Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Grant Goggans on Helium. Rob Clough on the work of Bailey Sharp. Todd Klein on Justice League #45. Sean Gaffney on A Certain Magical Index Vol. 5. Joe Gordon on The Mighty Thor #1. Brian Nicholson on Pure Shores.

* one ongoing project I forgot to mention in this week's "By Request" column is this one by Evan Dahm, which looks to be moving along at a measured clip.

* I don't know if the movie Unbreakable would have been received with greater fanfare if it were to come out now, although certainly that film would have a more significant context just in the weight of material in its genre. I thought the film plodding, and the dour, 12-year-old's seriousness with which it embraced certain themes was not always extended to other elements of the film, for instance the number of random people encountered in the Philadelphia train station that are horrible criminals. I mean, that's totally true, that place is filled with villains, but it just wasn't convincing on film. The key scene they bring up is its best scene, by far. Released now, you also wouldn't have the significant degree of confidence in the filmmaker that kept many engaged at the time, viewers that might now bail before the movie ended.

* not comics: Sean Kleefeld remembers Morning Funnies cereal.

* finally, Mike Lynch catches us up with Gary Blehm. I find that interesting because we frequently do not check back in with artists involved with litigation unless the result is super-splashy.
 
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