Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the increasingly valuable Jeff Trexler goes over recent filings in the Superman-Siegels case. The details in a creator/corporation dispute always make the company look bad, and in nearly every case deservedly so.

* the publisher Dan Nadel either talks about what he's writing or writes what he's talking about, but I was happy to see this portion of a recent phone conversation turned into a meditative post over whether or not we pay enough attention to non-traditional manga.

* the issue of legacy comics has come up again. I don't mind legacy comics that play a specific; I just don't think there should be as many of them as there are. In fact, a lot of legacy comics barely making a living for their creators -- you could argue that the marketplaces was getting rid of a lot of them. Blondie is still the strip you have to figure out to figure out why Sunday comics are different. It's hugely popular, but it's not really popular in the way that greatly popular things tend to be. No one's giving up a four-figure strip. Ever. It's as if the #7 TV show were The Honeymooners starring Brad Garrett and Leah Remini: that, too, would have its adherents, I'm sure, but it wouldn't necessarily be a sign of health for that medium.

* retailer Joe Field sent along this link to his store's Obama/Spidey sales day posting; its clarity and good advice and general positive vibe almost made me not grumpy about the whole shoddy nature of turning what could have been a nice thing into some sort of small-picture sales tweak/pump/nudge.

* luckily, there are stories like this out there to renew one's contempt. This guy acts like an ass, but was also set up to fail.

* I really enjoyed the photos discussed here.

* yuck

* finally, Tim O'Neil writes a nice essay on The Wasp, of all things, proving he gets an invite to be on the masthead when they revive Amazing Heroes. I always liked the Wasp, but it's almost like you like these superhero characters because they've had less crap foisted on them than other characters, or crap that you avoided. I found it interesting to look at this piece in terms of the recent, broad discussion about the apparent dearth of female superhero characters. Maybe I just missed it, but it seemed like a lot of the discussion took place solely within the context of more recently published characters like She-Hulk: there was practically no discussion of characters like Wasp, Valkyrie, or Black Widow (perhaps being used in the next Iron Man movie).
 
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