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Saturday, August 14, 2004
Deppey Strikes Again!
The Comic Weblog Update site isn't working for me, so if this has been covered to death already I apologize.
The Comics Journal has updated their site for the first issue fully under Dirk Deppey's new role as Managing Editor. Folks, it's a doozy.
Besides a great Alex Toth cover (and Toth comics are inside!) there's a reprint of a comic many of us thought we would never see. Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's Goodman Goes Playboy will be in the magazine accompanied by an introduction by R. Fiore. Will TCJ be taken to court by the Archie people? Will Fantagraphics survive? Stay tuned!
Also we get a preview of Deppey's ¡Journalista! column. We get Deppey's take on the X-Men Reloaded shake-up Marvel has brought us. He hates all the books except Astonishing X-Men. Deppey also boils down what the X-Men franchise is all about in this prediction:
One of these days, advances in artificial intelligence will lead to the existence of a proper Chris Claremont Storytelling Generator, and then fans will be able to sit hang out with their imaginary best friends, Kitty and Storm and Gambit and Rogue and all the others, well into their dotage -- safe in the womb-like security of an environment as consistent as their favorite meal.
That's as funny as it is sad. And it's very sad. I mean, we see it all the time. There are so many people buying comics for one reason and one reason only: the comics they like are their comfort food. There's nothing wrong with that in small doses, but when Marvel Comics plans the big "change" for their biggest franchise around this ideal, we are no longer dealing with small doses.
Why is it, when I think of comics, that I sometimes feel one could completely drop off the face of the planet for a decade only to come back and find the industry in the exact same place except smaller?
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