Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Daryl Cagle and Martin Wisse follow up on the McCoy/Lester cartoon story. Alan Gardner follows up on the Tony Auth story and suggests that we may hear about changes in Signe Wilkinson's status, too. If the axe falls on both of them, that's a potential story of the year candidate.

* Mort Todd remembers John Severin. Ao Meng talks to James Stokoe. Cyriaque Lamar talks to John Jackson Miller. Caitlin McGurk talks to Martin Lund.

* Drawn and Quarterly links up all the blogs related to the creators they publish.

* I'm greatly looking forward to reading this Ryan Holmberg piece given a few moments. They've all been pretty good so far.

* Kenton Smith on kids comics. Fletcher Arnett on JSA: The Unholy Three. Rob Clough on the comics of Dina Kelberman. Andrew Shuping on Korgi Vol. 3. Don MacPherson on Fairest #1. Johanna Draper Carlson on the Hellboy series. Sean Gaffney on Dengeki Daisy Vol. 9.

* not comics: via Sean T. Collins comes this intriguing discussion by film and television guys of the film versions of superheroes. We're about 15 years into the rise of that genre as a recurring thing, and more than three decades into the genre, period, so I think there can be lessons learned and judgments made. I don't like a lot of those movies, and I guess it's sort of interesting to think about why. I like bits and pieces of a lot of them, actually, and many pass the time, but overall it seems like kind of a dud group of films. I think the best superhero fight scene I've seen is that casino fight in Kung Fu Hustle, and I wish more of those movies had thoughtful action scenes wedded to some sort of idea of dramatic stakes like that one does. When those movies tend to fail for me, they usually fall short in basic movie-making ways as opposed to displaying some sort of specific genre malfunction. Like I sort of found that first Iron Man movie hard to enjoy when all those young soldiers died and they never came up again as a plot point. Then again, not really thinking a lot of the stories in relation to others in the medium but sort of enjoying bits and pieces here and there is pretty much the relationship I have with that genre in comics form.

* Steven Brower dislikes the practice of using covers not by Jack Kirby on books about Jack Kirby.

* Don MacPherson walks his readers through various stabs at making Captain Marvel a grimmer, grittier character.

* my name is Andy Capp, and I am a legacy character.

* finally, Johanna Draper Carlson muses on recent news that Marvel won't be doing any more Crossgen titles, at least not in the near future. I always figured that Crossgen was there to provide Marvel more material for the bookstore side of the marketplace, but that Marvel's never figured out how to do that other than through adaptations of huge bookstore-friendly brand names. I could be totally wrong about that, though. I also don't think those concepts were very strong, honestly, and in fact, that Crossgen attempted to midwife a connected universe into existence without the talents of a Jack Kirby or the cream of a few companies' output at their disposal was the weakest part of a never-strong company.
 
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