Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the amazing thing about the comments on that Chris Schweizer post about his recent experience at a comic shop vis-a-vis is that almost everyone involved disagrees on stuff that's in there yet the conversation somehow managed to stay cordial. I'm thinking that it was about a nuanced subject to begin with had a bunch to say about that.

* I don't usually pull individual photo sets out of "Collective Memory" posts, but I thought this post of photographs from the recent Small Press Expo one of the better ones I've seen in a while. Everyone looks attractive and like themselves.

* Johnny Bacardi on various comics. Rob Clough on a bunch of manga. Bob Temuka on Fury: My War Gone By. John Kane on a bunch of different comics. Jason Michelitch on Batman/Grendel II. Cerusee on Midnight Nation. Sean Gaffney on Higurashi: When They Cry Vol. 19.

* contrasting Supergirls.

* not comics: Graeme McMillan asks if the shudder and thud of the new Judge Dredd movie will shatter the myth that a movie well-received at Comic-Con International has the inside track on being a hit. I think 2009's District 9 is the last movie to specifically be ascribed a bounce from that show, and I think that most studios have a realistic view of what the con may or may not do for their movies and TV shows. I also think there's an element of rounding a PR campaign into shape there rather than banking on an appearance at that show, like with this summer's Spider-Man movie or the Hobbit stuff: it's one of many bases you touch. Ironically, I think comics publishers did their best job ever of making that show a place for announcements this year, driving attention to a bunch of different books as much as comics-related news sources were interested in covering that material.

* Sean Kleefeld throws Gazoo under the spaceship.

* finally, I totally missed this CNN.com article from Molly Crabapple about her Occupy-related arrest. This article includes her art about the experience, and a tidal wave of comments.
 
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