After hinting on social media months ago that she was getting the opportunity to write fan favorite Donna Troy, we now know that the original Wonder Girl is leading an unlikely team of heroes and villains to take on an old threat from DC's past.
Last week, Chicagoland geeks were congregating at McCormick Place, enjoying the plethora of pop culture paraphernalia.
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by David Carter
Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures.
March 2015 was not a good sales month for DC in the North American direct market.
Average sales per title for the DCU books (28,559), Vertigo (7,055), and DC as a whole (23,466) were all the lowest they've been since the New 52 started back in September 2011.
Most of their sales problems were due to books that missed shipping in March, including their two top sellers, Batman and Justice League, and two other books that are in their top 30% (or so), Wonder Woman and Superman/Wonder Woman. A similar tune plays at the Vertigo label; with Sandman Overture MIA until May, the perpetually delayed American Vampire Second Cycle also not around, and Fables pretty much over (except for the oversized finale coming in July). That leaves Astro City as the regularly-shipping standard bearer for the imprint.
At NYCC Retailer Day, Marvel's new Editor in Chief Steve Wacker spent more than half an hour telling store owners what they can expect from the new Marvel
Michael Gray, a teen idol who walked away from Hollywood after playing Billy Batson on the 1974-76 Shazam! series, died of natural causes on Friday, October 16.
Tangles, an animated film based on Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir about her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis, features the voices of Abbi Jacobson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Seth Rogen, Samira Wiley, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang, and Pamela Adlon.
