Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* the writer and editor Mike Rhode mentions that DC won't be picking up a third American Splendor series. That's... unsettling in a way, although not surprising when you put on your logic cap, I guess.

* IDW will be publishing a "re-mastered" -- meaning they'll scan from the original art and then re-color the pages -- version of the fondly remembered science fiction comic Starstruck. I think this is worth noting for having that project back and in a nice presentation of the material, but also because it really underlines how IDW seems to have made curating the 1980s indy-comics movement for its best books better than any other publisher.

* Archaia Studios Press is now Archaia or Archaia Comics, and has a new logo (see below).

* Tom Devlin wants you to get excited about the forthcoming, massive Marc Bell art book.

* the great Lewis Trondheim is working on a fully-digital project.

* here's a short piece on Gerry Hunt's Blood Upon The Rose.

* finally, linked-to by everyone else about a week ago, the writer Grant Morrison details some of his forthcoming "Multiversity" project, where he'll be doing a bunch of self-contained or semi self-contained stories about various DC Comics "worlds" made possible by the cosmological set-up settled upon in some recent major crossover. Well, if that's what "cosmological" means, anyway. On the one hand, Morrison is almost always worth reading, and this seems a fine fit in that a lot of superhero stories are working from thin enough gruel that a single dip into their storytelling universes is more than enough -- think of movies where the trailer is better than the actual film. On the other hand, a project like this seems poised to establish new approaches to a lot of properties, and DC almost always ignores new ways of doing a lot of their properties. That would seem good according to the first standard, but it also seems like sort of a waste of time.


 
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