Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's the awe-inspiring shot of the line for the weekend just past's Comiket you've been looking for. Holy Guacamole. There's a nice bloggish report in English accompanying that photo and many others like it: Day One, Day Two, Day Three.

* one 20-year-old man was arrested for threatening to throw a grenade at the massive comics show.

* there is a long post and longer comments thread here about the $125 price tag borne by the forthcoming Kramers Ergot Vol. 7. Participants include me and -- much more importantly -- KE publisher Alvin Buenaventura. It may be of some interest to a few of you. I'll warn you that a couple of friends that went there when I sent them the link in an e-mail wrote back to call me names. I don't think the issue is of such a compelling, intricate nature that it necessarily flatters 100-post comments threads, and in fact the lengthy nature of the response thread may distort more than it enlightens. I remain fairly baffled by the reactions, period, and I particularly don't get the basis of responses beyond the gut consumer impulse yay or nay. It sure gets a thorough workout, though, and I know that for some folks a long, semi-dysfunctional industry issues thread is frosting straight from the can.

* the retailer Brian Hibbs continues his series on changes at his store brought about by the use of a POS system and what it's told him about what sells.

* the writer Matt Maxwell points out that the X-Men moving in storyline to San Francisco in part to draw out its persecuted minority metaphor isn't exactly a groundbreaking move considering the title's always been about its persecuted minority metaphor. Sean Collins argues that a storyline elimination a few years back of all mutants not the elite fighting mutants that might end up on cartoons and the baddies who occasionally throw down with them kind of dilutes the metaphor no matter where they live.

* Mark Evanier writes about John DiBello's multi-venue post on sexual harassment at the San Diego Con. He also urges folks to stop complaining -- the more general complaints, not the serious ones like DiBello's -- and find the con they want to attend in the middle of the con that makes them grumpy.

* speaking of cons in a way that embraces a not-comics posting, the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com looks at the just-concluded gaming show Gen Con for clues that weaknesses in the economy or changes resulting from a Chapter 11 filing might have a drastic effect on the show. The first of those two factors is something in which comics-related shows might evince a particular interest.

* finally, some dog days of summer not comics action: many people are enjoying this pleasant, not really essential, deleted scene from the pleasant, not really essential Iron Man movie that will end this summer as the #2 movie even though it seems like it opened three years ago. Seriously, dude: Iron Man will beat Indiana Jones, at least here in the US. Comics nerds everywhere are starting to feel bad for not wishing for world peace back in 1982. Or you can make yourself a t-shirt.
 
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