Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Boom! and the Hero Initiative would like you to know that the Hero Initiative can be your community charity of choice, receiving incremental kickbacks on your grocery bill, although you have to live in a state with a certain set of grocery stores. It sounds like a no-brainer good thing to me, although I could have sworn this was already announced.

* Vintage Sleaze presents the mystery of the Gene Bilbrew/Charles Mingus record sleeve art team-up.

* Mike Rhode's impatience is to our benefit.

* here's a combined Moto Hagio CCI photo gallery and a preview gallery for her Fantagraphics collection.

* the gentlemen at FPI blog present a barfaroo-looking superhero comics cover and would like to know if DC remembers what it's like to publish comics for kids -- or comics that you could at least sell kids without an 80 percent chance you're going to see a parent in front of your register 24 hours later giving you the stinkeye. I think it's sort of fascinating that after all the silly gory stuff they've done with superheroes the last few years our first reaction to something like that cover is that it's wrong, or at least noteworthy. Although in this case, that would be kind of gross no matter who it was.

* Timothy Callahan takes his shot at the 20 best WildStorm series.

* I think I passed a lifetime milestone with Sean T. Collins' review of Dark Reign: Zodiac. I had to look a second time to see which company's generically-named minor crossover event was called "Dark Reign." The next decade is going to get ugly around here.

* if there's anything more fun in life than a highly-detailed Dan Zettwoch illustration, it's a highly-detailed Dan Zettwoch illustration with a mini-essay about its creation.

* Bill Kartalopoulos profiles Kim Deitch for the Comics College feature at Robot 6. That's a fun feature, although if I were to write every installment would be "God, I don't know. Just read a bunch of their stuff and either something will click into place or something won't."

* comics' living magnet-hair novelty toys meet.

* JM DeMatteis on how Kraven's Last Hunt was written.

* here's an intriguing concept for a blog post: a former serial comic book collector now weaning himself from such purchases going series to series and figuring out how many more issues he's in on.

* here's something that a lot of fun to read if you're interested in the material: a bunch of manga-focused comics critics go at the AX anthology via twitter.

* not comics: I'm not exactly sure why there needs to be another film version of True Grit, but this one looks classy and if it means someone takes a look at my script for Masters Of Atlantis, I'll be extremely happy.

* finally, it was only 14 years ago that Ed Brubaker was best known in comics circles as a cartoonist that did pieces like this one.
 
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