C IS FOR COMMENTARY: link BLOGGING!

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by Josh Crawley

We’re going to do some link blogging this week! I know what you’re saying. “You’re still moving, Josh?!” Honestly, I actually left my copy of Previews at the store and I really didn’t feel like driving back just to get it to write a column. Let’s see what I can find and babble about this week (as pet dog The Bounty hunter plays in the background).

Pop chart lab Superpowers

Be sure to take a peek at the The Illustrious Omnibus of incredibly Powers. While an argument could be made about, say, Iron Fist’s placement not with the Mastery of Martial Arts, it’s still pretty epic.

A bunch of people were laid off from Dark horse yesterday, including someone I had contact with on a few occasions (on Tales of The concern agent shorts written by Hilary Barta): Dave Land. For some interesting insight from a former DH employee, head over to Comics Alliance, and be sure to read the comments (at least this one). one of the things I find really interesting is the mention of the Jim Shooter Gold crucial books. It makes me wonder if they shipped late because they weren’t selling, if they weren’t selling a lot more because they started shipping late, or if neither influenced the other.

The American Panther name sounds pretty lame, but this design looks just the opposite.

Mark Millar has four new titles coming out soon. Honestly, I really wish the books that were running four months or so late could actually ship before announcing a lot more stuff that, a lot more likely than not, will ship horribly late. and just so no one accuses me of being too negative: I really hope Leandro Fernandez gets the attention he’s long-deserving of for his amazing art.

Retroactive JLA

DC recently announced on The source blog a bunch of the artists for their Retro-Active summer one-shots. Sadly, the accompanying artwork carries the note “…this art is style guide art and is not artwork from the actual issue.” I understand wanting to have a piece of artwork to opt for a blog post, but I’d rather have the usefulness of one post instead of five separate articles with artwork that’s generally useless.

Also, I think it’s been a while considering that I pimped the Doughnuts & top Cow podcast, but this week’s pimping will be a touch different. If you’re on Facebook, you can “Like” our page and get interesting replies from professionals to comments we have on the podcast. Don’t believe me? Troy Hickman has already proven you wrong!

And that’s it for this week, dear readers! good journey!