Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* an Ohio historical marker noting the home of the family of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel billed as "Home Of Superman" was apparently stolen by thieves.

* another update at Timely-Atlas-Comics, this one a massive Bill Everett-related post focusing on his Atlas-era romances. Tons of art. Heaping, massive gobs of art. How great is all the current interest in Bill Everett's work?

* here's a fairly substantial chat with Image's Eric Stephenson that I almost didn't see in a press of recent CBR interviews. It's one of those "good to get the perspective from that vantage point" pieces, in that you'll probably find yourself disagreeing with chunks of it as you go, or even the logic behind entire sections. Still, Image has the advantage of being an important publisher right now in theory -- its basic deal should appeal to creators wishing to hold onto their other rights, and their basic set-up should help them survive any general economic malaise -- and in practice, with Robert Kirkman's material in particular doing very well for that author and the company.

* a DC company blog promotes work from another publisher -- it's written by one of their big-gun writers, Grant Morrison, but I still popped an eyebrow.

* he's the best there is at what he does, but what he does doesn't include filthy thoughts.

* the current E&P site feels really scattered to me, but I do like it when they throw Rob Tornoe at various issues, such as this piece on negative reactions on United Media outsourcing its comics to Universal.

* Pretty Woman in six panels.

* here's a post-mortem on the recently completed DC event series Brightest Day, focusing on the grind of plot by which its final reveal was made possible. The catch with these kinds of moves -- reintroducing characters, revitalizing certain brands -- is that the plot with which you choose to do it in a story sense may not be as appealing to fans as the general move.

* finally, here's a lengthy and reasonably comprehensive report on this year's FLUKE! show in Athens, Georgia. Seriously, it's like a report, ten testimonials and a flickr set: a model convention story.
 
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