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QuesadaWatch: It is ten years to the day since Joe Quesada was appointed Editor-In-Chief at Marvel Comics. Jim Shooter only lasted nine years and Stan Lee only… well, only twenty-seven years, but still.

Quesada was previously working in an editorial capacity as Editor-In-Chief of Event Comics, brought into Marvel to take over certain underperforming titles and to bring in a shock of new creators to familiar names. Kevin Smith and Quesada on Daredevil, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon on Punisher, they gave a bunch of characters a shock to the arm. Performance was such that Quesada was promoted to the post of Editor-In-Chief by his biggest fan Bill Jemas, as Bob Harras was sacked. Promises that Bob would remain working on Marvel projects proved as fallacious as they sounded at the time.

Bill Jemas would eventually fall fould of coming into conflict with Marvel Studios' Avi Arad, but Joe Quesada would stay. Critical and commercial successes included Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely on New X-Men, JMS and JrJr on Amazing Spider-Man, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch on Ultimates and more.

And whatever your thoughts on One More Day, Phoenix: Legacy Of Fire, Chuck's Uncanny X-Men or Red Hulk, I'd suffer them all for just one Unstable Molecules by James Sturm or Megalomaniacal Spider-Man by Peter Bagge.

IndiaWatch: Parallel Lines is a new anthology published in Hindi and English telling very personal stories.

A Student with Colour
Artist: Sunder Mohan Murmu
The story based on the real-life incidents of the author and deals with racism. The protagonist takes admissions for higher studies, faces discrimination and returns without fulfilling his urge for education.

Common Slaves, Games-2010
Artist: Rajeswari Saha
The story shows Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi through the eyes of the protagonist Bhupen, a daily wage labourer who migrated from Bihar to find a job at Commonwealth Games village site.

The Fight Within
Artist: Amrith Basumatary
The story, in short, talks about the "Bodo movement" in Assam in Northeastern India and their fight for cultural and religious identity.

Cotton 100 Per cent
Artist: Lakhindra Nayak
The real-life success story of a farmer's fight with a multinational company on the BT Cotton issue.

Daddy, I love you
Artist: Siddharth Sarathi
This is the story of dreamy youth fading away and making way for cynical adulthood.

KyotoWatch: When an Australian visits the Kyoti International Manga Museum, currently celebrating its millionth attendee. Where everyone "reads comics in publiC".

AT FIRST glance, the geeky schoolboys, the trendy twenty-something girl with Gucci handbag and sunglasses, the middle-aged woman in a pretty, flowery dress and the two white-haired old men appear to have little in common. But, as they sit alongside one another, in silence, their eyes glued to the pages in front of them, they encapsulate the egalitarian nature of Japan's manga fetish.

YoungWatch: Cliff Chiang on Greendale for the Washington Post.

I haven't spoken with Neil since that first e-mail. Once I came aboard, Josh [Dysart] had the story figured out. Neil was so happy with what he saw that there was less contact than I would have liked. But he like what he saw and let us do our own thing. It was meaningful becuse it have Josh and I the opportunity to put on our stamp on "Greendale." It was like doing a cover version — this book is all three of us together.

DoctorWatch: From Newsarama, reporting from Baltimore Comic Con

When will we see the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who comics?
Schreck: We'd love to do things with the new Doctor, it's up to licensing and what the BBC wants us to do.

But from Tony Lee, calling into the Fanboy Radio #562 that I guested on last night… January.

LocalWatch: Writer James Patrick (real name James Reedy) gets a little local profile…

HurricaneWatch: For the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, two comics. A.D and Dark Rain.

CLiNTWatch: Warren Ellis tweets "Have decided that next year @mrmarkmillar, editor of CLiNT, must release a complimentary women's magazine called CLiT."

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