* Mike Sterling talks variant cover orders. If you ever think that retailers have an easy job, talk to one for five minutes about ordering and make sure you get into the variants thing -- baseline ordering is difficult enough, but you throw in the various cover offers and it gets ridiculously difficult.
* not comics: Sean Kleefeld wonders after the general absence of strip-based cartoons, and suggests that one reason people reacted poorly to that one Denver Con panel about women that lacked women was their response. I agree with Kleefeld on that second point, but more from the perspective that just letting something like that happen was so goofy that there's nothing to do about apologize and laugh at your own poor decision-making. Comics doesn't reward that kind of the move for the most part -- Internet argumentation turns anyone's else's admission into a "they even admit" moment. It still would have been a far more human response.
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