Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com profiles the latest anti-piracy bill gaining bi-partisan support with our elected, national officials.

* this isn't the first time I've read Shaenon Garrity enthusing over Atagoul, but I'm certainly not tired of it. That stuff is weird-looking.

* when I was a kid we just called this "being an asshole."

* Bully would like to remind those campaigning for Stan Lee to appear on Saturday Night Live that he's already hosted the show. That is a great, long, self-indulgent Bully post.

* Jeet Heer and the gang at Comics Comics discuss Douglas Wolk, Reading Comics, the possibility a series of critical profile books for comics, theory and hacks.

* not comics: hey, I just realized the new Spider-Man played the reporter who got beat up a lot in the first Red Riding movie. He was pretty good, as I recall, and I think that's a Netflix "watch instantly" selection for those of you who like the British crime stuff.

* Kristy Valenti profiles Otto Soglow, focusing on the symbolism in his arch character designs.

* not comics: Peter David is right about the pettiness of national media.

* Paul Levitz is apparently bringing back one of the sweeter mainstream comics fan participation elements of ages past: the election of the leader of the Legion Of Super-Heroes, which was done by fans writing in and then used as a story point in the title. The thing I remember about that as a kid was that the numbers weren't all that spectacular. Most of my comics reading was extremely isolated from other people in my middle-school years, and seeing the vote results got me thinking about the other people reading comics in a serious way for the first time. Not that that's a serious subject or anything, but it did make me think about how the audience broke down, and it didn't occur to me before just how small in some ways that audience was, and how that was an opportunity for me to make an impact in that world if I applied myself.

* Sean Kleefeld tries again.

* this cover is adorable.

* finally, the writer Jason Aaron points out that not sucking is helpful if you want to break into a creative endeavor. I think this is a piece of advice that a lot of us forget about, the fact that our own efforts and the efforts of things we like may suffer less from a conspiracy of market forces and gatekeepers and more from just not being good enough. There's also that thing where something/someone is arguably good enough but not overwhelmingly and obviously good enough, and thus presents a trap for those arguing over its ultimate fate.
 
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