Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Alternative Comics has finally announced its 2013 books. This includes an anthology bearing the company's name, more Sam Henderson and a Karl Stevens book.

* so I guess that maybe a cancellation of Marvel's Winter Soldier model may be more of an adjustment of the comics series of that name with a new Captain America movie on the horizon more than it is Marvel bailing on that character. I don't know; I thought that character worked pretty well as a foil to Captain America and reasonably okay on his own, mostly in terms of extending what Ed Brubaker was doing with those characters in general, a kind of amped-up version of the 1970s Steve Englehart run. I would imagine there would be a use for a title like Winter Soldier to kind of hold some of the "black ops" superhero stuff in one or two places while the rest of the line toys with space opera, the way there always seem to be these weird, backwards-looking, convoluted X-Men comics.

* Titan Comics has released covers to its forthocming A1 Annual.

* I don't really cover kids books in this column, but this Happy Punks 1 2 3 is awfully cute.

* so they're starting roll 2014 books out on Amazon -- never a great place to go for exact information on when something is going to be released, but generally functional for those companies with aggressive books programs which at this point seems to be pretty much all of them. Anyway, I was happier than usual to see a third volume of Buz Sawyer is going to be released. That's not the best strip. It's not even that cartoonist's best strip. But it's super-handsome, and it reads pretty well when you get to devour a bunch of it at once. I can't imagine those sell to anyone, but I guess somehow it works.

* a new issue of Magic Bullet is imminent.

* finally, IDW is doing its forthcoming Carlos Ezquerra-centric Judge Dredd book via its recent strategy of doing limited editions of books. I think that's a nice way to do certain projects, as the demand for works like that is very, very focused.


 
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