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January 12, 2016


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* Nick Wilcox on Wandering Son Vols. 1-7. Chris Mautner on DKIII. Thomas Powers on White Boy.

* not comics: this is what was on TV for the young geek-in-the-making when the Batman TV show debuted. This is a pretty good line-up of shows of that kind, all things considered. I'd watch this line-up now some nights. LBJ is pretty much a Batman 1966 villain, looking back.

* Brigid Alverson walks us through the remaining, floating Angouleme Grand Prix material, including some intriguing thinking about how it unfolded. The history thing still kills me. This isn't listing 400 creators over 130 years and there being imbalances because of multiple factors including institutional sexism. This is going 0 for 30 on a list for right now. Put another way: This isn't picking a list of top 100 athletes 1900-2000 and not having as many Babe Didriksons as Babe Ruths, this is naming a list of great athletes right this very moment and leaving off Serena Williams and then pointing towards 1958 and shrugging your shoulders with a smirk on your face. What a spiteful argument in terms of its misleading qualities.

* CBR made charts out of all its 2015 reviews.

* not comics: I'm not sure there's an advantage of trying out versions of licensed properties as guest stars on a time-traveling TV show, but if there is, it's about to accrue to DC.

* finally, I did not know that Editor & Publisher had a cartoons section.
 
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