* I'm back from a week in the Philadelphia area, but not for long -- Seattle beckons next week. But for this week, I'll try to maintain regular posting.
* The Image Expo was apparently a thing that happened; the only news that made my radar from it is that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have signed a pretty favourable five-year deal with Image Comics. Brubaker and Phillips -- Brillips? Shubaker? Anyway, the pair is the most consistent, entertaining and interesting creative team in comics in the last decade-and-a-half. From Sleeper to Criminal to Incognito to Fatale, you can't go wrong if you're looking for good comics created with wit and intelligence. That their longtime partnership is being codified this way is great news for comics, which doesn't seem to value quality creative pairings in the same way it once did.
* Related: Ed Brubaker discovers some superhero fans are assholes. You have no idea what an act of will it was for me to include the word "some" in the previous sentence. Responding to Brubaker's comment, Comic Book Galaxy alumnus Gordon McAlpin sums it up nicely: "People always want the people they admire to validate their own life choices and taste. It's sad, really."
* Please don't make the mistake of thinking that what Brubaker is getting from developmentally arrested spandex fetishists is somehow not related to the abuse Grant Morrison and countless less-well-known "fans" have heaped upon Alan Moore. It comes from exactly the same place.
* At Trouble With Comics, Christopher Allen comments on Alan Moore's recent "last interview."
* NPR looks at Who Gets To Be A Superhero? Race And Identity In Comics. Read this thoughtful, well-researched piece and weep for the kind of coverage websites ostensibly about exactly these types of comics would actually have covered the same issue, True Believer.
* Robot 6 posts the latest Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, in which comedian Patton Oswalt tells Jerry Seinfeld how he'd kill Superman. DC obviously got there first with the spectacularly shitty New 52. Bonus: Oswalt reveals his favourite superhero, a choice I can agree with even in the character's current status quo.
* The Hollywood Reporter has casting details on the comics-to-film adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's amazing graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl. If you've never read it, you should. It's one of the most vital and compelling arguments for comics as an art form; here's my 2002 review.
* Great quote from Mick Martin: "[I]n order to binge you need the same three things Batman needs: Money, privacy, and insanity."
* Great quote from Bob Temuka: "Wizard magazine had a terrible impact on the comic medium, culture and industry."
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