March 2, 2012
Go, Read: Kiel Phegley On DC’s Jerry Robinson Memorial
People in comics criticize both the degree of commitment that its mainstream comic-book companies have shown to the men and women that created the properties they now manage and the short attention span of the on-line press that has sprung up around those businesses. That's two reasons it's nice to see
CBR's Kiel Phegley write a long piece about DC's recent memorial service on behalf of the late Jerry Robinson. I know that there's a tendency to denigrate events that by themselves might be seen as a positive if we can also criticize them as not being a significant part of a series of efforts moving in one, concerted direction, but except in cases of outright exploitation, of using one to hide the other, I disagree. It's a good thing, I think, independent of our other appraisals, to remember people like Robinson, both at a memorial and in print like this article, and it's good to celebrate what they've done. Also, Paul Levitz should get credit for breaking out the phrase "direct lineal imbuement" in discussing one of this summer's tentpole movie celebrations of snarling and hittery.
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