Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it's not customary for me to recommend links to an event outside of the most recent collective memory, because then everyone wants one, but it struck me while adding this link to Greg McElhatton's photo set that it's modest-sized, everybody looks attractive, and it has a nice cross-section of the kind of people you can expect at an SPX these days, which means only a few veterans.

* wasn't Die Hard Year One this movie? Will the Legion Of Crossover Film and Comics Nerds ever get tired of pointing this out? Lloyd Bochner is even Hart Bochner's dad!

* there was a time in my life when the thought of a possibly testy direct/indirect exchange between Alan Moore and James Robinson would have justified the entirety of comics' participation on the Internet, so much did I value a hearty back and forth between creators. These days I only find out about them when some smart person comments, like Eddie Campbell does here. Incidentally, I always thought the giant squid ending to Watchmen worked because it indicated a solution to this hideous real-world situation (nuclear brinkmanship) as embodied in a bizarre fantasy construct (Dr. Manhattan) would be to swap in another kind of bizarre fantasy construct (the alien invasion). Given the real world impact when Nancy Reagan decided the story of her husband's historical legacy should move from "Christ-annointed Cold Warrior" to "potential Nobel Prize winner," I'm sympathetic to the concept. Further, I thought this fit into the world Moore constructed in terms of how our imaginations would be forever altered by the physical presence of all of these weirdos. In other words, it's not important whether or not we readers recognize that it's a Rod Serling-type mechanism, because of course we will. What's key is that the people on that world would be completely unable to recognize it as such. This makes that event a fitting capstone on the work's dissection of American 20th Century triumphalism as a toxic narrative while at the same time extending the discussion inherent to Watchmen of superheroes as a genre that falls prey to florid distortion.

* not comics: I wish I'd thought of The Patrick Swayze Manga Recommendation Guide. Although I have to say: all this post-passing love going to Point Break and Roadhouse with nothing afforded the equally hilarious and bizarre Next Of Kin to my mind just confirms America's fundamental hatred of hillbillies.

* for some reason, the title of this post killed me.

* not comics: I've been putting Dame Darcy and Edward James Olmos together for years in fan fiction, and it sounds like they may come dangerously close to one another in a new documentary about salvaging comics as an expressive American art form.

* what does pain teach?

* not comics: I'm pretty certain that if all were right with the world, anyone who put these two people near one another in any kind of analysis whatsoever would immediately explode and the resulting splatter would spell out "I'm sorry" in big letters. I would like newspapers to die now, please.

* finally, I can't tell you how happy this post from Darryl Cunningham makes me, as he begins to get noticed for his forthcoming book on sufferers of mental illness.
 
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