Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* BOOM! relaunched their web site and they want you to know about it. It's a very nice web site, I suppose.

* Sonia Harris shows love for George Perez' Wonder Woman.

* Jason Clyma on Superior Foes Of Spider-Man #1. Andy Oliver on Eustace and Swear Down. Kim Thompson on Masters Of Comic Book Art. Richard Bruton on 7 String.

* It's hard for me to believe anyone will pay this much for original comic book art, but hey, I enjoy those comics and rich people spend money on some odd things.

* he means it, too.

* Karen O'Brien looks at the difficulties Marvel has had in selling books with female character leads and points out the lack of depth in characterization in a way that would facilitate a solo comic. I always appreciate criticism of content rather than societal structure.

* mostly not comics: I thought this article was a bit rigid and silly, but reading people in the comments flipping out that someone would step to their favorite shows makes me want to like it more than I did. It does remind me how soft a lot of the major critical work has been on the major television shows. I don't know of a writer about television that's emerged through a largely negative appraisal of the television being made, the way that the '70s gave us a range of movie critics with different approaches to the form and different attitudes about the material being put out there. The comics stuff is pretty standard material about how ad hoc creation in superhero universes mirrors what writers of modern TV shows doing with their programs.

* Karl Kelly talks to Kurtis Wiebe. Tim O'Shea talks to Jeffrey Brown.

* there is only tangential comics content in this article, basically that cartoon imagery is a significant part of the rhetoric against the phenomenon, but the idea that Israel is trying to get its ultra-orthodox into military service in part because so many of its youngest citizens identify this way makes for a pretty fascinating read.

* finally, tough room.
 
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