Social media and text messages spread Wednesday evening announcing the passing of Tom Spurgeon, a former Comics Journal editor, the founder and overlord of The Comics Reporter, an excellent critic, a insightful interview, a fine writer, a smart, funny person. There are a handful of people who built a "comics internet" that was more than just places to talk about new products to be consumed. There was no part of comics that did not interest him, and yet he never stopped being his own person. This is a bad day for comics, and every other time there has been one of those, heading over to the Comics Reporter and refreshing it until he had his own take on the badness helped put it all together. [Links, will be updated, feel free to email [email protected] with yours]Obituary at The Comics Reporter, by Douglas Wolk.