2012 Archives

2012, the silly disaster film by Roland Emmerich, will hit 4K Blu-ray on January 19th Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson slumming it, this film is admittedly silly, dumb fun that will look incredible on 4k Actually, this is one release that quite a few people have been looking[...]

This will be the fifth time Emmrich has attempted to end the world, following two Independence Day films, 2012, and The Day After Tomorrow Lionsgate will distribute the film, after working with the filmmaker on his World War 2 film Midway Lionsgate is looking at releasing Moonfall in 2021, even though the dance card is[...]

It's time for another look at the cold hard statistics of the North American direct market for comic stores, as supplied by Diamond Comic Distributors.

And Dark Horse get two in the top hundred as well, with Buffy and Hellboy. TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in December 2012 QTY RANK DOLLAR RANK INDEX DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR 1 1 132.59 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700 $7.99 MAR 2 2 123.37 AVENGERS #1 $3.99 MAR 3 3 100.00 BATMAN #15 $3.99 DC 4 4 75.92 JUSTICE LEAGUE #15 $3.99 DC 5 5 70.20 DETECTIVE COMICS #15 $3.99 DC 6 6 61.95 AVENGERS #2 $3.99 MAR 7 8 59.60 CABLE AND X-FORCE #1 $3.99 MAR 8 11 59.30 BATMAN AND ROBIN #15 $2.99 DC 9 7 55.29 ALL NEW X-MEN #3 $3.99 MAR 10 16 55.02 THUNDERBOLTS #1 $2.99 MAR 11 9 53.22 ALL NEW X-MEN #4 $3.99 MAR 12 13 50.11 AQUAMAN #15 $2.99 DC 13 17 49.71 BATGIRL #15 $2.99 DC 14 10 49.42 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #699 $3.99 MAR 15 20 49.09 NIGHTWING #15 $2.99 DC 16 19 49.06 GREEN[...]

Our impromptu Top Forty-Seven comic sellers chart for December 2012 seems to have been bang on the money, at least for the top ten We'll be able to check the rest later. Both December and November were four week months, but December's skip week with only a handful of new titles available on Boxing Day may[...]

Here's a look at the charts for 2012 for comics defined as "manga" sold in comic stores and distrubuted in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors. The charts are dominated by Sailor Moon and Naruto, for the top thirteen spots, aside from the third volume of Empowered, the manga nature of which will no doubt be[...]

Here's a look at the charts for 2012 for toys and games sold in comic stores and distrubuted in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors and Alliance Games. Naturally Marvel and DC superhero action figures to the toys list, with video game spin-off figures nudging their way in For once, Walking Dead doesn't get a look[...]

Many could argue that rereleases should not be on an 'End of Year' list, but 2012 saw a ton of films we back in the cinema – and many of them had been altered in some way or another Raiders of the Lost Arc, Gremlins, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (remember that?), Lawrence[...]

Cosplay Round-Up: Toronto Fan Expo 2012 10 Best Camera Test Ever – But Canon Didn't Think It Was Funny 11 Video: Buffy The Vampire Slayer – Once More With Feeling Was Performed Live Last Night 12 David Tennant Back For Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary? 13 51 Films From 2010 That You Really Shouldn't Have Missed 14 There's No Such[...]

Colin O' Mahoney writes; These are my top three picks for Irish comics in 2012 I have picked these to give those not blessed with ease of access to Ireland's fair green hills and fine black porter a chance to make up for this by reading our comics As such, I have only considered work available[...]

This is the age of the event! But which rocked your boat this year? Even if it threw you into the water afterwards leaving you to drown...

It's time for all those best of 2012 lists, so that means you have to tell us what you think Whole lot of polling goin' on here Hit the Rumour Awards tag to vote on all of them. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Most Disappointing (In A Bad Way) Comic For 2012 – Nominations  You know how it goes.You[...]

Now it's time for the most self-serving, own-trumpet-blowing, back-patting vote of all. So I thought I'd let you all do it for me. And yes I know we got

All sorts of things happen in the comics industry. Most of them seem to make some kind of sense at the time. But not everything... here's a look back at

You tell people you admire their way with words. The flick of their pencil on the Bristol board. Their witty dialogue, their throroughly thought through

You know how it goes.You build up hope, belief, longing, desire, for a comic book series to succeed, to be wonderful, to blow your mind. And then it just

What a lot of lovely comics we've had so far. Some, we knew were going to be fantastic. The new Grandville from Bryan Talbot, Chris Ware's Building

Welcome to Comic Book Personality Of The Year. Around twenty people who, this year have delighted you, annoyed you, frustrated you, amazed you, but who

On the year-to-date, overall comics and graphic novel sales in 2012 are still around 15% up on 2011. RETAIL MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 34.35% DC COMICS 30.04% IMAGE COMICS 7.70% IDW PUBLISHING 5.60% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.72% DYNAMITE ENTERTIANMENT 3.71% BOOM! STUDIOS 1.90% EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD 1.40% VIZ MEDIA 1.33% RANDOM HOUSE 0.97% OTHER NON-TOP 10 8.25% UNIT MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 40.23% DC COMICS 33.25% IMAGE COMICS 6.67% IDW PUBLISHING 5.07% DARK HORSE COMICS 3.75% DYNAMITE ENTERTIANMENT 3.33% BOOM! STUDIOS 1.81% VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.99% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 0.63% ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS 0.50% OTHER NON-TOP 10 3.77% COMPARATIVE SALES STATISTICS   DOLLARS UNITS NOVEMBER 2012[...]

Another look at cosplay (after yesterday's runaround) at Thought Bubble in Leeds today, courtesy of andrewdotlee, josephglass, clockworkwatch, steeyre,

It was a big jump and a good month and it will be a record — but we're still a ways from the magic figure of $10 million in the Top 300 TPBs. Final estimates next week. — The comic-book industry's momentum continued unabated into October, and in fact, grew, setting yet another record in a year of[...]

The latest, greatest from Patrik Willems; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOE38qTBJyk

In this week's CBLDF Liberty Annual 2012, out in shops tomorrow, we see how that item or items were acquired and assembled, and the thought pattern behind it, in a special Walking Dead chapter by Robert Kirkman and Charle Adlard Here is a shot that a nice retailer sent me… And with a number of stores[...]

Okay, well, that was packed. MCM London Expo has outgrown the area it takes up of the London ExCel and needs to expand., Everywhere was full but some

Time to have a look at a few publishers that have a certain demographic in common, Avatar, Boom, Dynamite and IDW, and what they have new for us in December 2012. Avatar hasa new Caligula series and the second issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine, Boom has Deathmatch – and a whole load of retailer exclusive Adventure[...]

Eddy Barrows it seems is, yes, just the cover artist on Aquaman #15. Taking over on the interiors from Ivan Reis and Joe Prado as they move to Justice

However, Iris now finds herself at the employ of perhaps the most sinister of all organized enterprises—the Central Intelligence Agency! The pulse-pounding third volume of the epic Executive Assistant: Iris series kicks off with the massive ten part series that will forever alter the lives of every Executive Assistant! EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS creator David Wohl is[...]

Next month, taking into account the first month of the New 52 may be revelatory… PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES RETAIL MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE DC COMICS 33.32% MARVEL COMICS 32.42% IDW PUBLISHING 5.88% IMAGE COMICS 5.75% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.92% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 3.19% EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD 1.83% BOOM! STUDIOS 1.52% VIZ MEDIA 0.96% ARCHIE COMICS 0.85% OTHER NON-TOP 10 9.35% UNIT MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 37.18% DC COMICS 37.12% IMAGE COMICS 5.37% IDW PUBLISHING 4.64% DARK HORSE COMICS 3.89% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 3.16% BOOM! STUDIOS 1.48% VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.92% ARCHIE COMICS 0.82% AVATAR PRESS INC 0.68% OTHER NON-TOP 10 4.73% COMPARATIVE SALES STATISTICS   DOLLARS UNITS AUGUST 2012 VS[...]

Uncanny Avengers is the launch book of the Marvel NOW relaunch, featuring a number of X-Men and Avengers teammates together. Already, with around a week

Any more for any more? Here's a look at some of the publishers putting out slightly fewer titles, but most with an action advanture bent... from Ape's