Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News

By Tom Spurgeon

* I don't pay a ton of attention to PR efforts, but it seems like the Jonathan Hickman-directed X-Men re-launch has been successful in alerting the core audience about the noteworthiness of the new titles. That's a lot of the initial battle these days, with the audience reduced and kind of restless and ready to be told what to buy.

* speaking of things I don't have, I also don'td have a taste for the inner mechanics of today's comics publishers, but I've had two different people point towards internal pressure at DC between traditional forms and all of the books they've agreed to over the last two years as something that will come to a head. Batman is still undefeated as of this morning's blog post, but I could see that changing. Why not?

* finally, the creators working with, around and as writer Bendis are taking a shot at the Legion Of Super-Heroes concept. That seems like one of the super-strong, hard to beat concepts, the "teenage superheroes from the future" one, but DC has always had a hangup about adhering to stories past their expiration date.
 
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