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Flashback Friday – Batman RIP
By Alexander Webb Welcome to another installment of Flashback Friday with your comic book (and fitness!) consigliere, Alex. Today, we are following up
Rebellion Brings Classic Strategy Game MoonBase Commander To Steam
It was originally developed by Humongous Entertainment for Infogrames (later Atari), but it was "rescued" at an Atari auction by Rebellion in 2013. Jason Kingsley, Creative Director and CEO at Rebellion explains: MBC was one of our first priorities at the Atari auction We're big fans of the game – it's a classic example of simple, elegant[...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks – The BoJeffries Saga Returns
On Wednesday we get the launch of Royal Masters Of War, City: The Mind In The Machine, Fuse, Mercenary Sea, Death's Head II, She Hulk, Wolverine, X-Force, Devil's Hopyard, Gravel, Insect Bath, Bunker and the reissue, with new material, of Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse's The BoJeffries Saga. And the week after that? The launch of[...]
Batman Takes Top Two Slots, Marvel Still Dominates Marketshare, But Image On The Rise –  January 2014 Statistics
Also, a five week January did worse business than a four week December, though that had the advantage of the run up to Christmas. TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS RETAIL MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 34.09% DC COMICS 28.06% IMAGE COMICS 8.78% IDW PUBLISHING 5.71% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.74% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.81% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.25% EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD 2.14% VIZ LLC 1.26% AVATAR PRESS INC 1.05% OTHER NON-TOP 10 9.11% UNIT MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 37.39% DC COMICS 30.77% IMAGE COMICS 10.10% IDW PUBLISHING 5.08% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.22% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.69% BOOM! STUDIOS 1.99% ARCHIE COMIC[...]