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DC has finally pulled the trigger on their long-gestating original digital comics line, USA Today tells us. Several new projects are going to launch in addition to today's launch for SMALLVILLE SEASON 11, by Bryan Q. Miller and the ongoing BATMAN BEYOND and BATMAN: ARKHAM UNHINGED webcomics. Here's what's new:

Although DC's "New 52" relaunch was well past its prime in February, sales were still good enough for the publisher to take the Top 10 slots on the Diamond Top 300 chart again, for the second month in a row. The average "New 52" title dropped by 7.6% in February, which is in line with January's 7.4% drop and suggests that, while the bigger drops seem behind us, the numbers haven't quite found their level yet, either. The average DC Universe title now sells fewer copies again than it did two years ago (34,456 vs. 35,895), but then again, the company's main imprint had 20 more titles on sale this time around: In February 2010, it was 47; in February 2012, it's 67. On balance, consequently, DC is still selling a lot more superhero comics than it has in most months in the last 10 years. In the 108 months since March 2003 we have comparable data on, February 2012 is only No. 71 in terms of average DC Universe sales, but it's still No. 17 in total DC Universe unit sales (2.3 million) and No. 20 in total DC Universe dollar sales ($7.3 million). Looking at the individual "New 52" books, meanwhile, we're once again getting a mixed picture. The top-selling books mostly continue to be very stable, but the farther down the chart you go, the steeper the decline. There were 14 "New 52" books selling below 20K in February (up from 10 in January) and 21 selling below 25K (up from 19).

Here’s the drill: Diamond has released the top 100 titles and relative rankings for the monthly comics for March 2012. Since Walking Dead is usually a fairly consistently selling title, I’m going to plug last month’s Walking Deadnumbers ( Comichron had January’sWalking Dead estimated at 32,361) into Diamond’s rankings. That should get us relatively close to the formal estimates that should be out soon. If Walking Dead had a good month, the numbers should be higher. If Walking Dead had a bad month, the numbers will be lower. History suggests this will be within +/- 5%, if not +/- 1%, praise to Great Kirkman.

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Challengers Comics + Conversation, one of the better known shops in Chicago, has posted a look at how DC's new 52 relaunch has done at their store. It isn't a raw number count, it's about the percentage change from launch (and just the first 4 weeks of sales -- no 2nd/3rd/4th prints) to sales on issue #6 of each title. Effectively, this is a "who kept their readers" list. Two books managed to gain sales from the first issues sales, everything else dropped significantly, including 2 books that nobody who shops there would buy.

To mark the first ten years of his stint as Executive Editor at DC, Dan DiDio ran down the top ten highlights of his years there on his Facebook page. It's an interesting list that tells you everything you need to know about the last decade in superhero comics publishing.

Videos, links and previews from the nerdly/toonly side of WonderCon.

Rather than flood your Twitter with a ton of postings, we've just dumped it all in one place—scan for your faves! Never a dull moment.

QtyRank RetailRank Index DESC_1 PRICE VendName 1 1 105.38 JUSTICE LEAGUE #6 $3.99 DC 2 3 100.00 BATMAN #6 $2.99 DC 3 2 75.19 ACTION COMICS #6 $3.99 DC 4 4 73.50 DETECTIVE COMICS #6 $2.99 DC 5 5 73.24 GREEN LANTERN #6 $2.99 DC 6 8 60.05 BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #6 $2.99 DC 7 16 54.21 SUPERMAN #6 $2.99 DC 8 20 52.98 FLASH #6 $2.99 DC 9 23 49.39 AQUAMAN #6 $2.99 DC 10 13 49.12 BATMAN AND...

Earlier this week I had a look at DC's more prominently linked subscription list. Either I struck a nerve or that list was scheduled to be updated. It would appear that someone at DC thought they were offering too many subscriptions.

Here's the drill: Diamond has released the top 100 titles and relative rankings for the monthly comics for February 2012. Since Walking Dead is usually a fairly consistently selling title, I'm going to plug last month's Walking Dead numbers (both Comichron and ICV2 had January's Walking Dead estimated at 31,596) into Diamond's rankings. That should get us relatively close to the formal estimates that should be out soon. If Walking Dead had a good month, the numbers should be higher. If Walking Dead had a bad month, the numbers will be lower. History suggests this will be within +/- 5%, if not +/- 1%, praise to Great Kirkman.

Over at Newsarama, James Robinson is finally talking -- sort of -- about Earth 2. But more dramatically, the cover for the second issue of Earth 2, featuring the redesigned Jay Garrick Flash is revealed.