With The Source, the DCU blog, perking right long, DC has launched two more blogs, Graphic Content by Pamela Mullins, covering the latest at Vertigo, and WildStorm’s The Bleed, where Austin Trunick will be hitting the RSS highway. Graphic Content kicks off with an excerpt from Bill Willingham’s Peter and Max novel (no pictures!) and features some excerpts on the recent remastered reprint of RED by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.

All the more linkage for us, we says, and we welcome Austin and Pamela to the world of the long distance blogger.

13 COMMENTS

  1. It’s good to know that Vertigo and Wildstorm are so cutting edge by starting blogs. I can’t wait until they start twittering…in 3 to 4 years.

  2. “It’s good to know that Vertigo and Wildstorm are so cutting edge by starting blogs. I can’t wait until they start twittering…in 3 to 4 years.”

    i hate super-duper-clever comments like this. sure, vertigo and WS are a little late to the game — so what?! do their respective late entries into the blogosphere reflect on the site’s quality? will that make it any less informative? will you ignore them if they post exclusive news on a creator or book you like (they were late getting started after all — FOR SHAME!)?

    kudos to dc/vertigo/ws for taking the initiative and giving their fanbase a direct source of info, and if you ask me, there really is no such thing as too much info in terms of comic news. as a former dc employee, i’m sure a lot of time, effort and advil went into these blogs before their launches, just to be met with this type of typical message board response.

    in other words, better late than never, jerkstore.

  3. I think the saddest thing is that it’s likely more people are reading the blog than buying wildstorm comics…

  4. >> I think the saddest thing is that it’s likely more people are reading the blog than buying wildstorm comics…>>

    That’s sort of how it’s supposed to work.

    It’s a promo blog — and the idea of promo is to show it to a wider audience than you’re going to get as a paying audience, in the hopes of converting some of that wider audience. If they weren’t able to reach more people than are currently buying the books, it would be a massive failure.

    kdb

  5. The point I was trying to make (poorly) is that the blog would only need a few thousand people to read it to be more popular than most of the wildstorm titles.

    It was about the raw number rather than intent.

  6. >> The point I was trying to make (poorly) is that the blog would only need a few thousand people to read it to be more popular than most of the wildstorm titles.>>

    Even if that’s the case, having more people read the blog and see the promo for the books would still be a good thing. Maybe it’ll help them boost their sales to a point you find more credible.

    Publishers with lower line averages than Wildstorm have blogs, too.

    kdb

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