Tag: variants

So, it looks like October is going to be pretty terrifying this year.  Yesterday, DC announced that they'd be giving 25 of their books "Monstrous" variants. Today, Marvel announced that they would be offering "Kirby...

DC Entertainment announced the outlines of what they'll be presenting at Comic-Con, with 19 panels covering all the lines from MAD to Morrison. And they'll have a variety of variant covers available on different...

The new "verismo" era of Archie kicks off on July 8th with the first issue of Archie #1 by Mark Waid and Fiona Staples. And to mark the occasion, Archie is making sure the numbers are up with 17 retailer exclusive variants. And it's quite an array of styles from Dave Dorman's Brad Pitt-esque version to Jae Lee's typically surreal take.

Every month, Diamond Comics Distributors publishes Diamond Previews.  While most readers and consumers read the big catalog, or go online, retailers have their own special website and order form for ordering all the wonderful...

February's variant cover theme fro DC Comics will be HArley Quinn, and that should come as zero surprise. It worked for Marvel with Deadpool, a similarly anarchic fourth-wall busting character. In fact if Marvel and DC were to do a crossover, I think Deadpool vs Harley would be the Batman vs Spider-man of the day. In addition, Harley's new, Suicide-Girls-inspired look has definitely caught on, supplanting the sturdily iconic Bruce Timm designed onesie. I don't know who did the deredisgn for the New 52, but I think it may have been the most successful of the bunch.

It’s the return of The Beat’s weekly look at comics on Final Order Cut-Off (FOC) and bits of retail process that doesn’t merit a full column. The last time I tried to write one...