september Archives

   Bleeding Cool has been running the story that DC Comics will be renumbering their comics to issue zero in September, to tell earlier stories of their characters to celebrate the first year of the New DCU, before returning to issue thirteens in October, but carrying on threads of that zero issue And for some[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool announced that in September DC would give all the original New 52 titles an issue 0, telling year one, with regular numbering coming back in October. And at Boston Comic Con, on the DC panel, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Jamal Igle, Cliff Chiang and Francis Manapul basically confirmed it Although it's not[...]

In September, it will be the one year anniversary of the DC New 52. Do you think they were going to let us forget? Did you think they weren't going to do something special? Across the range of New 52 books? I understand that for one month all the original new 52 books will be numbered #0[...]

September was a surprising month in several ways, with the DCnU books making a disappointing splash, ladywise, while an ignored Marvel quietly had its best month of the year My apologies for the delay with this month's stats I know that September was a while ago now, but I was missing one issue that was[...]

The Batman monthly comic from DC Comics is usually regarded as a solid, reliable seller, published every month whatever, which is why Diamond Comic Distributor make it the standard against which all other comics are measured – they don't release the sales figures, just how each comic performs against each other. Well, Bleeding Cool has received[...]

But Bleeding Cool has an inside track. For September 2011, the DC Relaunch, DC Comics had a 35.74% share of dollars spent on comics and graphic novels. And Marvel had a 35.37% share. It's a half point difference, but considering earlier in the year, DC were double figures points behind Marvel, it's a remarkable shift. But the biggest change[...]

It cannot have completely escaped your notice that DC Comics is relaunching all of its comics in September And in doing so is giving retailers all sorts of incentives to buy them in larger quantities Returnability, increased discount, variants, the lot. So obviously Marvel can't let them get away with that on their own. In September, retailers[...]

Over 10,000 people seem to have responded to the Comic Book Resources survey on the public appeal for the upcoming DC Relaunch, title by title. But

A look at the statistics regarding the number and price of Marvel comic books shipping in September using the brands of the Marvel Universe This does not include Icon or licensed titles, but it does include any Marvel Adventures or Ultimate books. As of now we are assuming that $2.99 books with 32 pages contain 20[...]

Do check USA Today's feature on Army@Love's Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine's The Big Lie, a 9/11 comic timed to be published by Image Comics on the tenth

Who are the Trench? What is the makeup of the JLI? Who is the Gotham Ripper and who is NoBody? Which books are 20 page $2.99 and which are 30 page $3.99? Why not find out with the Bleeding Cool handy dandy 51 #1 September DC Solicitation Checklist. Loks like Lois Lane watchers should be picking[...]

Ten years after Jay Faerber launched Noble Causes at Image, his first creator owned comic, comes his new one. Near Death, by Faerber and Simone Guglielmini is an new a monthly, ongoing series that launches on September 21st. Here's a teaser… Ten years after Jay Faerber launched Noble Causes at Image, his first creator owned comic,[...]

The just-announced Marvel solicitations for September missed out quite a few chunks Some Marvel Zombies here, some Amazing Spider-Man there… but what else? Well, David Baldeon is drawing Rikki Barnes from Heroes Reborn a new world in her own four issue mini-series, Nomad: Girl Without A World #1 After playing a part in the return[...]

You know that odd theory about asking the Universe for something and wait until it delivers? You know, taking the idea of prayer, removing anyone actually to pray to, and crossing your fingers? Remember all those questions I asked about Marvel Comics' solicitations for September? Well it seems a few of those questions have suddenly been[...]