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But Groth has shown great respect for many of the finest CREATORS of superhero comics.
Groth wrote a moving obituary for Gil Kane which may sum up his feelings about superhero comics best: it expressed his heartbreak at how such a talented man ended up wasting his skills in a grindhouse genre that not only failed to

I can see her hosting TO CATCH A PREDATOR: "oh wait, that's my ex-boss!"

His reporting on the JFK assassination is still moving.

HUNGERY

Well, to be blunt: the movies and tv shows are probably stealing readers AWAY from the comics.
And not just in that shallow "why would I spend money on drawings on paper when I can see real actors and big-screen spectacle?"; it's more that it's just easier to follow the simplified versions of Marvel and Dc's

Miller was (for good or bad) clearly one of the key figures in the seismic shift that happened in mainstream American comics in the 1980s. It was understandable that people gave the benefit of a doubt to a guy who was taking his new-found clout to do fairly uncommercial stuff like RONIN and ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN (and

What's most notable about some of the recent reprint volumes is that Fantagraphics is now doing collections of work owned by other publishers, like their Disney and EC collections.
In other words: there's a tacit acknowledgement that it's better to let Fantagraphics give the material the royal treatment rather than

They apparently started running it in Germany a decade or so ago, and it was quite popular- perhaps because, if you're German, you really, really hope your grandfather WAS like Schultz.

Not the Bob Iger deal; the original deal that got the first TOY STORY made.

There is nothing that truly captures the spirit of the repeatedly delayed Phantasm film saga better then a Christmas ornament that doesn't ship until after Christmas.

One of the reasons so-called "liberal humor" works better is because Stewart, Colbert and company never passed up a good joke just because it hit on a Democrat, or went with a bad one just because it hit on a Republican.
"The laugh comes first, the politics comes second" may sound like a shallow credo, but it's based

oh, and that "the two brothers who made it are now sisters" thing.

But he helped set up the Disney deal.

Arguably, letting Pixar go wasn't a mistake, but more evidence of his keen commercial instincts; Lucas thought Pixar would have a MUCH greater chance at success if it had the Disney brand name supporting it rather than being a rival to The House Of Mouse. (Remember, Lucas had a ringside seat to Don Bluth's multiple

Even more amazing: many of them never have their names spoken in the actual films.
Heck, no one actually says the word "Ewok" on-screen.

Again, to look back at the original Uni films, they actually DIDN'T throw them all together; it was only Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man who ever met- mostly because they were all in that same "middle European" setting. They seemed to fit together (at least by the logic of those films); there was no "hey, how

I preferred the way the ACTUAL Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe was created- make a few good, unrelated horror movies, start reusing bits and pieces from film to film, then finally, go "well, let's throw a couple of them together and see what happens".