Discussion Points: Line-Wide Crossovers are Great for Sales, Awful for New Readers
On my lunch break today, I decided to catch up on a few books I had fallen behind on. Among them was Silk. I picked...
Preview The 1st Episode of Guardians of The Galaxy on Disney XD This Saturday
Disney XD brings the Guardians of the Galaxy from the theaters to your kids TV in their own series. Our thoughts on the series premiere.
Report: One Marvel exec blocked making Black Widow toys
This past spring there was a a lot of hullabaloo over the lack of Black Widow toys from the Hasbro Avengers: Age of Ultron...
Micky Moran Visits the Stately Beat Manor Staff Pull for 9/2/15
Team Comics Beat, the world’s most important comic book website ever to grace the internet, sought out adventure and fun after a hard work...
New Hulk has stylish new shorts and a headband–but who is it?
I guess there's a nasa Hulk on the way, as shown in this new Marvel teaser, and he's got some on-trend athletic shorts but also a doorag or headband of some sort...not sure if that's in style or not. He also sports some kind of glove that would give away his identity.
Vanesa R. Del Rey and Aja join Robinson on Scarlet Witch
Marvel recently announced that writer James Robinson would be tackling an upcoming solo series starring the Scarlet Witch spinning out of her on-screen debut...
Feige escapes from Perlmutter’s rule as Marvel Studios restructures
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige will no longer report to the notoriously difficult Isaac Perlmutter, but instead will report directly to Disney Studios head Alan Horn, a move that will give him much more freedom.
Interview: Paul Johnson on “Mercy,” “Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight,” and “The Invisibles”
by Alex Dueben
Paul Johnson worked in comics for a relatively short time, but during those years, the British artist and painter worked with some...
Starbrand and Nightmask Enroll in Empire State University after Secret Wars
Marvel has just decided to give a pair of newly reintroduced Avengers heroes their own title: Starbrand & Nightmask. The pair first appeared in the...
Coming Attractions: Marvel Announces Graphic Novels for Early 2016!
Civil War Box Set!
(Shipping three months after Christmas. Yeah, it ties in with the movie, but why not offer it for Christmas? Has Marvel...
Check Out Who’ll Be Fighting Whom in “Captain America: Civil War”
Some big news came out of Marvel Studios today as they unveiled some concept art from next year's Captain America: Civil War. The art confirms the...
Industry Watch: How much are Hip Hop and other variants propping up Marvel’s sales?...
We've already seen today that just jumping on a new, fresh direction isn't enough to make a sales success, but what about over at Marvel? As I've noted their whopping sales have been led by the astonishing success of their Star Wars comics, but variant covers are also strong in this one. Star Wars #1 had over 100 variants, for instance. The upcoming hip hop variant program wasn't just problematic from a creator standpoint, however, it's also set new levels of frustration for retailers who have to order high on other books just to be able to ORDER copies of the variants, as revealed on Reddit by retailer Calum Johnston and explained at the Outhouse. Apparently a frustrated retailers posted the above annotated order sheet for the variants, showing how high order would have to be.
