BRZRKR time… As we've well covered, this is the biggest week in comics in quite some time. DC launched their newest event with Infinite Frontier #0, Image rolled out the hotly anticipated Nocterra by former DC headliners Scott Snyder and Tony Daniel, Marvel dropped the first series written and drawn by Peach Momoko – X-Men: […]
The Patrick Gleason "Webhead" cover to Carnage: Black, White And Blood really boosted retailer advance reorders this week, as did interest in the Korean Captain America in Taskmaster, both outdoing Spider-Man getting a new costume and the launch of a new Alien series from Marvel. While other retailers took the opportunity to top up their […]
Thank FOC It's Friday – Planned to coincide and cover the demands of Final Order Cut Off at Diamond Comic Distributors. And now Lunar Distribution as well. Here's this week's comics product coming through that may adjusting as demand slips and slides with the emerging economic bubble. Or somesuch. Traditionally FOC is the date when […]
Next week will be a monster week in comics – that's if all the comic books arrive. Weather and pandemic have seen many delays, especially from Diamond Comic Distributors, but if all goes to plan, there are a LOT of big books coming out next week. First is Infinite Frontier #0, the big DC Comics […]
There have been a lot of delays to comic book deliveries of late, with current weather issues hitting all manner of aspects of the industry. Both Diamond Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution have faced delays to comic book stores and we now have the latest. Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that "Diamond Comic Distributor's Olive […]
Boom Studios is launching a new comic book series Eve, in May – we featured this yesterday if you wanted to catch up. Wynd is returning with #6, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer does an anniversary #25 issue everything you knew was wrong. Here's Boom Studios' full May 2021 solicitations. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #25 […]
Near the end of their ComicsPRO presentation, in addition to touting the company's success in 2020, Boom Studios' Filip Sablik and Morgan Perry shared with retailers two new projects coming to stores in May and July respectively. This is a bit reminiscent of last year's conference where they announced Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo's […]
During their presentation at ComicsPRO, after taking a bit of a victory lap with retailers, Boom Studios' Morgan Perry just dropped a big tease for their upcoming Magic: The Gathering series launching in April. As announced earlier, Boom Studios recently picked up the license and announced a new ongoing series, entitled simply Magic by Black […]
At ComicsPRO's Annual Conference, which is taking place virtually around the world this year, Boom Studios' Filip Sablik and Morgan Perry are just about done delivering their presentation to retailers. Boom is anchoring the first morning of publisher presentations, so it'll be interesting to see what other major publishers say later in the conference. Sablik […]
Advance reorders time! Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, […]
Bleeding Cool was first to report that Keanu Reeves' first comic book BRZRKR from Boom Studios has received over 615,000 pre-orders from the direct market of comic book shops as well as being the most crowd-funded comic book in history. So naturally, Dinesh Shamdasani of Bad Idea Comics wanted to congratulate his old friends at […]
It's Grant Morrison time! With all the understandable industry attention on Boom Studios' record-shattering BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, and Ron Garney over the last couple of weeks, followed by Image Comics' next big series Nocterra by Scott Snyder and Tony Daniel, a new series from another industry heavyweight may be flying a bit […]
In his newsletter, James Tynion IV stated "I've been having a series of very exciting calls and emails about Something Is Killing The Children that I can't even hint about yet. I just sent off the last issue of whole Archer's Peak story cycle to the printer, and that will be out I think later this […]
Boom Studios' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Complete Comic Collection Kickstarter ended as the fourth highest-funded comic book campaign of all time at over $804,000 last week, but… that wasn't the biggest news in Power Rangers fandom recently. Over the last five months, we've been telling you about the new Green Ranger who first appeared in […]
Bleeding Cool was the first to report on Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR record-shattering orders. The star's first entrée into creator-owned comics, with co-writer and Matt Kindt and artist Ron Garney, sold over 615,000 copies at FOC. Not only did that make BRZRKR #1 the highest-ordered launch in the history of publisher Boom Studios, but also the […]
UPDATE: Diamond Comics has sent a corrective message. The delay to BRZRKR #1, which Diamond said would affect all covers, they have corrected saying it's just the foil cover that will be a month late. The other issues will just be one weeks lat. Due to an error on Diamond's part, it was erroneously reported […]
Before I begin: Luna #1 has a sex scene that involves surprise (but apparently not unwelcome) knife play. When Boom! prints on the back cover that Luna is suggested for Mature Readers, they mean it. (Forgive us, newly promoted Boom Studios Marketing Lead, Esther Kim, for spoiling a late-occurring element of Luna #1.) On with […]
Free Comic Book Day was a bit of a damp squib in 2020. When FCBD was cancelled, the books had already been printed, and when it was rearranged for a month-long promotion, it didn't have the impact the original would have done, with many stores operating social distancing or being closed entirely. As a result, […]
We've been talking about Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR comic book with co-writer Matt Kindt and artist Ron Garney for some time and predicting that it would be not only publisher Boom Studios biggest series ever, but one of the biggest series in recent years. Now that the dust has settled from FOC not only were we […]
Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR #1 has broken all the records for Advance Reorder numbers it seems, with different covers taking the six top slots, eight of the top ten, and ten of the top twenty-five. Looks like that 1:1000 signed cover really helped as well, Daredevil, Star Wars, Crossover and Spawn all struggle to get in. […]
