Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* add Ted Dawson to those out there beating the drum for the comics section of the forthcoming San Francisco Panorama. Ken Parille has links to imagery. Jon Adams has portions of his story up.

* I enjoy nearly all of Abhay Khosla's reviews, and I liked this piece on Dark Reign: The List: X-Men #1. Couple of things popped to mind: 1) I hate the title of the comic; that's more a DC title than a Marvel title. They should really stop doing that. 2) Usually, when a piece like this is written, it's suggested that the writer doesn't realize some of the things that have shifted to the surface. I bet this writer did. I'm not sure what that changes, if anything, but it's something that kept slipping back to mind.

* a bunch of small press comics creators are making the last week of the year, when no comics will be forthcoming from Diamond warehouses aka "No Comics Day," into a promotion to benefit their kinds of comic books. I wish them luck.

* the blogger and cartoonist Mike Lynch has a nice post up about a Neal Adams-covered Star Trek Power Records offering.

* for some reason I really love how openly aggressive and enthusiastic the creators have been on behalf of this project.

* the cartoonist Evan Dorkin's long disquisition on the quotidian appeal of Crusher Creel, The Absorbing Man shows both why a lot of adults continue to have fondness for the better superhero concepts and why a lot of fans appreciate Dorkin.

* not comics: Financial Times has a piece up on the rise and fall of MySpace.com. I lack the context and knowledge to tell you just how smart an article it is, but I enjoyed it. (thanks, Gil)

* not comics: one of the odder things we've learned after a week of the new Comics Journal is that longtime contributing writer Kent Worcester apparently bears a strong resemblance to real-life vigilante hero Bernie Goetz. I've known Worcester for a dozen years and never put this together.

* finally, James Vance offers up a few words of wisdom for the Jessamine Library Crowd.
 
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