Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* this isn't exactly news, not at this point in their production schedule, but I think this the best-looking of the Tardi series covers to date. We live in an amazing reprint era that it's possible Fantagraphics' excellent treatment of these works isn't front and central in our thinking at all times.

* Doug Wright Award winner Nina Bunjevac covers Taddle Creek #30.

* it's about a week old now, and we've linked to it in the random news before now, but this interview with Mike Richardson and Joe Casey takes on the work Casey's doing with some of that company's costumed adventure characters. I think that's a fair description of those characters.

* let's hope this is the first in a series of such ads, hotter and hotter as they go.

* as a fan of the original Rocketeer comics that see that character and that world as tied into the unique expression of creator Dave Stevens, I don't really have an interest in what IDW has been doing with various sequel series. Ditto The Spirit and Will Eisner. Still, I think that IDW has done what seems like a pretty good job of working with the Stevens family and putting out quality comics set in the late cartoonist's world -- it strikes me as an honorable enterprise even if it's one in which I have little interest in the resulting content: the same relationship I have to something like the Leslie Turner Captain Easy.

* Steve Morris looks at the end of the latest run for DC's Amethyst character, the kind of character you'd think would find an audience if the market were just adjusted like two degrees towards greater rationality.

* Marvel has apparently canceled their Red She-Hulk title. I'm not sure why there needed to be a Red She-Hulk title. I sort of like comics where I can't figure out why they exist.

* finally, I found the news that writer James Robinson is leaving DC Comics to be interesting on a lot of levels. I like Robinson, I think he did a lot of good work for that company, and I think that's a company that can ill-afford to lose any talent at all. I didn't really understand his Earth 2 title, but I was surprised by how much I liked his recent Shade mini-series that DC collected. Robinson had a real talent in terms of carving out space in DC's "universe" that allowed for dramatic stakes based on something other than Amanda Waller showing up and the whole thing being plugged into some line-wide storyline about whether or not the DC comics icons are awesome and why. I think that's a real lost art, and given that these are entire worlds, I wish that more creators could create little worlds within the bigger one. I wish him luck in whatever he does next, and would love to see him return to his creator-owned work.


 
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