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IDW Solicitations For December 2013 – Darwyn Cooke Gives Us More Parker
Here's a look at IDW's solicitations for December… a new Sinister Dexter comic from the pages of 2000AD by Dan Abnett and Andy Clarke, and new comics The Illegitimates #1 by Taran Killam, Marc Andreyko and Kevin Sharpe, Indestructible #1 by Jeff Kline, Javi Garron and Salvi Garcia and Deadworld: Restoration #1 (of[...]
Keeping The Adrenaline Pumping in Locke & Key—Joe Hill at Baltimore Comic Con
IDW presented a spotlight on Joe Hill at Baltimore Comic Con to a packed room and Hill had plenty to say in conversation with IDW's Dirk Wood about his influences, upcoming projects, and the processes that have gone into creating, and completing the elaborate mythology of Locke & Key, though we may not have seen[...]
Marketshare Per Comic – A New Way Of Measuring Publisher Performance
From the new August figures; PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES RETAIL MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 33.70% DC COMICS 30.16% IMAGE COMICS 7.86% IDW PUBLISHING 5.70% DARK HORSE COMICS 5.47% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 3.01% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.05% EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD 1.34% AVATAR PRESS INC 0.95% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 0.94% OTHER NON-TOP 10 8.83% UNIT MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 36.30% DC COMICS 33.14% IMAGE COMICS 8.51% IDW PUBLISHING 4.98% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.80% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.93% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.07% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 1.03% VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.97% ASPEN MLT INC 0.65% OTHER NON-TOP 10 So that's the marketshare, divided into Units, the amount of titles sold and[...]
Two Monthly Marvels From James Robinson? (UPDATE)
As well as his upcoming Spider-Man: Family Business project with Mark Waid and Gabriel Dell'Otto, James Robinson told fans at Fan Expo Canada that he will be writing two Marvel monthly books he said. Could that be two launches for the Marvel Now Two project coming at the end of the year/beginning of 2014? He also let[...]
More IDW Doctor Who Comic Evidence For The "Hurt Insert"
Something we managed to miss a whole month ago. TV, comic and novel writer Paul Cornell wrote a blog post about his upcoming final Doctor Who comic book story The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, the last such licenced comic from IDW (before Titan get the deal). And it includes a preview of the first two pages,[...]
Review: Amelia Cole and the Unknown World TPB
Which, conveniently, is also an excellent horror comic from Rachel Deering, who worked on Amelia Cole and the Unknown World which arrives in print from IDW this week. Segues They're not just for guided tours around Santa Cruz. Amelia Cole and the Unknown World follows Amelia, a female magician in her early '20s Amelia's smart, talented and,[...]
John Hurt Gets A Reference In New Doctor Who Comic…
Or not. And in the new Doctor Who comic from IDW, issue #12, written by Andy Diggle, and approved by all sorts of BBC people Showing the last day of the Time War on Gallifrey And it's very destruction… Rejected that name? The renegade? HURT: "What I did, I did without choice… in the name of peace and[...]