Uh-oh, Hellboy universe to change forever
Via an email to retailers, Dark Horse has revealed the ominous news that the Hellboy Universe is to change forever as a result of HELLBOY: THE FURY, the current mini-series. What can it mean? Very concerned.
Continue ReadingThe Periodic Table of Storytelling makes plotting a snap
Via TVTropes and Deviant Art, a visual aid to storytelling devices. Do a chose-your-own-adventure type thing or use a dartboard and make your own story. Endless uses.
Continue ReadingFirst Look At The Walking Dead Season 2
AMC has released the first images from the second season of The Walking Dead. You'll recall that last fall a six-issue mini-season created a sensation.
Continue ReadingIndie Month-to-Month Sales: April 2011
The Walking Dead are back on top as the best selling "indie" book this month, followed by a Hellboy one shot, and a new issue of The Boys. Further down the charts we have the launch of Dark Horse Presents, a new Danger Girl comic, and the end of IDW's Angel series.
Continue ReadingDC releases GREEN LANTERN app
Storefront apps for various comics lines (Walking Dead, Star Trek) have been proliferating of late, and DC has jumped into the fray with a Green Lantern app that will have comics and previews, trailers, background info and everything else you need to dive straight into the green world. As far as we can recall this is DC's first character-specific app, but we're kinda brain dead right now so correct us in the comments.
Continue ReadingHydrate during your exploits with Green Lantern branded Brisk Green Tea
The Green Lantern marketing blitz is coming at you like a corp of space cops, and among the items: a new flavor of Brisk Green Tea that is partnering with Green Lantern for refreshment and good deeds. And what flavor is Green Lantern representative of? Mango Dragonfruit! Yum. The packaging includes art by Kenneth Rocafort, artist on RED HOOD & THE OUTLAWS in the Flashboot. Some relevant hype from the PR:
Continue ReadingMark Millar leaving Marvel for Millarverse
Via Twitter, Mark Millar reminds us he's no longer working on Marvel books but is concentrating on his own properties:
Continue ReadingDCNü Scorecard 5: The Youngsters
Today it's i09 gets the exclusive on the "teenage heroes and young superteams" of the new DC -- Teen Titans Legion, and so on. (And unlike EW, i09 actually mentions all the books.) In this group we see the amazing return of Rob Liefeld to Hawk and Dove, and a strange-looking Teen Titans.
Continue ReadingDCNü Scorecard 4: The Dark Side
Okay here's the official lineup of yesterday's dark characters, with the addition of a Wildstorm book -- VOODOO. Hey look people, at least it wasn't GEN 13. These are easily the most interesting books yet announced.
Continue Reading2000 AD now on sale weekly in the US
For those of you sad about ACTION COMICS not making it to #1000, why not start picking up 2000 AD every week -- they're up to issue #1754. Rebellion has just announced that they'll start selling the venerable English comics anthology here weekly instead of as part of a costly four-pack.
Continue ReadingDC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: April 2011
DC's average comic-book sales continued to recover in April, for the third consecutive month, from January's all-time low. The publishing events "War of the Green Lanterns" and Action Comics #900 contributed their share to the good news, as did the absence of several low-selling cross-media adaptations inherited from the now defunct WildStorm imprint. More significantly, though, DC titles across the board continued their recent stabilization. Why are sales stabilizing? Well, let's speculate. Throughout 2010, the average cover price of a new DC comic book was $ 3.38, and there were an average 83 new DC comic books on sale per month. In the first four months of 2011, on the other hand, the average DC comic book cost $ 3.14, while the average number of titles per month was 71. That's not enough data to draw any sound conclusions, but it doesn't contradict the idea that retailers may be breathing a sigh of relief in the face of lower prices and volume, at least, and may be spending those extra 24 cents on a smaller number of titles as a result. Of course, all that could be moot in a few months, once the big, sweeping DC Universe relaunch comes around. But the other good news is, there were 54 new releases under the DC Universe imprint in April, with an average cover price of $ 3.23. So if those are replaced with 52 titles mostly priced at $ 2.99, then that should be a workable enough load for the market, in terms of sheer volume, if there's any truth to the above theory.
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Marvel announces JOHN CARTER: A PRINCESS OF MARS #1
Well, now! Dynamite has been profitably publishing its own comics series based on the Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, but the books are in the public domain AND Disney/Pixar is doing a movie based on them...so it makes sense that Marvel would unleash an ALL-AGES version of the character written by Roger Langridge with art by Filipe Andrade and covers by Skottie Young. Given the all-ages tag, it's unlikely we will see things like this in the Marvel book.
Continue ReadingDCNü announces its Vertigo-verse: Swamp Thing, Frankenstein, Justice League Dark UPDATED
OKAY! Today's -- or this morning's -- announcements come to us from Ken Tucker at EW which seems to be channeling the mysteriously down DCU Source blog, and they cover the new, "Vertigo-verse: in the DCU, which includes dark, edgy supernatural characters. Few covers available, NO art assignments, but let's take a look-see, shall we?
Continue ReadingDCNü Scorecard 3: The Women
Okay, we missed posting a lot of DC updates due to not being a computer, so here's what has been announced since last we met! IGN had a ton of Batman family announcements on Monday, including the promise that: There are even more announcements concerning the diversity of the Batman line coming later in the day. So here's the many ladies of the Batman group; you'll notice that they are all dressed womewhat modestly, no one is flashing their hoohah, and cleavage is being de-emphasized -- backing up reports that women in the DCU must now wear pants and stop flashing their hoohahs at helpless artists.
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