(Overstreet comic book price guide) Jimmy Olsen. I don’t know if it’s just me but I’m tired of the “gosh oh golly, gee willikers, ain’t ever gonna grow up” wide eyed, juvenile Jimmy Olsen in the Superman books. I was hoping Byrne would give the kid some respect and have the common sen

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Jimmy Olsen. I don’t know if it’s just me but I’m tired of the “gosh oh golly, gee willikers, ain’t ever gonna grow up” wide eyed, juvenile Jimmy Olsen in the Superman books. I was hoping Byrne would give the kid some respect and have the common sen

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This is my favorite arc/TPB of the Superman/Batman series.

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Go, Look: Wally Wood in MAD (’54)

More On ComicsPRO Vegas Meeting
There are a few items of additional interest concerning last week’s ComicsPRO retailer organization meeting in Las Vegas scattered in an article that on first read seems to be about various people in attendance assuring you it was awesome: there was a side by side presentation of dueling POS systems, which is interesting in and of itself and for the notion that I guess a lot of retailers even on the ball enough to belong to a retailer group and go to their meetings haven’t committed to one yet; the group has 12-15 members in its mentoring program that may open stores, which again is interesting in and of itself and also because you think there’d be an exact number; and Bob Chapman brings up an interesting motivation for direct publisher to store relationships in noting severe limitations on what a company like his can run in Diamond’s Previews catalog.

EW: Brian Bendis Sells Secret Invasion
I don’t follow American superhero comics all that closely, but I found this interview with Brian Bendis at the Entertainment Weekly web site fairly fascinating anyway. Bendis is talking to the magazine in support of Marvel’s Secret Invasion crossover, but other than a semi-effective and one supposes pre-canned line about how airline passengers still scan for potential terrorists post-9/11, there’s not a whole lot in the way of a classic American mainstream comics overture to non-hardcore comics fans. This makes me think a couple of things: Marvel sees value in this kind of interview perhaps as a status piece above and beyond the opportunity it presents for pumping up sales, and Marvel is able to score a high-profile interview like this one less on the cultural juice of a well-conceived and potentially pop-relevant superhero series and more as the latest effort from a major entertainment company. Anyhow, a lot of what popped for me is the stuff that sounds weird when you don’t have your superhero comics hat on, like Marvel’s James Bond teaming up with a bunch of new superheroes like this is something that makes perfect sense, or that the Skrull concept was all wrong with the rayguns and whatnot and obviously needed to be corrected.

Also, I always get the feeling when I read about superhero plot developments that exactly like hearing plotlines from a TV program in its 8th season that I gave up in the second or third on after enjoying the first. “I so used to watch that show!”

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