Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* if nothing else, this interview with Paul Pope has maybe the best Pope photo ever.

* so a friend of mine gave me the final 12 issues of the Countdown to Final Crisis mini-series to take home with me, and I read them in the airport waiting (and waiting... and waiting...) for my plane. I hate to say this because there were several people involved in their making and this isn't a proper review, but they were really terrible. The whole thing read like some odd, cobbled-together story from the late 1990s, something that might have run in the back six pages of several annuals in a spin-off line. About the only thing that was interesting about the comics -- not good, but interesting -- is that they had a slight Rosencrantz and Guildenstern quality to them, like they were taking place in the margins of a much better story. I'm not sure if that's even fair; I had to reach for something to keep me distracted or I would have put the comics down. I sure didn't enjoy reading them. I mean, I know it's not for me, but when I imagine what I would have thought about them at the time in my life something like that was definitely for me, I think I would have just been mad. Maybe DC's serial comics sales difficulties are more easily understood than I first thought.
 
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