Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I'm providing a non-Collective Memory link to this Shannon Smith SPX report hoping that "Don Heck Yeah!" catch on as an expression.

* looking at these three images of promotional material from the series Evangeline reminds me that sometimes we experience certain comics even though we may never read them. There are probably comics that I owned that I couldn't recall faced with an image from their pages, and I remember this one even though I never owned an issue.

* speaking of straight-up nostalgia, Marc Arsenault unearths a flier from when Comic Relief made a commitment to carrying 'zines.

* go, look: Kirby's dumbest hero.

* I lack a lot of the chops to make total sense of this chart that people keep sending me, but an analysis of recent disruptions in the manga market as they had an effect on a popular series seems to me something worth returning to until I get it right.

* Jacob Lambert on Habibi. Jason Thompson on Spriggan. Josh Kopin on Habibi. MC Canvas with an illustrated review of Habibi. Sean Gaffney on Ninja Papa Vol. 1. Sean T. Collins on "Touch Sensitive." Don MacPherson on Green Lantern Corps #1. Johnny Bacardi on lots of stuff. Philip Shropshire on Irredeemable #29.

* a heartwarming tale of young comic book reader Alan David Doane.

* Dustin Harbin grouses about sketchbook etiquette at comics shows.

* not comics: Joel Meadows is attempting to crowdfund a book of London photographs.

* not comics: the funny thing about the attention paid leaked photos from the next Christopher Nolan Batman movie is that you'd think Nolan with that last Batman movie that made a zillion dollars and everyone seemed to love would have earned at least some sort of free pass from reactionary fandom scorn, but that seems not to have been the case. Fans are hilarious. On the other hand, this photo of another forthcoming genre movie seems pretty goofy-looking to me and I have no investment in the original material, which I always found really boring. Maybe we're all just wired that way now.

* David Welsh asks someone to please publish this awesome comic.

* that's an amusing page, although somehow this kind of meta-commentary always sort of depresses me.

* to be clear, I think it's entirely possible to know the joys of serial entertainment and to experience the boost in quality that comes via a work with an ending. I love television shows that have a beginning, middle and an end but that run for years, much more than I do shows that continue forever. I don't even really begrudge people that genuinely enjoy endless serial literature, either, I just think there's value in the other kind of story that comics is kind of slowly squeezing from the marketplace in something other than a done-in-one graphic novel, and I think that's too bad.

* love for the British Cartoon Archive.

* Alan Gardner provides the public service of reminding us that the Jay Kennedy scholarship deadline is coming up a couple of months from now.

* Mike Rhode talks to George O'Connor. Cyriaque Lamar talks to JH Williams III. Charlene Renberg Winters talks to Brian Crane. Jesse Pearson talks to Johnny Ryan. I can't tell who this is talking to Axel Alonso. Andrea Queirolo talks to Joe Matt.

* Robot 6 caught mention of something that completely escaped my attention: some grousing over Stan Lee receiving a military service award, which Lee apparently didn't even know that he was about to receive.

* finally, Robert Boyd hates superhero comics.
 
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