Marvel

Ripples from Spider-Woman Butt-Gate continues to rock the world of comics! Every day lots of changes in shipping products are announced on Diamond's website. And today two little sentences were sent out:

This was a tough month for Marvel. Original Sin is ending and none of their other events have really started yet. They also don’t have any real high profile series launches. So there are no books that really pop. There is a lot of attrition this month. Of the 72 books that also had an issue last month, only 12 saw growth in their numbers. That leaves 60 books that dropped in sales. 39 books dropped more than 5% or what might be considered a standard attrition. Luckily there are several major events coming soon which will drive sales up and a lot of books will be relaunching after these events which always bumps up the numbers at least temporarily. It is worrying however, that there are several series that just relaunched a year or for some 6 months ago and are already in trouble again. Let’s look at a breakdown of what came out this month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoXGsv9nsNs Rob Liefeld was right! The co-creator of Deadpool has been hinting about a movie for the "merc with a mouth" for years, and he's...

Can't get enough of Rocket Raccoon and Groot, the dynamic duo that busted 2014 wide open? Marvel thinks you can't and in November will present no less than 20 comics with Rocket and Groot variant covers, by artists including Chip Zdarsky, Ulises Farinas and Tom Fowler.

...and it will be a unique global adventure!

Who would win, Spider-Man or Ms Marvel? We may find out when they meet for the first time in October's AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #7. Will...

In August, I went on vacation with my girlfriend (who is now my fiancée) and took some well deserved time away from the store...

This sells itself doesn't it: hawkeye takes on the most popular Marvel character of the moment in a Halloween adventure. by Gerry DUggan and Matteo Lolli with a cover by James Harren (!) and a Jason Pearson variant.

With Wolverine's days dwindling as he dies for the 9th or 10th time in the comics, he and Kitty go to Japan to talk...

Star Wars!  GOTTA HAVE STAR WARS!!!  Yup, Marvel is wasting no time in getting those reprints out there!  Might we see a Jaxxon/Rocket Raccoon...

Although the Miracleman reprints by Marvel have more or less been business as usual and not the apocalypse, news of never-before seen Miracleman stories...

I know I promised that I would never write about Spider-Woman's butt again, but the topic has proven incredibly durable. The Telegraph was only the latest mainstream entity to look at the overall semiotics of it, and referred to many experiments in the captivating pose imagined by Italian erotic master Milo Manara. For instance, this Reddit user rendered the pose in 3D and the result was a hideously deformed freak that will haunt all our nightmares. "Crouching like a Jaguar" indeed.