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...
ONE AND DONE: ‘She-Hulk’ #5 and the Joy of Polite Comics
One of my favorite things about monthly comics is the intro page. It has taken on special significance in recent years--I’d say it’s thanks...
Rocket Raccoon #1’s Initial Orders Inflated By Single Source
by Brandon Schatz
A few days before the book’s final order cut-off with retailers, Marvel let it slip that their upcoming Rocket Raccoon series had...
The Retailer’s View: On Rocket Raccoon Orders Topping 300,000
by Brandon Schatz
When Marvel first announced the Rocket Raccoon book, I was fairly excited. Pairing the character with Skottie Young just as interest would...
Preview: 100th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL – SPIDER-MAN #1
Sean Ryan and In-Hyuk Lee predict where Spidey will be in 25 years as part of July's 100th Anniversary event.
“We’re jumping into a...
The Retailer’s View: On Art, Business, and Brian Wood
by Brandon Schatz
A few weeks ago, Marvel’s August solicitations revealed some alarming news: Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey would be leaving Moon Knight after...
One and Done: Why Moon Knight Is The Perfect Monthly Comic
What makes a comic ‘worth it?’
In the comments to my introductory column, a lot of readers seem to gauge the value of a comic...
Cebulski transitioning from talent scout position at Marvel
World traveller, gourmet and beer enthusiast CB Cebulski is moving to an international business development role at Disney/.Marvel. In between tweeting and (in the...
Against all odds, Marvel to publish a Fantastic four comic by Van Meter and...
But it is the previously announced 100th Anniversary special, which imagines the FF as they might be in 2061—written by Jen Van Meter and...
Ant-Man? More like CAN’T-MAN!
As triumph so often turns to tragedy, just as what is arguably Marvel Studio's greatest achievement—the extremely well reviewed, successful and genre busting Captain...
Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. opening delayed
On Thursday night, I attended the opening party for The Avenger's S.T.A.T.I.O.N. an ambitious and impressive for display at Discovery Times Square which takes...
The holiday in Marvel Movies: Days of Future Past prevails, Wright gets support; Daredevil...
§ So X-Men: Days of Future Past lived up to predictions and crushed at the box office, making $111 over the holiday weekend, making...
