After 15 weeks, it’s time for the end of Secret Wars…what did we think?
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales Charts: September 2015: An Oasis of Calm
We look at the quietest month for Marvel in a very long time. Despite the lack of new series, there’s some surprising reprint activity! What does it mean for All New, All Different Marvel?!
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales- August 2015: The Secret Quality of Quietness
by Xavier Lancel Welcome to a new analysis of the Marvel sales. I’m French, that’s why I’m talking funny. Please address your complaints to my home-of-human-rights-but-not-of-migrants country. Reminder: those sales are estimates, sales to comics shops situated in North America. American comics do get sold somewhere else in their original floppy edition. Keep in mind […]
Discussion Points: Line-Wide Crossovers are Great for Sales, Awful for New Readers
On my lunch break today, I decided to catch up on a few books I had fallen behind on. Among them was Silk. I picked up the latest issue, branded with the “Last Days of…” banner given to all Marvel mainline Secret Wars tie-ins, and while I missed the cleanliness of regular artist Stacy Lee’s lines, I found […]
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales – July 2015: A Cavalcade of Mini-Wars!
by Xavier Lancel Welcome to a new analysis of the Marvel sales. Reminder: I’m French, and that’s why I’m talking funny. Please address your complaints to my French-people-are-never-happy country. Reminder: the sales data referenced below is an estimate of sales to comics shops located in North America. American comics do get sold elsewhere in their original floppy […]
C2E2 2015: Marvel Secret Wars “Battleworld” Panel
A recap of the Secret Wars: Battleworld panel that teases a lot of upcoming battles in the Marvel Universe.
Secret Wars Hails Hydra
Even in Battleworld, they still Hail Hydra
Another X Revisit in Secret Wars
Secret Wars gets more X-Men
Maestro Comes to SECRET WARS and CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS
One of the more obvious teasers run by Marvel in the build up to announce Secret Wars was Dale Keown’s image of Peter David’s Future Imperfect series. Back in 1992, David and George Perez told the tale of a dystopian future where an evil version of the Hulk, known as Maestro, laid waste to the heroes […]
Secret Wars Answers the Question “Zombies or Robots?”
Marvel’s ark adds more of everything to the Secret Wars boat.