Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Nicole Bunge notes two hirings at Diamond.

* Henry Chamberlain on Ninjak #1. Sean Gaffney on Kokoro Connect Vol. 3. J. Caleb Mozzocco on a bunch of different comics. Doug Zawisza on The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw #5. Jim Johnson on Miami Vice Remix #1. Greg McElhatton on The Multiversity: Ultra Comics #1. Tom Murphy on Invisible Republic #1. Brandon Soderberg on Inner City Romance. Luke Geddes on Loverboys. Cynthia Rose on Munch. Rob Clough on Death In Oaxaca #1. Bob Levin on Inner City Romance. Greg Hunter on Howard The Duck #1.

* Albert Ching catches the latest example of President Obama talking comic books.

* Evan Phail gets into the publishing backstory for Halfway Home: Drawing My Way Through Japan.

* Bill Day has secured full-time employment at FloridaPolitics.com.

* I think at 12 years old I would have loved the hype that superhero comics receive now, even if I wonder that I'd be as interested in the actual comics that results. Time is slower when you're a kid -- go back and look at your favorite run of a comic book that seemed to last forever if you don't believe me -- but there's something so abrupt and ambitious and forceful about the way comics constantly reboot in pursuit of incremental sales gains that I really wonder after that reading experience. But the promos? Yeah, I would have adored the comics they put into my head, even if they never came to fruition.

* Tasha Robinson talks to Scott McCloud.

* finally, Sean Kleefled writes about how he deals with heated comics controversies in broad terms, using recent examples.
 
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