Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* great headline.

* Ted Dawson has a wonderful-looking Jack Kirby romance-era page up, including a top tier that has been re-purposed from a newspaper strip. I love stuff like that.

* looking over Roy Crane's shoulder.

* these reader-directed mini-interviews with Marvel's Tom Brevoort have been pretty informative, all things considered.

* not comics: I am going to assume someone pretty early on in the comments took Shaenon to task for not including The Island Of Misfit Toys. We should really do an island-inspired Five For Friday.

* not comics: the actress Eliza Dushku apparently won't be attending the Wizard Entertainment/Gareb Shamus-related shows to which she'd previously committed. This is important because there was a time when that convention group made a big point of having the actress on board. I would guess, however, that Dushku no longer having a genre show to promote is a big part of the decision.

* this group of staff reviews at PW apparently contains the first review of Dan Clowes' Wilson.

* David Brothers suggests trying to justify reading material that's been liberated from the control of its creators or that creator's designated agents is just piracy, and the sooner we admit that the better off we'll all be.

* a couple of people have e-mailed me this on-line copy of the old Marvel Comics article from Rolling Stone, published at about the 10-year mark in the company's resurgence. I assume it's being linked to for some reason, and I apologize to whomever did that original linking. It's a fascinating article for a lot of reasons, and justifiably one of the most entertaining comics articles of all time. A couple of things, for the 10 percent of you familiar with the article that didn't know them: the writer is from what I remember doing the Stan Lee book the same Robin Green that was a producer on The Sopranos -- working for Stan is how she got a leg up in New York right after college -- and the couple that met through the Silver Surfer letters page that goes unnamed in the article is the Pinis.

* I guess they're bringing back the Thanos character. I always liked that character, although I didn't know he was gone.

* finally, this painting by Milton Caniff is up for purchase at a $750 price, which sounds like a huge, huge, huge bargain to me. It's not hard for me to imagine the whole world wanting something like that.
 
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