Top Cow has sent Major Spoilers its official plans for this weekend’s Emerald City ComiCon, and also sent along the show exclusive variant cover to Witchblade #125.
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Sneak Peek: The New Brighton Archeological Society
Creator Mark Andrew Smith has a new graphic novel hitting the stores next week, and sent Major Spoilers an advanced review for potential review. We’re going to go one step further and provide the Major Spoilers Legion with a sneak peek of the first eight pages, that certainly have me interested in reading further to find out what is going on.
Top 300 Comics for December 2008
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its breakdown of comics sold in December 2008. As the year ended, Marvel once again rode the gravy train to success capturing almost 50% of the unit share, while DC limped in with a 31% showing.
With the low showing from the other publishers, it is a wonder they’ll survive with Diamonds new minimum order declaration.
The top seller of the month was the closing chapter of the Secret invasion, while the opening chapter to Dark Reign took third place. DC wedged between the two with Final Crisis #5, and had a pretty decent showing in the number 6 and spots with its Batman titles.
December saw the release of Dark Horse Comics Buffy the Vampire Slayer #20, which made it into the top 20, but the rest of the top 20 list is dominated by the big two. The next best seller on the list that is not DC or Marvel came from IDW with its Angel: After the Fall series, which placed 64th, with an estimated 37,000 copies sold.
The complete listing can be found after the jump.
Top 300 Comics for November 2008
Diamond Comic Distributors has sent Major Spoilers the breakdown of the top 300 comics sold during November 2008. Marvel once again leads all publishers by hanging on to 42.9% of the market. DC takes the next largest slice of the pie with 34.52%, while Dark Horse and the rest of the publishers fight over the .36 – 4.84% of the remainder.
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Boom! Studios Sneak Peek of the Week
It’s a big week for Boom! Studios as the company has five titles hitting the shelves on Wednesday, including Pulp Tales, a benefit comic to raise money for Josh Medors. Take the jump for Pulp Tales, Cthulhu Tales #6, High Rollers #3, Necronomicon #3, Scream Queen #4, and Warhammer: Crown of Destruction #1.
Top 300 Comics for August 2008
Another month, and another rundown of the Top 300 Comics from Diamond Comic Distributors. Once again Marvel took the top spot with 48% of the unit share, with DC Comics bringing in 32%. Eight of the top ten comics belonged to Marvel, with Secret Invasion #5 taking the top spot. Final Crisis #3, from DC, held the runner-up position, and Batman #679, a R.I.P. tie-in came in at the fourth position. Buffy the Vampire Slayer continues to be the top seller for Dark Horse as the only non Marvel/DC title in the Top 20.
Take the jump for the listing, and remember, this is a sortable table, which means you can find your favorite title on the list much easier.
Boom! Studios Sneak Peek: Zombie Tales #5
It’s a small week for Boom! Studios, as they only have one new title arriving in stores, and Major Spoilers has your sneak peek at Zombie Tales #5.
Boom Studios Sneak Peek: Zombie Tales #4
Zombies – good. Ninjas – good. Zombies vs. Ninjas? Freakin’ Awesome.
That’s the concept behind the latest Zombie Tales that arrives in stores this week from Boom! Studios. The company gave Major Spoilers a sneak peek, that you can see after the jump.
Top 300 Comics for July 2008
Diamond Comic Distributors has sent Major Spoilers the breakdown of comic book sales for July 2008. Marvel dominated the month taking seven of the top 10 spots on the list. DC only had two showings with Batman #678, the Grant Morrison’s R.I.P. storyline, and Justice League of America #23, while Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Dark Horse rounded out the top ten.
For Dark Horse July was a very good month as Buffy moved up the list two spots from number 12 last month. Both Marvel and DC came close to one another in the Dollar Share category with Marvel taking in 39.11% of the total sales, with DC snagging 30.08%. Those numbers are quite different when it comes to unit share, with Marvel trouncing everyone else on the list with 43.55% of all comics available. DC came in second with 32.46%. Image Comics, IDW Publishing, and Dark Horse rounded out the top five publishers.
Take the jump for the complete listing of the Top 300. Tomorrow, we’ll examine the Top Trade Paperbacks for the month.
Boom! Studios Sneak Peek
Boom! Studios has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of this week’s ongoing zombie title Zombie Tales: The Series.
Terminator Omnibus arrives this month
With the resurgence of all things Terminator (television series, new movie in the works), it makes sense for Dark Horse to collect the old Terminator issues into one giant Omnibus.
The Terminator Omnibus Volume I includes Terminator Tempest, One Shot, Secondary Objectives, and The Enemy Within. It will be available in retail stores everywhere February 20, 2008 with an SRP of $24.95. The Terminator Omnibus Volume II will follow on March 26.
I would have to rummage through the DrawerBoxes to find those issues, but I seem to remember a couple of the series were pretty good. With Omnibus editions of Aliens, Predator, Indiana Jones, and now Terminator making the Omnibus collections, you can bet the entire 1990s catalog will make it to Omnibus shelves soon.