Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* so what if somebody published a new volume of M. Jean work from Dupuy and Berberian and I didn't find out about it until Stuart Ng's newsletter made note of it? It's an astonishing thing to be following comics in thiis era of the rampant pretty good: so many quality efforts hitting the market that some of them can be passed over without your realizing it until weeks or even months later. Sheesh.

* Rich Johnston pulls out Alan Moore's publishing plans from material prepared in support of a recent signing.

* Post-It Monsters has a British publisher, which means this earlier iteration is now lost to the shadowy world of collectibles and used book buying. Actually, that's not a very shadowy world, but sometimes it's hard to find stuff there.

* not comics: D+Q will publish Tavi Gavinson's Rookie Yearbook One this Fall. If phrases like "2008, when she was 11 years old" freak you out, stay far away from that announcement.

* Jog notes that Glamourpuss will end with the 26th issue, and the Alex Raymond material will be finished and published as an OGN. That's too bad; I like comics series.

* plans for a Marvel soft reboot/relaunch are apparently rounding into shape, by which I mean they're beginning to move into the PR phase so people are beginning to know about them. If Bendis can reignite interest in the X-Men books after his success in putting the Avengers-related titles at the top of the Direct Market charts, he'll cement his already pretty guaranteed spot as this era's most popular and effective mainstream comics writer. It's a pretty tough gig that Marvel engages here because they can't really outright mirror what DC did in terms of engineering a total reboot and I think they like their creators, particularly their writers. The key will be making these jumping-on points without crippling certain titles that transform any changes into jumping-off points. I think there's enough of an audience out there that is looking to be told which books to buy that this kind of thing can work. Then again, I'm not completely uncertain that most of Marvel's difficulties with midlist and below aren't structural in nature, and that's a company that has some real problems confronting those kinds of problems.

* that Hawkeye comic book is likely to be ridiculously pretty. It'd be nice if there were a greater chance for something that handsome to get over with the superhero comics reading audience as something other than a well-liked book with better buzz than sales. I'm not saying that's automatically what this is, but it's hard to imagine a lot of left-field hits developing from this calcified of a market.

* just to cement this column's identity as a place to go for slightly outdated and decidedly cursory mainstream-comics news, so I guess there's maybe going to be a Fall event for Marvel organized around the idea of "war." That seems a place they've gone a bunch of times -- both event series and the idea of war. Then again, they usually don't repeat things like that unless they work. (Since I wrote the rest of this entry, this has been revealed as something related to an effort featuring the Punisher character.)

* it makes sense that Baby's In Black would have multiple publishers in multiple countries.

* hey, another King Of The Flies volume.

* Paul Dini will be writing a very personal Batman story. I know people in comics accept that kind of line as a matter of course, and I get it, I swear, but it still looks weird when I type it out.

* hey, this is nice: Gene Yang is going to do more Airbender graphic novels for Dark Horse. I'm all for quality genre comics, and Gene Yang is a talented individual.

* finally, they didn't launch with the industry-member churn the Monkeybrain people managed to work up, but CO2 Comics announced a shift this week into print comics a bit more heavily, which they describe here. I'm always on board for more Steve Lafler, a veteran comics warrior of the most noble kind.


 
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