Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's another interview with DC's Paul Levitz, this time on digital comics. It's a fine interview and everything, but the one thing that really jumps out at me is that there's very little conceptualization of content except as something to be leveraged effectively or not. I'd that that's partly unavoidable, reall, but it still sort of freaked me out.

* the writer Marc Sobel continues with one of my favorite critical projects, examining " title="the 35th issue">the 35th issue of greatest comic book series of all time: Love and Rockets Vol. 1.

* the prominent comics blogger Sean Kleefeld talks about his continuing attempts to find an on-line comics reader interface that suits his needs.

* it really is beginning to look like a newspaper industry apocalypse. Let the flailing begin.

* the writer and blogger Kevin Church disagrees with my commentary on his commentary about that retailer that writes negative reviews of comics he carries.

* finally, a bit more on the Virgin Comics closing: this PW article notes that eight people were in the New York office, and that there might be a chance this is a re-structuring move and the company could end up in LA in some form. If you want to look around, there are some assertions in various high-profile blogs about what doomed the company: bad business practices and strategy, an inflexible Direct Market denying purchase to their seed, a model that simply doesn't work. I don't have enough information to make a more informed opinion than the hunch I shared yesterday that the books were generally unappealing to the extent that they failed to meet sales levels in any market to the extent required to sustain its particular infrastructure and specific cost outlays. However, I'm really, really hesitant to take my shoe off and bang away at the podium about the implications of this failure for all enterprises of its various asserted types. I feel most strategies can work if the model and expectations are adjusted to meet them.
 
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