Romita Jr. is either playing centerfield for DC or “the real thing” on Superman
This week Jorn Romita's first Superman comic debuts, a fairly notable event in that Romita has been known all his career for his Marvel...
Quentin Tarantino’s Django and Zorro teaming up for Dynamite/DC
Well here's a project you didn't expect to see: Quentin Tarantino's firebrand Django is teaming up with Zorro for an adventure co-plotted by Matt...
DC Comics Month-to Month Sales: May 2014 – Forever’s End
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, and after taking a shellacking on market share last month pull up nearly even to their Marvelous Competition, though in a month where the market was down from the previous year.
There are some good things to point to: DC's strategy of canceling their low-selling ongoing DCU titles and replacing them with weekly titles is working, at least so far. With the exception of last September's anomalous 3D cover month, May 2014 is the best average sales for the DCU line since in nearly two years, since June 2012. Most importantly, Batman Eternal and Futures End give them several comics in the 50-75K range, an area in which they have been sorely lacking as of late. Mind you this isn't a long-term strategy, but it keeps the bears at bay for a few more months until the Next Big Event or line-wide gimmick comes along.
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.
