Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Epitaph Records to distribute comics.

* Charles Hatfield on Prophet #21-22. Tucker Stone on various comics. Dan Nadel on various comics. Rob Clough on Kmart Shoes. Greg McElhatton on Shuteye. JE Latosa on The Walking Man. Sean Gaffney on Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Vol. 13.

* laugh, you jerks!

* not comics: a piece of Peanuts-related merchandising for the rest of us.

* Tim O'Shea talks to Paul Maybury.

* Kelly Thompson picks 25 great superheroine moments. I think if I tried to make a similar list it would end being 25 Wonder Tot moments, so I'm glad to read Thompson's.

* I think I would bankrupt myself just buying whatever this kid wanted from any table he wanted them from.

* Paul Gravett writes about the forthcoming line of British, comics-related stamps.

* finally, I'm looking forward to reading this piece on Watchmen by David Brothers and Sean Witzke. Scanning it so far, I'd disagree that Watchmen is considered "the best comic" to the entirety of comics. I think it was pretty low on the list of TCJ's top 100, for one thing, and I'm not sure how that isn't an important list enough to weigh in on that conversation (I believe the top superhero comic on that list was Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four). I do think Watchmen had a "this is the best one" to a lot of contemporary superhero creators and fans for the first 15 or so years following its publication, and I suspect that what they're talking about can certainly use that more limited understanding as the springboard without any alteration, so I'm likely just complaining to complain. Like I said, I'm looking forward to reading it. Ditto this piece on DC brand management, even though that phrase gives me the creeps. Scanning that one is further proof that Scott Snyder is the emerging star that DC needed to find and develop with the initiative, one of about a half-dozen things I think they needed to accomplish for this to work in a broader sense over a longer time.
 
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