The Rundown: TCAF Hits Record Attendance Numbers, Frank Miller Thinks Captain America is a Righteous Dude, and more

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– Christopher Butcher, co-founder and Festival Director of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) shared his annual wrap up of the festival and the announcement of the dates for the 2015 iteration, and in the process, he revealed that 2014 was their biggest year yet. 22,000 people attended the festival, surpassing 2012 and 2013’s number of 18,000, as the festival continues to get bigger and bigger even with a location that is being taxed by the event as is. They continue to do a great job, according to everyone who went, and Butcher himself said, “To us, everything felt like it moved pretty smoothly, and we’re going to do our best to keep things flowing in the Library and all of our spaces in the years to come.” Good news for all, and it shows that even the smaller, more intimate shows continue to expand like the bigger conventions do. Congrats to the team over there for a job well done.

– Would anyone like to read a Frank Miller “Captain America” book? Because he’d be into doing one. When asked during his Reddit AMA what character he’d like the chance to work on, Captain America was what he settled on. He also shared that he’d be into working with Elektra again, and even Batman. Odds on him getting hired at this point would not be great, but hey, that’d be a hell of a thing, right?

– Speaking of Frank, “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” got a new trailer, if you’re into that sort of thing.

– Oh hey, remember when Matt was all “I’m not sure if those Rocket Raccoon levels were completely on the level and stuff?” last week, and then it came out that over 100k of those orders came from one place – Loot Crate, a nerd gift box thingymabob? Bleeding Cool is now reporting that those could be as many as 180,000 of the 300,000 orders so…you know. That’s weird. This book’s sales are going to drop faster than the box office of “Wild Wild West” I fear, which is too bad because Skottie Young rules.

– You know that guy Brian K. Vaughan you love? Well his new favorite comic is “Copperhead” from Jay Faerber, Scott Godlewski, Ron Riley, Thomas Mauer and Image Comics, and who are you to deny him?

– This fan video of Sina Grace and S. Steven Struble’s “The Li’l Depressed Boy” is completely fantastic.

– Your wish has finally been fulfilled: you can now read Hodor and Groot fan fiction. Be afraid. Be very afraid.