* Today on Robot 6: What’s up with Marvel’s digital-royalties plan? For more, see Heidi MacDonald.
* Matt Maxwell waxes ecstatic about Escape from New York. It’s like one of his con reports, but from deep inside the prison colony of a dystopian future.
* Rough chuckles ahead for the I Hit It with My Axe gang. I really wonder what the heck could make something like that seem like a good idea to the participants.
😉 In all seriousness, now that day-and-date digital is happening with both big companies to one degree or another, I’d like to hear what Dirk makes of it. Do you think it’s just a frogmarch to the death of the DM at this point?
* Always up for new Noel Freibert comics.
* Your quote of the day comes from Tom Spurgeon on the presence of non-genre mass media stuff at Comic-Con:
For me, a movie like Avatar and a television show like Glee have the same amount of crossover interest with comics: none. Your comics may have vampires and werewolves in them but my comics have aging local talk show hosts and southern California post-punk culture in them. I don’t understand why your interests are more legitimate in terms of seeing them represented by offerings in other art forms than mine are.
* More music should sound like Goldfrapp. Actually it’s quite easy to construct a mindset wherein Goldfrapp is the logical conclusion/fulfilled promise of the Glitter Band, electroclash, and Doctor and the Medics doing “Spirit in the Sky,” and I would encourage you to do so.
re: Tom Spurgeon’s point –
It seems weird to me to deny that comics fandom and sci-fi fantasy fandom have a special relationship. I mean, I guess Tom is making a rhetorical point about separating teh medium from the message, but I think the argument that sci-fi/fantasy stuff belongs at a comics convention in a way that Glee doesn’t for reasons of history and tradition is just as valid. Having said that, most of the people making anti-Glee type arguments will be asshats, so, I guess I agree with Tom about the big picture here.
That’s true, but no one’s writing columns called “Is Comic-Con Even About Traditional Nerd Culture Anymore?”, they’re writing columns called “Is Comic-Con Even About Comics Anymore?” The answer to that is basically that it never was unless you pretend that all of traditional nerd culture is Honorary Comics. Agreed on the asshat point, of course.