Bundled, Tossed, Untied & Stacked: Publishing News

By Tom Spurgeon

* our friends in Latvia reach 10 years and 50 books on their necessary and frequently excellent mini-comics series.

* I don't know when this E. Gary Gygax book was announced, but clearly the editorial meetings included making a book that I would personally be interested in reading. I hope it's good and super-rigorous rather than broadly portrayed, because the details of that world are reasonably fascinating.

* the political newspaper Resist! looks to have made its way into various retail outlets a few weeks after being one of the significant handouts of the initial Women's March.

* Paul Gravett surveys April.

* superhero event comics is not my specific area of expertise, but this seems like a pretty solid mini-series conceptually as far as these superhero things go: "Everyone against Nazi Captain America." Far more than other recent efforts, anyway. The Nazi Captain America part even gives you another potential sales boost, the "You're doing it wrong" thing that fans always seem to fall for in terms of reading a title because they're upset at its direction. The balancing reality is that Marvel has not executed its last several event series all that well compared to past efforts, and you lose your audience for this kind of thing with every previous misfire.

* look, it's Lumberjanes novelizations.

* finally, I somehow missed that RL Stine has been recruited to work with the Man-Thing character created by the artist Gray Morrow and credited to the three-headed writing creature of Stan Lee, Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. Stine was so popular and influential for a compressed time that the first Harry Potter book was processed for its horror elements because that what people thought kids want to read exclusive of all other kinds of writing.
 
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