Five to Read for Thursday, March 27

Items of interest from around the Blogosphere:

* Progressive Ruin presents...the End of Civilization

* Precocious Curmudgeon: Mergers and acquisitions

* all kinds of stuff: Don Martin - department store 2, The Genius of "Ignorant Humor" (via Heidi)

* Uncharted Territory: Gender and Reading Habits Part One: Let's Hear it for the Boys (via Chris)

* Polite Dissent: Colorful Diseases of the Golden Age: The Purple Plague

New This Week: March 26, 2008

I haven't done these for a while, but while this may not quite be the Best New Comics Week Ever, it's definitely up there so a few things bear mentioning:

For all you formalists out there, the top of the list is sure to be the second issue of Kevin Huizenga's Ganges. If there's anything even approaching last issue's "Time Traveling" story, it'll be worth your $8 right there.

Also this week is the tenth issue of All-Star Superman, which we forgive for being constantly late because Morrison & Quitely are always so darn good.

Completing the once-in-a-blue-moon trilogy is a new issue of Jason Lutes' Berlin (#15).

Oh, and also a new issue of Amelia Rules (#20), which must make it a quadrology.

Also showing up this week are Blue Beetle #25, which not only features an end to the major overarching Reach storyling but also means that Jamie Reyes' comic has officially lasted longer than Ted Kord's; and Dan Dare #5.

There's plenty of other good stuff too, which I'm sure you've already seen if you went to your FLCS yesterday.