Random Comics News Story Round-Up * it sure is fun to look at this super-handsome piece of primetime X-Men art from John Byrne and Terry Austin, soon to be purchased for a price that will indicate excesses of capitalism to which even my late father might admit. Still, look at that cool spread! I love the act of stacking these four characters with different body orientations that allow them to exist in a vertical column. That much visual information a mere 1/3 across the page is incredibly pleasurable, and the strong vertical stop helps slow down the eye and thus makes the whole page that much stronger a moment.
* Michael Cavna runs through any and all cartoon-related fall-out from the bonkers Republican Party debate from last week.
* a peek into a current Batman storyline. I haven't caught up with that material, although that title has been the best and most consistent of DC's superhero series for closing in on four years now. I do wonder if DC's books that use death and new characters taking up whatever mantle aren't pulling from 70 years of the character more than they are four years of this newer conception of the character, in a way it feels like a lot of stories are left untold. Or un-retold. You get me.
* it sure is fun to look at this super-handsome piece of primetime X-Men art from John Byrne and Terry Austin, 
