Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Henry Chamberlain on Empress #2. Todd Klein on Survivors' Club #5. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Fistful Of Blood.

* Matt Kindt talks to Jeff Lemire. Daniel Kalder talks to Alejandro Jodorowsky -- it's not all comics, but there are some comics in there. Some nice person talks to Colleen Venable.

* this is an appreciation piece for Love & Rockets more than it is a review and Art Spiegelman actually enjoyed the significant surge in his career right at the same moment and after Los Bros made their early '80s debut. I think just standing back and looking at the achievement involved is a proper response: I'm not sure there are 10 artists over the last 50 years that have enjoyed a similarly long run near the top of the art form's output year-in and year-out.

* not comics: another facilitation of self-serving claims made by someone involved on behalf of Marvel's interconnected movie strategy. Admittedly, it's a strategy that's driving billions of dollars of box office and it's true that the third Captain America movie isn't an echo or replication of the first film's box office and impact; it's a significant build from that. They lose me at the comparison to Nashville, which isn't even a favorite movie of mine but still very much seems to exist on a different planet than all the superhero stuff; the differences are a bigger deal than any similarities, at least to me. If Nashville's continued existence depended on all the superhero movies going away, I'd throw that lever in a second.

* finally, this sounds like a fine program with which Van Jensen and David Mack are involved.
 
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