Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* that would be me, Alex. I do like how angry and certain the commentators are here. Dueling marketing moves is almost never a story, although part of me wishes I was so plugged into this plastic ring nonsense I could assign nuanced measures of maturity to elements of each back and forth. I do wonder if the new management teams are looking at this and wondering what the hell they got into.

* the retailer Mike Sterling points out in hilarious fashion that fans of the relaunched Marvelman had to wait six years before they learned what happened when Kid Marvelman showed up.

* who hasn't come home from a night of partying looking exactly like this?

* not comics: Alan Gardner is going to be one of those livestreaming the Apple iTablet (or whatever it's called) announcement tomorrow. I know that it's big news, but I think it's going to be big news for hours and days after the announcement, too, so I'm going to kick back. Mostly, I'm jealous that Alan knows how to do something like that.

* I guess comics-maker Dylan Meconis could use some cash right now, but all I have in my bookmarks is a direct link to Meconis' Etsy store. Either that, or I'm just waking up in the middle of the night and bookmarking Etsy stores.

* not comics: there's something about both the revelation in this article about the number of the subscribers and that the writer feels it's necessary to bury the information that the owners mean for the site to be added value to existing pay packages that makes me double-queasy.

* not comics: this kind of article would be more worrisome if it weren't specialty bookstores less than ten years old closing. The weird thing is that Indiana's next rung of cities have had a horrible time keeping new-book focused bookstores of any kind, which to me seems a bigger issue than whether or not someone can make a go of a themed store in the biggest metropolitan area.

* finally, here's a bit of commentary from David Brothers on why colorblind movie casting of superheroes may be a bad thing. I guess there's been some of that on some of the blogs in corners of the Internet I do not tread. It's interesting in that the only time I've ever seen colorblind casting done before is with Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman, and it seems kind of appropriate there the way envisioning an Inuit Jamie Madrox the Multiple Man or a Jared Allen-style Luke Cage seems dumb.
 
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