Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's how comic book legend Marie Severin enjoyed her 80th birthday.

* when I was a younger man, I was pop culture savvy to the point that a mini-trend could develop and I could spew forth some reasonably convincing theory as to why that was. Now that I'm no longer that young, things happen like a sudden, nostalgic interest in Bill Watterson, and I have no idea why they've developed.

* I think you can judge the quality of a comic strip storyline by how completely nuts people sound when they're talking about it.

* Johanna Draper Carlson asks an interesting question about unresolved plotlines in comic books. I find the topic compelling because it means different things according to different comics -- the 1970s Omega The Unknown had a conclusion, just not the one intended for it by its creators, while a lot of independent comics merely go away. The real treasure in such a conversation would seem to me not to point out comics that ended but how these sprawling storylines have a push-pull aspect to them: some of them are dumb and made up without any ending in mind and then go away, many are then rescued by writers who liked the storyline as a reader and/or are looking for a bit of narrative juice by resolving an old bit of business.

* I love the name "Penny Kenny" and I love the thought of making "dark and edgy" into "dark and edgy and skeevy" from now on.

* please God, let my life go well enough that one day I have this chair.

* that is an astonishing number of trades for a comic book I've never read before despite being one of the nerd elite.

* the best Wolverine Vs. Hulk comic ever?

* not comics: the retailer and prominent blogger Mike Sterling runs back into the room to start kicking the prone corpse of the under-performing Watchmen film.

* finally, there's a large twitter-based discussion on the nature of comic book journalism here. I don't think a whole lot about these sort of issues anymore because a) I don't care, b) I just want to write more effectively and to the point -- how that reflects back on me isn't up to me and I'm old enough now that comics constant parade of self-regard seems boring rather than invigorating, c) elements of these discussions always aggravate me (like the overly-simplistic conflation of journalism and sourced investigative journalism), d) as one of the reasons I'm not attracted to comics industry gossip is because it's relentlessly lame, it's hard for me to claim I've been tempted.
 
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