Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it's convention season and Scott Allie has some 101-style advice for those of you seeking a portfolio review.

* Abhay Khosla on Saga. Rob Clough on A Drifting Life. Greg McElhatton on Wonder Woman #10, Astonishing X-Men #51 and Fallen Words. Don MacPherson on a pair of comics-related publications. Brian Hibbs on various comics; his comments about their scripting a superhero fight in a superhero fight comic in Russian made me laugh. The fact that they did that made me laugh, too. Dan Morrill on Blue Estate Vol. 1. Sean Gaffney on Sunshine Sketch Vol. 6. Grant Goggans on The Zaucer Of Zilk. Sean T. Collins on Annie Sullivan And The Trials Of Helen Keller. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Wolverine By Greg Rucka Ultimate Collection. Sterg Botzakis on Marathon.

* someone stole this nice-looking art from Domingos Isabelinho.

* Tim O'Shea talks to Mike Dawson. Chris Arrant talks to Brandon Graham and Rob Liefeld. Joe Sergi profiles Ray Bradbury. Michael May talks to Jason Golden.

* Robot 6 tugs at recent reports of a George Perez convention appearance where he talks about working on one of the New 52 projects.

* this survey questionnaire article about why comics aren't funnier is an odd one. The question is weird and loaded, and a lot of what you get from the respondents is a march through their various pathologies. Also, because it's comics, the content isn't discussed as much as market acceptance.

* these comic store shows all sound awful. The one thing that's sort of interesting to me is how wholly these shows seem to capitulate to a standard model of consumption-shows out there: the model itself isn't as interesting as the capitulation. In fact, the model kind of confuses me. I've been in comics shops in about a dozen cities on a regular basis since 1982 or so, probably 2000 visits or something like that, and I think I've seen people show up with detailed questions about product once or twice. I've also never looked at a preening comics shop employee and thought, "I'd sure like to know about what makes that guy tick." I don't say that in a mean way, and I think people all have a story, but the reflected glory of the comics shop doesn't seem to me an interesting one even as much as I like comics shops. The guy who runs my local sweeper shop fascinates me about 100X more than all the non-owner comics shop employees put together, just about. The only thing I've seen close to something that made me want to watch it was a bunch of photos and videos that showed up on-line a few years back from various NYC shops in the 1980s, and that was "I'd watch that for a 90-minute documentary I'd take in on Hulu.com one morning when I was super-bored" watch it, not "bring on a weekly series" watch it. Baffling.

* #0 issues are deathly stupid and the short-term gains are not the worth the long-term frustrations it gives that core audience.

* another episode of worst cover to best cover.

* finally, the writer about comics David Brothers writes about his changing consumption patterns, including how this has an effect on what he writes and the fact that even if you really, really, want to it's almost impossible for you as a North American comics fan to consume 2000AD in paper form. Alan David Doane performs a similar buying-habits inventory. Sean Kleefeld does something similar, although his is more of an autopsy.
 
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