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June 23, 2019


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* Timothy Donohoo's review of the new early-in-his-life Superman comic from Frank Miller and John Romita Jr. compares it to the Zack Snyder films in several places. It sounds like a good comic compared to those films, but I found those films slipshod, unpleasant and uniquely horrible, so for me just about anything else would look good. What I don't see in any of the reviews is any sort of general take that breaks with past ones or places the character within the context of a specific time. I don't need to see this story again unless it's really, really interesting and/or magnificently executed.

* wow, look at all the people in the comic syndication business once upon a time. There's one of these businesses remaining in roughly the same form, and about four that are radically different or greatly reduced.

* I fear for comics playing in an era of the entertainment business with such massive success and debilitating disappointments. I can't tell how much of this is natural progression for art businesses and how much is the industries leaping at a specific model. It seems that in an era where an imprint shows its values over and over that can be repositioned for a greater, more sudden gain. I hope it's not as dire as potential scenarios I see playing out in my mind.

* finally: I agree with Michel Fiffe that Patrick Dean's convention comic is difficult to flush from memory. Here's Fiffe on the semi-pro comics writing and universe-shaping implications of same by Mark Gruenwald.
 
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