Phil Noto has a Tumblr.  I love everything on it.  This is ridiculous.  And I suddenly feel the urge to draw ten billion new things now.

comicbooks:

Dwayne McDuffie, a highly respected comic book and animation writer who was a co-founder of Milestone Media, a landmark company that created a multicultural comics line that introduced black superheroes such as Hardware and Static, has died. He was 49.

McDuffie died Monday, a day after his birthday, of complications after undergoing emergency heart surgery at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, said Gary Miereanu, a publicist for Warner Home Video.

As a comic book writer, McDuffie had stints working on DC’s “Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight” and “Justice League of America,” and for Marvel’s “Fantastic Four.”

As a television writer, story editor and producer for animated series, he had credits on “What’s New, Scooby-Doo?,” “Teen Titans,” “Static Shock,” “Justice League,” “Ben 10: Alien Force” and “Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.” He also wrote the screenplay for “All-Star Superman,” an animated film released Tuesday by Warner Home Video, and the second of three he wrote for the series, “DC Universe Animated Original Movies.” 

This makes me incredibly upset.  Mr. McDuffie was an amazing writer who could tap into the very core of humanity, in the midst of the superhuman, and I will truly miss his work.  RIP Mr. McDuffie.