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Top 100 Comics For May 2012
Which, adding UK sales, would push it over 20,000. There is of course quite a drop off after that, but it still puts a comic like Action Comics #9 into the 90,000-100,000 bracket… things are still looking good Next month? Let's see how Before Watchmen and Spider-Men affect the numbers… Units Revenue Rank Title Price Publisher 1 1 132.48 AVENGERS VS X-MEN #4 $3.99 MAR 2 2 130.53 AVENGERS VS X-MEN[...]
The Many Ghostbusters #9 Retailer Exclusive Covers From Tristan Jones
Why not cheer along? Midtown Comics, Times Square, New York, Jim Hanley's Universe, New York, New York and Lone Star Comics, Arlington, Texas. Things From Another World, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Austin Books and Comics, Austin, Texas and Graham Crackers Comics, Dekalb, Illinois.   Graham Crackers Comics, Downers Grove, Illinois, Graham Crackers Comics, Lakeview, Illinois[...]
A Giant Digital Leap Viewed From The Toilet
And that is pretty much answer to the question of why digital comics are only just taking off. Convenience. It might seem blinding obvious to many, but no-one really seems to be talking about the technology side of the digital comics debate Tablet technology has moved a digital future comics from a possibility into a reality[...]
Powers: FBI Becomes Powers: Bureau
Clearly it has changed from a comic about the superpowered police in the FBI, to a book where they investigate a mystery involving a desk drawer. In other ch-ch-ch-changes… The Flash #10 was solicited with art from Francis Manapul, but will now by drawn by Marcus To and Ray McCarthy. Green Lantern: New Guardians #10 was solicited with[...]
Orbital Comics Hires Gay Club For Astonishing X-Men #51 Party
Orbital Comics in London is situated close to Soho, the gay mecca of London And on Frith Street, lies CIRCA, a gay club that opened last year. To celebrate the wedding of Northstar & Kyle in Astonishing X-Men #51 Orbital will be hosting a wedding reception/party at there on Tuesday June 19 from 7:15pm. There will be[...]
A Day At The Kankakee Fantasy Con 2012
Last year had names like Tim Seeley and Gene Ha and Franchesco! This year, folks like Lonely Robot, Unshaven Comics, and me, your friendly neighborhood manga-ka It's kind of a shock when you realize you are considered one of the biggest names in the room. Not only were the number of comic creators and dealers smaller[...]
Sunday Runaround – Hot Dog, Jumping Frog
The eight page, ten page, twelve story is a lost art in comics and it once was the mainstay, the bread and butter, the meat and potatoes of the medium And not just for hack work Look at EC's best stuff (much of Kurtzman's work, or "Master Race") or Art Spiegelman's "Raw" magazine That stuff[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Venom, An Eddie Brock Story
Trending today, a post with a quote from Avi Arad about the potential of the planned upcoming Venom film: "It's an Eddie Brock story… We want to be as close to the comics as possible Especially in Eddie Brock's story But again, pseudo-sceince is becoming science All these tidbits about webs, artificial webs, is a huge industry[...]
How Comics Lost Aaron His Virginity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1XzrIT789A All down to Sandman apparently... Thanks to Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop, Florida, for his frankness.
The Last Bleeding Cool Supper
Thanks to Jesse James of Jesse James Comics of Arizona for this one. Clicky for biggy Thanks to Jesse James of Jesse James Comics of Arizona for this one. Clicky for biggy Thanks to Jesse James of Jesse James Comics of Arizona for this one. Clicky for biggy Thanks to Jesse James of Jesse James[...]
Daniel Araya's Justice League
With all this talk of Jim Lee leaving Justice League, here's some concept art from Daniel Araya on deviantArt Could you imagine a Justice League comic
The Batman That Caught A Predator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxZEY45j9Z0 Last year, a couple of guys from British Columbia went online posing as underage girls looking for sexual
Saturday Runaround – Two Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars
And I understand that Third Eye Comics would really appreciate your vote in this matter… AVXWatch: We told you about Cyclops saying "No More Avengers" a while ago… now it makes sense Some kind of sense Welcome courtesy of USA Today, to the Phoenix Five. Adds Fraction: "They're wildly evolving the world overnight[...]
Friday Trending Topics: DC Zero
Officially official: Back in April Bleeding Cool first told you that DC Comics would run Zero issues of their New 52 comics in September, telling origin and early stories of the characters We then followed it up with details such as the Zero issues raising issues that would affect the next issues of all the titles,[...]
Brazil To Boycott Green Lantern?
One Brazilian blog which has previously shown a rather homophobic view of the recent gay marriage plotline in comic books, is claiming that there will be
$275 Million For Tintin And Friends
By the end of the week, the agreement covering the sale of French publishing house Flammarion from Italian publishing house RCS to French publisher
Ten Thoughts About Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
From Watchmen To Mad Men Watchmen ran without advertising, each issue becoming an artifact of its own, every aspect of it part of of the story, the cover being the frst panel to each issue, the ticking clock enveloping it all, with comics, articles, book extracts and letters all instrumental to the Watchmen experience[...]
Swipe File: Dredd Vs Cable
On the left, the Cable series X-Sanction. On the right, the new poster for Dredd courtesy of JoBlo. In Swipe File we present two or more images that