Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* let's all join Daryl Cagle in wishing Mike Lane a speedy and full recovery.

* this is nice: the fine-looking Capcom tribute Scott Pilgrim poster mentioned here yesterday will be only $5 at the Oni Press booth at the PAX Expo with all proceeds going to the Child's Play charity. I hope they sell a kabillion.

* the writer Warren Ellis has a column over at Rich Johnston's site and it's beginning to cook -- his take on Archie Goodwin is, I think, dead-on. I think it's a better column if you sit back and take it in rather than see every declarative statement as some sort of nerd-thrown gauntlet you're being asked to honor or argue.

* this Karen Berger interview reads like there's a checklist of current and forthcoming Vertigo projects on the table between interviewer and interviewee, but I thought it interesting they went right to Fables as the current flagship. Makes sense, though.

* Evan Dorkin appraises the career of Roy Thomas.

* people always think I'm kidding when I express admiration for the Luna Brothers, but I think their comics are completely nuts in a good way, like a movie you plan to watch on HBO for ten minutes before heading to bed but it's just odd enough and funny enough you end up watching the whole thing. Like Torque, maybe. They're also hard to pigeonhole. Their second major book featured a small town beset by hot alien naked chick cannibals, but their first and third have admirably heroic female characters as leads -- one motivated by the desire to do the right thing, the other driven by white-hot rage. I can't always speak to the page to page quality of their books, and I think given the choice I'd probably rather read Japanese comics that scratch this same itch, but it's nice that there are creators working in North American comics that have this kind of pulpy, straight-ahead exuberance. Here's an interview.
 
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