An Ear Against the Computer Screen
Some people have taken the holiday slowdown week as an opportunity to do some serious pontificating.
Brian Hibbs re-iterates key points of his theory concerning the value of direct market retailing at Heidi MacDonald's newly re-fashioned The Beat. MacDonald expands on the subject of market direction. Christopher Butcher looks at one month's worth of Diamond-shipping comics product; in a different post (scroll down a bit), he notes that the publisher Alias is using their exclusive deal with Diamond as an opportunity to resolicit all trades, something he believes no one's ever done before, which could be a blind for continued, fundamental production problems. Newsarama talks to Walter Simonson and Howard Chaykin about their forthcoming mainstream comics project for DC. The AV Club talked to Seth a while ago and I missed it.
