Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the magazine Comics Now! will end with issue #3. Or has ended. Hell, I'm taking it on faith that such a magazine existed.

* as I can always be convinced with less than 30 seconds of directed conversation that portents of the collapse of western civilization can be seen Andy Rooney-style in the combination of 1) adult paperboys tossing the paper at my door from the window of a truck and 2) people not returning grocery carts even when the return place is like four feet away, I liked this Richard Thompson post. Actually, that has nothing to do with adult paperboys. I just wanted to throw that in.

* does anyone still call it OEL manga any more?

* seriously, I have no idea.

* not comics: sometimes I think that as a film-goer I don't have any interest in any more films based on comic books. Eventually this mask cracks and I'm forced to admit that if they ever did a Badger movie with Seann William Scott and Bob Hoskins, I'd be there first day, front row. Anyway, Marvel's going to pay real money for writers to develop some of the back catalog in a writers program. I'm guessing without reading any of the articles that 1) the contracts probably suck, 2) there's a temporary money freeze in Hollywood so a lot of people are going to kill their moms in order to get into the program, 3) some people will see this rush of attention and suggest that Marvel is paying too much for the talent rather than too little, 4) only some of them will be kidding and 5) more than enough talent would line up for this to work even if the economy was such we were all wearing solid gold shoes.

* the Watchmen film almost certainly went over $100 million domestic yesterday. Just sayin'.

* finally, some more not comics: this speculative list of potential actors for the role Dr. Strange doesn't include the actor I was thinking of when I wrote neilalien his blogiversary post on a Dr. Strange movie. I was thinking of Leonardo DiCaprio. You may laugh, you may scoff, but deep down you know I'm right.
 
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