so far past their shark jump that there’s no turning back.
• Check out the Japanese version of the Mac vs. PC ads. I think I like Japan’s Mac guy better than Justin Long and their PC guy doesn’t suffer in comparisons to John Hodgman.

Hooboy, catching up on a week’s worth of being away from the blogosphere sure takes a lot, doesn’t it? More links tomorrow…