Digital comics are doing brisk business and in the last month we have seen sweeping changes in the industry. Amazon purchased Comixology and Thrillbent released a digital comic store. iPad and iPhone owners have a massive amount of disdain for Comixology pulling the ability the buy comics and instead are prompted to visit this website. This was done to phase out the 30% … [Read more...] about Marvel Prepares for Life After Comixology
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Marvel “Stealth Releases” Captain America: Winter Soldier Prequel
Marvel Comics bills this as a "stealth release," but since they sent out a press release about it, it's hardly on the down low. Anyway, this looks like a worthy comic: Available on the Marvel and comiXology platforms, it's a digital prequel to the film Captain America: Winter Soldier, which is due out this summer. The comic is scripted by veteran writer Peter David and drawn by … [Read more...] about Marvel “Stealth Releases” Captain America: Winter Soldier Prequel
Retailers Name Image Comics Publisher of the Year
Image Comics, which has made a strong showing in recent years with such creator-owned titles as The Walking Dead and Saga, was named the Publisher of the Year in the Diamond Gem Awards, sponsored by Diamond Comics Distributors. BOOM! Studios took the Publisher of the Year award for publishers with a market share of less than 4%. The awards were chosen by a vote of comics … [Read more...] about Retailers Name Image Comics Publisher of the Year
Best New Digital Comics for January 24, 2014
Here's what's looking good at the (digital) comics shop this week: All-New X-Men #22.NOW: Written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Stuart Immonen, this issue kicks off a six-issue crossover that brings the Guardians of the Galaxy into the world of the X-Men. The continuity folds over in a weird sort of way when a young Jean Grey, who has traveled through time to … [Read more...] about Best New Digital Comics for January 24, 2014
Digital Comics Best-Sellers for January 20 2014
Readers prefer the uncensored version of Miracleman, Attack on Titan makes the Kindle chart, and where's that second issue of Injustice: Year Two? Here's my look at this week's digital comics best-sellers, as of Sunday evening. ComiXology 1. All-New X-Men #21 2. Superior Spider-Man #25 3. Uncanny X-Men, vol. 3 #16 4. Amazing X-Men #3 5. Justice League of America … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Best-Sellers for January 20 2014
Marvel Censors Miracleman for Some Digital Readers
Someone at Marvel Comics decided that their new edition of Miracleman needed to be censored for digital release—but apparently not everyone is on board with that. Last week, Marvel released the first of a planned series of reprints of the Alan Moore/Neil Gaiman run of Miracleman. Miracleman itself has a tangled history, having started off in the early 1950s as Marvelman, a … [Read more...] about Marvel Censors Miracleman for Some Digital Readers
Darth Maul’s ‘Clone Wars’ Story Will Be Completed—as a Comic
Dark Horse may be losing the license for Star Wars comics at the end of this year, but publisher Mike Richardson promised they were going to give it their best effort right till the end, and it looks like that's what they are doing: Lucasfilm has announced that the final arc of Darth Maul's Clone Wars story will be told as a four-issue mini-series, published by Dark … [Read more...] about Darth Maul’s ‘Clone Wars’ Story Will Be Completed—as a Comic
Marvel Ultimates Getting a Reboot
A couple of days ago we speculated that Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man might be coming to an end, and with it the career of the current wearer of the Spidey suit, Miles Morales. Well, yes and no. It turns out that Marvel is rebooting the whole Ultimate Comics line, but Miles Morales stays—in fact, he gets his own title, Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man. There's a lot more … [Read more...] about Marvel Ultimates Getting a Reboot
Best Digital Comics for January 9 2014
Here's a look at some of the more interesting titles that are out this week in digital format. Detective Comics #27: DC celebrates the 75th anniversary of Batman (who first appeared in the original Detective Comics #27) with seven stories about the Caped Crusader, including Brad Meltzer and Bryan Hitch's retelling of the first Batman story, "The Case of the Chemical … [Read more...] about Best Digital Comics for January 9 2014
Breaking: Disney to Move Star Wars Comics to Marvel
Marvel and Dark Horse announced today that Disney is taking back the license for the Star Wars comics and will move it over to Marvel in 2015. Dark Horse has had the franchise for over 20 years, during which they not only spun out a series of prequels and sequels that added to the Star Wars universe but also, in the past year, launched two new series: Star Wars, which was … [Read more...] about Breaking: Disney to Move Star Wars Comics to Marvel
New Digital Comics to Kick Off the New Year
Two dead schoolboys wander out of Sandman and into their own series, Aquaman starts a new story arc among geological disturbances, and giants roam the earth in this week's selection of new digital comics. The Dead Boy Detectives #1: This is a new series featuring two characters who have been around for a while: The Dead Boy Detectives first showed up in Neil Gaiman's Sandman … [Read more...] about New Digital Comics to Kick Off the New Year
New Digital Comics Worth Checking out This Week Dec 24 2013
New Comic Day comes a day early this week and next: Because Christmas and New Year's Day are on Wednesdays, when most comics shops will be closed, the new comics will arrive on Tuesday. That means new digital comics will be available on Tuesdays as well. The pickings are pretty slim this week, thanks to Christmas, but what there is, is choice. Let's take a look at the … [Read more...] about New Digital Comics Worth Checking out This Week Dec 24 2013
Top 5 New Digital Comics of the Week Dec 17 2013
Here's a look at some of the most interesting digital comics coming out this week. Amazing Spider-Man #700.4 and #700.5 Here's one for traditional Spider-Man fans. Last year Marvel killed off Peter Parker and ended the Amazing Spider-Man series with issue #700; a different Spider-Man (no spoilers here!) lives on in the succeeding series, Superior Spider-Man. But this … [Read more...] about Top 5 New Digital Comics of the Week Dec 17 2013
November Comics Sales: The Big Two Slip a Bit
Diamond Comics Distributors is the exclusive distributor of print comics to specialty comics shops, so their monthly numbers give a pretty good picture of the print comics market. That market is dominated by Marvel and DC, but that dominance slipped a bit this month as both publishers had less than a 30% market share (in terms of dollars). This isn't the first time that has … [Read more...] about November Comics Sales: The Big Two Slip a Bit