Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Disney completed its acquisition of Marvel before the New Year. Marvel stock will be taken off the board January 11.

* Jeet Heer has some notes about the Midwestern School Of Comics.

* I was a bit too blown away by the fact that the late cartoon journalist Bill Mauldin is getting a stamp to note that they're doing a Sunday Funnies offering, too, to feature Archie, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes. I'm not sure I've ever met anyone in the entire world who primarily thinks of Archie as a Sunday Funny or who would include Archie on a list of twenty Sunday Funnies were they to write one out, but whatever.

* Joel Meadows of Tripwire fame reviews his 2009 and looks forward to his 2010.

* prominent industry blogger Chris Butcher remembers the year 2009 and Namjatown in photos.

* not comics: I took my Mom to see James Cameron's Avatar last week, the 3-D version, at a reasonably large screen with stadium seating about 90 minutes away. She quite enjoyed it, and it's hard for me to muster anything negative about something that puts a smile on her face. It did seem really long.

* the retailer Paul Stock suggests that one way street dates -- getting comic books in advance of their sell date so that they might be better prepared for that sell date -- might work is to charge a small fee and then apply that to a policing program of anonymous shoppers. The thought that retailers would rather press some tiny advantage rather than improving the overall system is too depressing for me to even think of a solution that isn't burning the whole thing to the ground.

* the retailer Mike Sterling remembers the decade just past with the greatest Conan panel and some selective favorites.

* the writer and critic Sean T. Collins has named his top 25 comics for 2009. They are:

1. Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days, Al Columbia (Fantagraphics)
2. Driven By Lemons, Joshua W. Cotter (AdHouse)
3. Cockbone, Josh Simmons (self-published)
4. Final Crisis, Grant Morrison and Doug Mahnke et al (DC)
5. Big Questions, Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly)
6. Boy's Club, Matt Furie (Buenaventura)
7. Multiforce, Mat Brinkman (PictureBox)
8. Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
9. BPRD and related titles, Mike Mignola and John Arcudi and Guy Davis et al, (Dark Horse)
10. Night Business and Gangsta Rap Posse, Benjamin Marra, (American Tradition)
11. West Coast Blues, Jacques Tardi and Jean-Patrick Manchette (Fantagraphics)
12. Pluto, Naoki Urasawa et al, (Viz)
13. Ganges, Kevin Huizenga (Coconino/Fantagraphics)
14. Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics)
15. Batman & Robin, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (DC)
16. You Are There, Jean-Claude Forest and Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics)
17. The Squirrel Machine, Hans Rickheit (Fantagraphics)
18. Funny Misshapen Body, Jeffrey Brown (Hyperion)
19. Invincible Iron Man, Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca (Marvel)
20. Cold Heat and Cold Heat Special, Frank Santoro, BJ et al (PictureBox)/Scott Pilgrim Volume Five: Scott Pilgrim Versus the Universe, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
21. Invincible, Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley and Cory Walker (Image)
22. Red Riding Hood Redux, Nora Krug (Bries)
23. Prison Pit, Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics)
24. Reykjavik, Henrik Rehr (Fahrenheit)
25. Captain America and Captain America Reborn, Ed Brubaker et al (Marvel)

Mr. Collins provides links to his reviews of the vast majority of those works.

* speaking of Mr. Collins, he reviews You'll Never Know.

* congratulations to the family Lutes.

* Fantagraphics has a New Year's Sale going on.

* finally, Jim Hanley's Universe celebrates the end of 2009 with three posts: a best-of list from Jeffrey O. Gustafson, a best-of list from Vito Delsante, and an invitation to check out photos from the store's various signings and whatnot.
 
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