Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News By Tom Spurgeon
* with 12 books in the balance, the Retrofit Comic crowd-funder also doubles as publishing news. Summer Pierre! Man, do I love the last five to seven years of work we've seen from Warren Craghead.
* Marvel will bring back its Fantastic Four comic in August, with Dan Slott and Sara Pichelli as the main creative cogs. Pichelli is a well-regarded monster talent and Slott is a Marvel veteran whose reputation among hardcore fans goes in a lot of different directions. There will be some interest because FF was Marvel's first modern-superhero comic and the reasons rumored for its suspension was which studio had movie rights. This does kind of line up with Marvel's conservative publishing strategy of the fmoment: old favorites, comfortable treatments. We'll see how it goes!
* John Allison writes about a non-comics add to his burgeoning comics profile: a prose adaptation of his Giant Days. Allison is one of those really fine talents -- David Petersen is another -- where they have what seems to the musing mind to be massive mainstream appeal but the mass of the mainstream just hasn't been convinced of this yet.
By Tom Spurgeon
