Random Comics News Story Round-Up * JA Micheline talks to Ta-Nehisi Coates. I haven't read all of the Coates coverage, but I really liked that piece. I'm glad for the rest of the Black Panther creative team like Brian Stelfreeze -- whose work is pictured at right -- to share in some of that spotlight.
* apropos of nothing, I really love the series of Tony Fitzpatrick's visual poems in the slideshow you can access from this article.
* congratulations to the ladies and gentlemen involved with the Retrofit crowd-funder on making their initial goal. That was one hell of a last five days.
* JA Micheline talks to 
