Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I liked Roger Langridge's year-in-review-2015 better than any of the others I read. If he's more productive in 2016, we all win. Also I miss when I could run pictures of Statler and Waldorf in articles about Fantagraphics and label them "Groth and Thompson."

* not comics: Force Hugs.

* I enjoyed reading this negative comics club reaction to one of my favorite comics as a kid, the Days Of Future Past-era X-Men comics. I wish the report had gotten a little deeper into why it was confusing. It certainly doesn't stick in my memory as more convoluted than the average superhero comic book saga done since, and certainly wasn't considered particularly hard to understand at the time. The only contextual thing specific to that time that occurs to me that might add some dissonance is that superhero comics went into this thing about 1976-1981 where killing and death were reintroduced into a lot of monthly comics. It's why Wolverine and Punisher broke out; it's why Miller's work on Daredevil seemed like such a clean break. We're up to our eyeballs in apocalypses now, but back then the idea that everything was going to end in mass murder and hopelessness and armageddon was still kind of a new thing, and made you look at those adventures a bit differently. It may have even helped kids to process their nuclear dread.

* finally, Brian Hibbs takes a look at bestsellers at both of his shops. It's also a nice reminder of how specific store culture can be, and how big an indie juggernaut Saga has been.
 
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