Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked

* Image Comics is releasing a set of #1 issues at $1 each, ostensibly to give Direct Market retailers the ability to have cheap or even comics on-hand to entice new customers into trying what Image perceives as the best of their line.

* I hadn't noticed this the first time around, but the front page to the Sammy Harkham/Jordan Crane/Ted May/Steve Weissman web site What Things Do promises that work will be added in 2010 from cartoonists John Porcellino, John Pham, Gabrielle Bell and Ben Jones. That is one heck of a line-up.

* Kevin Melrose caught mention that Bryan Fuller is writing a comic book continuation of his Pushing Daisies television show, to be released by DC/Wildstorm. The TV show version was so self-consciously cute I immediately watched 20 hours of Fall Guy re-runs to regain my sanity, but Fuller has a lot of fans and I don't begrudge him a single one.

* the first volume of the forthcoming Twilight graphic novel series will have an initial print run of 350,000 copies. That is... well, hm. I don't know what that is.

* the next big, weird, Osamu Tezuka omnibus from Vertical will be Ayako, out in October. That one was from Tezuka's creatively fertile early 1970s period.

* Drew Friedman provides a sneak peak at April's Best American Comics Criticism cover. Click through the image for a better look.

* Mark Siegel, perhaps best known for his editorial work at First Second but a well-regarded cartoonist and illustrator on his own, is self-publishing a serialized webcomic. The book will then be collected and published by First Second.

* here's a teaser art direction-wise for the cover to the first of Fantagraphics' new Roy Crane collections. That's going to be a good one.

* Lane Milburn's Death Trap should be here in about a month.

* Publishers Weekly is running a list of forthcoming graphic novels of note. A few of these I have to admit I may not notice the week they come out, let alone think they're worth trumpeting months ahead of time, but your mileage may vary. I'm also surprised that Dan Nadel's Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980 didn't make the list, as I'd probably want to have that Abrams release more than any of the others on the list. Ditto the latest Little Nothings from NBM.

* the cartoonist Benjamin Marra sent out an e-mail last night that Night Business #3 is for sale through his site.

* finally, it's one of those projects that when it was announced made you wonder what exactly was bet at the last round of summer 2009 convention poker games, but a Brendan McCarthy Spider-Man mini-series is awesome any way it happens.
 
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