Every week your Local Comic Book Shop, hopefully, gets in a weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond. Now some of these goodies sell out fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond know they need more. Or […]
It shouldn't have been hard for The Walking Dead: Negan Lives #1 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard from Image Comics/Skybound to sell out instantly, at the distributor level, as retailers got all their copies for free. But there was room for added, paid, orders on top of that and they have all sold out, […]
In the back of today's The Walking Dead: Negan Lives published by Image Comics, Robert Kirkman revealed that he planned to kill off Negan in The Walking Dead #174, a couple of years before the series ended. But, after writing the script, artist Charlie Adlard wrote him the letter below, published in The Walking Dead […]
Regular Bleeding Cool readers will be familiar with William / Bill Schanes. Teenage founder of Pacific Comics almost fifty years ago, the comic store that became a chain, a creator-owned publisher and a comic book distributor before it was bought up by Diamond Comic Distributors in the eighties. He stepped down from Diamond Comic Distributors […]
The new Walking Dead comic book follows up on the finale of The Walking Dead #193. While that was set in the future of the rest of the series, it showed Negan tending a grave. And Robert Kirkman signing off with the phrase. The comic book published today by Image Comics and Skybound is a […]
We mentioned earlier today that Image Comics and Skybound are to publish a new issue of The Walking Dead, a Negan one-shot by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard arriving in stores for July 1st sale. Retailers will be getting free copies, to sell as they choose, a little revenue raiser in this time of strife. […]
The absence of The Walking Dead every month from Image Comics has been felt by publisher, comic store and reader alike. But July will now bring a surprise new one-shot, caching up on what Negan was up to in those final days. It will be sent to comic stores for free – including shipping – […]
Free Comic Book Day was meant to be the first Saturday in May and would have included the Image Comics title Fire Power #1 from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Black Widow/Captain America artist Chris Samnee. That was meant to come out just after the original graphic novel, Fire Power: The Prelude at […]
Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment are currently offering, until May 20th, 2020, what looks like all of The Walking Dead comics on the Humble Bundle platform. The Book Industry Charitable Foundation is the charity which Image and Skybound chose to support with the profits from the bundle. Ignoring the value proposition of 30 plus trades […]
Here you go folks, in full, the Top 100 Power List of Comics, 2019 Edition. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the English-speaking comic book industry, weighted towards the direct market. It is judged by all manner of attributes, the ability to influence what comics exist and sell, […]
Another month, another Cerebus In Hell one-shot from Dave Sim and friends, using the clip art of Gustave Dore and in March 2020, parodying The Walking Dead comic book as The Varking Dead. Almost a year after it finished. What great timing… and with this, it's official, Robert Kirkman has made it. VARKING DEAD #1 […]
In October's Diamond marketshare figures, the numbers were pretty much level pegging for September when it came to Marvel marketshare, with Marvel on 39.51% dollar share and 45.2% unit share. DC upped their numbers with a 31.67% dollar share and a 32.02% unit share, gaining from Image Comics which dropped to a 7.59% dollar share […]
As the Holiday season kicks into full gear, and the United States celebrates Thanksgiving, most everyone has some extra time off to spend with family … and when you get tired of that, well there are options. You can continue to refresh Bleeding Cool and see what new content we've got up, and we will […]
Local Comic Shop Day 2019, on Saturday, November 23rd is the opposite of Free Comic Book Day. There's a bunch of stuff available, only to participating stores, of a limited nature, and you pay more than the usual price for what's on offer. Bricks and mortar only – no online dealers. It can lead to […]
Take a look at all that Image Comics has to offer in December 2019 and beyond. We already talked about a very special Christmas present from Mark Millar, but there is much more besides. Might be worth breaking one or two out… DIE #10 December 4, 2019 OCT190197 Age Rating: M $3.99 "SPLIT THE PARTY," […]
One of the most popular items available at SDCC 2019, Skybound sold-out on Saturday morning, was The Walking Dead Mystery Box. The box had a cost of $50, but was chock full of various goodies, including one random issue of The Walking Dead, graded and slabbed by CGC, with a guaranteed grade of 9.8. Beyond that […]
I was lucky enough to attend the annual Skybound Insiders Meetup, a thank you from the fine folk at Skybound to some of its most rabid fans. Taking place at the Harbor House Restaurant on the Friday of SDCC 2019, Skybound provided food and drinks for all in attendance. The event was hosted by Brian […]
Skybound will have a lot of focus on them this San Diego Comic-Con, as they have done something rather naughty with The Walking Dead #193. But there will be plenty of exclusive merchandise to buy at their San Diego Booth #1915, including Walking Dead – and more. And you can check out other SDCC exclusives […]
Matthew Snyder compiles the best-selling ComiXology titles this week, both old and new. And there's one very predictable best-seller, which brings a number of back issues with it… Welcome to the ComiXology Bestseller list, your guide to see how well your favorite titles are selling digitally. Every week I'll post the ranking of every new […]
That The Walking Dead has been a consistent top-seller in both comics and collections and its absence will be felt in the comic book industry. But how much further will it go? Here's a little Bleeding Cool impact study of the degree that just one comic book may change things. Firstly, the comic books remain […]
