Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it's a blast to watch prolific reviewer Richard Bruton's face melt with his first exposure to John Porcellino's comics.

* just to show it's a generally slow month for comics news around the world, an advertisement featuring the Asterix characters celebrating at a McDonald's is causing cultural critics to gasp and writers to knock out what is a pretty standard, easy article. This is one of those stories where the issues get argued as absolutes when they're really fluid: it's a bad advertisement not because you shouldn't do such things but because it generates upset feelings from a segment of the audience that might like to eat a hamburger without being reminded of the cultural invasion aspects, or to flip the emphasis is being asked to help decide the legacy of the later Asterix efforts without having to puzzle through the corporation's intentions. The other thing that's weird is that I expected Tintin to appear in something like this first, what with the Jackson/Spielberg movie and all.

* Mike Lynch draws attention to JD Crowe's post about the economic misfortune inflicted upon those in the path of BP's oil spill.

* a plot development in a volume of One Piece has Lori Henderson considering the nature of that kind of narrative progression.

* I'm not a fan of quick and easy plugs, but I think this may contain the best story Jaime Hernandez is ever done.

* not comics: Leonard Riggio has increased his holdings in Barnes and Noble in anticipation of an ugly fight over the value of the stock.

* finally, Evan Dorkin talks The Beetle. I liked him, too, for mostly the same reasons. Also, it's my memory that for a while early on they deferred to him a bit in the comics as if he were a particularly tough and nettlesome opponent, which I can't imagine happening now.
 
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