A rising tide kills all Caps
Oh boy, where to begin.
Marvel really lucked out with the Captain America news frenzy -- either that or they were more canny than we ever give them credit for. A nation that still...
CNN BREAKING NEWS! NO CAP #26!
Just kidding, there will be a CAPTAIN AMERICA #26 and many, many more to come by creative team Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting. But, speaking of events and news and cycles and recreational readers...
Mini manga crash at Media Blasters
Media Blasters editor FRank Pannone posts on AnimeonDvd that they will be suspending many of their non-yaoi titles:
Apocalypse Zero and Baron Gong are probably dead. They are not being reprinted and the boss has...
Marko Djurdjevic covers MYSTIC ARCANCA
Over at his blog CB Cebulski talks about a new book he's writing, a Mystic Arcana one-shot featuring Nico Minoru, aka Sister Grimm, from Runaways. More info in the link, but in the...
Webcomics ’07
If there was one big story bubbling under all the hoopla at the New York show it was digital distribution. Webcomics are going to be where it's at in the emerging economy. Newwsarama had...
Marvel Month-to-month sales: January 2007 — CORRECTED
by PAUL O'BRIEN
CIVIL WAR continued to loom over Marvel's output in January, in more ways than one. Not only did the publisher continue to produce CIVIL WAR tie-ins, but thanks to the delays...
Marvel profits drop in 4Q
ICv2 has a succinct write-up on Marvel's 4Q financials. Publishing was up, but not enough to offset big losses in licensing revenue.
Driven by strong sales for Civil War and increased penetration of...
Meanwhile back at the Civil War…
CIVIL WAR wrapped up this week, and of course we haven't had time to go find a copy, online or in a store, but we haven't had time to read ANY issues of CIVIL...
News briefs: Marvel’s rent, Bratz evil, etc.
§ Will Marvel have to move office again? According to this piece in the New York Observer, their office building has just been purchased by a new buyer who could be well advised to...
GHOST RIDER rides to #1!
Flame on! Blazing past a review-free opening, GHOST RIDER raced to the #1 spot at the box office:
Sony's Marvel comic adaptation "Ghost Rider" revved an estimated $44.5 million over the first three days of...
CRIMINAL covers
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' ICON series CRIMINAL continues to sport some of the tastiest covers on the racks. Top, the Trade. Below issue #6. Click for larger versions.
