Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Jeet Heer on the Optimism of [Little Orphan] Annie.

* the writer Ben Morse pens an appreciation of Marvel's Dr. Strange character. A lot of people seemed to like that Dr. Strange-starring mini-series The Oath. I thought that series looked pretty but was dull as dirt, like something from the fourth season of a not very inspired television drama, so I'm always surprised to see so many fans enjoyed it. Maybe it's the best of a poor lot?

* does no superhero fan remember that about-to-date Northstar was implied to have had a relationship with Hector of The Pantheon? Swimsuit issues were in continuity, right?

* I guess there's some talk out there about a certain kind of comics fans reducing the number of comics they buy. I wouldn't read too much into a few comics fans becoming dissatisfied with comics as a significant critique of the medium: something similar happens to nearly everyone with every art form, and this happens all the time in comics. It is worth mentioning when this start of thing begins to be talked about in that the engines of comics' industry depends more than any other entertainment industry on hardcore fans that buy thousands of dollars' worth of new product every year. If 2000 sturdy, typical football fans stop buying tickets, that's a empty section at one stadium 18 weeks a year -- a year in Jerry Jones' face touch-ups. If 2000 sturdy, typical comics fans stop buying comics, that's $4 million in terms of bottom line purchasing that has to be accounted for.

* the holidays always turns over several stories like this one.

* Paty Cockrum has apparently donated a significant number of comic books owned by her and her late husband the artist Dave Cockrum to the charity Kars4Kids.

* finally, since we've gone from being depressed about the relentless fixation on juvenilia in comics shops to realizing that maybe a certain kind of comic book should be for kids and being okay with that and hey, there they are in bookstores can we start to get depressed about the relentless fixation on juvenilia in comics shops all over again?
 
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