Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* retailer and industry blogger Chris Butcher writes an obituary for the CMX line from the point of view of a retailer. I found it compelling: Butcher claims they basically acted poorly towards retailers from the very beginning and that the whole line was poorly conceived.
* looks like DC is putting together its own Covered-style project to celebrate its 75th anniversary. Why are we only getting to the 75th anniversary stuff now? It seems like they blew off five months of perfectly okay anniversary time.
* this isn't news, but there's nothing like spending three hours on various travel aggregate sites looking at hotel rooms in order to attend a con under a certain budget and then remembering the con itself offers discounted hotel rooms. You think I'd be much better at that kind of thing by now.
* the Comics Comics kids would like to sell you stuff for money. They need it for candy and to help run their site. It's like an elementary school's end-of-the-year Mardi Gras, except with Johnny Ryan rape art instead of an inflatable moonwalk ride.
* here's an editorial on the (mostly) superhero news blog run by Newsarama about DC offing its character that was playing the Atom role in their fictional universe. I wish I could kill the headache I get trying to figure out how to write sentences like that.
* I should have known that of all television shows, Heroeswould find a way to annoy me even after it got canceled.
* looks like DC 
