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Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: November 2010
Tweetby Paul O’Brien Marvel had quite a lot of new material on the market in November. Aside from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN shifting to a fortnightly format with its new “Big Time” direction, we’ve also got...
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DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: December 2010
Tweet by Marc-Oliver Frisch On the surface, December 2010 was a great month for DC Comics. The company had a bigger share of the market than its main competitor Marvel, if only in terms of dollar...
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Just Mostly Gross, Funny Fun: An Interview with CHEW Writer John Layman
Tweet John Layman has been around the block in U.S. mainstream comics. As an editor at Jim Lee’s WildStorm Studios, Layman oversaw influential comics such as Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s Planetary,...
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DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: January 2011
Tweet by Marc-Oliver Frisch DC kicks off the year with a new sales record: Average numbers of the DC Universe line dropped by 21% in January, to 24,321 — the lowest number in the history of these...
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DC Month-to-Month Sales: February 2011
Tweet by Marc-Oliver Frisch Unit and dollar sales of DC Comics’ periodical business remained at the lower end of the spectrum in February, despite a slight recovery from January’s all-time low in...
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DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: March 2011
Tweet by Marc-Oliver Frisch Led by the top-selling Batman: The Dark Knight and Batman, Inc., which were back on the racks after a two-month absence, and a double-shipping Green Lantern, DC Comics’...
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Flipping Point: The Coin Is Scarred Side Up
Tweet [Editor's note: Former Beat contributor Mark Coale makes a special return with his thoughts on the DC Reboot. His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of this site.] While there will be...
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DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: May 2011
Tweet by Marc-Oliver Frisch Despite the debut of this year’s big blockbuster series Flashpoint, average DC comic-book sales were down in May. In part, that’s because Flashpoint itself came in 13,000...
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DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: June 2011
Tweet by Marc-Oliver Frisch The countdown to DC’s big relaunch continued in June with a whole lot of Flashpoint tie-in books — few of which seem to have stood out in any way to retailers, if the sales...
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Today is Torsten Day at Stately Beat Manor
Tweet While others celebrate Columbus, we will celebrate Torsten Adair, who’s become our regular weekend poster, keeper of the Coming Attractions, and master of the roundup. Torsten has been commenting...
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DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: August 2011
Tweet by Marc-Oliver Frisch As you may have heard, DC had this relaunch thing going on in September, ending several months of deck-clearing and water-treading in the company’s superhero line. The...
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DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: September 2011
Tweet by Marc-Oliver Frisch September was business as usual for DC Comics’ periodical sales, as… oh, wait. The “New 52″ project, a relaunch of its complete superhero line via 52 #1 issues, made...
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Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: November 2011 – CORRECTED
Tweetby Paul O’Brien With FEAR ITSELF wrapping up, Marvel had several major releases in November – the POINT ONE one-shot, the relaunches of UNCANNY X-MEN and FANTASTIC FOUR, and the first issue of new...
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2012: that was a year
Tweet “Thanks for making me stronger, 2012. You almost won.” Dean Haspiel just posted that on Facebook, and it mirrors how I’m feeling in many ways. 2012 was, to be blunt, the worst year of my life. I...
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DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: November 2012
Tweet by Marc-Oliver Frisch While Marvel keeps rolling out its latest round of relaunches, DC is sticking to its guns in November. There’s the “Death of the Family” crossover that continues running...
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Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: September 2014: There’s life in that there death
by Jason Enright September is always an interesting month because DC does its big line-wide event with crazy covers and Marvel has to find a way to compete. The answer this year was Death of...
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NYCC’15: Today is Torsten Day at Stately Beat Manor!
Another year has passed into the record books, and once again, October 10th rolls around. Why should you care? Because, in 2011, Heidi created a new holiday: Torsten Day! While others celebrate...
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Today is Torsten Day at Stately Beat Manor!
Begun in 2001 by the Beatrix herself, today marks the SIXTH annual celebration of Torsten Day. You can read the previous five celebrations here. Normally, it occurs during New York Comic Con, but due...
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San Diego Comic Fest ’17: Interview with SDCF’s Founder, Mike Towry, covers...
For this year’s San Diego Comic Fest, it had a great deal on its plate; A fifth year, a new venue, the announcement of a new Chairman for next year, unseasonal rain, leaking roofs, Jack Kirby’s 100th...
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Columbus Day? PIFFLE! Celebrate Torsten Day, Here at The Beat!
[Note: I didn’t start this, Heidi did, way back in 2011. But it’s kinda my Nerd Name Day, because I get kinda embarrassed whenever someone makes a fuss over my birthday.] Here’s the original citation,...
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