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Top Fifty Comics And Graphic Novels Of April 2014
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[...]
Frankensteining Marvel And DC Comics Solicitations For April 2014
Obviously plenty more to come, but here's a gathering of what we can start to expect from the Big Two come April And expect Justice United #0 to be announced soon… SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #31 Dan Slott (W) • Giuseppe Camuncoli (A/C) Connecting Variants A & B by J Scott Campbell Variant cover by Kevin Maguire Captain America Variant Also Available •[...]
Aquaman And The Others… And Others From DC Comics In April 2014
This does appear to be an article stub from DC Comics, indicating an Aquaman And The Others series from DC for 2014. That and other potential April delights have been running around the messageboards for the last couple of days. Such as this run down from our good friend Tako. Aquaman and the Others #1 Forever Evil Aftermath: Batman[...]
Is It Omnibus Month For Marvel In April?
Big, heavy collections of big heavy comic books, aimed at the Christmas market. But, instead, it looks like Marvel prefer April Easter presents perhaps? Here's a few volumes scheduled for that month next year. The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Volume 2 (912 pages), Spider-Man by Roger Stern Omnibus (1249 pages), Punisher Max by Jason Aaron Omnibus (544 pages)[...]
Boom! Goes The Dynamite – Solicitations For April 2013
Here you go folks, the April solicitations in full for both Boom! and Dynamite for April 2013.  From Dynamite's Miss Fury to Boom!'s Regular Show and Polarity, there's lot's of comics new and old… but mostly new. Let's start with Dynamite… MISS FURY #1 Rob WIlliams (w) Jack Herbert (a) J Scott Campbell (50%), Alex Ross[...]
Marvel Solicitations For April 2013 – Everything's Coming Up Ultron And Iron Man
Here are the comics Marvel will be selling you come April. AGE OF ULTRON #4 (OF 10) Publisher: (W) Brian Michael Bendis (A/CA) Bryan Hitch • The impossible has happened! • The Earth has been taken by Ultron…what few super hero survivors there are try desperately to stay alive. • And it is Luke Cage who discovers the secret behind Ultron's[...]
Marvel Cancels Age Of Apocalypse And X-Treme X-Men In April
Two multidimensional comics are meeting their end in April, as part of the X-Termination crossover, David Lapham and Roberto De La Torre's Age Of Apocalypse with issue 14 and Greg Pak and Andre Aeujo's X-Treme X-Men with issue 13. Here are their final covers (and the cover to Astonishing X-Men that make up the trptych). Sorry folks[...]
Some Rather Remarkable Covers For A Regular Show Comic
And what do I find waiting for me, and me alone? The covers to the new Regular Show #1 comic from Boom! for April. Which is probably going to go rather Adventure Timey very soon indeed. So I thought I'd share them with you Don't they look pretty? And look, there's some solicitation text as well… REGULAR SHOW…IT'S[...]
Saucer Country And Superman Family Adventures Cancelled
Clearly DC Comics disagreed. Issue 14 of the intelligent political alien conspiracy that drew parallels with alien conspiracy and US immigration strategy with greater success than anything I've ever seen, will be its last, shipping in April. Also joining Saucer Country, DC Universe Presents and I Vampire, will be Superman Family Adventures, the kids title by Alt[...]
DC's Holy Sh!t Month Is… Surprise Gatefold Covers? (UPDATE)
Thanks to Gotham Spoilers who have done some fine URL farming, here are a number of covers for DC Comics in April. Except each looks like the first half of an image. Could they be the first half of gatefold covers for all of April's DC New 52 comics? And could these be the "Holy Shit" covers[...]
Freedom From Diamond Comic Distribution
Potato Comics is publishing Xeric winning small press title Freedom by Seamus Heffernan in April, now distributed by Diamond Comic Distribution. Set during the American Revolution, it's a rather impertinent look at a history that some Americans hold sacrosanct. For a start, it stars a teenager living in a Massachusetts that lost the American Revolution, and remains under British[...]
Marvel April 2012 Covers In Thumbnail Form
Again, much thanks to Midtown's database for this one. You've already seen Marvel's April 2012 solicitations – albeit with the credits of March Well, now here are all the covers… in thumbnail form. Note the braille vertical logo for Daredevil, breakfast-watching Spider-Man, Ultimate Storm's bottom, Captain America repelling an unseen Cyclops' optic blast, some X-Men pop art,[...]
Gail Simone Spins Off Milhouse, Bart Simpson's Pal #1
Coming from Bongo in April, is the Simpsons Comic spinoff Milhouse, Bart Simpson's Pal, written by Gail Simone and Pat McGrealm and drawn by Bob Smitjh, Carol Lay, Jason Ho and Mike Rote Here are the solicitations. Bart Simpson's pal Milhouse takes center stage in the next of our series of Simpsons Comics One-Shots Take a[...]
Marvel In April 2012 – Have We Lost All Generation Hope?
This is a list of Marvel titles shipping to comic stores in the month of April Of note, there is no listing for Generation Hope It is presumed cancelled with March's issue 17 which stated it would feature "Kenji Vs Hope For The Final Fate Of The Lights!" Who knew Marvel would be so literal?  Still,[...]
More Dynamite In April
And now for a look at some Dynamite comics coming out in April Bionic Goat and Navy Of Darkness will be along any day now. Actually I quite like the sound of both of them. UPDATE: Aside from Bionic Woman, there are no other Bionic titles planned by Dynamite Or, indeed, any Navy Of Darkness[...]
Marvel Comics Will Publish Kids Comics In April… And Beyond
Comics as weapons, I approve. So I asked around, and was told that though these comics may be ending in March, Marvel will most definitely be publishing All Ages superhero books in April, and beyond. I don't know who, how, which or what, but I do know that it's Marvel's plan to keep that category going for[...]
Numbercrunching DC April 2011 Solicitations
Here's the headlines, based on DC Comics solicitation information for new monthly comics for April (minus the reprint, licensed, creator-owned and Vertigo titles).Thanks to some bargain books such as Action Comics #900, and the lack of $3.99 22 page books, DC comics are now 13.9 cents a page, 0ver half a cent per[...]
Countdown To Marvel Announcement On December 21st
We've been speculating that the Marvel Fear teasers are tied up in the appearances of Martian-like Tripod machines over the Marvel Universe the past year, for an upcoming Marvel Event in April next year And that it's Iron Man based, with contributions from the likes of Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Christos Gage and more. Well, at[...]
Fantagraphics To Publish Jim Woodring's Congress Of The Animals For April
Surreal is a word too easily used when describing this creatures world, The Unifactor, that keeps him in a perpetual status quo That all changes with the new book, scheduled for April 2011, as Frank leaves The Unifactor for the first time for new worlds He loses his job, has to take a factory job and[...]