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Five Ways The Comics Industry Could Dramatically Change In 2012. Aside From Digital.
And month by month, sales through Diamond had been going down, and companies have moved their trade paperback and hardcover collections to bookstores away from Diamond The New 52 has helped swing in the other direction recently, but what is the long term picture looking like? With content starting to shift to digital, will Diamond's[...]
Bastardized By Joe Harris And Ethan Van Sciver From DC In 2012
Bastardized is a new horror series by Joe Harris and Ethan Van Sciver, the upcoming Fury Of Firestorm creative team, to be published by DC Comics next year. That's basically all I know Bastardized Horror series Joe Harris Ethan Van Sciver DC Comics. What do you want, blood? You'll probably get it… DC declined to comment[...]
Gendercrunching by Tim Hanley – DC and Marvel, October 2011
Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; Both publishers improved in October, with DC edging out Marvel by just 0.1% to claim the top overall percentage of female creators DC returned to its average range, while Marvel continued their impressive autumn with a total well above their average for the year Let's take a look at the[...]
Gene Ha, The First Fill In Artist On Justice League
Gene Ha will be drawing Justice League #7 for March, according to the DC Source blog, filling in for Jim Lee, who will return for issue 9 The identoity of the artist for issue 8 has not been revealed. While there is no greater admirer of Gene Ha than I, there is a little part of[...]
Marvel Starts To Close The Gap On DC Comics In November
It bears repeating that at the beginning of the year, DC Comics's marketshare figures had slipped in the twenties, lagging far behind Marvel That they have achieved three market share dominances three months in a row despite publishing far fewer titles than Marvel, is a real achievement for the publisher And it was Justice League[...]
DC Comics Loses Trademark Fight Against Superloans
Yesterday, assistant commissioner of trademarks in New Zealand, Jenny Walden, as declared that Superloans character Buck does not infringe the Superman trademark of DC Comics/Warnr Bros The Dominion Post reports that Walden said that, "although it was clear Buck was a superhero because of his "exaggerated musculature", fitting body suit and his ability to fly, there[...]
DC To Announce Someone Else Is Writing Men Of War, Shortly (UPDATE)
James Robinson and JT Krul will write separate stories in Men Of War issue 7. Original story: Two days ago, DC mentioned on their blog that Gail Simone wouldn't be writing Fury Of Firestorm after issue 6, replaced by Joe Harris. Yesterday DC mentioned that Paul Jenkins was writing two issues of Stormwatch, leaving it to Paul[...]
The DC New 52 Hardcover Delayed To Comic Stores
The plan was to give comic stores a week's worth advance sales of the DC New 52 Hardcover in the run up to Christmas A week for stores to handsell the thick brick of a monster, to recommend as gifts, to take advantage of those looking to buy their loved one this thick wodge of[...]
Bryan Q Miller To Launch Smallville Season Eleven As A Novel
And that was that – aside from a bedtime story from Chloe to her son. What happened next… well that wouldn't be part of Smallville would it? Or would it? I understand that story editor and writer for the series, Bryan Q Miller, also recently of Batgirl until the DC Relaunch, is to write a new novel, tellling[...]
Swipe File: Uncharted And Jessica Steele Allen
This is Jessica Steele Allen as Chloe Frazer. She likes to Cosplay. She likes Uncharted, obviously. This is the last page of the first Uncharted comic, out this week from DC Comics (though it still feels like Wildstorm). That looks… familiar… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other [...]
Andy Kubert To Draw Watchmen 2 (UPDATE)
But we've been informed quite conclusively from a reliable source at DC Comics that Andy Kubert is drawing one of the four Watchmen prequel miniseries we've heard so much about Taking one of the principle characters from the series and telling a pre-Watchmen tale. But I understand he may not be the only[...]