Tag: DC

https://twitter.com/JasonFabok/status/704401770043150336 Artist Jason Fabok (Justice League) has been on the rise at DC Comics. The artists' signature style filled with sleek line work and impressive,...

All we've seen of Rebirth is a big blue curtain, and there's a lot of anxiety about what's behind the curtain. You may recall the game show Let's Make a Deal where contestants had to pick the prize behind one of three curtains. Will Rebirth be a new car or a box of macaroni and cheese? The entire comics industry benefits from a strong DC Comics. A lack of customers who are eager to read the exploits of some of the medium's best known characters is a concerning thing to retailers and even other publishers, who know that the Big Two are the core of the existing business. I'm told even some at Marvel are worried about the effects of Rebirth. DC execs faced many tough questions at the ComicsPRO meting where it was announced, and skepticism and hope were felt in equal measure, sometimes by the same person.

The ComicsPRO meeting has wrapped up, but not without presenting its two Industry Appreciation awards. Marvel's svp of sales and marketing David Gabriel...

Announcing how frequently your new titles ship, but not who the creators are says a lot about priorities...

In his video introducing DC's Rebirth publishing plan, Geoff Johns calls it a "third rebirth" for DC. At first I thought this referred to the original DC, Silver age Flash and...something else? But he was actually referring to reimagining Green Lantern and the Flash characters with better, more motivated origins. Perhaps more accurately, from an external viewpoint, its the third rebirth of DC in the Diane Nelson era, following the New 52, DCYou and now a new line based on core characters. Or as he put it, in the video's most quoted line, "It's not just an event, it's a mission for us."

Is April Fool's Day to be renamed Harley Quinn Day? Maybe after the HARLEY QUINN AND THE SUICIDE SQUAD APRIL FOOL’S SPECIAL #1 comes...

Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures.

Things were bad for DC in January. How bad? With records going back to March 2003, DC had its second worst average sales on record of 21,845, just barely beating the March 2009 low point of 21,792. The Vertigo line had its lowest average sales on record by far: 6,832, beating the previous average low of 7,055 in March 2015. And the median sales for both lines was even lower: 24,624 & 5,802 respectively.

DC shipped twenty fewer comics in January as compared to December (74 versus 94). Two titles not shipping in January were two of DC's top sellers, Dark Knight III and Justice League. They moved a total estimated 1,616,524 comic units in January, compared to 2,640,519 in December, a difference of over a million units!

Ryan Reynolds, Rob Liefeld and Fabian Niceiza are smiling right now. Deadpool, the R-rated superhero send-up is set to make more than $100...

I think we can all agree that yesterday's new Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice trailer was pretty dope. But will it be enough...

"52" is the lucky number at DC Comics, and with the (once) New 52 reaching their 52nd issues, it's time to celebrate with a series of variant covers, because as far as we know, a NEWER 52 might be on the way.

Last week, fellow Beat writer Alex Jones wrote this article about the TV show Arrow and it's treatment of female characters. I don't really follow Arrow, so I can't say whether I agree with his assessment. But the premise got me thinking about whether any of these shows could pass the Bechdel test, i.e. the new standard for fictional female characters.

What may just be the FINAL final decision in the long running case to get the rights to Superman back to the Siegel family...