Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* turns out they did re-run the TCJ interview with the late Denny Eichhorn over at TCJ.com, I just missed it.

* this 2011 video of Alan Moore is making the rounds. It's interesting to compare the rhetoric involved when someone says something with which one agrees as opposed to something with which one doesn't.

* in a fun article, Todd Klein writes about doing the lettering for the new Paul Levitz biography/appreciation of Will Eisner.

* it's worth noting the positive-to-ecstatic critical notices greeting the second Marvel-related Netflix television series, Jessica Jones. Let the thinkpieces begin. As a second TV show Jessica Jones can't surprise the way Daredevil might have, so you're seeing a lot of negotiating from people that write about art and entertainment product because placing yourself in the proper place on a spectrum of approval seems to be a lot of that job. That means that minus the scramble to say something about a work that startles, you get a lot of musing about whether others like it enough or too much or not at all. Me, I don't have time to watch anything ten hours in length right now, but I look forward to it. I enjoyed the comics on which the show is based, and Marvel's great strength post-1998 or so has been quality licensing and creative partnerships. Jessica Jones attention to the violence of super-heroing is also a rich vein of thematic material to explore, and comes at a time in that genre's recent TV/film history that this should seem a worthy thing to explore.

* if you're looking for writing on the show itself, Sean T. Collins is a prominent writer-about-comics who is a also a prominent writer-about-television and is covering this series. It's not hard to find someone you'll like, I bet.

* Todd Klein on The Twilight Children #1 and Astro City #28. Sean Gaffney on Ranma 1/2 Vols. 21-22, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-Kun Vol. 1 and Durarara!! Vol. 2. Sean Kleefeld on It Just So Happens. Henry Chamberlain on Manifesto Items #5.

* finally: well, that settles it.
 
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