Tag: DC

With the release of Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1 next week, Frank Miller is doing the rounds of promo, including interviews at...

What's the consensus on Catwoman's hard goodbye?

Well, the DC solicits don't go live for another hour or so, but DC is giving us a sneak peek at some of the...

Although DC has a pretty huge line-up of VPs and SVPs on their masthead, with VPs for Marketing & Global Franchise Management, Content Strategy,...

After remaining pathologically tight lipped at their NYCC appearances—even a small elite media only press event—Dark Knight III workmen Brian Azzarello and Andy Kubert spill the beans on the big plot twist of the event comic in an interview at CBR. And the story element is in fact the one that I heard was the genesis for the entire storyline. And would have made a nice surprise for those reading the story. I'm curious as to why DC didn't even try to keep it under wraps. I guess they knew that it would be spoiled and wanted to get ahead of it?

Author Cullen Bunn has just announced his departure from Aquaman via a Reddit Ask Me Anything session held yesterday. The story was picked up...

How to be yourself and still get accepted into the "Comics machine," man.

NYCC '15 has come and gone, but the photos The Stately Beat Manor took are here to stay.  We had a number of fantastic...

DC Super Hero Girls has a splashy display at the entrance to the exhibit hall and today's panel revealed more about the toys and...

    http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isSlim=1 Perfect timing! THE DC SUPER HERO GIRLS UNIVERSE IS LIVE! "Welcome to Super Hero High" the very first DC Super Hero Girls animated short, has just been launched...

Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures. Back in June 2014, DC kicked off their freely-orderable variant (f.o.v.) cover program (or as DC has taken to calling them, open-to-order variants) with Bombshell variants with covers by Ant Lucia that evoked pin-up art from the 1940s. It was a big success, with the comics sporting them seeing huge gains and has spun off into a line of statues. So it makes sense that DC would want to return to the Bombshells theme, and this month sees a batch of all-new Bombshells covers as well as the launch of a DC Comics Bombshells comic (reprinting the digital-first comic of the same name). It's a moderate success this time out, especially compared to last month's Teen Titans Go! variants (all of those sporting both variants see a jump up in sales this time out), and the comic itself sells very well for a digital-first comic. While we can be fairly sure that the f.o.v.s are giving a boost beyond the natural sales level for titles bearing them, it is clear that the size of that boost is greatly dependent on the demand for that month's theme (or rather the perceived demand by retailers, which as in all cases on these charts has to stand in for actual consumer demand).

Every Wednesday, I sit down with Brandon Montclare, writer of the hit Image series Rocket Girl and co-writer of Marvel's upcoming Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur series....