Hudlin Entertainment Forum

Sessions' move, while little noticed in the mainstream press or by the public, has already proven unpopular.


“These monetary punishments do nothing to protect the community while placing an unfair and unjust burden on people of lesser means,” wrote American Bar Association president Hilarie Bass in a statement.


“This latest action must be viewed alongside other actions taken by the attorney general to turn back the clock on civil rights compliance across the country," said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Other actions she cited included "abandoning use of consent decrees as a vehicle for promoting constitutional policing practices, reversing positions in pending civil rights cases and bringing federal civil rights enforcement to a virtual grinding halt.”


The author of the Obama-era guidance on debtors' prisons, Lisa Foster, who served as director of the Office for Access to Justice at the DOJ, criticized Sessions’ move. “The idea that the Department of Justice doesn’t care about the United States Constitution in courts is so wrong, and really unfortunate. It is a message that should not be sent, and has practical implications,” she told the Law&Crime blog.

By Amy Schafer

When the new White House chief of staff, then a Marine general, John Kelly received a knock on the door in November 2010, he became the highest-ranking military officer to lose a child in combat. In addition to his son Robert, killed by a landmine in Afghanistan in 2010, his other son is also an active-duty Marine. The Kellys’ legacy of service is not unusual among military families. This type of lineage has led to generations of flag officers, fathers and sons who reunite while deployed, and families who bear the loss of a war America has forgotten we are fighting.

By Scott Collura  It was abruptly cancelled back in 2013, but the beloved animated series Young Justice has beat the odds and come back from the dead with a Season 3 now in the works. Called Young Justice: Outsiders, the continued adventures of the young DC heroes team will debut in 2018 exclusively on a new DC-focused digital service. And at Comic-Con today, new character designs were revealed for S3 and a new character was announced to be joining the team: a hero named Thirteen.

There are fewer artists that impact sales than there are writers, Alonso said, and they’re harder to promote.  “It’s harder to pop artists these days,” he said.  “There is no apparatus out there.  There is no Wizard Magazine out there that told you who the hot top 10 were.  We don’t have that anymore.  We can hype our artists all we want, but I don’t know if we know how many artists, besides maybe McNiven and Coipel, absolutely move the needle on anything to be drawn.

But there’s another way to look at it, as noted by Image Founder Erik Larsen on Twitter:


Now that the plan has proven successful–now you bitch about it? You made that bed, Marvel, sleep in it! @ChrisSamnee

— Erik Larsen (@ErikJLarsen) March 31, 2017




.@ImageComics @ChrisSamnee Marvel has been telling retailers that “artists don’t matter” ever since the @ImageComics gang left.

— Erik Larsen (@ErikJLarsen) March 31, 2017