Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Robot 6 has a Frank Miller round-up, including news he won't be doing that Batman Vs. Al Qaeda thing. I wasn't looking forward to that one as much the camps of sincere Batman as real American hero and Frank Miller as real crazy American artist were, but I surely would have read it.

* in praise of the new Abominable Charles Christopher book.

* Alan David Doane and Sean Collins comment on my piece about comics costs. I don't agree with either of their takes on it, but it's nice to have people commenting. I don't have a problem with whatever price anyone wants to put on a comic, I just question the publishing and industry strategy of doing so on lots of books at this time without evidence of a countervailing, positive, compelling rationale for doing so. I agree with Sean in that $2.99 isn't my personal idea of a good time buying third-generation serial sweaty man fight comic stories, either, but to me that just makes it that much more alarming that they decided in a recession with a seemingly stable financial base to raise prices on those entry-point products by 33 percent.

* I'm all for God getting an Eisner nomination, although if you extend the logic out I'm pretty sure it would mean I'd be sharing CR's nod with Beefeater's Gin. Of course, if God had received an Eisner nomination, it would have been more likely that He'd show up for the ceremony than Crumb. "I created the world in six days; why does it take four hours to give out a bunch of comics awards?!"

* this poster for the Secret Avengers title, one of 58 Avengers titles to be made available under the Heroic Age impetus at Marvel, is I guess a big deal to folks that follow those kinds of comics. I do like their Valkyrie character. No reason that can't be at least a pretty good character for that company.

* holy crap, I think Rich Kreiner remembered the book I completely forgot about when compiling my top comics of 2009 list. This isn't supposed to happen when you wait until April.

* you can ask the writer Kurt Busiek to share his process, but he'd really prefer not to.

* finally, the not-abominable-in-any-way Charles Hatfield discovers the Spinner Rack That Forgot Time.
 
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