2014 Archives

With Gail Simone talking about the Nightwing/Oracle Convergence issue. I am writing it, of course there’s Nightwing ass! And now Nicola Scott talking

And plenty of other publishers made it into the top ten, with multiple books from Dark Horse, IDW, Scholastic, Random House and Top Shelf. And toys? It's all about DC… TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in Calendar Year 2014 QTY RANK DOLLAR RANK INDEX DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR 1 1 493.77 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 $5.99 MAR 2 5 288.14 WALKING DEAD #132 (MR) $2.99 IMA 3 3 274.59 ROCKET RACCOON #1 $3.99 MAR 4 2 241.95 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 $4.99 MAR 5 6 150.84 DEATH OF WOLVERINE[...]

Amazing Spider-Man #1 was only given away in Nerd Block (40-50,000 subscribers) while Rocket Raccoon and Walking Dead were in Loot Crate (250-300,000 subscribers) but it managed to get more elsewhere to pip them both to the top of Best Selling Comic Book of 2014 – in the comic book direct market via Diamond Comic[...]

So here we are at the start of 2015, with 2014 sinking just behind the horizon The world of gaming wearily trudged its way to the new year over the last week, looking for the last 12 months to finally be over By most accounts I've seen, everyone seemed to have had a bit of[...]

The most-read story or 2014 in Bleeding Cool was one of the first A 3 am-held instant-message interview with Shia Labeouf beat out even the Reddit-fuelled story that no one was to be "taken" in Taken 3 The story went massively viral and spawned T-shirts at San Diego Comic Con I do hope Shia will return[...]

Here is their top twenty list of graphic novel published in 2014 Bleeding Cool will have our own in the upcoming week… I expect plenty of crossover. OK Comics' Jared writes, We have a few guidelines when we put together our list We try to include only books that were released after 1st January 2014, exclude reprints and[...]

I understand that October comic book marketshare for North American direct market stores, to be revealed later this week, will reveal that Image Comics

I took the girls to MCM London Comic Con 2014 yesterday – the first show they've been to where they were prepared to perform themselves, with their Minecraft swords And the first place they got attention from others from carrying them It was quite a revelation! And the journey was also transformed, the McDonalds at London[...]

At today's MCM London Comic Con, the Comics Village section was probably bigger than ever. Originally developed by Emma Vieceli, I hope she sees what it

From getting the tube in, to getting the Docklands Light Railway out, from Homestuck, to attacked Titans to lady Lokis, to stiltwalkers to Iron Men, MCM London Expo 2014 was full of cosplay And this was the light day I'll be back tomorrow morning with the kids for the crowds And they are bringing their[...]

Taken straight from the NYCC App... where you will also find details of every panel. Still, this should get you started. Thursday Friday Saturday

It's all about Liam Sharp and Doctor Who in November from Titan Comics. But not yet together. They should sort that out. But there are two projects

It's the comic that everyone expected to be cancelled and yet never was. It also happened to be repeatedly really, really good. With a title that spun out

Here is the list of the hundred top selling comic books in the North American comic stores for July 2014, as ordered by direct market accounts. Rocket Raccoon #1 topped the chart, selling two and a half times the amount that the second title, Batman #33 did However, over 150,000 of those were to the monthly[...]

Find out what it takes to self-promote and make a significant impact on your ability to sell your comic. 11:30am – 12:30pm Room 8 11:30am Masters of the Web: Comic Book Movies A discussion of the state and slate of current and upcoming major comic book movies with top YouTube movie pundits, including Manu Bennett (TV's Arrow), John Campea (AMC Movie Talk), Jeremy Jahns (YouTube film critic), Tiffany[...]

How is animation doing in 2014? How can I enter the field? Is 2D dead? Join panelists Miguel Jiron (Despicable Me 2), Raul Garcia (Melon Digital S.L.), Brooke Keesling (Cartoon Network), Steve Hulett (The Animation Guild), Danny Young (Blurr Studios), and moderated by Tom Sito (Beauty and the Beast, Shrek) From motion picture production to[...]

Last year, Boom! Studios came to San Diego Comic Con after the merger/aquisition/whatever-actually-happened with Archaia, with newly exclusive signed

Is it just me or was the AT-AT driver one of the least desirable figures when you were buying Star Wars figures as a kid? His head looked just too... big

On Friday afternoon, a strong day for programming to kick off Heroes Con, the Marvel Writers Panel sat down to talk about all and sundry aspects of their

Take the Avengers September solicits from Newsarama, the Spider-solicits from CBR and the X-solicits from Comicbook.com - what do we get? AVENGERS WORLD

How sweet is that? Okay, on with the show. EXTINCTION PARADE: WAR #1 (MR) – SDCC 2014 EDITION (W) Max Brooks (A/CA) Raulo Caceres Max Brooks returns to the frightening world of zombies versus vampires in his groundbreaking follow up series: Extinction Parade: War! The subdead were always a joke to the aristocratic vampire race[...]

Image Comics continue to lead the way in publishing new science-fiction comics, with a new series starting in September from Hoax Hunters' Michael Moreci

Will this be checkmate for our hero? FC, 32pgs (5 of 6) $3.99 DEAD LETTERS #1–ECCC EXCLUSIVE (W) Christopher Sebela (A) Chris Visions (CA) Ibrahim Moustafa Previously only available at Emerald City Comicon 2014, don't miss your chance to get this exclusive variant cover to DEAD LETTERS #1 by High Crimes artist Ibrahim Moustafa. FC, 32pgs $9.99 CLOCKWORK ANGELS #1–ECCC EXCLUSIVE COVER (W)[...]

And for Image Comics in August, the full list of new comics... the Rat Queens/Peter Panzerfaust crossover cover sticks out nicely, we have eight new

And no sign of Hawkeye… But there is Ultimate Spider-Ham! DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 CLASSIFIED Variant and sketch covers by Joe Quesada and Alex Ross, covers by Skottie Young, Deadpool variant 9/3/2014 $4.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #2 CLASSIFIED 9/10/2014 $3.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 CLASSIFIED 9/17/201 $3.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #4 CLASSIFIED 9/24/2014 $3.99   MARVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY MAGAZINE (W/A/CA) TBD Marvel celebrates its diamond jubilee with a gem of a magazine spanning[...]

and Image Comics now have nine of the top twenty selling graphic novels. TOP 50 COMIC BOOKS Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in April 2014 RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR 1 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 $5.99 MAR 2 SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #31 $5.99 MAR 3 BATMAN #30 $3.99 DC 4 BATMAN ETERNAL #1 [*] $2.99 DC 5 JUSTICE LEAGUE #29 $3.99 DC 6 BATMAN ETERNAL #2 [*] $2.99 DC 7 HULK #1 $3.99 MAR 8 ORIGINAL SIN #0 $4.99 MAR 9 BATMAN ETERNAL #3 [*] $2.99 DC 10 BATMAN ETERNAL #4 [*] $2.99 DC 11 JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED #0 $3.99 DC 12 WALKING DEAD #126 (MR) $2.99 IMA 13 WALKING DEAD[...]

I've had the chance to read a good batch of this year's Free Comic Book Day 2014 titles Here are thoughts about thirty-one of them More to come… Grimm's Fairy Tales #0 published by Zenescope. Once upon a time there was a monster of a soldier But then they went away Now they are being revived[...]

Okay, so we don't know who is writing and drawing all thes titles. Possibly because DC Comics don't quite know yet. But for September, when each book

UPDATE: Looks like Bleeding Cool's report below may have urged Marvel to release their solicits officially a little early… Marvel's original comics and graphic novels for July 2014… including a new Original Sin spinoff mini-series Original Sin #5.1-#5.5 (the Thor/Loki crossover perhaps?) , lots of stuff Bleeding Cool talked before and lots and lots of Classified[...]

This is the cover of Justice League #33, out in July (as well as Justice League #32, as the comic plays catch-up) which will feature the new Doom Patrol