At the Diamond Retailer Summit at C2E2 today, Marvel announced that their landmark Amazing Spider-Man #800 has sold almost 300,000 copies to retailers so far — after DC had already announced Action Comics #1000 had sold half a million.
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During their lunchtime presentation at the summit before C2E2, international book publisher Dorling Kindersley (DK Books) revealed a slate of books that mostly consisted of visual dictionaries.
The U.S. Navy has circled its battleships to lay siege to the comic book industry with a new graphic novel imprint, debuting at the Diamond Retailer lunch at C2E2 today.
Quirk Books came to the Diamond Retailer Summit in Chicago today, bringing a tonne of books to look at. More of a traditional book publisher, they do nevertheless have a line that could be described as comics-adjacent.
Dark Horse sent out an update today on the status of The Seeds, the first printed work from David Aja since Hawkeye, alongside industry legend Ann Nocenti, on the Berger Books imprint.
At the Diamond Retail Summit today, DC Comics Publisher Dan DiDio mentioned that he thought Lobo's newly introduced daughter, Crush, will be the breakout book of the new New Titans series as it transforms from Teen Titans.
In Superman #44, Superman and Superboy try their best to save Bizarro's world while Bizarro himself goes on a rampage and the Super Foes are held by the Legion of Fun. Is it a good read?
DC Comics may have announced 1 million sales for the first issue of DC Nation Zero, but at the Diamond retailer summit at Chicago happening right now they also gave a little sneak peek at issues one and two coming later this year -- and also how many copies retailers should expect to receive.
During their presentation at the Diamond Retailer Summit at C2E2 today, DC Comics made sure to mention sales on Action Comics #1000, the landmark issue of the comic that will be published later this month. According to Dan DiDio, retailers have ordered over 500,000 copies of the book.
According to a press release sent out Thursday, Image Comics is pioneering a shipping schedule that could change everything. The publisher has announced that Street Angel by Brian Maruca and Jim Rugg would see three releases in the span of just 10 days.
DC Comics have informed comic shop owners at the Diamond Retailer Summit that DC Nation #0, their before-Free-Comic-Book-Day comic launching comics from Brian Bendis, Tom King and Scott Snyder, has had a million copies ordered by comic book stores.
Shawn Pryor from Action Lab Entertainment stepped up to address hundreds of comic shop owners and employees at Diamond Comic Distributors' Retail Summit
Uh, remember when we said that DC had "locked down" the publishing dates for their new publishing imprints geared respectively at Young Readers and Young
Ex-Bleeding Cool reporter Chris Thompson stepped up at the Diamond Retailer Summit at Chicago, before C2E2, in front of a room full of hundreds of comic book retailers, to talk Titan Comics.
From the Diamond Retailer Summit at C2E2 2018: GameStop has no plans to get into the comics business, and will be ordering comics from Diamond only for promotional purposes, such as video game preorder bonuses.
At Christmas, the Doctor regenerated. She is now to be played by Jodie Whittaker in the upcoming Doctor Who TV series. We got a very brief glimpse of her,
Titan Comics PR have given some news to Entertainment Weekly about new Doctor Who comics coming this year, with the overarching title, The Road To The
It looks like Diamond isn't planning to give up its stranglehold on the direct market any time soon. Following reports yesterday that website League of
The Final Crisis 10th Anniversary Omnibus Anniversary Edition coming from DC Comics in September is big. Really big. But it's getting bigger. Originally
We got a brand new Star Wars comic book yesterday, Star Wars #43 by Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larocca published by Marvel Comics. April the fourth be
Marvel Comics has the rights to publish Conan comic books from next year. Current rights owners Dark Horse are winding down their Conan comic schedules as
If Geoff Johns, CCO and President of DC can change his profile picture t0 a Marvel character like the Hulk, just as Diane Nelson steps away for a bit,
Christel Dee has been a Doctor Who fan since the show returned in 2005. She has a Film & Television Production degree and has worked at a variety of
The Green Goblin returns to make Spider-Man's life worse, and now he knows Web-Head's secret identity. Can Spider-Man win the day? Is it a good read?
We are given a future where the heroes have won, and the world is a utopia for it. Laura lives as the Queen of Madripoor and Gabby is the new Wolverine. Does it make for a good read?
The Avengers are on the hunt for Vibranium and a Cosmic Cube shard wielded by a budding authoritarian terrorist organization. Is it a good read?
John Layman, off of Chew, will be debuting an ashcan edition of his new comic book Leviathan #1 at C2E2 -- and a poster too. He'll be showing the ashcans off at the Diamond Retailer Summit starting today but will have only a hundred of each for the show.
In today's sold-out Deathstroke #30, we learn of a history between William Randolph Wintergreen and Alfred Pennyworth forged over alcohol and football -- the proper kind of both.
Dark Horse has announced plans to bring the Eromanga Sensei manga to Western Audiences in September, coinciding with Blu-ray releases of the anime series of the same name hitting stores in May an August, and following a run of the anime on Crunchyroll last year.
More bad news for fans of popular Marvel artist TBA. TBA is always announced as the artist of exciting new comics, only to be replaced by someone else before the comic ever hits stands. TBA has been replaced once again, as Marvel has revealed that Dylan Burnett will take over art chores on Cosmic Ghost Rider.