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Tuesday Morning Runaround – The Smiles Of Marie Severin

THOR POINT

It's the Thor: The Dark World premiere in London today. So naturally the weather today will be… well…

BACK IN THE BULLPEN

Scott Edelman visits Marie Severin.

One of the things Irene did during our lunch at a nice Italian restaurant was to read Marie all of the kind things you emailed to us when it was her birthday a couple of months ago. Marie was, as always, amazed that you cared, that anyone remembered the work she did when others were much more prolific. We made sure she knew that yes, you did care.

We spent five hours with her, catching her up on how everyone she ever knew in the comics field was doing. I cracked open my iPad to show her how digital comics apps worked, and she got the hang of it immediately, swiping and double-tapping through comics pages like a kid. I pulled up a YouTube clip of Stan Lee so she could see what our former boss was like these days, but it turned out she'd already seen it as part of the recent PBS documentary on superheroes.

BIG IN JAPAN

Apparently there will be big new from Marvel out of Japan today. What, I have no idea. But you can bet it will happen while I'm at the premiere and my iPad is being held by Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD representatives.

UP AND COMING

Jim Lavery tweets photo of a page from his new comic:

A page from my upcoming comic. http://t.co/fJWvH055b5

— Jim Lavery (@JimLavery1) October 21, 2013

L'IL KIMOTA

Alan Moore's first thoughts on writing Marvelman, as a young boy.

And so I just started to think about it – I think at the time I was even planning to submit it to the school magazine, which was the only publishing outlet that was available to me back then. It never got any further than just the idea, but I can remember that I thought it would be funny to have Mickey Moran grown up and become an adult, who'd forgotten his magic word. And, yeah, at the time, that was seen as a satirical, humorous situation, but the idea just stayed in me mind, and over the next twenty or something years, fifteen years, it obviously percolated until it became my version of Marvelman.

CLOWN CAR

Robot 6 finds the Clown Prince of criminal driving;

According to the Waterville, Maine, Morning Sentinel, police arrested the Clown Prince of Crime early Sunday morning after he allegedly lost control of his 2002 Buick Regal and drove off the road, striking multiple trees and a rock.

POPE ON A ROPE

Paul Pope talks Battling Boy to Kotaku;

There's a drought of kid-focused superhero comics nowadays, at least when compared to 15, 20 years ago. Now, kids used to be in danger in comics all the time but times have changed. Battling Boy tackles the question of whether kids can even be superheroes in an era where Superman is, um, different. When I reached to Pop over e-mail, he said that "I see a kid superhero like Battling Boy or Aurora West to be symbols of the potential of youth to do something new and different, to invent a new solution to old problems."

LEGAL BEAGLES

When lawyers turn writers…

Mr. Brittenham, who writes as and is widely called "Skip," has a day job representing some of Hollywood's most substantial companies and executives as a senior partner at the Ziffren Brittenham law firm. Recently, for instance, he undertook the ticklish business of negotiating the exit of his client Jeff Robinov from his post as president of the Warner Brothers motion picture group.

Since last year, however, Mr. Brittenham has been moonlighting as the author and publisher of elaborate fantasy books (with accompanying apps) in collaboration with Brian Haberlin, a writer-artist, and others.

PLAY AT HOME

The musical based on Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, opens.

The show features music by four-time Tony nominee Jeanine Tesori, with lyrics/book by Lisa Kron, scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Ben Stanton, sound design by Kai Harada, projection design by Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg, wig design by Paul Huntley, music direction by Chris Fenwick and choreography by Danny Mefford.

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