I wrote about the Jewish graphic novel The Comic Torah, by Aaron Freeman & Sharon Rosenzweig, awhile ago. In an update, the creators have reached and exceeded their fundraising goal for the book; no release date has been set as of this writing, however. Here’s a recent interview with Rosenzweig at the Jewish website New Voices. You can read pages from the book here.

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Available this week:

Authority #18. Written by Bernardin & Freeman.

Siege #1 (of 4). The mini-series that reunites the classic Avengers. Art by Coipel.

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Also notable:

Image United #2 (of 6)

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Some more Avatar items for you (now that it’s passed $1 billion worldwide already): Here’s more support for Zoe Saldana getting a Best Actress nomination. Here’s an Oscar-related podcast in which her chances at Best Actress are discussed, among other things. Also, this column makes the argument that the movie is a way for white people to fetishize the Other. And in a related item, Saldana and Sam Worthington’s deleted sex scene will be included on the DVD.

Marc Bernardin will be a guest writer at IO9 this week.

In preparation for Iron Man 2, MTV’s Splash Page interviews War Machine co-creator Bob Layton this week.

ECBACC will host another comic book workshop in Philadelphia this coming March.