Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a Southern California radio station is going to replay audio of the Los Angeles stageplay version of American Splendor later today. They're doing it totally temporary media, too, without it being archived somewhere, so you're going to have to do a bit of work to give it a lesson.

* Chris Butcher has a nice piece up about the new Vertical series Twin Spica and the disconnect between its natural audience and the audience towards which the cover seems to be aiming. I kind of almost don't look at covers at this point -- I do very little buying in shops, for instance, an activity that employs a significant amount of cover examination -- but taking a second gander at this one, I think he's right. I wasn't completely sold on the first volume, but I found the second one intriguing and I hope it finds an audience. Of course, one depressing thing that gets masked by an earnest retailer making the complaint is that in most place the cover will have to do all the selling.

* this made me laugh. This, too. This, on the other hand, made me feel better about the planet I live on.

* Daddy's Home has sent its characters to confront the Gulf Oil Spill -- not the spill as an intractable problem but as an event.

* not comics: he's had a fine career, but I'm thinking my fifth grade neighborhood kids' club might have had a shot at taking down Kevin Bacon.

* Dylan Williams praises CC Beck's writing, and links to some of it on the Internet. I concur that some gathering-up of his work should be a priority, although I'm not certain how much there is.

* I do appreciate that comics is a big enough tent that people can construct all sorts of meaning in terms of what's important to how they see comics, even when I don't understand what they're getting at.

* Wizard sent out a press release this morning saying they're starting a Spring-season New York convention, May 6-8. I don't have any idea off the top of my head what this means for the ongoing convention war, which hasn't been much of a fight on their side, anyway. If I can figure something out, it will be in the next "Four-Color Festival" column installment.

* finally, Robot 6 has a metric ton of Batman-related news. That's probably too much Batman-related news, in the sense that such a big icon should ostensibly be a steadying influence on a line (or the way you expect bad NFL franchises to make a lot of midweek news but the successful teams to run silent and run deep), but there it is. Of interest to me is that Grant Morrison will leave Batman And Robin at issue #18... I suppose they'll continue the title although I'm not sure it has much of an identity beyond the creators that have worked on it already, all under Morrison's direction.
 
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