Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Joe Gordon on Godshaper #1. Annie Mok on Garbage Night. Rob Clough on Inaction Comics #1, <i>Plans We Made, Birthmark and Foggy Notions. Greg Hunter on The Necrophilic Landscape. John Seven on Eartha.

* not comics: Andrew Weiss is right that the common US culture dated back to at least 1925. I might argue that a few things, like Napoleon, or The Tramp, or the idea of old-timey baseball, come from an even earlier age and were things that most of my friends were exposed to in some form and would understand today. What fascinates me is that this was accompanied by an amnesia about a lot of things that didn't get to the point of constant re-runs. So I knew who Shirley Temple was to the point of having a fairly refined list of favorite films, but I think I was 35 before I heard word one about Deanna Durbin. The end result is a popular culture that has significance in terms of certain things over several decades, but a lot of material just going away immediately. I think that broad canvas + amnesia was a significant factor in determining how literary comics were shaped.

* In what may be an even nerdier article, James Whitbrook walks through what elements and characters from Marvel "Ultimate" universe are running in the current general-titles one now. I get why Marvel did those comics, but I wasn't fond of many of them and about a half-dozen surviving elements makes sense to me. Also, I can't resist an evil Reed Richards. Reed Richards is the Marvel Universe's Superman, its core figure, and should feature prominently in whatever overall storyline that's going on -- no matter the form.

* finally: someone from KCRW whose name I can't locate talks to Michael Tisserand. Robert Kirby talks to Eric Kostiuk Williams. Greg from Daily Grail talks to Alan Moore. Nicholas Eskey talks to Scott Westerfeld.
 
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