Big Two Comics

Despite the showbiz hoopla, there is usually a lot of comics news that sneaks through at Comic-Con, and with everything we've been talking about...

There is change in the air in comicbookland. It may be more than in the air...it may be in the streams, lakes and landfills,...

It's that time of the month where comics sales pundits analyze monthly sales. ICv2 has it's industry standard sales estimates, and praise for how...

You may have noticed that Batman '66 is doing a lot of team-ups over the last year or two.  Green Hornet.  Man From U.N.C.L.E....

Multiple sources are reporting that DC was touting three books as their second wave of Rebirth titles at today's retailer breakfast: the Bennett/Epting Batwoman...

Hate and outrage have defeated love and optimism yet again. On Monday it was suggested that Marvel had a story trick up their sleeve that would steal the spotlight from DC's ramming-speed publicity blitz for its revamped universe and Rebirth #1. A shocking!!! plot twist in Captain America Steve Rogers #1 that revealed Steve was really a Hydra agent all along seemed unlikely to unseat a wholesale rewriting of ten years of DC history, along with a shocking Alan Moore related plot twist. But, today we have a genuine tweet storm and think piece blitz, all wrapped in a bow

Looks like DC's Vertigo line is still alive and kicking and even announcing some new titles from exclusive creators. Joshua Williamson, sometimes known as...

Yesterday Alex Zalben had a modest proposal on CBR called For Comics to Survive, They Must Align with Movies & TV and drew a lot of fire on comics twitter. The piece starts out pointing out how DC dropped the ball by not having a Supergirl comic to come out with the Supergirl TV show but unfolds it as a tarp to cover much of the Big Two publishing strategy:

We've been keeping an eye on threats of eroding comics sales that may spell trouble ahead for the comics industry, and it isn't just...

Please note the "FIGHT!" title is a joke—Tony is a wonderful human being, and we're just having a good old fashioned argument, like friends do. But this is the internet and we must ratchet up the appearance of conflict so....

2015 was a great year for comics, but comics sales were generally up in single digits, which is not a bad thing, but less...

In this week’s podcast, the More to Come Crew - The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss the new...