Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this seems like it will be really cool, although I haven't had the time to watch it all the way through yet.

* do some comics fans really call Captain America, Thor and Iron Man "the Trinity" with a straight face? I guess so. Huh. Well, I hope if they come back they do so as hectoring dickweeds, the way they were initially put together as a group in the still underrated Thomas/Buscema/Palmer era. (I think those were aliens, anyway.)

* speaking of old Marvel Comics, this group of iconic panels is a pretty good one. There are a couple of shrugged-shoulder ones, but I guess that's to be expected. I'd suggest that the Incredible Hulk panel they really want is the one of Bruce Banner screaming that comes right after the one they use of Bruce Banner saving Rick Jones. I haven't looked at it, but I would imagine there has to be a panel from the Jack Kirby-drawn Hercules/Thor battle that could be used -- that's an iconic issue of old Marvel Comics. The panel of Daredevil holding onto Sub-Mariner's ankle from that Wally Wood-drawn issue pops to mind, and I'd swap Wolverine's first appearance for his busting out of Mesmero's freak show chains early in Byrne's run. Also, how about the panel with all the dead Avengers in the living room of the suburban house owned by Korvac? It'd be nice to have Gene Colan, but the panel I and every comics fan over 40 most remember by Colan is of the Black Widow drying her hair after taking a shower. More than any of those, Howard the Duck walking out of the bushes is the true must-have.

* not comics: in writing about the gaming industry event Gen Con just past, the writer Kenneth Hite turns a nice phrase about the feeling of returning to a convention you've been to many times over the years: "Fan or pro, there's the moment of reorientation into ritual space -- the Indianapolis Outside Time, where it's always mid-August, and you can't quite remember where you left the Omni."

* missed it: August 19 was the ten year anniversary of Ted Rall filing suit against Danny Hellman. I don't go to the TCJ message board any longer, and I'm certain they talked about it over there somewhere.

* this article on Prince Valiant in the Philadelphia Inquirer turns into a meditation on the state of the comic strip. You know, there was a time when I was a kid when Prince Valiant was considered the highest achievement in comics by a lot of people. It's not, at least not for me, but Valiant is a surprisingly entertaining read and certainly still easy on the eyes. I sort of think that a whole kind of story represented by Prince Valiant is fading from popularity, not just a delivery form.

* finally, I really, really like the idea of calling December 30 "No Comic Book Day," and I'm not sure I can even explain why.
 
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