Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I liked Alan Gardner's take on the fallout from Cathy leaving newspapers, and agree with a lot of it, too. He makes a great point that one reason editors like trial runs and contests is because it gives them content for free.

* Tucker Stone kicks off what is apparently going to be a multiple-critic examination of the seminal mid-'70s "Panther's Rage" superhero storyline that ran in Jungle Action. Suppressing my disappointment I wasn't invited to participate, I'm looking forward to reading what these younger folks have to say. I read the comic book serial the way God intended such serials be read: from the spinner rack at Marsh Grocery Store. While it confused and delighted me back then, the way I see it now is as a dry run for a lot of what they do with superhero comics these days: logically working through plot points, a grittier approach than the previous take on the character, a lot of words, ambitious page layouts, and finally even more words (this was Don McGregor, after all), all in service of a second-tier character in need of a makeover. Plus it had dinosaurs and I think zombies.

* hey, Rob Rodi is writing comic books again. Rodi is like the Sidney Moncrief of writers about comics, and I've liked the one or two actual comic books he's written that I've read.

* finally, the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com has carved out a bit of space for themselves in terms of following the latest in bookstore business shenanigans that may or may not have an effect on the comics business that flows through those outlets. Here's their latest, about an ownership war at Barnes and Noble that unfortunately comes at a time when the business is doing okay, it's just that the stock prices are a bit down.
 
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