Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this is fairly heartbreaking. Retail is a tough, tough, tough business.

* Christopher Borrelli profiles Jeffrey Brown. Eric Newsom talks to Greg Rucka. Josh Bell talks to Mark Waid. Paul Constant profiles Ellen Forney. Matt D. Wilson profiles Michael Kupperman. Eric Buckler talks to Frederik Peeters. Nathalie Atkinson talks to Gabriella Giandelli. Nicole La Hoz profiles Tom Hart.

* good to have Gary Tyrrell back at full force.

* not comics: here's word of a book set in a comics milieu.

* David Brothers on Cyborg 009. Rob Clough on Denys Wortman's New York. Philip Shropshire on Irredeemable #37. Greg McElhatton on Legends Of The Dark Knight #1. Don MacPherson on The Spider #2. Sean Gaffney on Alice In The Country Of Clover: Bloody Twins.

* Nick Gazin interviews Brandon Graham and reviews a bunch of stuff, so he doesn't go into either one of those sections in this post.

* Chris Pitzer enthuses over next weekend's HeroesCon and reminds us that it's the 30th year for that model regional show. That is quite the achievement.

* Mike Sterling asks the questions that no one else will ask.

* another report on comics at BEA.

* I don't know if there are any references to anything here that I don't/wouldn't get, but it was pretty cute.

* that is quite the pretty cover illustration.

* finally, I've likely written about this before, but I used to get asked all the time when I was TCJ editor what superhero I would choose to write. I guess it was assumed that at some point I'd get a shot, because of all the TCJ editors that have gone on to careers writing mainstream comics...? Anyway, my answer was and is still the Bill Finger/Irwin Hasen superhero Wildcat, because he's a giant guy that wears a rubber suit and rides around on a motorcycle beating people up. The only things I don't like about him is all the stuff his fans seem to care about: the Ted Grant character, the sports angle, the training other heroes, the nine lives. No, I'd just prefer some nameless nutbag whaling on folks and driving his motorcycle through the front window and dropping cinder blocks on people's heads -- nothing super about him at all except he's a super sore-loser. My Wildcat comics would make that Raid: Redemption movie look like Enchanted April. The great thing is, I'm just as close to writing licensed characters for DC Comics as I was back in 1995.
 
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