Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the comics industry news and analysis site ICv2.com has a short piece up on the end of Twomorrows' Write Now, Editor Danny Fingeroth's how-to magazine for writing comics and related media. The last issue is out in February.

* I thought this was the best, most thoughtful piece on David Heatley's My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down since the Comics Comics cage match from several weeks ago. Okay, actually it's a good, thoughtful piece and the first review of the book I've read since the Comics Comics thing.

* speaking of reviews, Dick Hyacinth takes a look at the first few days of the new Blog@Newsarama team.

* this may be the funniest thing I've ever read on the comics submissions process because he manages to give good advice and not back away from kidney punching the deep hubris that many people bring to allowing the syndicates the honor of making them as rich as Jim Davis.

* the writer Matt Fraction has re-launched his web site. I expect a lot of comics web site changes in 2009 to reflect changes in the Internet over the last 15-18 months or so.

* while I'm sitting here in my undershirt eating donuts and watching Laff-A-Lympics re-runs, David Welsh and his readers are saving the comics industry through his preventative medicine giveaway. Click through to read prescriptions for what ails comics from Rob McMonigal, Kent Falconer, Teg, Eoin Marron, Francene Lewis, Nava Ruggero, Matthew J. Brady, Judah Alt, Laethiel Mazake, Keath Patterson, Michael Jewell, Avery Dame, Lauren C, Matthew, ahavah22 and winner Jamie Coville. No truth to the rumor that the mainstream comics world sent the wrong message to America by appearing before the Precious Curmudgeon committee having separately arrived in West Virginia in the Invisible Jet, the Fantasticar and Archie's Jalopy.

* this made me grin. Hopefully he'll do Franny and Zooey with the Wonder Twins next.

* finally, if you were going to a comic book wedding and had to be seated next to one of the superhero couples, wouldn't you and your spouse want to sit next to Speedy and whomever he was dating, in part because he used to be a heroin addict? He's like the only DC superhero with an interesting aspect to his life that isn't related to beating people up. He would be really popular. I suppose other superheros have jobs and pre-superhero careers, but they're all vocations that are death for small talk like "rich dude" or "scientist" or "princess." Robotman would be good to sit next to, too, because there's an 80 percent chance somebody's date would get drunk and immediately start asking him super-embarrassing questions. Plus the name would keep cracking you up. Also, is it my imagination or is this the most underrated of the superhero songs? You have that guy coming in with the second lyric in a manner that's just bursting with sparkles, and then you have that sing-along low-singing part that concludes it. Namor's my favorite superhero for the first 10 seconds because he shows up for fistfights in his Speedo. Also, I don't think enough has been made of Thundra as a subliminal sexual icon for comics-reading boys born 1967-1973. She was like Valkyrie's sister that kept getting kicked out of school that you once saw drinking Mickey's Big Mouths out by the garage and you heard put out, even though you weren't quite sure what "putting out" meant. (I still don't.)
 
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