After yanking all its syndicated cartoons a number of months
ago, The Village Voice is reinstating
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins). Editor & Publisher asserts that
other alt weeklies that are part of the Voice
chain may do likewise. ... In Britain, Batman
ranks as the greatest superhero of all time in a survey of sf fans for the
fantasy website, SFX.co.uk, which, mirror.co.uk reports, elbowed Spider-Man
into second place and Superman, third. Batman’s popularity in England may be
somewhat surprising, but in this country, not: we’ve consistently displayed a
morbid fascination with such psychotic anti-heroes as Darth Vader and J.R.
Ewing, and the current funnybook manifestation of Batman as a psychologically
scarred person is in the same misbegotten tradition. ... Dark Horse is bringing back Barry Windsor-Smith’s Conan oeuvre. In
the 1970s, Windsor-Smith achieved eminence among comic book illustrators by
drawing Roy Thomas’ adaptation of
Robert E. Howard’s Cimmerian cult hero, gradually evolving from the Marvel
house style into a mannered technique distinctly his own. The first of two
hardcover volumes will appear in January.
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