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Platinum Studios, a comic book publisher (KISS 4k (yes, about the band) and Hero by Night) is hosting a sort of "American Idol" for comic creators. A few of those contestants are from right here in the Bay Area. Kevin Buckley is the writer on this project and an artist in his own right, though Marcus Thiele, his partner, is the artist on their pitch: "The Strange and Many Eyes of Dr. LeFaux." Kevin and Marcus took a few minutes to talk about their art and living in the Bay Area.

We'll have a bunch of photos of the new Muni shelters up later today (in the meantime, you can check out dantc's great collection). Take a look a this video, though -- it's one company's way of proposing a bike-sharing system for San Francisco. If Cemusa's vision works out, you'll be able to walk up to secure bike stations, swipe a membership card, and then zoom off on a rented bicycle; sort of like City CarShare, only without the cautious high-stakes YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR A GIGANTIC SPEEDING CAGE OF METAL vibe.

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for?

Apple released a new batch of ads for the new Macs, with John Hodgman of "The Daily Show" and McSweeney's representing the stuffy, nerdy Windows PC, and Justin Long of representing the... well, we guess every bit as nerdy but maybe they were going for younger and slightly less stuffy Macintosh.