UFC and DC team for UFC 181 poster

Heidi MacDonald - 09/29/2014 9:00 am 0

On December 8th, UFC 181 will take place withThe cover unveiled will be used ahead of UFC 181 as the promotion teams up with...

DC Comics Month-to Month Sales: August 2014 – Multiversity Selfies

Beat Staff - 09/17/2014 3:06 pm 23

It's month three of DC's new variant cover ordering scheme, where retailers can order as many of the month's themed variant covers as they want at the regular price. As previously suspected, the Selfie variants do not attract as many additional orders as the Bombshell or Batman 75th variants did. It's hard to tell if that is because of a perceived lack of interest in the covers, or an adjustment based on the previous months, or a combination of factors. Next month DC will have round two of the 3D motion covers, hoping to recapture some of the magic of last year's 3D cover stunt. This was a down month for DC. Several of their top sellers did not ship in August: Justice League, Superman Unchained and Sandman Overture. Vertigo sales are particularly moribund: the average Vertigo sales of 9,082 per title is the second lowest since Diamond started reporting actual sales back in 2003. (The lowest month was November 2010, at 9,034.) With The Wake over and Sandman Overture shipping sporadically, Vertigo's top seller this month is short-timer Fables.

Nice read: Todd Klein on The Last Fables Panel

Heidi MacDonald - 09/11/2014 11:15 am 1

As noted in my Baltimore Comic-Con report for Publishers Weekly, one of the programming highlights was a two hour "The LAst Fables Panel" which...

Here’s the new Batmobile…it’s dark and will make a great Lego

Heidi MacDonald - 09/11/2014 10:00 am 3

Here’s a real picture of the #Batmobile. http://t.co/47beaZqr6f pic.twitter.com/Ez1ILa8JeE — ZackSnyder (@ZackSnyder) September 11, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Director Zack Snyder tweeted the new Batmobile from Batman V Superman...

Is Matter Eater Lad coming to the movies? WB is rumored to be developing...

Heidi MacDonald - 09/09/2014 12:00 pm 11

A report at Latino Review suggests that the Legion of Superheroes, DC's long running cult comics about a futuristic group of space faring 31st...

Amy Adams & Henry Cavill Accept Ice Bucket Challenge on ‘Superman vs. Batman’ Set

Henry Barajas - 08/26/2014 4:52 pm 1

Here's a scene you might not see in the upcoming Superman vs. Batman film. Amy Adams and Henry Cavill accepted the ALS Ice Bucket challenge in...

DC Comics Month-to Month Sales: July 2014 – 75 Years of Batman

Heidi MacDonald - 08/26/2014 2:00 pm 22

The column is already running late, so I won't belabor too many points here‚Ä¶ July 2014 was a record-setting month in many categories for the Diamond NA-served comics market (see John Jackson Miller's analysis for the full skinny). DC shipped a whopping 83 comics this month (up from 68 in June). As expected, the Batman 75th Anniversary covers don't do as well as the Bombshell covers did last month. Whether this is because retailers (as a group) order-ordered on the Bombshell covers and were correcting, or because there was a perceived lesser demand for the Batman covers it is hard to tell; I suspect a combination of factors. It may be several months before things settle down in the new way of ordering variants.