Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Ruben Bolling kills me.

* Tyrese Gibson kills it.

* Warren Ellis provides the text of a speech he recently gave on comics: I like its matter-of-fact, straight-forward description of all that comics does well.

* you know, Gil Thorp is much calmer about these kinds of things than my football coach was when we threw stuff through his window.

* the LA Times profiles The Hero Initiative, while the Examiner profiles Isotope Comics.

* not comics: the increasingly indispensible culture blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates writes on the great comedy movie Live On The Sunset Strip. There may be something in there applicable to comics about how people pick up on surface elements of great art, but mostly I just want to remind people how great a movie that is. As Coates says, Richard Pryor told millions of strangers how he ended up lighting himself on fire.

* this is interesting, I guess, in a "well, you don't see that kind of thing every day" way: new Wizard Managing Editor Mike Cotton takes issue with those on the Wizard message board that say they no longer like the magazine. "Spider-Man's still here and so am I."

* Jog of Jog The Blog muses over the role having a comics review blog these last five years has had in his development as a writer and what's happened to the comics blogosphere between now and then.

* there's some stuff out there regarding an anticipated negative reaction to Twilight fans at Comic-Con International that's sparked some commentary. I don't know, I never notice anything that's outside of the stuff I'm interested in, although I guess the panel scheduling could be interesting given the fact that people tend to sit in one panel to get to the next one.

* finally, every so often people ask me what the artist Dan Wright is up to. Dan owned, drew and wrote for the newspaper strip on which I worked as well, Wildwood, and drew the cover to The Comics Journal #211. Well, it's not comics, but he's making some commercials now. I've liked the ones I've seen.
 
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