Mark Seifert Archives

Marvel jumps into the top spot again with a method that has in recent weeks proven to attract a lot of eyeballs for them -- using a cover or variant image

This post-New 52 continuity canon controversy of the past couple days has me wondering just how they track events, versions of events, deprecated events,

Every Microsoft Windows user in the world knows how this goes... each big, shiny, new update is inevitably followed by a number of smaller,

I love this Grant Morrison interview by Laura Sneddon that Rich dissected today.  There's been a lot made in some circles over the past decade about how

2012 is shaping up to be a pretty intriguing year for the business, and events surrounding the May 4 release of The Avengers is just one reason for that.

Another Comic Day in the books, wrapping up what was by all accounts a very successful September, both in direct market shops and for digital.  It'll be

It's time to call it, I think: Comic Day is back, and not just for DC. Big interest in weekly reviews, big anticipation for what's coming out on Comic Day

We're now in the final week of the launch of DC's New 52, and I gotta say it's been one of the most noteworthy months in recent comics history. They've

Another day, another Catwoman controversy -- today about the set pics showing Anne Hathaway in a Catwoman costume on the set of The Dark Knight Rises.  We

Had to laugh at some of the response to the Alien Anthology post re the crushing disappointment of Alien 3. To this day I don't think I've seen the whole

Well, then.  We're now just days away from the completion of New 52 launch month.  There have been sell-outs, controversies, mysteries, and

It's been a busy day on BC, lots of things happening in comics this week. Lots of controversy going on. Catwoman #1, Red Hood And The Outlaws #1.  But

Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Peter Parker and Mary Jane. Archie, Betty, and Veronica.  Decades-spanning comic book relationships often get controversial when

It's beyond conventional wisdom at this point that digital is in the midst of radically changing our industry, and there's no doubt in my mind that the

BC has been buzzing today with rumors (and confirmations) of creative changes in DC's New 52 -- some planned fill-ins, others not, and what would seem to

Lots of people are scared of Room 237, and love being scared by it, judging by the interest in news of the screening of a rare version of The Shining. I'd

I have this comics history nerd theory/fantasy in my head about how the DC reboot titles are being chosen, and it goes something like this: someone put

One of the interesting and lesser-discussed aspects of the page-count moves of the past year is what it says about the comic economics of the near future.

Brendon is right: 4-6, 1-3.  It's hard for me to imagine watching them any other way.  I'd consider it similar to reading a long comic book

A big, busy, BC-record, retail-rocking Comic Day today featuring Ultimate Spider-Man #1, while DC's New 52 keeps on keepin' on. Which title wins the news

One of the interesting things about today's Avengers: X-Sanction announcement is the ever-tightening integration between Marvel comics and films that it

Holy crap did Rich piss a lot of people off with the assertion that Justice League 1 isn't the best selling book of the year.  And while a few BC forumers

The story of Granite City, Missouri  resident Mike Meyer, a big Superman fan who was tricked out of much of his collection by an unscrupulous

Love it or hate it, the beautiful thing about Heather Kenealy's post is how much discussion it provoked. I even saw some on twitter about reviewing biases

The internet seems to have gotten the good out of this one, mostly. Grant Morrison has clarified, and the boycott has been called off. Though judging by

The subject of today's most-read story is not the first place I've seen it asserted that the new Action Comics is a significant departure from the

I'm not a purist about having to have the original form of the originals, but I have to admit I still wasn't all that excited about Star Wars on Blu-Ray.

Last week, New York had Jim Lee and pizza. This week, London had Tony Lee and donuts. Regardless of where they are, it looks like stores have been having

This gets lost a little bit in the era of frequent mini-series, but first-issue covers of (what eventually become) key series often become iconic images.

It's hard not to like what we've been hearing and seeing about the production of The Avengers in recent times.  Even if only a fraction of the plot rumors