Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* so I guess Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III will be doing a Sandman mini-series. I guess this is likely to be a pretty good comic and a potentially great one, and it's informative to have a project announced like this without the troubling specter of the original creator howling in pain that it's being done. I wish them good luck. I'm not sure I personally have any interest in reading more Sandman, but plenty of people are going to be psyched, and I will be talked into picking it up if I hear of a superior comic.
* there's always this thing in comics where we forgive asinine pricing because retailers have it tough and because people are in the end responsible for what they choose to pay for things, but it doesn't make it any less asinine.
* Graeme McMillan looks at Marvel's curious abandonment of Comic-Con International as any sort of a publicity platform for anything. I have to think that Marvel is leaving millions of dollars on the table counting on another round of clever, modern interpretations of those great Jack Kirby characters to compensate for doing the hard work parts of publishing.
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