Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Jason Aaron walks readers through his work week. It's strange, I don't know Aaron, but I have every confidence that his CBR column will be the one that has all that "what it's actually like" information I would have killed for at 17 years old that other, similar columns have danced around. Maybe it's the beard.

* the writer Graeme McMillan makes a case for a very specific sub-genre of comic that he doesn't name or even strongly define but you'll know what he's talking about.

* I'm not entirely convinced this is a good idea. I think I'd be more convinced in some undefinable way that this kind of thing would work if there were one or two Batman books instead of 18,050 of them.

* I forget where I got this from, but this page sure has a lot of reasonably-priced Johnny Ryan art.

* the great Jeff Wong draws Bob Fingerman.

* if I were in adventure story, I would say stupid stuff like this all the time.

* It could have been worse. It could have been Ambush Bug.

* Jeet Heer provides some notes on Wilson. I'm still at the "I thought it was funny" stage, although I think I mentioned a few months ago I have found it odd when people have said Wilson is totally unsympathetic because it made me realize I found him terribly so.

* the beautiful cursive handwriting of Prince Namor.

* good to have The One True Shirtless Batman back.

* not comics: isn't it weird how the infantalization of our culture means that a Superman in his late 20s doesn't really seem like an adult at all AND that we wouldn't want to see some old dude playing him, either?

* the writer JM DeMatteis would like you to know he's not playing comic book publishing media mogul any time soon.

* Evan Dorkin would like you to vote for Jill Thompson at the Scream Awards.

* finally, some interesting old issues of the maybe never digitally archived The Comics Journal are for sale after a "warehouse find," including two really good issues: Todd McFarlane and (especially) Jules Feiffer. That period when the Feiffer interview came out was the Journal's best 10- or 15-issue run -- Groth was killing it in the interviews, and that one is no exception.
 
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