July 25, 2018
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Sean Gaffney on
Invaders of the Rokujouma!? Vol. 14.
* Todd Allen's
analysis of John Jackson Miller's latest figures is bad news for Marvel: they are experiencing very typical percentage drops for issues not #1 of new series, and nothing across the line has gone up significantly as a general reaction to last year's editorial regime change. Accusations that moving a bunch of established Marvel creators to new titles is essentially rearranging deck chairs on the SHIELD heli-carrier will feel way more pointed if this trend continues. The thought that 31K is a print hit is astonishing given that 25 years ago the first few titles from mainstream companies going under 30K from previously higher figures was an alarming moment -- in the
TCJ offices at least. Without hits the market deflates because the ordering has to be
so freaking exact over the spread of titles in question for shops to remain healthy, and there's evidence that continual reboots sets the bar-after-adjustment that much lower.
* bundled extra: the
Saga creative team
will take a year off on the before its return. I think this is an eminently sensible way to do a serial comic and it only amuses me a tiny bit that we realized this in part when people didn't meet deadlines but saw their audience grow anyway. Storywise, that's a heck of a moment on which to leave the title for 12 months.
* finally: Alec Berry talks to
David Brothers.
posted 5:05 pm PST |
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