Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a Borders bankruptcy looms. Is a bankruptcy really that much more dire a development than the overall collapse of the bookstore chain? I'm not certain. But my first hunch is to say that their actually crossing the line and going into bankruptcy isn't as horrible as their long-time shudder and collapse, although it will make a fine press moment for those following the story and as bankruptcy involves a process does have direct implications in how things proceed from here.

* Sean T. Collins addresses Miller and Varley's The Dark Knight Strikes Again. At the very least, that's prime "Desktop Background Image" hunting ground.

* I don't think I've ever seen a picture of Gerhard before. That's from an interview that I'm sure will be worth reading once it's all posted; you may want to read it in parts but I'm going to hold off for a while. If TCJ is still going to make some additional moves this year, I hope running interviews as one post will be a strategy they consider.

* "Holland Lacks A Tradition Of Realistic Comics"

* not comics: so apparently there's little toy-related interest in X-Men: First Class, which I imagine could have something to do with what company has what relationship to what movie as much as it does the toy company's reading of public interest, although I could be wrong. I'm just going to sew little turtlenecks, craft little go-go boots, and make little martini glasses, after which I'll glue them onto my existing X-Men toys.

* it seems to me that the issue as to whether or not any country's potential war-criminal indictment of US politicians is a fascinating one for every reason except the fight a reader picks with Steve Benson.

* Austin English talks influences and gives us a look at his new book.

* Newsarama's look at bad romantic plotlines in various extended runs of superhero comics progresses into Spider-Man (with Kelly Sue DeConnick commenting) and X-Men (with Joe Casey). The Spider-Man comics offer up way more skeevy romance/sex-related plot-lines than I would have recalled on my own. Yick.

* finally, Brigid Alverson's short post on on-line comics models suggests that that consumers usually end up preferring the simplest model, which if true would push a lot of what exists right now off the table. I'm not as worried as some are about multiple systems, though, not for right now.
 
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