Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* when it comes to topical, comics-related posting, you can always count on Bully and Daryl Cagle.

* not comics: the best answer to the question Vanessa Davis asks about which of her recent paintings to put into print form would be all of them, but if I had to choose one I'd choose the one at right because it's really hard to find art that can be appropriately hanged in a bathroom.

* the dancing Annables.

* Rob Clough examines Inkweed. Sean Gaffney reviews Anesthesiologist Hana Vol. 1. Sean T. Collins looks at Fantastic Life. Grant Goggans plows through Mister Miracle #1-5.

* Don MacPherson unpacks the crap out of a recent Marvel retailing initiative in which they offered in trade an advertisement in their books for a certain, massive level of purchases on a single comic.

* please remember that Floating World Comics starts their Dylan Williams fundraiser today.

* missed it: I really like how enthusiastic JH Williams III was when it was announced DC would be releasing a trade collecting his various Chase work.

* I'm kind of loathe to link to anything about Jim Shooter's blog because of its documented attempts to rewrite history in Shooter's favor, but this story is pretty funny.

* Michael Cavna walks through several cartoon-related responses to the retirement of Steve Jobs.

* not comics: the three things I remember about the 1992 Captain America movie is that I watched it on Christmas, Captain America steals Ned Beatty's car with the old "I'm pretending to feel ill until the fat guy leaves his car at which point I'll run and jump in on the driver's side" trick, which really needs to be part of every superhero's repertoire, and there's a very strange environmental message tossed in at the end. Speaking of Captain America movies, I recently saw the new one on a rare excursion out-of-doors. I thought it was sweet-natured and a decent August matinee movie, surprisingly violent in its own, PG-13 way. I think it lacked the killer set pieces most movies offer that are fondly remembered for a long while, but it should be a pleasant enough thing to run across on pay cable on a Wednesday night in a couple of years. The fight choreography and action scenes were new-movie standard, and the acting was at a reasonably high level ensemble-wide. I did notice that every time there wasn't something specific for Chris Evans to do in terms of physical action, he looked like a guy walking across a set in a funny costume. (To be fair, I have that problem with most of the superhero movies. One thing Hugh Jackman's done well in the X-Men flicks is he always looks like a guy who smells everything and wants to stab half of it; I'm guessing it's the dance training.) I also thought when Evans' head was on that skinny guy's body -- someone please invite that skinny guy to a convention -- he looked like Jack Kirby's original conception of Johnny Storm. I liked the film's final line.

* Paul Gravett profiles Anthony Earnshaw.

* Jonathan Ross writes about comics in his typically amusing fashion. I'm always intrigued by those guys that love comics but don't have a real appetite for them outside of genre work. I know that enrages some people, but I just sort of find it fascinating.

* finally, Mark Evanier remembers Jack Kirby on the occasion of what would have been his 94th birthday. One of the direct benefits of all this attention paid to the late artist is that it means we've recovered for popular reading a lot of his works that might otherwise have been ignored.
 
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