Shelly Bond promoted to Executive Editor of Vertigo; Dennis and Doyle upped
As expected, following the departure of Vertigo founder Karen Berger, remaining editors Shelly Bond, Will Dennis and Mark Doyle have been promoted, with Bond...
DC does retain rights to the Spirit Archives
After the internet reacted to a Facebook post by DC co-publisher Dan DiDio on DC relinquishing rights to a variety of pulp heroes, it...
No more Spirit or pulp heroes at DC
It seems that DC has stopped its program of licensing old pulp heroes, based on a post on Dan DiDio's Facebook page, as reported...
The Beat Comic Reviews for 12/12/12: Batman Vs Vampires
Hey! It's one of those dates where American readers can't shout at me for getting the day and month the 'wrong' way round! Hurrah!...
Before Watchmen and Solo get deluxe collections this summer
DC also released their collection plans for the DCU for May-August, and they include FOUR deluxe editions collecting the various BEFORE WATCHMEN miniseries. Perhaps...
So what’s up at Vertigo, anyway? A Sandman Omnibus for one thing.
When it was announced that executive editor Karen Berger was stepping down last week, articles on the Vertigo imprint immediately took on an elegiac...
DC Add Drunk Psychotic Bunny Wabbit ‘Captain K’Rot’ to Threshold
Revealed in the soliciations for DC's March, Keith Giffen will be adding an updated version of Captain Carrot to the cast of his new...
MAN OF STEEL trailer is out
MORE bearded hobo Clark.
The short version: We get to see Superman's origin AGAIN, but it's the Grant Morrison version. Seriously, is there a...
Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette leaving Swamp Thing with #18
Popular and talented writer Scott Snyder chose an unusual medium to deliver the confirmation that he was leaving SWAMP THING with issue #18—Twit Longer....
Ray Fawkes to fill in on BATGIRL: Don’t kill him, internet
Following Gail Simone's controversial departure from BATGIRL, it's been announced that Ray Fawkes will take over the book for two issues.
Batgirl #18 (Solicit)
Written...
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...
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.
