Marvel Comics Month-to-Month Sales: September 2013 — Marvel’s moral victory
While DC's Villains Month was the main talking point of the direct market in September, Marvel moved into their own event season. September saw the second month of INFINITY, with more tie-in books popping up across the line, while the X-Men titles began their own separate crossover, BATTLE OF THE ATOM. We also have the debut issue of MIGHTY AVENGERS, which launches as part of the big event.
THOR’s alien world to hit Disneyland on Friday
It seems that the Marvel Heroes are gradually sneaking their way into the Disney theme parks—at least in California, where the spectacular Marvel booth...
First Look: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin by Moore and O’Neill
Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father’s weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life. ... But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, traveling with her aging lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis.
NYCC Panel Recap: Doing It the European Way
Moderated by Heidi MacDonald, this was a panel featuring a line-up of European artists discussing the rise and change in foreign comic markets. Panellists...
31 Days of Halloween: Stephen R. Bissette’s WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU!
Stephen Bissette is one of the morbid masters of horror comics, having gained fame for pencilling Saga of the Swamp Thing, publishing Taboo, and...
NYCC’13: Chevy Camaro Body Art
Once again, Chevy produced a white car, and allowed various artists to modify the body with body art.
(Here are pictures from 2011. Scroll down.)
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31 Days of Halloween: Mark Rahner on ARMY OF DARKNESS/REANIMATOR One Shot
ZUB: The horror genre seems cover a huge spectrum from psychological terror all through to exaggerated gory stuff. What are some of your favorite...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – Coffin Hill Interview Special
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi...
31 Days of Halloween: Akira Toriyama’s COWA! and seven other new digital series from...
Viz had been plugging along with its digital comics available via Viz.Com and their app they just announced eight new series. Including one by...
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: September 2013 – Big 3D 10th Anniversary Collector’s Item Spectacular
First things first: September 2013 is, by quite a margin, the most successful month ever for DC Comics since Diamond started providing data on actual comic-book sales to retailers in March 2003.
In September 2013, DC Comics sold an estimated 4.2 million new comic books to specialty retailers, for a total of $15.3 million in retail sales value. To date, the record was held by October 2011, with 3.8 million new comic books for a total retail sales value of $11.9 million, followed by September 2011, with 3.6 million new comic books for $10.9 million.
The Alan Moore/Marvelman Interview: Part III: “I Definitely Wanted My Name Taken Off It”
This is the third and final part of a three-part interview I did with Alan Moore in October 2010 about Marvelman, and indeed Miracleman,...
Best Relaunched Blog: Zainab Akhtar’s Comics & Cola
If, like The Beat, you have been mourning the absence of Zainab Akhtar's byline around here, it's because she's relaunched her own blog, Comics&Cola,...
