Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* these are the 10 comics that made Shaenon Garrity cry. Good list. She's right about that Peppermint Patty strip being no-qualifiers devastating. I cry all the time at everything so my list would be like 300 comics moments long and half of them would make no sense, so I'm happy Garrity did this. Biggest surprise? No Anders Nilsen.

* there really need to be more comics-style reports on comics events, like this Jim Medway piece on Comica.

* so apparently Batman isn't dead, but DC Comics reaps the PR benefits of the possibility. It sounds like a win-win if you like Batman, but there's something stomachache-inducing about the whole enterprise, the thought that this is an empty exercise in hype that is so far removed from the comics themselves and beyond that the character that it doesn't matter one damn bit except to take another couple of kidney shots at the soft mid-section of serial comics' stand-alone viability.

* on the other hand, here's an article that's genuinely excited about the possibilities of a new comics serial run, James Robinson as writer on DC's Justice League comic, and the subject seems to reduce the writer to an 11-year-old enthusing at you while their parents get the dinner part of a dinner party ready.

* just to officially make this "Vaguely Unfair To DC Day," I really hate titles like this. What does this mean? This is off-putting to me and I'm a giant dork with an obsessive personality and a beat back the alien invasion by challenging their emperor to a special superhero trivia episode of Jeopardy skill set.

* here's a lengthy and photo-filled report on a recent Seth/Chris Ware appearance in Waterloo.

* I wasn't aware that Sara Varon does children's books -- or I was aware and just forgot.

* I haven't had a chance to listen to it, but I'm told the artist Frank Santoro is in rare form in this Inkstuds interview. Discussed here.

* finally, here's an entertaining essay by Abhay Khosla on a certain level of fan outrage that the latest iteration of Blue Beetle was canceled. I agree with a lot of what Abhay says, and I'm sympathetic in particular to his reading of the title's storylines as not exactly what the rhetoric around the title promises, but to be fair I'm not sure that he dives all that deeply into some of the more interesting ideas brought up by the series' writer John Rogers in a pair of short essays/statements of his own, like the notion that as 125,000 $3 things being sold in a calendar year with potential licensing and secondary publishing spin-offs somehow isn't worth doing under the current system, that system might be worth re-examining. If like me you're still trying to figure out the nature of the sense of brokenness that emanates from serial comics publishing, this is a good one to dive into. There's also a compelling back and forth between Khosla and Rogers in that post's comments section.
 
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