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September 5, 2008


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* there is apparently a DVD of all the Star Trek comics coming out -- does anyone know if there's a rights payment on any of this, if even a rights payment expectation is ludicrous given the nature of the project, or if this gets handled under the "historical page by page scanning" exception or whatever it's called?

image* ask a question on the Internet and ye shall receive an answer in your e-mail dept.: after wondering out loud if there was enough of Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill's Death Race 2020 to make a collection, the old Corman line's editor Robert Boyd passed along a short note. "There were only three issues of this featuring the classic team of O'Neill and Mills. Pretty thin for a book," wrote Boyd. "Obviously, though, it should have been reprinted to accompany the movie. But the movie is a big flop, as far as I can tell. So perhaps this wouldn't be the best time to reprint." Another thing that was cool about the comic series from the short-lived Roger Corman's Cosmic Comics is that there were one-pagers in the back from alt-comics talents about celebrities that died in auto crashes -- I always thought that was a terrifically well-conceived back-up feature, and some of the results were pretty great, too. I think someone needs to bring back quality back-up features.

* not comics: Dylan Horrocks' not-so-secret, nsfw blog about naughty things.

* here's the weirdest comics-related thing I've accidentally googled: a Paul Ollswang memorial bookend.

* here's the second-weirdest. By accident, I mean, not that it's the strangest site ever or anything.

* people keep asking me to post a link to this Paul Pope drawing of a naked lady reading Watchmen.

* finally, here are 60 things Brad Curran hates about comics. I've been trying to make a similar list but the first one went to 14,357 and the second one was merely "1. Me" after which I cried for 11 hours.
 
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