Not Comics: Articles Worth Reading

Here are a few random not-comics features currently out there that a comics fan may find worth reading, about any one of which I can't pull together enough coherent thought to make for its own post.

* this New Yorker profile of Neil Gaiman is a lot of fun although I went squinty at one or two details -- it could be the magazine no longer employs rigorous fact-checkers, or that geek ephemera is beyond the reach of such a person. What it reminded me of was seeing the X-Men movie a hundred years ago and thinking. "Hey, there's Wolverine. In a movie." It's Neil Gaiman. In a New Yorker profile.

* I'm certain there are many folks out there ready to read leaked reviews from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World test market screenings. I hope it's a good movie; those are fine comics and Edgar Wright is a fun director.

* while I doubt it was the intention of its author, this article on the New York Times proclaiming in vague terms they're going to be probably maybe sort of kind of taking the Financial Times pay system and applying it to its own site unless something else possibly occurs to them couldn't have been more effective in making the Times look panicked and clueless about that part of their business. Still. Years in. The biggest disconnect for me is when they extol the virtues of the Times as authoritative reporting. One, that's a hell of a claim, given their recent past; two, declaring that you do a certain thing of value is not the same as showing that's why people come to your site. I predict they'll have a rocky road, although they're far more cushioned than most entities engaging with these sorts of issues.
 
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