September 19, 2008
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* the writer Gil Roth
explains the current financial crisis in terms we can all understand.
* we're reminded by J. Caleb Mozzocco that recalled comic
DC: Decisions #1 is on the stupid clock in terms of our finding out what was so wrong with it it couldn't be released to market. We now know, much to our collective industry shame, that a Batman comic was recalled because DC felt the insane need to print curse words under the suddenly not-so-black blocks covering them, and that a Superman comic was recalled because Superman must share drinking habits with Radar O'Reilly instead of, I don't know,
a guy. I hope we never find out what doomed the initial printing of DC's opposite-of-greatly-anticipated (I'm guessing) exploration of superhero political views, because that means we can dream up much more amusing horrors than almost certainly exist, say a Krassneresque flashback that features Hourman having sex with the hole in Jack Kennedy's skull, or a brand new scene showing off Green Arrow's Muhammed Cartoons arrow.
* the publisher and creator Nat Gertler writes in to tell me what
those mini-comics being offered on the Diamond shipping list were: "You're not supposed to be able to pick those comics up at the store today. Rather, they're for stores to give out on Halloween." Thanks, Nat. The attentive reader will note the exclusion of "JUL0800666 NAKED PICASSO'S PENIS MINI COMIC PI."
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too soon?
* the prominent blogger Kevin Church insists that
social media is not the answer you think it is.
* you know, I'm all for boutique publishing models and have celebrated them in comics since Chris Oliveros came along with his consistently excellent
Drawn and Quarterly. That said, I find
this article that suggests a specific "Mom and Pop" prose publisher is impressive because it managed to throw a halfway decent party to be so depressing I wanted to stab myself in the face. Now and forever, book publishing is gross.
* finally, the writer Hervé St-Louis
dissects the latest Marvel Comics television commercial, because a few years ago we apparently slipped into some bizarre pocket universe where Marvel Comics has television commercials.
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