Sales charts: glass half full of numbers!
Our wish for actual sales number released by an actual comics publisher were finally granted! And in The Hollywood Reporter, no less. DC released sales for its top three books of the year:
BATMAN: EARTH ONE will appear in 2012
DC's Earth One line has always been a little mysterious. It was started as a repository for some early trial runs at an Ultimate DC line, but then SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE became a massive hit in bookstores. Stablemate BATMAN: EARTH ONE by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank has been waiting in the wings since the line was announced in 2009. But 2012 will be the year!
Although a release date wasn't mentioned, perhaps the book will be marketed in Daily News by comparing it to Hunger Games, just as SEO was compared to Twilight.
Coming Attractions: Yoe Books!
A new website from Yoe Books highlights their amazing titles!
Bagge hits RESET at Dark Horse in April
This was alluded to in our 2011 Survey, but now it's official: the great Peter Bagge has a new series coming out from Dark Horse in April. Called RESET, it's about a man who has a second chance at living his life. Will it get better or worse?
AWESOME BONUS SAUCE: Variant covers by Matt Kindt!
Go to DANCE CLASS with Papercutz
With all the popularity of High School Musical/Glee/American Idol and other performance-based media these days, comics have been tiptoeing around this genre. There was Siena and Mark Siegel's To Dance; and Raina Telgemeier's upcoming DRAMA!, due this fall. And here's a new one from Papercutz, Dance Class: So You Think You Can Hip-Hop by Béka, aka Bertrand Escaich and Caroline Rogue. Aimed squarely at tween girls, it's another French pick up for the publisher, and it looks pretty charming.
Fatale #1 goes to second printing
FATALE #1, the first issue of Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips' new Image series, has sold out at Diamond and has a second printing on the way. And of course it will have a variant cover.
Preview: CURSE OF THE WENDIGO by Mathieu Missoffe and Charlie Adlard
Although you'd think he was busy enough drawing THE WALKING DEAD every month, artist Charlie Adlard occasionally has time to toss off something like CURSE OF THE WENDIGO (reviewed here) a horror comic written by French screenwriter Mathieu Missoffe and released in France in 2009. The story is set in World War I and finds French and GErman soldier teaming up to fight a greater horror.
An American edition is out today from Dynamite, and here's a preview:
DC's red hood lady gets a name: Pandora
After carefully strewing the Woman in the Red Hood, who kicked the whole collapsed multiverse in FLASHPOINT, through every debut issue of The New 52, she's got a name: Pandora.
She also has a double-breasted jacket, like everyone had in The Watchmen......hm.
Anyway, looks like the first mega crisis crossover of the new DCU is getting set up.
New AVENGERS film poster
A new poster for the Avengers film has been circulating -- this seems to be the "Ultimate Avengers Movie" version.
Preview: Brubaker & Phillips’ FATALE
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are but two of the big-name creators making the move to Image in 2012 -- that's definitely going to be a BIG story for the year -- and Warren Ellis has a five page preview of their new book FATALE. Here's a one-page preview of the five-page preview. The book goes on sale this Wednesday.
A new issue of BERLIN is on the way
Jason Lutes has been working on BERLIN, his tale of Weimar Germany, for something like...14 years. And although it's been about a year between issues, a new issue has been delivered to the DQ offices and publisher Chris Oliveros marvels at their craft:
Jason is the consummate professional. Did you know that there is not a single use of "white out" on any of these 24 pages? Pen to paper for close to a couple of hundred panels, all done with flawless efficiency.
Flesh Eating Monsters and Psychiatrists – A Curse of the Wendigo Review
Curse of the Wendigo is a graphic album coming out tomorrow from Dynamite written by Mathieu Missoffe and drawn by Charlie Adlard. Missoffe is a French screenwriter who moonlights in comics (an increasingly American thing to be doing, it would seem). Adlard is probably most familiar to comics audience as the artist on Walking Dead. As you might guess from the phrase "graphic album," Curse of the Wendigo was originally published in France by Soliel in 2009. Yes, the same Soliel that Marvel was publishing translations of a few years back.
