Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* one of the least talked-bout issues in DM sales is coverage, and this news report highlights the fact that there seems to be four stores serving Oahu now, down from what it used to be a decade or more ago and perhaps bound to go down again in the future.

* this article spotlighting some horrific moments from the DC Omega Men series notes that getting a narrative charge out of shocking turns of violence didn't start with the more famous comics of Alan Moore and Frank Miller. (via)

* the writer Sean T. Collins suggests that this month's sales chart is fuel for his theory that all things being roughly equal, Marvel event comics are going to do better than DC event comics.

* it's kind of hard to understand what's going on in this article, but my guess is that iconic comic shop They Walk Among Us is closing, the owners are keeping the web site and the name, and then either they or perhaps a chain is opening up something called Ace Comics in early October. Beats me, though.

* wait a minute: that "Archie marries Veronica" press a few weeks back was for a comic just now coming out? That's odd.

* not comics: Jeet Heer pens a poignant and -- for those us not customers, this is nice -- concise tribute to the independent bookstore Pages Books & Magazine.

* not comics: Robert Novak, a Goldwater-era political reporter turned Bush II-era political tool and a man whose increasingly fierce visage served as sort of a Dorian Gray's portrait for modern conservatism, is dead at age 78.

* people keep e-mailing me this article about book sales' relationship to movies, but I'm not sure why I want to stick around for parts two and three when in fact some movies have driven readers to books: Ghost World (exponentially more sales post-movie), Watchmen (anticipatory, but who cares when you're selling that many books?) and I believe Hellboy (which casts doubt on the "one movie to one book" theory) are all titles that have done well with exposure in movie form.

* there's a nine-page preview from cartoonist Brandon Graham's King City #1 here.

* not comics: this is a lovely quote about the people that attend Comic-Con International from the director Park Chan Wook: "Perhaps these people in their ordinary lives are friends and neighbors and we look at them and think they’re a strange bunch. But for four days of the year they have the opportunity to be the mainstream, to be on the main stage. They have the opportunity to find an outlet for their enthusiasm and their passion. It was a moving thing, to see this."

* finally, there's a lot to pull out of Chris Butcher's massive post on the New People cultural center, much of it related to comics. Even the distinctions being made about type of retail space and type of customer is worth noting, I think.
 
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