Ridley Scott's Prometheus Trailer Hits the 'Net.
The story circulating is that Ridley Scott started out looking to do a prequel to Aliens and the story turned into its own universe. Whatever the connection to Alien is or isn't, the Prometheus trailer does have a bit of the claustrophobic Alien look and feel. Have a look.
Wondercon: New Captain Marvel and Xtreme X-Men Revealed
Rumors are getting confirmed at Wondercon's Talk to the Hat panel. Captain Marvel and Xtreme X-Men are both back.
The Mayans Drive Dynamite To "The Prophecy" Cross-Over Event
By Todd Allen
Marvel has AVX. DC has "Night of the Owls." IDW has Infestation 2. Image has Image United (hey, it could come out...
Matt Bors wins 2012 Herblock Prize
Congats to Matt Bors on becoming the first alt-comix type to win the2012 HERBLOCK PRIZE, and its $15,000 cash award.
Things to do: Comic New York: A Symposium
If you were around comics in New York in 2008, you know that that was the Year of the Symposium, with Post Bang, SPLAT, and probably something else that wasn't named after a sound effect. Since that epic year, when comics were discussed and analyzed by panels of every type, there have been a few scattered symposia, but nothing that big. Until the announcement of Comic New York: A Symposium, to be held Saturday and Sunday March 24-25 at Columbia University.
Kibbles 'n' Bits, 3/13/12: Shall now ye don ye rage face?
Many, many things happened; many were blogged.
Initial Sales Estimates For February 2012 – Graphic Novels
By Todd Allen
Here's the drill: Diamond has released the top 100 titles and relative rankings for graphic novels for February 2012. Since Walking Dead is...
Initial Sales Estimates for February 2012 – Monthly Comics
Here's the drill: Diamond has released the top 100 titles and relative rankings for the monthly comics for February 2012. Since Walking Dead is usually a fairly consistently selling title, I'm going to plug last month's Walking Dead numbers (both Comichron and ICV2 had January's Walking Dead estimated at 31,596) into Diamond's rankings. That should get us relatively close to the formal estimates that should be out soon. If Walking Dead had a good month, the numbers should be higher. If Walking Dead had a bad month, the numbers will be lower. History suggests this will be within +/- 5%, if not +/- 1%, praise to Great Kirkman.
DC sweeps the top ten comics again in February; Marvel top publisher
Another split decision for supremacy in February, as DC swept the top ten comics, led by JUSTICE LEAGUE, for the second month in a row. However Marvel was the top publisher in both units and dollars; their win was more substantial in the dollar category, meaning the $3.99 price point is making an impact.
Overall, it was a good month, however, with comics up 10.84% and graphic novel sales up 11.45% over January's sales for an overall increase in the print categories of 11.03% over the previous month. Compared to February 2011, the month's sales were up 22.26% for comics and 15.65% for graphic novels for an overall increase of 20.11% as compared to the previous year. Pretty good numbers all around.
