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Saturday Runaround – Conan, Groo And Fox News

Saturday Runaround – Conan, Groo And Fox NewsCrossoverWatch: Conan Meets Groo. Honest this time.

VertigoWatch: Karen Berger plugs Unwrtten Volume 5.

As an editor working here for many years on so many amazing stories, it's so hard to choose favorites, but the On To Genesis storyline in THE UNWRITTEN volume 5, on sale this week, is definitely on that list.

FoxWatch: Fox News interviews Axel Alonso.

When a little boy or girl looks at Spiderman, they do not see race. They do not see anything but the bright colors and the human shape. I think it is very easy for them to project themselves into that suit and to imagine themselves in that suit. Part of the thrill for me is knowing that there are little boys who will now pick up a Spiderman comic and see that after the adventure and the mask is peeled back he will look like them. As a Hispanic, it is nice to see Spiderman's Smith's big TV break  last name resemble the last name of my son.

SupremeWatch: Erik Larsen talks to USA Today about how the Supreme releaunch for Image is going to work.

Moore had been toying with different realities and dimensions in his later issues, one with lots of Supremes (called "Supremacy") and even a realm with all sorts of Darius Daxes. Larsen wondered if Moore's Supreme had been running around for all this time, whatever happened to Liefeld's Supreme?

"What I wanted to do was take what had been in the book prior to Alan's run and take Alan's run, and kind of marry the two in an interesting way," Larsen says.

Saturday Runaround – Conan, Groo And Fox NewsThis is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

What Wizard's SEC filings reveal about the company's future | The Beat

There's some fairly dire reading in the whole filing — the risk factors section alone should leave you curled up into a ball on the sofa watching a Jane Austen movie — but a lot of that is boilerplate for SEC filings which need to disclose everything that could go wrong.

The Surprising State of Marvel Graphic Novels and the Diamond 2011 List | The Beat

It would be nice if they actually paid the creators whose work they are reprinting. A year after their Warrior's Three collection which featured a cover and over 100 pages of my work I received one (!!) comp copy and no word of any sort of reprint or royalty fee.

Marvel Expands Self-Cover Trial…?

This is interesting: After the trial on Fantastic Four #601, Marvel seems to be moving towards the "self-cover" format for its titles – wherein the paper stock for covers and interior pages are the same – with the following titles being switched to the format according to the most recent shipping update:

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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