The beloved MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held this year on April 11 and 12, is moving to a new location. Center 548 is located on West 22nd Street near 11th Avenue and the Chelsea Piers. Programming will be held in two rooms at the High Line Hotel on West 20th Street and 10th Avenue, “a mere two blocks away”. The event will include three exhibit floors, a gallery of original art showcasing the work of special guests, and a […]

To go along with their comic series featuring the Tenth Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor, and now the Twelfth Doctor, Titan Comics has announced a five-issue Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor miniseries. The Ninth Doctor, played by ​C​hristopher ​E​ccleston, is the one who returned Doctor Who to television ten years ago. The comic will be available on March 11 at a cover price of $3.99 US and can be pre-ordered from your local comic shop with Diamond code JAN15 1599​. Typically, […]

I thought the premise of The Con Job, coming in March from Boom! Studios (four-issue miniseries, order code for issue #1 JAN15 1104, $3.99), was interesting, if a tad self-referential. But then, I would expect a lot of comic knowledge from long-time creator Jimmy Palmiotti and co-writer Matt Brady (formerly of Newsarama). What I didn’t expect was that their comic convention heist story would seem so old-fashioned — by which I mean, the character design page in Previews features, out […]

The January issue of the Diamond Previews preordering catalog has an odd discrepancy when it comes to Archie Comics offerings. They’re promoting two new titles in their Dark Circle Comics superhero line, The Black Hood #2 (with three variant covers) and the relaunch of The Fox with a new #1 (and five variant covers). However, when you look at their comic offerings — items that aren’t digests or paperback collections or magazines — there are NO core titles listed. No […]

Marvel is far and away the most popular publisher in comic shops, both through sales and unit market share quantities. (Those are different because someone could sell a lot of, say, $2.50 comics (if those still existed) and not make as much money as someone who sold fewer $5.99 comics.) While DC sells in the same range of quantity, they’re making less money, perhaps because they offered more $2.99 comics. I expect to see prices continue to rise based on […]

Diamond Comic Distributors has announced the winners of the 2014 Gem Awards, prizes “selected by comic book specialty retailers” to recognize “sales achievement”. That last helps explain some of the award divisions. I think it’s interesting to look at what comic book retailers think helped them most last year — these decisions might explain some of what you see stocked in their stores. “We established the Gem Awards to give retailers an opportunity to recognize the suppliers, titles, and products […]

The first-ever Wizard World Madison Comic Con will be coming to Wisconsin on February 6-8. That’s only a month away! I’m eager to see how it goes, now that I live here. The guests announced so far are the usual media names: William Shatner, Adam West, Burt Ward, Brett Dalton (Agent Beefcake, as we call him, from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a couple of Walking Dead people, Eliza Dushku, James Marsters, Billy Dee Williams, Ernie Hudson, and George Wendt. I […]