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September 3, 2015


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* Alex Hoffman on Pluto. Mark Dickson on Lady Killer Vol. 1.

* beach party covers!

* Chris Sims writes about the use of 9-panel grid page in the new Omega Men title.

* the thing that's fascinating about this superhero article is that there are more than five permutations of a pretty basic plot point: a "death" horseman for a villain called Apocalypse. If you want to argue that superheroes can be exhausted as a genre, this is the kind of thing you might point to.

* Christopher Butcher's Japan travelogues are a comics Internet classic.

* the Trouble With Comics crew writes about comics done by people other than the creator.

* Mark Evanier notes that San Diego's mayor is behind expanding the convention center as opposed to building a new, nearby facility.

* finally, I don't know that I've ever seen this print of Tony Millionaire's, a scene from the JRR Tolkien mythos.
 
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