Image Comics Sales Band Report For February 2017: Steady As She Goes
Periodically (pun intended), it's useful to take a look at where the sales of a publisher's titles are clustered. It helps widen the picture...
American Gods #1 – 12 Page Preview
Back in 2001, Neil Gaiman wrote a book called American Gods. It won some awards, inspired a sequel called Anansi Boys, a TV adaption will be...
Russo Brothers Following Up Avengers: Infinity With… Quantum & Woody
Here's a juicy bit that popped out over at The Wrap, yesterday. The Russo Brothers are developing a Quantum & Woody TV series as...
A Year of Free Comics: Disability in the Age of Trump by Amanda Scurti
The title says it all, but Scurti has an autistic sister and draws a gorgeous piece about the many levels - from society's disdain...
Rocket and Groot star in their own series of animated shorts
There's probably a whole marketing treatise to be written about how Disney identified Rocket Raccoon and his tree buddy Groot as the breakout stars of Guardians of the Galaxy and leveraged them all across the Disney universe.
My Favorite Thing is Monsters gets 30,000 second printing
The surprise graphic novel hit of the start of 2017 is Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters. It's both a sui generis story...
Marvel Comics Sales Band Report For February 2017 Shows Historically Low Sales
Periodically (pun intended), it's useful to take a look at where the sales of a publisher's titles are clustered. It helps widen the picture...
A Year of Free Comics: Assassination Classroom #1 by Yūsei Matsui
Yūsei Matsui's Assassination classroom (published by Viz here in the US) has an outrageous premise even for a manga: an immensely powerful alien who...
REVIEW: With Only 5 Issues, Is it Already the End for Deadpool the Duck?
When comic creators decide on doing a crossover, it’s pretty much guaranteed that shenanigans will ensue. When Marvel deemed that Deadpool and Howard the...
The Retailer’s View // Should Printed Single Issues Go Away?
Our story begins a few years ago, when I was still managing another comic shop in the city. A man walked into the store,...
Review – Young Justice: Marvel’s Champions Are The Older Generation In Disguise
It’s been over three years since the debut of Kamala Khan, and since 2014, Ms. Marvel has been one of Marvel’s most popular books month after month. She hasn’t been the only popular legacy hero - Jane Foster as Thor, Amadeus Cho as Hulk, Miles Morales as Spider-Man, and Sam Alexander as Nova have all been great for Marvel. For a publisher struggling with sales, legacy hero books - new faces for existing superhero names - are solid ground, so it was only a matter of time before they got their own team book.
Image Comics Month-to Month Sales Chart January 2017: January Hymn
David Carter dives into January 2017's Image Comics Sales!
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