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Comics Link Roundup October 11
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This past week, I read Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN.
https://youtu.be/6XVppepRkog?si=ummm1sCc0USfvRH0
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Link Roundup
News:
Some of the biggest news in the US right now is the creation of “Skydance” out of the Paramount / Warner Brothers merger. Among many likely outcomes, mostly negative, some have speculated this could affect DC comics. It is far too early to tell, but it would be a shame if the new boss started meddling with the recently white-hot DC comic line. I doubt they’d want to toss the line entirely, but I could definitely see much more oversight.
Marvel is sunsetting their Marvel Unlimited app in favor of an app developed in coordination with Webtoons. As long as this doesn’t decrease or change the comics available to readers, I’m all for this. Unlimited was an app that sufferered for lack of care. Webtoons, for the many criticisms that can be levied at it, is objectively good at creating a smooth reader experience. Keep the vast archive and add features like user-created reading orders and you are all set.
The New York Public Library released their list of the best comics of 2026.
List of crowdfunded comic projects you might want to back:
Comic Book Yeti: 10/3.
Other News Roundups:
Comics Beat’s biweekly Digest: 10/2. 10/6. 10/8.
The Comics Journal’s This Week’s Links: 10/2. 10/9.
SKTCHD’s Comics Disassembled: 10/9.
PRANA Bullet: 10/2. 10/9.
Writing:
SKTCHD posted a Double Take with Oliver Sava looking at and reviewing the new Midnight Comics from Marvel and a look at how comic book shops are trying to capture new readers, who are coming in for the first time with hot books like ABSOLUTE BATMAN and TRANSFORMERS.
Shelfdust published a look at Plastic Man in POLICE COMICS # 2.
Comic Book Herald published his favorite comics of September 2026. He also had a look at the Marvel reprints being published by Taschen.
Heidi MacDonald of The Beat opines about what is coming next for the comic book industry. The industry, she writes, is a $2 billion industry, but in the age of venture capital, that isn’t enough to buy its independence. Inevitable change is coming, but what will it look like?
My favorite video and podcasts:
Podcasts:
New Marvel Editor in Chief Stephen Wacker made a podcast appearance that generated a bunch of headlines, all seemingly indicating a positive turn for Marvel. He seemingly repeated much of this at his appearance at New York Comic Con.
OFF PANEL had on Beetle Moses to talk his first print collection, out this week.
LET’S TALK COMICS had on Daniel Warren Johnson to talk CHAINKATA. This is a great interview traveling across all of DWJ’s career. The podcast also had an episode with Rob Liefeld. I haven’t listened to this one yet because the one thing I like less than modern Rob Liefeld comics (yes, his ’80s and ’90s stuff is silly but does have a real kinetic energy) is hearing Rob Liefeld talk. I guarantee he will take multiple potshots at modern comics creators much more successful at this point in their career than him and say that things were better back in the ’90s and the way to save Marvel and DC is to hire him and the other old guard suckerfish.
MY MARVELOUS YEAR posted 2015 Secret Wars pt. 1. It’s the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning.
Youtubes:
COMICTROPES posted a video on bootleg comic book action figures.
COMIC BOOK HERALD talked his take on Marvel’s Midnight comics.
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