The Retailer’s View: Event Comics and Ordering Abuse
by Brandon Schatz
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When you spend your days breaking open comic solicitations and marketing for a living, you begin to pick out patterns. A new...
Report: Wonder Woman movie on tap for 2017 and more WB superhero movies
Showbiz reporter and scooper Nikki Finke has been languishing under a no compete since she left Penske Media's Deadline.com, which so founded. But she's...
New Constatine trailer includes Dr. Fate’s Helmet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYqkl0rlRw
A new trailer for the upcoming Constantine TV show was released over the weekend, and along with the assorted cheeky comments, damsels in demonic...
DC puts Bill Finger’s name on the cover of Detective #27
DC has done a nice thing by putting the name of writer Bill Finger on the covers of the special edition of Detective #27,...
The Retailer’s View: Bob Wayne, an appreciation
by Brandon Schatz
As the whispers from last week’s Diamond Retailer Summit turned into audible noise, it quickly became apparent that the rumours were true:...
And by the way, DC Entertainment is hiring in publicity, development, online, etc etc
Along those same lines, DC's Burbank office is totally ramping up -- although not in editorial, where the biggest defection is coming. and in...
DC Entertainment SR VP Sales Bob Wayne will retire — and nothing will ever...
When DC announced their move to Burbank, I was told the first name on the list of people who weren't going was SR VP...
Interview: Sean E. Williams on ‘Fairest: Return of the Maharaja’, Hinduism, and Giant Crocodiles
Next week sees the release of the third trade of Fairest, the spinoff series of Fables which has seen a number of writers and...
DC Comics Month-to Month Sales: April 2014 — Eternal Stormwatch of the Spotless Mind
Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures.
DC take five of the top ten spots on the Diamond sales charts, all of them Batman-titled books thanks to the debut of the weekly Batman Eternal. However, DC fall to their lowest Dollar Share and Unit Share in quite some time due to a combination of Marvel's relaunch of Amazing Spider-Man (with a boatload of order incentives and variant covers leading to over a half million in sales) and their own inability to get out many of their bestselling titles on a consistent schedule—Forever Evil, Sandman Overture and Superman Unchained) didn't ship this month, with Forever Evil's lateness causing a ripple effect through other titles like Justice League of America.
DC cancels six titles in August, but adds selfie covers
All-Star Western #34 cover by Darwyn Cooke, who also draws the innards.
I didn't get a chance to run DC's August Solicitations yesterday, but...
DC to launch weekly DIgital First Wonder Woman comic, Sensation Comics
IGN has the details on a weekly Digital First Wonder Woman series, Sensation Comics, named after the 40s comic that prominently featured the Amazon...
DC sets creative teams for September and reveals some covers
After some squawking over forcing retailers to order September's "Future's End" event comics blind due to the time needed to manufacture the lenticular covers, DC has revealed all the lineups and even a few covers. It's the usual blend of mainstays, with a few yeoman back-ups. In other words, you must be reliable. As for whats in the stories, you can rely on a full array of face sewing, limb chopping, insect-leg attaching action as you like it!
