The weekend is almost here! What geeky things will folks be doing? Sound off in the comments below!

While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Around the Tubes

Ottawa Magazine – Immigrant women’s abuse – their stories – illustrated in graphic novel – Great use of the comic medium.

Newsarama – Alison Bechdel To Be Named Vermont’s Latest Cartoonist Laureate – This is pretty cool.

The Beat – Why Hiring Ex-Vertigo Editors Makes So Much Sense – Some interesting data and reasoning.

Around the Tubes Reviews

Comic Attack – Generation Zero #8

ICv2 – Instrumental

IGN – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Aftershock

Huffington Post – Prison Grievances