Picking through Deadwood: This doesn't have anything to do with comics, but I'm a big fan of the Western (good Westerns, not those of, say, the Hopalong Cassidy variety). The New York Times (registration required) has a good, if brief, interview with David Milch about his new series Deadwood, which premieres tonight at 10 Eastern on HBO.

The Magazine also looks at how film and television repeatedly resurrect and transform the genre:

"Set in the mid-1870's in a bloody Dakota Terrritory settlement where prospectors rush to claw the gold from sacred lands belonging to the Sioux, Deadwood is relentlessly obscene, overwhelmingly pessimistic and meticulously depraved. It's the brainy, complex feel-bad series of the year, and every year needs one, at least on cable TV. Its good guys are bad, its bad guys are good and its medium guys are both and neither."