Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* another reason that the potential sale and probable closure of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer may seem disconcerting: Seattle is the location of this year's AAEC convention and the P-I's David Horsey is basically the host. Actually, it may make the convention that much more appropriate to the times, but still. Here's the latest hard-news story on the matter.

* it's worth noting that Ed Brubaker's and Sean Phillips' Incognito #1 will go back to press with a new cover. I have no idea what that kind of news means anymore, because it can just as easily mean that stores under-ordered the book to the point that they're likely to miss out on most of the discrepancy in demand. I have to imagine that more people wanting something is better than more people taking a pass, all other factors being equal. That's the cover I'm likely to get, as I haven't seen the comic yet. In the meantime, Geoff Boucher liked it enough for the both of us, as well as writer Brubaker's new short film project.

* I suppose that a lot of people will make something of this new Bill Willingham piece where the talented writer swears off the excessive superhero stuff (he uses Dirk Deppey's term "superhero decadence"). I think it would have more weight coming from someone that sold a lot of comics this way or sold a lot of comics doing something else, but I guess it's worth pointing out.

* not comics: Thanks to Kevin Church, I can cross "watching a TV version of Jughead dance to a Replacements song" off of my list of "ways I get to start a work week." Also, there's some sort of short film series called Issues here that seems to be set at Comic Relief. You know, the one in New Jersey. I couldn't get it to play, but maybe you'll have better luck.

* not comics: I'm not exactly certain what compels me to bring this up, but one thing that's been weird to me in some of the discussion of Watchmen that's burbled up with a movie version imminent is a criticism that the Cold War milieu Moore depicts somehow didn't have the exact awful outcome he suggested it might. Does that strike anyone else as odd? Do you really need to accurately predict the future to use a fictional construct to criticize the present?

* not comics: a Christophe Blain music video for a Thomas Dutronc song.

* finally, there's still some of the latest discussion about women in comics lingering out there in various places, a sprawling conversation/declaration-fest that still seems to be freely conflating female characters with female creators and substituting North American mainstream superhero comics for all of comics in a way that together makes it difficult to figure out what's going on, who's arguing what, and the true value of any of the strongly-asserted points. It also goes off into wild tangents in nearly every place it's brought up including one about the quality of the movie Wall-E. If you go to here and here you can probably get a representative sample of points of view and/or links to the major arguments being made.
 
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