* a lot of the coverage of an event like last weekend's TCAF is asking people what projects they have coming out and when; the key is remembering what you hear back, which isn't always first priority, and then straining to recall if you're allowed to talk about what you heard. That's the long way of saying you might want to poke around here for that kind of thing.
* so is the Chase collection due out by the end of the year the first-such from that fondly remembered DC Comics series? I'm not certain. I do know at one time that people collected the individual issues with the thought that there might never be such a collection.
* so one of the Harvey Pekar posthumous projects might not come off. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but everyone seems to agree that things sound dire.
* Udon Entertainment has dropped the floppy comics format to focus on another variation of the trade paperback.
* the Ditko Comics site has a look at this summer's Pure Imagination collection of Ditko comics.
* here's a page of comics from a forthcoming Zatanna/Black Canary team-up story. I like those characters just fine, but it's really bizarre when you can sell only 110,000 Batman comics on a very, very good month to assume that there's any sort of sustainable audience for characters maybe two-dozen places down the depth chart.
* it looks like they're making comics out of the Kevin Smith Six Million Dollar Man script from a dozen or so years ago. I'm not certain how we've avoided a Will Ferrell Six Million Dollar Man movie. It will be hard for any new comic to match the fundamental awesomeness of the 1970s Charlton effort, of course.
* finally, new Mack White? Why didn't someone tell me? Other than Brad Mackay, I mean. That's the trailer below.
By Tom Spurgeon
