Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Stan Lee Media Vs. Stan Lee refuses to die. It's like the last remaining bit of Internet Boom 1.0, shambling along, devouring brains, making moaning sounds about rights reversion.

* I almost missed this interview with Elaine Lee. I feel like we're always about 10 minutes away from a huge rush of renewed interest in Starstruck, but I don't know that we're going to get all the way there. I have that IDW hardcover and it's a gorgeous-looking thing.

* not comics: that you can go someplace and buy Barron Storey t-shirts seems like some sort of "Viva La Comix" gag from a 1997 issue of TCJ. There was a time not 15 years ago when Barron Storey comic books seemed like a dangerous combination of art and pop object.

* everybody draw Ellen Page.

* in honor of his new gig, Chris Samnee draws Bucky. I think I will enjoy looking at those comic books this summer.

* I haven't sat down and looked at it yet, but apparently D+Q found an English-language with Dan Clowes over at Luzern, thus defeating me at blogging. Always glad to take on in the loss column if it means I get to watch a really good interview.

* here's a few words of praise for Emma Rios' work on Osborn. It's pretty rare for either of the two big mainstream superhero companies to use an artist whose work looks that much different than maybe the bulk of working professionals, so I think we should encourage Marvel to use Rios as much as possible.

* I love the crew of weird, grinning buffoons on this Superman comic book cover. I think there should always be oddball cameos on Superman covers. If they were shooting a Superman cover outside of my house, I'd sure run out and stick my face in there.

* the writer Rob Clough looks at a bunch of currently-updating webcomics and lets you in on what works and what doesn't. I find such articles particularly valuable because I haven't found a way to fold webcomics reading into my daily or weekly comics reading; it's just something that's eluded me, and I might be too old to naturally develop habits in terms of reading a bunch of comics this way. This is fine, but I think that lack of regularly diving into that world keeps me from finding new work in a timely, organic fashion. Something to work on. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy going and seeking out comics this way, nor that I fail to enjoy comics I read once I get to them -- it's more that it's never become a natural way for me to read comics. I can't be the only one for whom this is an issue, but I also realize there are so many people absolutely inclined towards webcomics consumption that no one misses a few stragglers.

* finally, Bully showers love on Bill Sienkiewicz's work on New Mutants, with a metric ton of images.
 
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