Every week, we try to let you know what greatness to expect from the free weeklies. For the Seattle Weekly, it’s usually a no-brainer: the latest installment of This Modern World. Sure, we could read it online to get our money’s worth from our Salon subscription, but there’s something good about reading at least one comic on newsprint.

This week’s installation of the Stranger is a surprisingly easy pick. Don’t miss the “letters” section — three rants from angry Comic Book Guys, one from a self-avowed sexy librarian, and another from an STD-hating Jesus lover. Pure effing brilliance! This is not to say that there aren’t other worthwhile elements — along with the usual suspects the cover, a portrait of M.J. in breakfast cereal, is a thing of rare beauty. [Ed: no pic this week? -- I thought that was getting old, didn't you?]

The most shocking piece of news is that neither paper gave an all out pan to Constantine, the movie with the ubiquitous trailer that’s been distressing us for the last few months. (You know that feeling, when you’re seeing a film and the parade of awful previews causes you to quesion your judgement because if the ad wizards think that you might be into something like that, then maybe you really underestimated the actual movie that you’re about to see? For us, that was Constantine. That is, until we realized that it has the biggest ad budget in history.)

Less shocking is that none of the I SAW U’s are about us.

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