* Recently on Robot 6: Everybody’s talking about “The Love Bunglers,” and everybody should be talking about Jim Woodring too.
* Dustin Harbin salutes Dylan Williams.
* Lisa Hanawalt draws J.G. Ballard and opens a spiffy new store.
* New comics from Jonny Negron! Not, perhaps, what you’d expect.
* Jordan Crane’s Keeping Two has taken a turn.
* Grant Morrison’s long-discussed plans for a Wonder Woman series seem to be taking shape for sometime next year. Sounds kinky. I wonder if anyone will mutilate a horse, walk around a room naked, or dismember a guy in this one.
* David B. is working on a book on the history of U.S./Middle East relations?
* DC’s relaunch moved a lot of units. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is the first time a Big Two publisher has ever brought forth its own set of actual sales figures since I’ve been following these things.
* Geof Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy never seemed to find its way into Wizard’s hallowed halls when I worked there during its run, so I have yet to read any of it. I can’t tell if the NYCC announcement that the title’s moving to Dark Horse means they’ll also be reprinting the previous material in addition to the three new issues they’ve got planned. I hope it does. There couldn’t be a more influential artist than Darrow right now.
* The Sleeper/Criminal/Incognito team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are working on a Lovecraftian noir series called Fatale, surprisingly for Image rather than Marvel’s creator-owned Icon line.
* At Marvel proper, Rick Remender and Gabriel Hardman, one of their best writers and best artists respectively, will be taking over Secret Avengers. It’ll probably be pretty darn good. I read somewhere that Bettie Breitweiser, one of their best colorists, won’t be rejoining Hardman here, though, which is too bad. Also Jack Kirby deserved more credit and rights and money and so do his heirs, but you knew that.
* Marvel’s Tom Brevoort explains how nearly all of a given superhero franchise’s titles can end up dumped into stores on the same day. I do wonder how DC’s experiment with rigorous scheduling will affect this conventional wisdom.
* Worth noting: Zak Smith/Sabbath wrote an RPG manual for his fantasy city Vornheim.
* Real Life Horror: Wake me when Obama sends military advisors to take down the pope.
* They’re not making movie cameras anymore. My jaw dropped when I read this.
* Roger Corman, ladies and gentlemen.
* Scarlet Witch cosplayer at NYCC photographed by Judy Stephens. Sure, sure.
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“Someone, somewhere in the world is now holding the last film camera ever to roll off the line.”
I suddenly feel like I’ve lived too long and I’m only 40. I know it’s ridiculous to be sentimental about something like this – the world moves on and all that – but still…