Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I don't think anyone would be surprised to learn that the writer Robert Kirkman created Super Dinosaur just to run around with whomever's in that suit; I also don't think anyone would blame him.

* not comics: I'm not always up on how such stories work, but I have to think that NBC taking a pass on a Wonder Woman TV project is a blow to that brand specifically and DC's assumed new place as bright constellation in the Warners universe generally, at least as much as the idea of that project was considered a clever way to get that character over in a medium in which she's enjoyed past success and didn't have the risk of what many felt was a movie that would have been difficult to impossible to film. There was kind of a "smart kid taking shop class" aspect to that initial announcement that looks like hubris now as well. Between you and me, I'm not certain why the character doesn't work in a movie project -- a stone-cold ass-kicker from a magic island of hot ladies sounds like a good time to me, especially if you get someone funny like Josh Holloway to do all the slow burns required of being the dude in that set-up -- although to look at this another way Wonder Woman wouldn't be the first once-potent character of the 1940s to slip into second-tier status some decades later.

* I'm pretty sure that whenever anyone writes about Richard McGuire, they're doing so just for me.

* the worthy-to-hold-the-hammer Chris Sims suggests Thor comics to read after you see the movie. Ideally, there would be one obvious Thor comic to read and a bunch of a secondary choices for critics like Sims to suggest, but Marvel's never been all that on the ball with their trades program that way.

* we really need a Jimmy Corrigan one of these.

* I haven't done enough looking around for Free Comic Book Day reports, but I enjoyed this short piece on the event as experienced by those going to Atomic Books. My understanding via various e-mails is that it was a good-to-great event overall.

* not comics: this caught my attention mostly in that I can't fathom enjoying any of the movies more than the comic books on which they've been based, except maybe in the case where the comic book in question is really, really bad. But the superhero ones all seem to work far better for me on the printed page, even ones like Iron Man which really benefited from being able to cherry pick from a bunch of different takes on the character. Of course, that's not what the article's about -- it's about maybe not being able to find a comic book version you'd like even if you try to find one -- but that's what got me to thinking.

* finally, this was bound to happen sooner later: someone hijacked a defunct publisher's site and directed people to donate money in order to save that publisher.
 
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