Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Graeme McMillan asks what DC will do for an encore after their successful September.

* DC, DC, DC; the company and its publishing initiatives are on the mind right now for many comics fans, even ones that usually don't think about such things -- proof DC is clearly winning the psychic PR battle, too. In that light, Sean T. Collins alerts as to three mighty discussions of Justice League #1: this Brian Chippendale review, this Ken Parille review and the comments under the Ken Parille review.

* Jenni Scott talks to Pat Mills. Seth Peagler talks to Jason Latour.

* not comics: Bhob Stewart runs a pair of old Roger Ebert science-fiction fanzine contributions.

* sorry, those last two starred items were accidentally not about DC. This post about a seven-year-old reading and commenting on DC's Slutty Starfire character is nearly as depressing as the comic book pages of the character out there right now. I don't think the issue is whether or not a company like DC can have characters acting however they'd like them to act as much as it is whether the result is good art. Then again, it can be undeniably weird maybe everywhere but comics to re-purpose kids characters towards racy material. I think if you go that direction you're open to this criticism no matter what sales figures you can point to in counter-balance, or what rights you'd like to assert. This kind of thing also invites discussion of whether these changed characters are interesting characters in and of themselves or if they're interesting only because they represent some fan checklist change in the status quo. If possible, that's even sadder then that little girl's lament. Here's a cartoon on basically the same subject.

* not comics: on the other hand, no one's complaining about Sexy Superman Movie Parents.

* an artist raises the freak quotient on the X-Men.

* Seth Peagler on Habibi. L. Scott on Zegas. Doug Zawisza on Ultimate Spider-Man #2. Chris Murphy on Batman: Holy Terror. Erica Friedman on Morita san ha Mukuchi Manga Vol. 4. Daniella Orihuela-Gruber on Gandhi: A Manga Biography. Sean Gaffney on Bunny Drop Vol. 4. Grant Goggans on Madame Mirage. Andrew Shuping on The Day The Robots Woke Up. Johanna Draper Carlson on Archie: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics 1946-1948 and Stargazing Dog. Paul Di Filippo on Hark! A Vagrant.

* here's a preview of Tale Of Sand.

* not comics: check out this detail-packed illustration for a bank by Mattias Adolfsson. Or take a gander at this record label art by Theo Ellsworth.

* finally, I prefer to see this as comics getting one step closer to the TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids joining those new, sexy Teen Titans.
 
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