Random Comics News Story Round-Up * the festival organizer, retail veteran and writer Christopher Butcher profiles Shintaro Kago.
* bundled extra: the Kick-Ass concept is returning; new character as lead. I suppose that makes sense; it's a good costume and the concept is popular, but at the same time you can't do a lot with an individual character in that role before it gets silly.
* I guess there's another death-as-pr-event going on in the Marvel comic books right now. Those are always fascinating for the various levels at which fans of those books regard the books: there's sort of a gaming aspect to it, but also it's a dead-on straight-ahead view of what Marvel's doing line-wide.