Curb Stompage, Tiger Law and More with Ryan Ferrier [Interview]

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By Matt O'Keefe Ryan Ferrier jumpstarted his comic book writing career with the self-published Tiger Lawyer in 2010. In it he playfully poked at the wide breadth of...

Rumor: Could Shazam get bumped up on WB’s release calendar?

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Might we see Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam earlier than expected?

Batman: Arkham Knight Gets Rated…

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The wait for Batman Arkham Knight just got longer for some.

Secret Wars Answers the Question “Zombies or Robots?”

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Marvel's ark adds more of everything to the Secret Wars boat.

The Avengers: Age of Ultron poster, that’s a lot of characters!

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Take a peek at what'll grace your theater walls this Spring

Entertainment Round-Up: Margot Robbie, James Gunn, Telltale Games, Pee-Wee comes to Netflix

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There's snow on the ground here in Atlanta, and I can't wait for Spring to finally arrive. Seriously. Here are the big updates for this...

Marvel’s Isaac Perlmutter is a very generous guy

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...when it comes to charity. Perlmutter and his wife Laura have donated another $9 million to the NYU Langone Medical Center and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. This follows a previous $50 million donation to the NYU Cancer Institute which was renamed Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center in their honor. Mrs. Perlmutter has been involved with NYU as a volunteer and president of the Tisch Hospital Auxiliary.

DC Comics Month-to Month Sales: December 2014 – A Darwyn Cooke Overture

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Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures. December was a good news/bad news month for DC. The good news is that they had the #1 comic for December (Batman) and they won the unit market share, based mostly on the fact that they pushed out a ton of product. (December was a five week month but most other publishers treated it like a four week month.) The bad news is that sales were down month-to-month across most of the DCU titles, both as a line average and on most of the individual titles as well. (The release of an issue of Sandman Overture kept the average of DC as a whole from going down.) Looking at all of this month's numbers after last month's lends some credence to there having been some sort of small LEGO cover boost in November that is being corrected for in December's numbers. Which seeing as (imho) the December Darwyn Cooke covers were much more interesting than the LEGO covers is a bit disappointing. But hey, LEGO is a known quantity to people outside of the comics club and retailers may have been banking on a few extra sales of the LEGO covers outside of their regular clientele. Or maybe I'm just imagining things in the data that aren't really there.

Calista Flockhart joins Supergirl as Cat Grant

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The Ally McBeal star joins the DC Universe

Aaron and Sprouse Extend a Secret Wars Invitation to the “Thor-cop bar”

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“This is basically me doing a cop story, but with hammers instead of guns,” exclaims Thors author Jason Aaron to Marvel.com. “This is me...

MUST READ: Jim Zub on how creator owned comics economics have improved

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And when I say must-read, I mean MUST READ, as it really lays out fundamental changes in how the industry is working for creator owned books.. A few days ago I noted how an old post on the economics of Jim Zubkavich on Skullkickers, his Image comics, had gotten a second life on Facebook with it's very low numbers on comics profits. In the comment, Zub promised an update, and he's delivered with an analysis of his new book, Wayward. As you can see from the above graph, it's a HUGE change, and it's all due to the rise of Image Comics:

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