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June 10, 2015


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's some folks drawing for a good cause: justice for the young Iranian cartoonist recently jailed.

image* Sean Gaffney on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood Vol. 2. David Press on American Born Chinese. Mark Dickson on Death Vigil #7.

* Challengers Of The Unknown is an excellent concept but it needs to remain pared down; it resists embellishment. You can mess with the line-up, though.

* more costumes for the Batman. This is another thing where I don't quite understand the last five years of DC Comics. Because this is the kind of thing that reads totally differently if Batman's been around a few years as opposed to several.

* Mark Evanier drives attention to a summer Kirby exhibit.

* area man launches comic strip.

* it's not a stretch to suggest that Al Williamson is the most talented comics-maker in comics history assigned to the number of odd projects that he was. What that means, though, is that there are a bunch of beautiful pages with familiar characters drawn by Williamson, like this one.

* Guy Thomas talks to Eric Roesner. Paul Gravett profiles Hervé Di Rosa.

* finally, this article about Franklin Richards being kind of a goofy character touches on a weakness of the Unending Serial form of comics. A kid of two superheroes that is immensely powerful is a pretty good concept. But if you do 700 issues, everything gets used, and its in the use that it become a much less interesting concept.
 
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