Random Comics News Story Round-Up * Sean Gaffney on Fate/Zero Vol. 1.
* this is the best feature out there at the beginning of this week, all-time cartoonist Al Jaffee holding first wisely on the use of Yiddish language in MAD, and how that shifted from silly-sounding language into something else. MAD has multiple periods of interests worth studying even if you don't include a single publication past 1980.
* if were had more newspapermen doing posters like the one portrayed here, there might be no print newspaper crisis.
* there's always a danger in extrapolating the experiences of one Direct Market retailer to stand in for the experience they're all having, but I liked this piece from Mike Sterling on how New 52 was a different beast in terms of a relaunch and how nothing they've done since then or likely will do should see the same, specific degree of excitement.
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