My last few comic shows have been arts festival-style, focused on artist appearances and their self-created comics, so it was a bit of a shock to attend a much bigger, much louder, more traditional “let’s look at stuff” comic convention in C2E2 2014. I think of these types of shows as similar to Disneyland — people attend to see the sights, whether it’s cosplayers, big booths, celebrities, or presentations of what publishers have coming next. (ICv2 felt similarly: “The nature […]

DC had great success with their “Villains Month” gimmick last year, in which they put out a limited number of 3-D lenticular covers to boost sales and make it seem like their books were in high demand. This is comics, so if a gimmick works, people keep repeating it until it’s beaten into the ground. DC’s doing the 3-D cover thing again next September, this time as a part of “Futures End“, a look into the future of the DCU. […]