I caught American Splendor last night, and I’m glad I did. It’s only playing in two theatres in NYC, but it’s well worth finding one near you - it’s easily the best movie I’ve seen this summer. Pirates of the Caribbean was undeniably fun (and I’ll probably buy the DVD), and Seabiscuit was a good film as well (ditto), but I can see American Splendor ending up like Harold and Maude - one of those I’ll watch every once in a while and recommend whenever someone brings it up. I’d seen the trailer and hadn’t decided one way or another (why trailers are so uniformly awful is something I don’t think I’ll ever understand), and it was this review at the NYT that finally convinced me to seek it out. Incidentally, if you’re already a fan of either the film or the comics, Amazon has a decent price on the first anthology.