September 4, 2009
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* the writer Russ Burlingame at Blog@Newsarama
notes a couple of new first series volumes priced at $10 and wonders out loud if that's an effective way to encourage people to try that kind of book. I would imagine there's also an argument to be made that were this to become common, an expectation of this kind of pricing would keep people from sampling new comic books.
* not comics: Warren Ellis writes in
Wired UK about the Thunderbirds show as Rescue Fiction and the effect that can have on young minds. I think he's right in that I grew up with expectation I could do nothing at all and I'd still be rescued by a bunch of odd-looking people in colorful costumes, one of whom sounded exactly like Casey Kasem.
* the great Bully
points out why it may have taken a few decades for Iron Man to become an A-list Marvel character.
* missed it: a
two-
part series on kids reading comics at Biff Bam Pop!
*
this may be the most amusing panel of anything I've seen all week, and I've seen a ton of great panels this week. It's great to have Richard back posting more frequently.
* not comics: the photo placed
halfway through this article made me smile.
*
whoa! 99-cent comics! There is no mechanism on God's green earth by which you could spend a better $3 on comic books this week than what it takes to buy
Sinner #3-5 in that sale. Also:
Twomorrows sale.
* and yes, I know: sales aren't comics news. They're
better than comics news.
* not comics: well,
for one thing, they probably didn't call themselves "media workers."
* not comics: I'm too scared to look, let alone listen, but the nice note in my e-mail inbox says the following link will take me to a song called
The Death Of Jason Todd.
* finally, back when I was young enough to make manifestos of my own, I sure would have killed for a title like "
Declaration Of The New Vague." While you're there, you can delete the stuff off the end of the URL and bookmark the new clearing house/anthology for British small pressers,
Solipsistic Pop.
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