It seems my look at Marvel’s latest audit figures and how they apply to the nearly year-old argument of whether three issues of one Spider-Man title compare to three Spider-Man titles has been a bit… politicized… on the message boards.  Circulation numbers are being used as part of an argument about [...]

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We finally have answers to the Spider-Man subscriptions question. On August 12, 2008, in a CBR interview Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort said “Everyone is saying the book will be cancelled any day now. I could float the book on my subscribers alone at this point.”
The question of whether [...]

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If you heard there was a comic book called “Barack the Barbarian,” odds are you thought it was going to be a cheap money grab, juxtaposing Barack Obama with the Conan the Barbarian comics he’s said to collect. Turns out you’d be wrong. Barack the Barbarian, subtitled “Quest for the Treasure of Stimuli!” [...]

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Looking at comments online, there seem to be two distinct camps for Captain America #600’s Monday release: places where practically no one batted an eyelash on Monday and places where it was a hot ticket.  This isn’t too surprising since while there was some publicity, it was spotty and much [...]

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Is Gareb Shamus stealing a page from Danny Ocean?
The Beat noted an interesting quote about a survey being conducted at The Big Apple Con: “If Big Apple Con added a casino, would you stay and gamble?”
Want to know the secret behind that question?  Open source intelligence reveals all.
You may recall [...]

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As you may or may not know, Marvel Comics told retailers that the 600th issue of Captain America would be available for sale today, a Monday (Wednesday being the day new comics normally go on sale), because there was going to be a biiiiiiig announcement.  They thought there was going to be similar coverage to [...]

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine’s script may be the summation of everything derisive about the phrase “comic book movie.”  Of course, if you’ve read any comics with Wolverine in them, I can succinctly sum up the lameness of the script in two words: “adamantium bullets.”  Both times that phrase opened a scene, the [...]

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I’ve made some comments over the last month or two about feeling sorry for anyone planning to read Secret Invasion in trade paperback (tpb) format.  The actual mini-series was released as a solo tpb and when released on a weekly basis, the tie-ins (especially the Avengers titles) would unfold as flashbacks, [...]

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As you may know, The New York Times has started a best seller list for “Graphic Books,” which you and I would probably call either graphic novels or comics.  A lot of people have been trying to figure out what this list really is and whether it’s valid.  The exact [...]

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This is the final installment of a look at the world of print comics in a world where the direct market implodes.  Previous installments were the actual “Doomsday Scenario” and a look at formats that print comics might adopt online.  This installment will look at graphic novels as more of an independent product than just [...]

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