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Original Sin is Marvel’s big new event and it debuted at 147k and then dropped down to 92k. But is that good for a major event book? For fun I pulled the numbers for #1 issues of the last several big event books from Marvel to see how Original Sin stacks up. As you can see out of these 7 books it ranks 5th. I did better than Siege and Fear Itself, but worse than Age of Ultron, AVX, Secret invasion or Civil War. Two other interesting trends to note is that events have become more frequent and sell worse. I cherry picked these events because they fell around the same time of year as Original Sin and were Avengers-focused, but the last few years have been very event heavy and sales have been dropping overall on these events. They are still the best-selling books of their month generally but Marvel has yet to recapture the excitement and sales of Civil War.

by Brandon Schatz There was a piece hovering around the comics internet this weekend about the industry’s supposed need of more shit-talkers. It was an...

Word on the street is that Valiant has a lot of new stuff coming down the pike, and perhaps to run the paving machine for both the street and the pike, they've promoted Warren Simons to Editor-in-Chief. His previous title was Executive Editor. Since the company's relaunch in 2011, Wimons has been in charge of book including X-O Manowar, Harbinger, Bloodshot, Archer & Armstrong, Unity, Rai, and more. In his new role as Editor-in-Chief, Simons will continue to preside over all day-to-day operations of Valiant's editorial department, and manage Valiant's growing editorial team, which was just boosted by the addition of former DC assistant editor Kyle Andrukiewicz. CBR has the promotion interview that has a nice snapshot of Valiant's progress so far:

While I try to point out aspects of good design some consider objective, art as a whole is pretty subjective. It's unavoidable that the...

Coming out of BotCon this past weekend -- the big Transformers confab—there was a bit of news about the comics series, including the news that Mairghread Scott and Sarah Stone will be back with a second Windblade mini because the first one did so well.

Lauren Weinstein is running a five part webcomic at Nautilus about discovering that both she and her husband (TCJ.com editor Tim Hodler) were carriers of the cystic fibrosis gene, and their unborn child had a 25% chance of having the incurable disease.

This week Jorn Romita's first Superman comic debuts, a fairly notable event in that Romita has been known all his career for his Marvel...

Marvel is always generous with artwork in their emails, some of it quite notable. Over the last 24 hours they released this nice cover...

I've been waiting all weekend to recommend this to you, but Jamie Smart's all-ages digital comic Moose Kid Comics hit the internet last Friday....

Every two years, the city of Erlangen, Germany hosts the Erlangen Comics Salon. In a nutshell, it's the German version of Angoulême.  It's not as...

HeroesCon Day Two wound up a little while ago. The shot above is from opening yesterday around noon. The crowds have increased quite a...

It is generally accepted among those who have been to both that European comics festivals are superior to US comic-cons in the respect paid...