Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* if you couldn't at APE and thus in the audience to hear Dan Nadel and Dan Clowes nerd out over age-old, "who's stronger"-style questions such as "Burne Hogarth vs. Gil Kane," the next best thing is someone making a very faithful panel report out of the affair.

* speaking of Nadel, he goes knives out on the new Jerry Robinson book -- not on Jerry Robinson, on the book. I haven't read the book yet, and I think more of Robinson as a superhero artist than Dan does by a tiny amount. Still, strategies like not engaging Gould when it comes to grotesque villains is the kind of thing that drives me nuts.

* I'd like to think people all over North America will read this article and immediately quit their current jobs. "Stuff it, losers! You can manage a home shopping jewelry returns warehouse if that's what you really want, but I'm making manga!"

* not comics: 1) I'm not all that familiar with this writer's work. 2) I agree with everything he says about the role of the critic and how that has little to do with spewing funny insults. 3) I'd still kill to have written the turn of phrase "face like a haunted cave in Poland."

* if you were looking to buy some books, you might want to buy some from Evan Dorkin.

* not comics: Mike Sterling makes a funny point that one problem he has in watching the long-running television show Smallville is that he was trained by the comic books to think of Superboy's adventures as being in the past and Superman's being the present, not Superboy's adventures being in the present and Superman yet to come.

* sometimes really old jokes are still quite funny.

* there's a bunch of obscure and semi-obscure material at Los Angeles' Family for sale right now, including all six issues of Raw Deal.

* this guy loves him some Xombi.

* one retailer paints a picture of the current market landscape and immediate prospects -- with paint created from toxic waste on a diaper stretched out as a canvas. I don't know this particular retailer, and it's always a bad sign for fair shake possibilities when someone says, basically, they're well known for saying stuff like this, but I do believe there's a deep pessimistic streak out there right now for many in the Direct Market, a way of thinking that's not very difficult to tap.

* not comics: I imagine it's important to Disney to have all the Avengers-related movies under their roof, although why beyond the obvious of wanting these profitable franchises generating money for them instead of someone else I couldn't really tell you.

* finally, people seem to be flipping out over that Wolverine story in the new Strange Tales effort.
 
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