The Future of Comics (I) Fiona Staples has let her previous online home, Good-Lucky.net, fall by the wayside. Now she can be found at the aptly named FionaStaples.com. Update your bookmarks accordingly.

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THE ODDEST THING I WILL DO TODAY IN THE ROLE OF COMICS EDITOR

Spend thirty seconds tracking down the linguistic derivation of the term "props" (it comes from "propers", which itself is a short form of "proper respect".)

This would make some kind of sense if it actually appeared in a script, pitch, outline, or really had anything at all to do with the creation of a comic.

But it didn't.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"...the new (HULK film) overdelivered, relative to its underpromise." David Davis, managing partner and entertainment analyst at Arpeggio Partners in Los Angeles.

I have a new goal in life: to make only underpromises, and then overdeliver on them.

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