Odds and ends...

[suzene]

Catching up on my blogs, sharing random bits of comics news...

Via Alas -- Kevin Smith was booted off of a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat. He's justifiably pissed off and has been regularly pasting SWA on his Twitter feed since. Unfunny Business over on JournalFen has a more complete link round-up on this one.

Brian Hibbs posts his yearly Bookscan analysis, tracking trade and GN sales outside of the direct market. Interesting bit: while Marvel routinely dominates the DM, it does look like DC comes out ahead in book sales.

Dirk Deppey and Johanna Carlson analyze Brian Hibbs' analysis.

Heroclix announces a Watchmen box set. Colossal Dr. Manhattan to be sold separately. Heh.

And one figure from the Blackest Night Heroclix set because...wow.





I'm not sure I could sleep with that in the house.

The scan tonight is the cover to Alpha Flight #41, from the exceedingly uneven Bill Mantlo run. Still, this pretty much delivered what it promised on the cover: Northstar fighting crocodiles.

Comments

[suzene]

A point that gets brought up in the next issue and leads to a big "Oh, FUCK YOU, Heather" moment. I should dig that one up.

[terrykun]

I gotta say, Maddy let the whole thing go a lot easier when it happened to him than JP did.

Which is why in the rp where I play him, JP always gets a stuffed croc for xmas. :3

[suzene]

I imagine being mind-controlled into an object of desire didn't sit well with the speedster for a number of reasons. Having the team leader laugh it off likely didn't help.