April 19, 2007
Everybody Out There Has An Opinion
* it looks like Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds is down on the world in a week where being down on the world seems like a sensible option;
looking at Ivan Brunetti art is certainly the most fun way I can think of to be depressed about the state of things.
* the writer Kevin Church
reads the latest DC comics mega-event, the four-issue
World War III, and suggests it reads like a scrambling corrective to their ongoing mega-event, the weekly series
52. Without knowing, I would imagine there are interviews with DC people out there saying that these are two completely independent events because of the consumer resentment that is voiced when purchase of one series can be argued to require the purchase of another. The more interesting notion to me is that there are storyline and character positioning correctives that need to be made at all -- of all the problems in putting together a 52-issue weekly series, isn't plot the one that could be worked out in advance?
* not comics: I was hoping
this blog entry from Chris Moran on major film stars taking superhero movie roles had something new and specific to add to the discussion of how such films operate in the current entertainment landscape, but essentially it's an exhortation to approach these parts with a sense of humor. Plus, for a film blog it really misleads on a couple of points: George Clooney had not developed a serious film actor reputation at the time he did that goofy Batman film; Ed Norton has always acted in big-budget studio efforts, and it's where he got his start.
* the writer and cartoonist Shaenon Garrity
offers up an interesting perspective on the subject of free on-line content as scab material, which considering how dumb that initial argument was is quite the achievement. Basically, Garrity reminds that there's a thin line between approaching a project in a way where you decide it's free and approaching a project in a way that you're simply providing free content for others to exploit for profit.
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