Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Rob Salkowitz picks the top five comics news stories of the year 2015. That's a good list, although I have different takes on a couple of those stories -- while supporting their inclusion.

* Todd Klein on Survivors' Club #2. James Whitbrook on Superman: American Alien.

* not comics: totally missed this Matt Alt article from about three weeks ago that suggests the folding-in of anime imagery into military enterprise in Japan is a sign of that country's divided thinking about military efforts.

* Mark Evanier takes a letter about the way Star Wars is presented now as that might or might not compare to how creator credit is afforded in comic books, particularly for early creators. The answer is that George Lucas negotiated the way that work is presented as his own creation in a way comics creators were rarely afforded. The impact of people making that choice when they have that choice is an intriguing, but not what they get into here.

* Abhay Khosla goes to Star Wars 7. It's not comics, but there's material in there about self-loathing and accepting a weird sense of duty to consume a certain type of art because you're this kind of pre-registered fan that's pertinent to a lot of older geeks' experiences.

* finally, Dean Mullaney shares a comics in-joke.
 
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