* I’m impressed by DC’s response to the recent debate over the number of women creators it employs. Anyone who says “Well they had to say something, it was bad PR” has obviously not been following the comics industry very long. When you ask someone publicly to do something, and they say “You’re right, we’ll try to do better on that,” that’s a really good thing, especially on an issue like this. Good for DC.
* Grant Morrison in conversation with Neil Gaiman. A fun quote from Gaiman about Morrison: “Whenever I see you now, you are this glorious bird of paradise, but I remember, just as for you I will always be a nervous, hungry young journalist, I remember you as a kid in a black raincoat, incredibly shy. The thing that would get you animated was the point where you’d start talking about a story, and you would come to life.”
* There’s a Marvel/Gary Friedrich lawsuit going on over Ghost Rider right now as well.
* It’s always fun and informative to hear Tom Brevoort talk about how the sausage gets made.
* HBO execs talked about Game of Thrones in a reasonably interesting fashion recently: They’re standing very firm on the 10-episodes-per-season issue, which is unfortunate, but other than that they seem very supportive of a long run and not apt to try to cram too much material (i.e. the entirety of the fatter volumes) into a single season as opposed to spreading it out.
* RoboCop vs. Transformers vs. Hanawalt vs. Harbin.
* Uno Moralez is really one of the best.
* Funny stuff and sexy stuff from Michael DeForge.
* The Sylvester Stallone Character Name Generator made me laugh very hard. (Via Mike Barthel.)
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