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All The Rage isn't even a rumor column anymore, as it tends to just print comics previews and interviews. I know it makes me shallow as hell, but I LIKE a good gossip column. Done right, it can be snarky fun. And comics companies have always hated that sort of thing.
Back in the late 70's/early 80's cat yronwood (sp?) ran a story in her "fit to print" column about Marvel planning to replace their heroes with younger, "cooler" versions, and they were looking to shed most of their writers who had been with them before Shooter took over as Editor in Chief. It was denied by Marvel, and was even mocked in Jim Shooter's column at Marvel at the time...then Iron Man was replaced, the Captain America replacement story was bumped for a couple of years (he was to be replaced by a Native American character in issue #300 according to JM DeMatties, who was writing it at the time), and through the 80's, every major Marvel character was replaced at some point.
And I think Rich Johnson's work on showing how DC was trying to scuttle "The Authority" in the middle of its run was almost journalism.
Of course, I think Rich is a much better "Op Ed" writer than a gossip writer, and his recent editorial on V For Vendetta was a great peice of writing. |
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