Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the great thing about this new comics reviewer is that he can write the review himself or get a younger writer about comics to do it but you still sort of know it's supposed to be him.

* Joe Gordon on Star Trek: Boldly Go #1. Rob Clough on the comics of Romey Petite. Philippe Leblanc on some Pow Pow comics and I Thought YOU Hated ME.

* not comics: my favorite scene in Fellowship Of The Ring is when Frodo is at Rivendell and sits down with a bunch of YouTube videos on how to destroy the One Ring and then volunteers for the job. "I'm good, yeah. It's pretty straight-forward."

* Kieran Shiach talks to Jon Rivera.

* Heidi MacDonald notes that Geoff Johns hinted in a PR thing that he could be writing more comics starring characters from Watchmen. I thought that was sort of depressing and sad when they did it in Before Watchmen and sort of depressing and sad when they did it in that Rebirth comic. I suppose the last two steps are 1) it becomes darkly humorous in a way and then 2) no one gives a shit about it at all. We might skip #1 there. The lesson remains that even if you mean as much to a big media company as Alan Moore meant in the late 1980s, they will eventually feel perfectly happy making a couple of bucks with derivative exploitation of the property involved. Sausage: made.

* finally, Gary Tyrrell writes about Chris Onstad's announcement that Achewood is ending -- at least for now, but with a possibility of forever. I think that's a happy story, although I know some will disagree.
 
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