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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.

Forbdden panet is hosting a fairly epic singing tonight with PAUL POPE / DEAN HASPIEL / NICK BERTOZZI / CHRIS MISKIEWICZ / BOB FINGERMAN...

by Brandon Schatz -- When you spend your days breaking open comic solicitations and marketing for a living, you begin to pick out patterns. A new...

by Brandon Schatz Christopher Priest and M.D. Bright return to Quantum and Woody this October, as the long announced Q2: The Return of Quantum and...

by Brandon Schatz Over at Publisher's Weekly, they've announced that a couple of Brain Wood series will return to print from Dark Horse, as part...

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...

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iFdPcx0W2w yesterday marked the release of the full trailer for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the film coming out on August 22nd and...

  Leave it to Valiant to come up up with the most innovative comics book marketing tie-ins. This time they've come up with a special...

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...

SLG Publishing, also known as Slave Labor, is having a 35% off sale at their website. The site is a bit hard to navigate but you can find comics listed by creator hereincluding books by Jhonen Vasquez, Andy Ristaino, Ben Towle, Gene Yang,Aaron Alexovitch, Andi Watson, James Turner and lots of other fine cartoonists.

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...