Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Noah Van Sciver is doing another round of diary comics.

* Keith Silva talks to Farel Dalrymple.

* not comics: Sean Collins looks at TV shows set in school. I would have liked to have seen Paper Chase and The White Shadow on that list, and maybe something not for the US market like Boys Over Flowers or The Inbetweeners. The Middletown documentary series had a good high school episode, too. One he mentions in passing in reference to another show, I thought the first episode of Twin Peaks had really effective high school scenes -- the way the kids looked at one another in the classroom, and how some personalities bent the rules seemed convincing to me -- but they never spent much time there.

* Don MacPherson on The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage #1, White Death and Dryspell #1. Johanna Draper Carlson on Scooby-Doo Team-Up #6. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Infinity, a Simpsons one-shot and the "Future's End" issue of Grayson.

* not comics: Johanna Draper Carlson writes a bit about pre-Code movies. I'm not very knowledgeable on film let alone that period of film, but I enjoyed Baby Face when I saw it once.

* Andrew Weiss looks at the Marvel New Universe, a stunted attempt during the 1980s to launch a new line with the wider Marvel line that would be a distinct unit creatively. I think it's a pretty reasonable summary of why those books didn't work. I remember at the time as a reader I was losing interest in that kind of book across the board, but it still struck me as an editorial-directive type set-up without a coherent or compelling editorial directive. Long live Debbie The Duck.

* finally, eyes don't work like this.
 
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