ONE AND DONE: Finding a Creative Team You Trust
Most of the time, trying to find a comic or two to buy in a given week is very hard. This week, it wasn’t...
Quentin Tarantino’s Django and Zorro teaming up for Dynamite/DC
Well here's a project you didn't expect to see: Quentin Tarantino's firebrand Django is teaming up with Zorro for an adventure co-plotted by Matt...
DC Comics Month-to Month Sales: May 2014 – Forever’s End
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.
To do tonight: Pope, Haspiel, Fingerman, Bertozzi, Miskiewicz
Forbdden panet is hosting a fairly epic singing tonight with PAUL POPE / DEAN HASPIEL / NICK BERTOZZI / CHRIS MISKIEWICZ / BOB FINGERMAN...
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...
SENYC 2014: The Return of the Original Quantum & Woody
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...
Brian Wood Comics Return To Print From Dark Horse
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 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...
Report: Wonder Woman movie on tap for 2017 and more WB superhero movies
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...
Sin City 2 trailer debuts, and Frank Miller hints Sin City 3
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...
Valiant, Orens and Midtown Comics team for special green tea drink
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...
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...
