Last thoughts on the San Diego Comic-Con:
Adventures in SciFi Publishing has some Comic-Con pictures.
Fantasy Book Critic has a wrap-up of Comic-Con, with some pictures and thoughts, and yet more links.
The Bat Segundo show flutters back for a second podcast about this year’s Alternative Press Expo.
Ned Beauman is now blogging about comics for the Guardian, but he thinks it’s hard out there for a non-misogynist.
Sequential Tart reviews a couple of Minxes.
Comic Book Resources talks to Timothy Truman and new artist Tomas Giorello about the new direction, and new series, for Dark Horse’s Conan comics.
Comic Book Resources also chatted with the creative team of the new Booster Gold series.
Even if you’re not at Comic-Con, you can see it via the official flickr set.
Mike Sterling’s Progressive Ruin pokes through the new Previews catalog for monthly signs of impending Armageddon.
Comics Reporter reviews The Architect by Mike Baron and Andie Tong.
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog has some fun with a 1969 Batgirl story.
GalleyCat reports that Karin Slaughter, a popular thriller writer from the UK, and Oni Press are teaming up to create Slaughterhouse Graphic Novels, which will adapt prose fiction into comics form. The idea is to emulate Stephen King’s Dark Tower, and not Isaac Asimov’s I-Bots, I think…
(By the way, Slaughter is our covergirl for this installment.)
Chris Roberson looks at two different projects bringing back public domain superheroes.
Comics Fodder wants to see the return of footnotes to superhero comics – you know, the little boxes that said things like “The Fabulous Sheep-Man, last seen in ish #3,141 – Parsimonious Pete.” I think that reviewer needs to look up the phrase “continuity porn,” because he’s soaking in it.
Your cognitive dissonance headline of the day: “Euro Books transforms ‘Agatha Christie’ into graphic novels in India”, which is for an article about, yes, a company making all of Agatha Christie’s books into graphic novels in English for the huge Christie-loving Indian market.
Exclaim!, a Canadian music publication, looks at DC’s new Minx imprint.
Brian Cronin, at Comics Should Be Good, makes fun of every single one of Marvel’s October covers.
First Second announced today (in a press-release e-mail, so I don’t have a link) that they’ll be collecting Paul Pope’s cool THB series in 2009 as a color, four-volume, 1200-page set under the title Total THB. But, before that, they’ll have a new Pope series for young readers, Battling Boy, published in two simultaneous volumes in 2008.
MTV News talked to Todd McFarlane about the new Spawn movie he’s financing himself. (Wait…isn’t he also claiming he’s bankrupt? Now I’m confused.)
The LA Times has noticed that the dying-by-degrees traditional comic-book market isn’t looking quite as sickly as it had been recently.
The inferior4+1 reports on a DC Comics press release which says that Walter Simonson will be writing a new comics series based on the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft.
PopMatters has an interesting (by which I mean silly) theory that Generation X loves Transformers because it symbolizes their wish to “transform” into adults. (That would be more interesting if they meant the old Marvel series Generation X, but they’re talking about the Americans born in the late ’60 and early ’70s.)
The San Diego Union-Tribune has an article on comics today to get ready for some kind of event happening in their fair city later this week.
Fantasybookspot reviews GI Joe: America’s Elite #25.
Monster & Critics reviews Amazing Spider-Man #542.
Publishers Weekly has a handy chart comparing and contrasting four recent superhero-themed novels.
Comics Reporter reviews 1-800-MICE #2, All Flash #1, and Magic Hour #2.
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog reviews this week’s comics, starting with All Flash #1.
Greg Burgas of Comics Should Be Good also reviews this week’s comics, but he starts with Annihilation: Conquest – Quasar #1.
At the All-New, All-Different Savage Critic(s):
Marvel editor Tom Brevoort posts Mark Millar’s original memo/pitch for Civil War.
Comic Book Resources presents the third part of their look at Homosexuality in Comics.
Blogcritics reviews a pile of DC and Image comics, starting with Dynamo 5 #3.
Blogcritics also has a Marvel comics review, and is particularly fond of Nova #4.
Forbidden Planet International reviews a couple of Marvel Comics from years past..
Comics Reporter reviews Ted May’s Injury #1.
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog reviews the saga of the Mighty Marvel MegaMorphs.
Hannibal Tabu reviews his purchases this week for Comic Book Resources.
Comic Book Resources has the second half of their look at Homosexuality in Comics.
Brian Cronin at Comics Should Be Good has a new, useful, term for our collective little dictionary of comics: False Epiphany Characters. (Also for that same dictionary, and from the same place: Grace Notes.)
Steven Grant gives us a thumbnail history of the convention once and forever known simply as “San Diego.”
And Josh Elder (any relation to Will, I wonder?) of the Chicago Sun-Times looks at the launch titles for DC Comics’s Minx line.
Borders is moving Tintin in the Congo to the adult section in the USA as well (after British complaints), reports Fox News.
Edward Champion thinks the “real books” industry should take an idea from the comics world and institute “Free Book Day.” I think that’s a splendid idea.
Department of “Shoulda Seen That Coming”: in the UK, a government minister issues a stern warning that a particular book, Tintin in the Congo, contains “hideous racial prejudice,” and that no right-thinking Briton should ever, ever read it henceforward. Result? Sales increase immediately by 3,800 percent. (Forbidden Planet International has a longer story on the complaint, including the fact that the Commission on Racial Equality – and isn’t that a nice Orwellian name? – demanded that Tintin in the Congo be banned.)
The Beat is not happy with the final cover for Showcase: Batgirl. (And there’s no reason she should be.)
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog remembers the halcyon days when the Punisher was, briefly, a black man.
Media Life Magazine thinks that Zudacomics is a really swell idea and the most wonderful thing since sliced bread – but they also think that comic books are “almost an industry,” so I’m not sure if we should believe them.
The Chicago Sun-Times looks at DC Comics’s new teen-girl-focused Minx line.
Bookgasm reviews the newest reprint trade paperback of the Fables series, Volume 9: Sons of Empire, written by Bill Willingham and illustrated by Mark Buckingham and others.
Publishers Weekly reviews a number of comics this week, including House by Josh Simmons and the first volumes in two maanga series, Gin Tama and War Angels.
Dana’s Marvel Comics Reviews, at Comic Fodder, hits the week’s high points, starting with New Avengers # 32.
Beaucoup Kevin thinks this (to your right) is the greatest comics panel of all time. (It’s possible…after all, malt does more than Milton can to justify Kirby’s ways to man.)
The Beat reports that Too Much Coffee Man will be debuting in a new form at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con: as an opera.
Todd Allen of Comic Book Resources collates all of the various statements about DC’s big Zudacomics world-domination scheme, and tries to explain what to expect from it.
The Nichei Bei Times asks the loaded question: what is manga?
Webcartoonist Dave (Sheldon) Kellett has some thoughts on DC Comic’s Zudacomics initiative.
Comic Book Resources has discovered a “secret” price hike on some Marvel comics – and asked Marvel VP of Sales David Gabriel to explain it.
Comic Book Resources has a feature article — not quite a review, not quite an interview with Jamie McKelvie, but with bits of both – about Suburban Glamor.
St. Louis Jewish Light reviews Harvey Pekar’s The Quitter. (It would be funnier if I said they gave up in the middle, but, unfortunately, the world is not providing easy jokes for me today.)
Comics Reporter reviews Three Very Small Comics, Vol.III.
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