Does DC’s subscription form reveal what New 52 titles might get canceled first?
Did you know you cannot subscribe to all 52 of the New 52? Only 33 of the titles show up on DC's online subscription form. Does this mean the other 19 are doomed? Or not expected to make it? Probably not. AFAIK, DC has never made ALL of its titles available via subscription. The big guns -- the Bats and the Supes and the GLs -- are always on it. The most kid-friendly ones are almost always on the list, as parents, aunties and peepaws like to give Little Johnny magazine subs as a gift instead of the vial of crank which he actually wants. One poster on the Comic Geek Speak Forum did find a...pattern in the list, however:
Continue ReadingNYCC 11: Saturday tickets 75% gone
Oh yeah it is headed at us like a locomotive. New York Comic-Con is only a few weeks away, and show runner Lance Fensterman has tweeted that: #NYCC ticket mailing deadline tonight at midnight. Saturday day passes are 75% sold out! You can buy tickets online and still have them mailed to you . Otherwise you may have to stand in a very long line to pick up your tickets.
Continue ReadingPreview Craig Thompson’s HABIBI
Craig Thompson'ss incredible graphic novel HABIBI is coming out next week, and while very different thematically from BLANKETS, it shares Thompson's emotionally resonent storytelling in which every line and word is part of the overall effect. For a peek, Guernica magazine has a preview of 11 pages. HABIBI goes on sale everywhere next week.
Continue ReadingArchaia to publish Marjane Satrapi’s The Sigh
Archaia has just announced a November release for the English language version of Marjane Satrapi's LE SIGH, which will be published in English as THE SIGH. Satrapi's PERSEPOLIS remains one of the all time best selling graphic novels -- in recent years she's concentrated on directing, as opposed to cartooning, with a live action version of her book CHICKEN WITH PLUMS currently prepping for release. THE SIGH was originally published in French as LE SOUPIR in 2004.
Continue ReadingTwo Ultimates comics sell out for Marvel
Not to be left out of September's sell-out derby, both Ultimate Comics ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #2 and Ultimate Comics ULTIMATES #2 have sold out at Diamond prior to their first printings going on sale, Marvel has just announced. So second printing ahoy, both with variant covers by Kaare Andrews.
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Balancing the scales with heavy Starfire
After seeing the new skinny Amanda Waller, Gail Simone tweeted I think, in the interest of fairness, we should make Starfire, like, HUGE. #itsonlyfair And the Bendis board obliged. A little googling around shows that there is actually a subculture of fans of very heavy versions of DC superheroines. There are subcultures that like all kinds of versions of the DC superheroines, but let's not go there because it gets real icky real fast. Anyway. Let's even the scales!
Continue ReadingDC will replace GREEN LANTERN #1s with printing error — will this be the next hot variant?
They may not be quite as hot as Missoni knit miniskirts, but the New 52 comics have been experiencing a lively afterlife on eBay due to various shortages. However what will happen to the market when an "official" error printing gets out there? DC just announced they will replace some copies of GREEN LANTERN #1 which have a printing error -- a big green circle over Sinestro's ear.
Continue ReadingReedPOP launches pop culture industry think tank WHITE SPACE
It's getting so you can't launch a secret cabal without a good press release. This year's NYCC will be co-located with an invitation-only think tank for "100 masters and innovators in the fields of TV, film, comics, games, technology and advertising" called White Space. Besides ReedPOP, parent company of NYCC, White Space is backed by the television market show MIPTV, also owned by Reed. Also involved, pop culture sites GeekChicDaily and Nerdist, which will help put together the programming.
Continue ReadingPIGS #1 gets convention variant cover by Katie Cook
Well, it's been an exciting week for comics, what with you know what, and you know who. But one of the most buzzed comics of the week was PIGS #1, written by Nathan Cosby and our own Ben McCool, with art by Breno Tamura. This new Image book -- about a second generation Cuban sleeper cell on a complex mission to overthrow the US Government -- has already shown off a variety of covers by artists from Jock to Dave Gibbons, but Cosby and McCool have just announced a special variant cover debuting at New York Comic-Con by...Katie Cook. Best known for her charming illustrations, let's just say it goes against type in a very cool way.
Continue ReadingComics sales up yet down for August
ICv2's sales numbers are out for August, and Although JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 doesn't top 200K on the chart, as explained before, this is because the number doesn't include reorders (the book was released on the last day of August) or overseas sales. But JL #1's 176,00 copies was still way more than FLASHPOINT #5's 94K and FEAR ITSELF #3's 90,000 -- below the top, August was a bit anemic. If you're looking for the reason things needed a shake-up, here you go.
Continue ReadingAmanda Waller now skinny
In addition to merging Vertigo and Wildstorm, putting Martian Manhunter in Stormwatch, and stealing Superman's manties, the mysterious hooded woman of the DCU also gave Amanda Waller laparoscopic surgery.
Continue ReadingHanawalt draws worldwide gas
A book on farts illustrated by Lisa Hanawalt, with an attached soundboard? Where do I sign up?
Continue ReadingWizardWorld made $3 million from conventions in 2010
Gotta love those SEC filings. With Wizard now a publicly traded penny stock, all kinds of numbers can be gleaned from their latest business report. Including the revenue and operating income from 2010's convention business.
Continue ReadingThe daily 52: notes and quotes from all over
All of the most important people are being quoted on the actual impact of the sales success of the New 52. DC's much advertised and marketed initiative has been credited with bringing a herd of new and lapsed readers into comics stores, and so far it does NOT seem to be at the expense of other publishers. Let's take a look shall we?
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