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 […]