Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* that's some Iron Fist double-page spread.

* Janelle Asselin talks to Delicia Williams. Steve Morris talks to Bill Willingham. Carl Antonowicz talks to Dakota McFadzean.

* it's nice to see people writing about Al Plastino, one of those super-talented mainstream comics guys that kept that industry afloat for decades and seemed to pursue that vocation in honorable fashion.

* Martin Wisse and I have pretty much the same take on retailer/industry advocate Brian Hibbs' call for a return to serialization as a lesson to be gleaned from the Fantagraphics crowd-funder, only he states it much more forcefully and eloquently than I did.

* Martin Wisse springboards from a J. Caleb Mozzocco piece on DC putting crossover content into multiple trade editions, and how frustrating that must be for people paying full price for both. I'd never thought of that. My primary takeaway when I encounter that is actual serial-comic oriented, that when they have to put in a related series into a trade for a story to make sense, or for it to make more sense, I always wonder why they're releasing series that don't make optimal sense on their own.

* I haven't caught up with Paul Gravett in a while. You can join me in reacquainting yourself via three solid pieces on Howard Hardiman, Chihoi and Sofiane Belaskri.

* not comics: I don't cover a lot of the adaptation into film/tv type news here, but what I remember of Preacher would seem to indicate that it might make a very good TV show of that particular kind of TV show that's super-popular now, and I always though that the Brubaker/Phillips work Sleeper was a fine twist of a genre idea of the rare kind that became more interesting with the turn-up-to-11 nature of superheroes involved and would make someone in that 40-55 age group a pretty good movie vehicle if executed well. I also like all of those creators and hope every single one of them is due a payday for their hard work. As these were properties created after 1990, I suppose there's a fair chance they will be.

* Gregory Schmidt on Shifter.

* finally, I find most of the concerns about comics criticism expressed here severely foreign to my own interests, but I don't write a lot of criticism and I was never in the first rank of those who do back when I did, so what I'm up to isn't at issue.
 
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