Random Comics News Story Round-Up * Todd Klein on Swamp Thing #5. Alexander Jones on Civil War II #0. I haven't moaned like a moan-y old man recently about how much I hate the #0 books and the side series and the series that fold into the final book that you don't know worked that way when you're buying individual comics. I still feel that way, if anyone wondered.
* festivals extra: it's not my area of coverage with that particular show, and I suppose the Star Trek franchise isn't at its healthiest in terms of hardcore fan goodwill, but this has to be a good get for Comic-Con and it's interesting to see how they approach opportunities like this and having Conan O'Brien's show in town last year. I liked those first two new Star Trek films just fine -- they passed the time and amused me -- and didn't see a lot of difference between them. I felt the same way about the four most recent James Bond movies, so clearly I am no longer to be trusted for close analysis of pop-culture soaked movie-making.
* this site does a terrible job with discussing art direction and book design, but these Reprodukt editions of Jaime Hernandez's work sort of jumped out at me. It's interesting just how many approaches have been taken with Los Bros' work, the vast majority of which have been rewarding.
* someone hire Jason to do minimalist reviews like this for their site so we can read them all of the time. Not much more to say about most of those books. It's unbelievable to me that Jason is just now catching up to Saul Steinberg. There should be a holiday named after Steinberg and every citizen of the world should own at least three of his great books.
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