Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* you may laugh or you may cry: Robert Boyd draws some lines under screwed-up pricing in the most recent Heritage auction.

* Greg McElhatton on Wild Kingdom, Batman: Earth One, Jerusalem, Revival #1 and Anya's Ghost. Bob Temuka on Fatale and Neonomicon. Robert Clough on Bubbles & Gondola, new comics from Rob Kirby and a bunch of anthologies (1, 2, 3, 4). Don MacPherson on Batman: Earth One, Infernal Man-Thing #1 and The Walking Dead #100.

* someone was going to make this joke sooner or later.

* I can't be the only person to look at posts like this one and think, "Wow, Neil Gaiman looks sort of exactly like JH Williams' rendition of the Dream character."

* whoa, I totally missed Billy Tucci doing some sort of promotional comic for Blackwater. David Brothers gave me a window on it here by pulverizing an ugly rhetorical trick used in its defense. A couple of people made jokes with Tucci as a the punchline in San Diego that I thought was funny because it meant that people just were randomly hating on the same dude; this makes much more sense.

* Bruce Canwell has more with the greatest comics issue of the day: the use of the word "butthole" by Archie characters decades and decades ago. The answer seems to point to something really butthole.

* I don't know, maybe the solution here is to reorient yourself away from depressing, corporate-owned superhero comics. The only thing you're costing yourself is that you then won't make a living doing that exact character you love, if it's that exact character you love. I mean you can still draw that character, if that's super-important to you, you just don't get a job doing them because the job doing them involves a weird, debased standard. (I also have to admit that there's something that sounds a little bit on-the-nose about the whole scenario described, so I'd take it with a grain of salt.)

* David Brothers analyzes the "you said you wanted this and now that we're giving it to you it behooves you to buy it" school of comics marketing.

* finally, my answer to this question is "because a lot of people like superhero movies and not as many like superhero comics." The comics culture's weird passion for being able to figure stuff out, to unlock the secrets, to nail down some construct that reveals the truth, gets more annoying every year.
 
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