New York Comic Con’s servers buckle too
While lost in the SDCC ticket sellout hoopla, it's a curious fact that tickets for New York Comic Con in October went on sale Monday at noon, and here again there was a lot of demand, although nowhere near San Diego levels. As one potential attendee named @mightysquid tweeted:
Continue ReadingCritics drub Spider-Man with savage beating
Although the official opening isn't until March, figuring the troubled Spider-Man musical has had enough time to get things right by any reasonable standard (but not by Julie Taymor's) theater critics are flouting tradition by releasing reviews of the show during previews. And they are administering the kind of beating that Spider-Man would normally expect only from Venom.
Continue ReadingIt’s Smulders!
Variety confirms that Cobie Smulders is the front runner for the role of SHIELD agent Maria Hill in Joss Whedon's Avengers movie. Smulders is a Whedon favorite (he wanted her for his Wonder Woman movie) and Hill is a perfect Whedon-type character so the handwriting has been on the wall for this.
Continue ReadingThey’re Baaaaaack!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Dark Horse tells us that Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s awesome BEASTS OF BURDEN series will return in 2011. Good news!
Continue ReadingSan Diego Comic-Con tickets sold out in seven hours, leaving fans spent
It didn't take that long for tickets to this year's San Diego Comic-Con to sell out after they went on sale yesterday -- but it did seem like an eternity for those who spent four+ hours hitting the F5 key in hopes of getting through. The ticket site -- run by indie ticketseller TicketLeap -- went live at 9 am PST and immediately slowed to an excruciating halt -- it never technically crashed. Those who persevered through fail screens eventually got tickets -- by about 6 pm EST, 3 pm PST, all tickets were gone. We've already reported some of the bitter reports on twitter, but this really does seem to have been a year of massive frustration. The TicketLeap site took more than 35,000,000 hits during the ticket buying process...allowing for 100,000 tickets sold (let's say), that's 350 refreshes per person, but who knows how many actually TRIED to get on. No wonder that Isotope responded with the "FailFrog:"
Continue ReadingMarvel Month-to-Month sales: December 2010
It's not a great month for Marvel. In fact, it's one of those rare months when DC had the largest share of the direct market, beating Marvel by 33% to 32% in dollar terms (though if you prefer the unit share, Marvel lead by 39% to 37%). In part, it's because DC's new Batman titles are doing very well - but as we'll see, it's also the case that Marvel just don't have any really big titles out this month. There are a couple of new ongoing series this month - WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS and HEROES FOR HIRE. Following the Shadowland crossover, DAREDEVIL reinvents itself as BLACK PANTHER. And there's just one new miniseries - ULTIMATE COMICS DOOM. And that's it, so far as new books.
Continue ReadingCongressman John Lewis to pen graphic novel
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Even our congressmen are getting bitten by the graphic novel bug, as Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is signed with Top Shelf to co-write March, the story of his involvement in the civil rights movement of the ’60s. Lweis will author the book with Andrew Aydin, who works in his office. While [...]
Continue ReadingMust read: Gareb Shamus
With all the changes at Wizard over the last year or so, CEO Gareb Shamus has been a tough interview to nail. Our own requests have gone unfulfilled for months, although everyone involved -- including Shamus himself -- has been friendly and professional about the matter. Thus it's a great get for Valerie D'Orazio at MTV Geek to finally sit him down for a chat that covers the positives and negatives of recent Wizard moves. The entire interview is recommended but many observers are unlikely to be swayed by these kinds of statements:
Continue ReadingMust-read: Plain talk with IDW’s Ted Adams
ICv2 has started its annual round of CEo chats and kicks off with IDW's Ted Adams in three parts.. Adam sis a good choice because IDW has made significant recent gains as the first new front-of-thebook publishers since exclusives were invented, and he doesn't give you a lot of double speak. A few excerpts: On pricing (IDW has always been $3.99):
Continue ReadingAngoulêmemories continue
Several attendees of the Angoulême comics festival are still filing their reports. A must-read is this report on the Rights Panel, including such smart folks as Peggy Burns, Carol Burrell, and Calista Brill talking about publishing realities:
Continue ReadingRIP: Tura Satana
In her 72 years, Tura Satana learned karate, dated Elvis Presley, tracked down the men who raped her when she was 9, starred in FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!, was a noted burlesque dancer, broke her back, was married three times, had two daughters, and inspired the entire canon of gothabilly. Who knows how much of it is true, but she was pretty damn cool.
Continue ReadingView the Super Bowl Thor trailer
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Howcum Thor doesn’t have a Norwegian accent? Just sayin’.
Continue ReadingWatch the Super Bowl Captain America trailer
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In addition to showcasing the TRON 3 trailer as performed by the Black Eyed Peas, Super Bowl XLV also featured the debut of the CAPTAIN AMERICA trailer, showing Chris Evans in action as Cap, and a glimpse of the Red Skull, played by Hugo Weaving. Everyone is talking about the unveiling of [...]
Continue ReadingSan Diego Comic-Con tickets leap to frustration; UPDATE: Four-day passes sold out
UPDATE: Four day passes sold out about 4 pm e.s.t. Single day tickets are still available. For now. To the surprise of no one, when passes for this year's CCI:SD went on sale this morning at 9 am P.S.T., even the industrial-grade servers at TicketLeap were immediately hobbled. Sales have been going on all afternoon, with this the most seen screen:
Continue ReadingA little more on the Creator’s revolution
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThere’s been a lot more chatter on the internet about the ideas touched off last week by Eric Powell and Steve Niles. Here’s one piece by writer Van Jensen that pretty much sums up how we feel: The problem, for starters, is not Marvel and DC. A lot of [...]
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