Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I'm going to hazard a guess and say the must-read, comics-related feature of the morning -- if you haven't devoured it already -- is critic Jog interviewing Alejandro Jodorowsky. It's not even all that long, but it's good.

* this Sam Hiti-drawn, '60s-style Marvel painted panel featuring Nick Fury and Captain America sure is something.

* not comics: somehow reporting on the losses suffered by a company taking losses for inventory and various other costs of closing business just seems mean. I'm still worried about this hitting the reading culture in places that don't have bookstores, no matter if those same stores now closing killed everything else in the area first.

* that's a lot of anti-Aquaman haikus.

* boycott fever spreads.

* a first-timer's fresh look at Concrete.

* not comics: here's a profile of a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary about comics and their move to digital. I like that they're talking to Jim Davis and Kate Beaton, and the stills make it look like the people will be filmed attractively, which is always a good sign for a project like this one that there's some technical skill involved. Gary Tyrrell endorses it, which would seem to be another positive.

* Craig Fischer is among many to take up the call that books be purchased from Sparkplug at this time. I encourage everyone to consider it.

* he's kidding, but tell me "Lulu Phegley" doesn't sound exactly like the kind of strange name of the kind more than the expected number of cartoonists seem to have.

* finally, I really hate the Newsarama slideshow presentations, because no way am I going to go all the way through a cycle of pictures and writing for the sake of a single link given my limited workday right now, but this one looks like it might be fun for nostalgia's sake. The thing I think most depresses me about the "old" DC universe (which I guess goes back to 1985, right?) shuffling off the mortal coil is that there's no "Whatever Happened To Man Of Tomorrow?" for this cycle of stories.
 
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