Vertigo Announce Two New ‘Fables’ Books, and an Unwritten Graphic Novel
Should that have been a semicolon instead of a comma in the title? Oh boy, the things I worry about when writing up Mike Carey...
Pak and Lee on New “Batman/Superman” Title
This comic was a no-brainer and rumored for some time, but DC has finally announced their new Batman/Superman comic, titled Batman/Superman. (World's Finest is now Worlds' Finest with...
Bendis on Cons
As we noted the other day, Brian Michael Bendis is a newly announced guest at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, and it's a very rare convention appearance for him. On his Tumblr he was asked if he'd be doing any other cons and his answer was pretty blunt:
Review: The Death of Superman
Nowadays we think of it as the pre-mullet era of Superman, but at the time The Death of Superman was an incredibly big idea...
Review – Revisiting the New 52 TPBs (Action Comics, Frankenstein, Hawkman, Justice League, OMAC,...
Since they seem to have decent library penetration, I've been going through and reading the tpbs of some of the DC relaunches that didn't...
Green Lantern’s Indie Writers Movement
As reported earlier, DC Comics has announced their new lineup for the Green Lantern family of titles and they're going for new blood. Geoff...
Steven Sanders launches Symbiosis on Kickstarter
Artist and designer Steven Sanders, curly of beard and intense of eyes, launched a Kickstarter yesterday for his new project Symbiosis. A massive 100+...
Review: The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz: bio, booze and books
The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz
Koyama Press
I have a complicated and knotty relationship with auto-bio comics, beset by apprehension and cynicism. There's no doubt the...
San Diego Comic-Con Badge-o-ween 2013: the virtual lottery
Everyone hit go, complain, spinning wheel, white room, waiting list, unfair, people got in ahead of me, don't refresh!, crying, spinning wheel, oh god you hit refresh no why oh god no, why isn't there a lottery, Comic-Con sucks, hooray this is going to be the best week of my life, etc etc etc.
Review: Judge Dredd #1-3 (IDW)
This is the second go-round with a US-based Judge Dredd series. DC tried their hand at Dredd for 18 issues of the main title...
Comics sales are back at 1994 levels, dawg
Industry analyst John Jackson Miller has taken the Bookscan numbers posted by Brian Hibbs, and added them with the Diamond year-end sales charts, and then triangulated them with a cosine angle, trapped the outlines in their own layer, tossed the results with a bit of olive oil and garlic, and presented it all for you to read. The above infographic gives a visual representation of sales for each product (GNs and periodical) in various channels; as Miller points out, library and digital sales are not included and the Bookscan numbers are very low, but the end result is a combined comics market of more than $700 million, which Miller notes, is the first time comics sales have reached this level since 1993 or 1994, the high times of speculation and chromium covers.
Interview: The Odyssey of Neal Adams
Interviewing Neal Adams over at the New Statesman in the run up to this month’s London Super Comic Con, we chatted about his legendary...























