Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I keep forgetting to say so, but Tribune Media Services shut down their on-line presence but says this has nothing to do with an impending sale and is instead a step towards coming up with a new company presence on the Internet. Shutting down a site to put up a new one seems like something a company with five employees does, not a group as big as TMS, but what do I know?

* I liked this feature-y piece by Mike Gold on Steve Ditko, even though I'm pretty darn certain Ditko wasn't solely responsible for intellectual content in comic books.

* why Warren Ellis won't be at San Diego.

* this article about the basic feasibility of Batman was fun enough, I guess. At times it seemed to me a little bit loopy, like when the academic resource interviewed gives a couple of answers that sounds like a 14-year-old sussing his way through a role-playing game scenario.

* thank you, James.

* the writer Gus Mastrapa has a piece up about a new videogame-focused webcomic that makes an interesting point about such efforts playing traditional roles within that industry, in this case the editorial cartoon function.

* the writer-about-comics Michael Sangiacomo has stopped reading Spider-Man, which isn't really important but some of the reasons why he's kicked the 45-year-old habit might be.''

* you know, Spider-Man is Marvel's best character, but I personally can't imagine wanting to read anything after about #140 or so of the original comic book. I'm sure there are some well-done stories that came later, but while I'm also certain that David Gates and Haruki Murakami could write good Sherlock Holmes stories if they had to, I'm glad prose doesn't feel a need to do that in the same way comics does. In other words, isn't there enough Spider-Man now?

* finally, Jason Rodriguez is hitting the road to San Diego, and plans to tell you about the world of comics he experiences between the coasts.
 
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