Spotted From The Watchtower
As The Beatrix, on vacation up country, deals with the new server and its delusion that it's an electronic bulletin board from 1982, I...
A month of Image teasers: "I am the American Dream"
Wow, if only this had really gone up on Thanksgiving!
Oh yeah, Woodgod!
Via PW Comics Week, yet another peek at STRANGE TALES II, this time by Dean Haspiel.
Butler and Lee do Emma at Marvel
Fresh off her much-admired art for RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN, Janet K. Lee is next adapting Emma for Marvel's line of Jane Austen...
Children and women last, again
A couple of posts over the weekend commented on the diversity or lack there of of contemporary comics and comics retailing:
In the wake of the Thor: The Mighty Avenger disaster, Brigid asks Can all-ages comics survive on the direct market alone? and ponts out thet kids these days like GNs and not periodicals:
A month of Image teasers: "What's that smell"
This image slogan has particular poignancy around Stately Beat Manor this morning.
Walking Dead Recap: Don’t have a fish fry during a Zombiepocalypse
Walking Dead Recap: Don’t have a fish fry during a Zombiepocalpse
Season 1/Episode 4: Vatos
Last week’s Walking Dead saw what’s left of the survivors' families ripped apart...
Reminder: Send Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest news!
As we head off for a weekend of rest and relaxation work and transcribing, a reminder: we've already gotten some notes of books coming...
Quote of the day: Nick Gazin on CAGES
This book reminds me of the past, but not in a wistful, thinking-back-on-your-first-time-getting-laid way. It’s more a first-time-getting-caught-jerking-off-by-your-mom sensation.
-- from NICK GAZIN’s COMIC BOOK...
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: September 2010
September was a fairly low-profile month for DC's comic-book business. In terms of new releases, there were the debut of the Freedom Fighters series, a Justice Society of America Special and a bunch of one-shots reviving the company's old war titles. Still, thanks to a handful of returning DC Universe and Vertigo books that had missed their release dates in August, average and overall periodical sales slightly recovered, as expected. WildStorm published a few one-shot specials tying in with the Red film and reviving Wetworks, of all things, with less than spectacular results.
Retailers speak on Thor: The Mighty Avenger
When the news of the cancellation of the well-liked THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER hit, there was the usual wave of hand-wringing and everyone had their own theory as to what killed it, who, and why. Rather than just sit around and make up own own ideas, we decided to go to the source and asked a few prominent retailers three questions:
