Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* so here's the final skinny on Rich Johnston's move away from his popular column "Lying In The Gutters" on Comic Book Resources to BleedingCool.com. He swears to me this isn't a prank, the site is sponsored by Avatar Press, he promises innovative content, and Warren Ellis will be making contributions. As always, I wish Rich every success that does not involve taking advertising away from me.

* Alan Martin discusses the current Tank Girl collections and more Tank Girl on the horizon.

* Viz media is launching a new on-line magazine venture, IKKI. The idea here is something they can launch titles in a way that entices readers to buy them in print book form later on. This comes on the heel of the cancellation of Shojo Beat, which had a similar mandate (IKKI will apparently target adventure manga, for instance) but was in expensive print form with paper and whatnot.

* I'm not sure I understand the details on the "promises of more" portion of the release, but it's worth noting that Mike Allred is wrapping up his current Madman series, Madman Atomic Comics, with issue #17. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that very few series have ended on a 17th issue.

* crise sur la terre infinie?

* the cartoonist Richard Thompson lets slip that he's working on a second collection of his Cul De Sac strip.

* the writer J. Michael Straczynski will apparently spearhead DC's attempt to revive the Red Circle superheroes. Someday I'd like to see one of these revivals about to happen and the art comes from people like Jay Stephens.

* the on-line magazine MiChao! from Kodansha is apparently ending.

* this glimpse of Fantagraphics' forthcoming Gahan Wilson collection makes it seem pretty remarkable, and no doubt it is.

* there are a couple of forthcoming books listed in the latest catalog from Conundrum Press. A June book called The Hipless Boy, from Sherwin "Sully" Tjia's column in the McGill Daily; an October book called Poof!, which is an English-language translation of Line Gamache's La poudre d'escampette.

* the writer Valerie D'Orazio has a new column at Comixology.

* the writer Grant Morrison talks about his plans for the Batman comics team of the former Robin Dick Grayson as Batman and Batman's son with what's her face, the funny-named guy's daughter Talia, as Robin. He promises that he's found a way to use the 1960s Batman TV show in a way that won't make all the guys with ponytails still buying Batman to quit the book in disgust. Grant Morrison interviews are almost always fun.

* the Lenore books by Roman Dirge have landed at Titan after a long run at SLG.

* finally, I'm not sure why they just don't do a Millie the Model comic and let it sell poorly for a while to see if they can get something going, but that's why they don't let me run comics companies. That, and I insist on working pants-less.


 
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