It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion.
DC Comics take the top three spots without worry this week, with Marvel's top selling title only getting fifth place Could an underprint and[...]
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We were wondering what might be happening with Brian Bendis' plans for a new superhero comic in the Marvel Universe, The Utopians. We weren't the only
And there's a nice big content-undetermined Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Ghosts of the Past.
And following the massive oversized Wolverine: The Adamantium Collection, we now get a 720 page X-Men: The Adamantium Collection collecting comics by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Chris Claremont, Fabian Nicieza, Jack Kirby, Neal Adams , John Byrne and Brent Anderson A snip[...]
Well that was fast.
Teased, then announced at New York Comic Con, a new Elektra series was set to debut from Marvel Comics in March Reinventing Frank Miller's character and star of panel and screen, it was one of a number of new solo female character books from Marvel as part of the All New Marvel[...]
From Marko Manev's series of iconic superhero posters from February this year.
And from the March solicitations for Marvel Comics' Silver Surfer, by Dan Slott and Michael Allred, variant cover by Francesco Francavilla.
But was actually published originally in 2010!
In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]
I've also been known to break out my opinions from time to time, particularly about indie comics, the creator-owned movement in the mainstream, and the like.
Obviously, I love the medium and have pretty eclectic tastes; usually I'm looking for a certain ring of quality and passion in a given comic that catches my attention and[...]
Next week sees issue ones for previous issue zeroes Ghost and Harley Quinn, the launch of Teen Titans Go and the Illegitimates, 8Bit Zombies from Antarctic, Midas Flesh from Boom! and the final Locke & Key.
The week after that? Not so much…
DARK HORSE COMICS
BLOODHOUND CROWBAR MEDICINE #3
$3.99
BPRD HELL ON EARTH #114
$3.50
BUZZKILL #4
$3.99
CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #6
$2.99
CONAN THE[...]
Instead, China enjoyed things from swamps, seven issues of Swamp Thing taking up the majority of the top ten – in reverse chronological order, too!
United States
The Walking Dead #118 $2.99
Justice League (2011-) #25 $3.99
Batman (2011-) #26 $3.99
Justice League 3000 (2013-) #1 $2.99
Justice League of America (2013-) #10 $3.99
Uncanny X-Men #15.INH $3.99
Wolverine and the X-Men #39[...]
Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire!
The second[...]
The Hachette Group's catalogues for distributing Marvel's titles have gone live for the end of 2014. Obviously, much of what is listed are what we'd
We did rather suspect this was coming. TALON #17 Written by TIM SEELEY Art by JORGE LUCAS Cover by EMANUEL SIMEONI On sale MARCH 26 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Here comes Magnus Robot Fighter #1 from Dynamite Entertainment, out in March. (W) Fred Van Lente (A) Cory Smith (CA) Gabriel Hardman THE GOLD KEY UNIVERSE
Here we go folks!!! Magneto #1 John Cassaday variant, New Warriors #1 J Scott Campbell variant, Superior Spider-Man #27.NOW Mark Brooks variant, All-New
And for share of actual comics sold, Marvel is ahead on 33.65% to DC's 31.90%, a hauntingly similar to October's 33.63% and 31.15% So what changed? Image? No, their retail marketshare was down from 9.26% to 8.67% , while unit share dropped from 10.85% to 9.77%.
Instead DC, Marvel and Image's loss seems to be spread[...]
UPDATE: We've now confirmed the Survive creative team as Brian Bendis and Joe Quinones, with Olivier Coipel on the cover. There are no Ultimate titles