At Kapow in London, during the Avengers Vs X-Men panel with Kieron Gillen, CB Cebulski and Joe Quesada, they showed off some upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men pages… one of which seems to show a certain Professor X returning for issue 6… We also got a teaser that Illyana and Black Widow will star in an…
One question asked at the DC panel today at the Kapow comic convention in London, was about DC co-publisher Dan DiDio’s interview with The Advocate. Specifically over the decision not to change any character’s sexual orientation when relaunching the DC Universe. At the time Dan stated they would introduce new LGBT characters rather than switch…
At Kapow’s Image Comics panel this morning, with Eric Stephenson, Nick Spencer and Bryan Hitch, Jonathan Ross stated that he had plans to launch a comic book podcast, because of his contacts in media and comics. He also talked about planning new comic books with current collaborators Bryan Hitch and Tommy Lee Edwards but also…
Warren Ellis has been talking plenty at Kapow, in London today. Lots of questions, lots of answers, lots of laughs, an unlit cigarette and a can or three of Red Bull. Amongst the jollity, he talked more about Gun Machine, his upcoming novel. That it is centred on a cop who discovers an apartment full…
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TV ads on prime time television, newspaper campaigns, nationwide distribution on every newsstand in the country, and no more single issues but collections of three to four issues worth every week.
Welcome to DC Comics in Chile. Here’s a national TV ad for the Batman RIP storyline.
These are accompanied by online advertising and wraparound front cover on the popular free public transport newspaper La Hora, given out to over two million passengers.
A special edition was released a couple of weeks ago that contained The Killing Joke there was a special edition released that sold out all over the place.
And now the publisher is moving on to Superman for the next twelve weeks.
Now they are doing Superman collections for the next 12 weeks (same drill as before) including the likes of Earth One, All Star and Red Son. Here’s the TV ad for that as well.
So how can Chile do this where the US fails? Because the comics are being distributed and promoted alongside the newspapers but sold separately. It’s a model that has made comics, even American comics, mainstream through the country. They’ve even distributed the Eaglemoss DC figurines recast from lead into resin, in the same fashion.
Here’s how the comics are sold. You can see comics, and Superman, at the bottom…
And just to help out, the biggest circulation newspaper El Mercurio, had this on the front page for the DC Relaunch…
“One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June” That’s the comment DC’s Senior VP Publicity Courtney Simmons gave to ABC News from Burbank when asked for comment on the story we ran yesterday, that DC were to reintroduce a preexisting character into the New DCU,…
Thanks to Fox for this one. Honchos at Superman’s comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet unnamed) straight characters will soon be coming out of the closet, according to a report. No, and I was there. Dan DiDio, DC Comics co-publisher said that a…
It seems an age since C2E2. But an interview conducted by CBR with Dan Slott at the show has only just gone online. In which Slott stated that Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso has been contacting other creators on other Marvel books to ensure they reflect… whatever change is coming with Amazing Spider-Man #700 towards the…
Just as DC Comics is turning the headlines purple with the news at Kapow that a previously established character would be rebooted as a gay person, so Marvel Comics announced they have their own headlines in mind. Tune into ABC at 11a/10a E/C tomorrow as the hosts of ABC’s The View exclusively reveal a major…
One Marvel movie, one DC movie, two different outcomes.
Today at Kapow, DC announced that they would be taking an existing character and rebooting them as a very prominent gay DC character. I wonder if Kapow cosplayers beat them to it? There was alos a lot of Cosplay gone right though, as the cosplay competition hit the Kapow stage… Thanks to Chris Metcalfe for…
