DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: July 2013 – The Ring Bling
Breaking: Comics retailers will buy any old rubbish.
The direct market is a peculiar distribution channel, and it has its hang-ups. One of the more peculiar aspects of this arrangement is how at every level -- publishing, retail and consumer -- its users fail singularly and incessantly to exercise or even realize their ability to help shape the market in such a way as to better serve their interests, while simultaneously bemoaning the situation that results.
DC Announce Date for “Black Canary/Zatanna” from Paul Dini, Joe Quinones
Comics Alliance have confirmed from DC Comics that the long-awaited Black Canary/Zatanna OGN from writer Paul Dini is to be published in May of...
Diggle is Finally Joining The Green Arrow Comic Book
Arrow is a pretty amazing piece of television. The most amazing thing about it is the fact it exists. A showcase for the salmon...
Lobo goes Twilight with new look
New decade, new Lobo.
DC has given the bad-ass Simon Bisley-designed character of Lobo—a crazy madman who epitomized the heavy metal years of the...
The history of how Ben Affleck destroyed the world became Batman
When did this Ben Affleck Batman tragedy begin? Alex Zalben has a pretty good timeline of Affleck's interaction with superhero roles here but it leaves out a few things, such as Affleck's breakout role as "Holden" the aspiring comics artist in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy.
Ben Affleck is Batman in Man of Steel Sequel
You may or may not have noticed, but the internet has exploded.
In a statement released last night by Warner Bros, it was announced that...
Seaguy Eternal: The Script, It Lives! And Morrison’s Full Answers on Seaguy.
After I reported in The Guardian yesterday that Seaguy Eternal had been written and was hopefully due for release next year, there was a...
Wonder Woman, Zenith and New Seaguy: Laura Sneddon Interviews Grant Morrison
Laura Sneddon, whom we claim as our own and have dubbed 'Sneddsy' against her protestations, today has an interview with Grant Morrison up on...
The Unwritten to End in November; Relaunch in January
Mike Carey and Peter Gross' series The Unwritten, one of Vertigo's longest running books, will be going on a two month break after November,...
The Retail View: DC’s 3-D’oh
by Leo McGovern, Crescent City Comics
Growing up, I wasn’t very good at complicated Math. I’ve got the basics, I can balance a checkbook and...
Superman/Batman movie news spurs record setting digital comics sales
And speaking of sales, Variety reports that news of the upcoming Batman/Superman movie has spiked sales of Frank Miller’s ‘Batman: The Dark Knight Returns’,...
Digital Comics Best-Sellers: Injustice: Gods Among Us continues to steamroll the competition
As it's the time of the month when he sales charts come out, usually someone stands up and says "WHY ARE THERE NO DIGITAL CHARTS?!??!?" and it's true, we don't know the numbers, but it's easy to make a snapshot chart from the top in-app purchases and other automatically generated lists. Brigid Alverson has been doing just that n a weekly basis for Good E-Reader
