A lot of things floating around Ye Olde Comics Internet today just made me kind of sigh, quietly, to myself.
First, we got a look at the cover for the upcoming Joss Whedon/John Cassaday X-Men book, Astonishing X-Men, and whaddya know, but everything New is old again. Yes, it’s revival production of The Pajama Game for Scott, Hank, Emma, Logan, and Jean. (And yes, I said “Jean.” Looks like they’ll be hitting that big red RESET button on Grant Morrison’s run after all.) To paraphrase Yoda, I guess Marvel must unlearn what it has learned. (Caveat: It’s still a lovely cover, and I’m sure it’ll be a fun book, etc etc etc, but this couldn’t feel more like a step backwards if they’d called the book Stepping-Backwards X-Men.)
Second, there’s this Stuart Moore column, which says among other things that people aren’t in showbiz for the money (I’ll just say he must know of a different class of Harvard Lampoon alums than I did), and the following:
If you like Sleeper or Spider-Girl, the best thing to do is to tell people how great it is and why — not to try and trick the company into thinking it can make a fortune off the book if only it would publish the thing in manga-size paperbacks. The company knows whether it