Huge shake-up at DC Comics lunch counter
We're hearing that DC Comics is in turmoil today after popular lunch spot McGee's changed their bean salad recipe: instead of cannellini beans, the...
Marvel crash three dimensions into ‘X-Termination’ with Pak, Liu and Lapham
Marvel have revealed what their 'X-Termination' teaser image is all about: a crossover storyline between X-Treme X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, and Age of Apocalypse. Spinning...
IRON SKY coming from IDW
A gn adapting the cult Nazis on the Moon movie IRON SKY is coming from IDW with art by Gerry Kissell and Amin Amat....
News notes from around: Archie, Takei, Schulz, Moonstone, etc
Some quickies from the mailbag and around:
First Look: Marvel releases AVENGERS #1 trailer
And Marvel NOW! just rolls on, with the debut tomorrow of Avengers #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opeña and Dean White. And they've...
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: October 2012
As expected, DC Comics's average and total comic-book unit sales were dropping again in October, in the wake of September's zero-issue stunt. To be fair, though, it's not a huge drop, and viewed over the last four months, the publisher's averages continue to look sturdy.
Thanks to a new round of crossovers -- notably "Death of the Family" in the Batman line and "Rise of the Third Army" in the Green Lantern line -- and Annuals, as well as continually strong sales from the expanding line of "digital-first" compilation titles, the pertinent figures remain well within the spectrum that's been established following last year's relaunch.
The Rock as Black Adam
This fan-made composite of the Rock as Black Adam showed up on producer Michael Uslan's Facebook page the other day, with the sad caption:...
Karen Berger steps down at Vertigo
After a 20+ year career that changed comics and gave it some of its most iconic stories, Karen Berger is stepping down at Vertigo....
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: October 2012
After September's virtual hiatus, October saw Marvel emerge from crossover season and hit the ground running. AVENGERS VS X-MEN wraps up, while Marvel Now gets underway with the debut issues of UNCANNY AVENGERS and A PLUS X. On top of that, there's AVX: CONSEQUENCES, the MARVEL NOW: POINT ONE one-shot, a new ongoing series with WOLVERINE: MAX, the "Minimum Carnage" crossover, and more.
Given all that, it's no surprise that Marvel had the biggest share of the North American direct market, leading DC by 40% to 34% in units and 35% to 32% in dollars.
Studio Coffee Run: Arrow, Amazon casting news, Brian K. Vaughan’s new CBS Series, etc.
Andrew Kreisberg, Executive Producer of the CW's Arrow, has been doing the interview circuit this week. In interviews with TV Line and TV Guide,...
The Beat Comic Reviews for 28/11/12: My Little Pony and Hellblazer, together at last!
This week saw a number of big comic releases from Marvel and DC, but who cares when this was the week My Little Pony: Friendship...
SLG’s offices and Art Boutiki must relocate
Although we've never been, the Boutiki run by San Jose-based comics publisher SLG has always sounded like a cool place: a storefront and performance space that sold comics and has a tiki theme in keeping with publisher Dan Vado's sensibilities. But now, in a dime-a-dozen story of real estate improvement, the space must close by next summer as the building is being razed to make way for an apartment building.






















