May 12, 2011
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
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here's an essay on the whitening of the X-Men and the perceived failures of diversity at the modern superhero comics companies. I'm arguing a bit with the author over on Dylan Horrocks' Facebook account. I agree that mainstream companies like Marvel do a horrible job with diversity and they don't treat characters that might have symbolic social meaning with the special consideration they deserve. I'm much less enamored with the essay's argument constructions, which I think are unnecessarily loaded.
* I'm very jealous of Augie De Blieck
for getting his hands on the new
Mickey Mouse collection.
* not comics: Michael May
talks about why he liked the
Thor movie better than any recent issue of the comic book (he liked the
Iron Man movies more than any
Iron Man comic ever). What I find intriguing about this is that I can't fathom liking any of the superhero movies more than the best comic books, it's not even on the table for me.
* we're getting closer and closer to the day
where cartoonists start to make money by having people pay them not to run their material.
* Michael Cavna
profiles Stan Lee as a way of getting at the state of the superhero film.
* not comics: of all the recent wave of comics-related shirts I'm too old to wear, I think I like
the one in this picture the best. I think I could maybe wear a Razorback one under a standard blue oxford.
* the notion that Marvel
may shorten their page counts on their $2.99 comics will likely delight those who see the comics industry as a game of partisanship in that Marvel officials made fun of DC for dropping their page counts a tiny bit. I'm not sure what it really means. I do know from recent personal experience that it sort sucks donkey balls to buy two funnybooks and have to pull out a ten-dollar bill, and in almost every circumstance I'd prefer to buy slightly older material at a reduce price.
* finally, here's a huge and helpful list of
free comics out there in Digital Comics Land.
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