Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the writer Grant Morrison makes a case for a special quality of comics: their soap opera quality. He means superhero comics, but this has long been true of certain comic strips and is true of the alternative comics efforts of Los Bros Hernandez. I think it's a strength, sure.

* Todd Klein on Dial H Vol. 1. I thought that one far more interesting than the bulk of DC's books from the last couple of years. Rob Clough on a bunch of mini-comics. Jordan Smith looks at a Kurt Busiek run on Action Comics. Brian Hibbs takes a look at a bunch of different comics. Jason Azzopardi on Seth's various Dominion City works. Sean T. Collins on Chloe. Henry Chamberlain on The Grove Nymph. Paul O'Brien on various X-Men related comics. Johanna Draper Carlson on Happy-Go-Lucky Days Vols. 1-2. Richard Bruton on Reads #3 and The Whale House Part Two. Sean Gaffney on Zero's Familiar Vols. 1-3.

* Jordan Smith writes about giving comics away. I love giving comics away.

* via Sean Kleefeld comes a link to this article on why people quit comics when they quit on a favorite superhero character or title. Kleefeld also dug up this piece from Marc Tyler Nobleman on the cover design process for Bill The Boy Wonder.

* the folks over at The Hooded Utilitarian have put together a list of the best comics criticism of 2012.

* here's a lengthy, fun post on 1990s DC Comics. I'm quoted in there as dismissing all of these comics in a mean, funny way; I'm sure if I said that I wouldn't mean what I'm said to have said as anything other than a cutting remark. Everyone comic is someone's favorite comic and every period of and organizing principle for comics is where someone's fondest memories lie.

* finally, Bob Temuka employs a catalog for a trip back in time to look at 1970s comics merchandising.
 
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