DC Comics Thread

Didn’t know about Batman: Evolution. Greg Rucka’s one of my fav. writers, will look that book up. Thanks for mentioning it :tup:

Action Comics #3: Good but felt rushed. Didn’t like the art very much either. The reason I think it’s rushed is cuz it seemed like Morrison wanted to put in like 2 issues’ worth of stuff in one.

OMAC 3: Great as usual, good action and the Kirby-ism feel of it is great lol.

Stormwatch 3: Great as well, hope Cornell stays on it if the books doesn’t get canceled.

DC beats out Marvel again in October, month 2 of the reboot.

Good stuff DC :slight_smile:

Anyways I have like 15 comics from this wed that I need to read >_< I really enjoyed stormwatch. ^^ hope it doesnt get canceled.

Diamond released its initial report on October 2011 comics orders today, and the numbers reflect a continuing improvement in the Direct Market. Overall, comics retailers in North America spent 11.93% more ordering comic books and trade paperbacks than they did in the previous October. Orders were also up 2.67% over September, which was the first full month of the DC relaunch. Click to see the preliminary rankings for October 2011.

That would suggest a month in which overall dollar orders for comic books, trade paperbacks, and magazines were in the neighborhood of $40.6 million, the first time that figure has topped $40 million since September 2009, a month in which Blackest Night was continuing to build momentum. That would put the year to date at just under $340 million.

The eye-popping number is the rise in comic-book unit orders of 32.12% over October 2010. Orders rose 6.9% over September, when all the first issues of the DC relaunch were out. While that may sound counter-intuitive, it isn’t when you consider that all those first issues continued to have reorders selling through October. Retailers with an eye on the aftermarket may also have some sense that second issues are historically under-ordered — something which goes at least back to the experience of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #2 in the 1980s, which wound up being much more valuable than its first issue.

So retailers ordered at least a million more comic books in October 2011 than they did in the previous October, and my back-of-the-envelope calculations say the month may edge out December 2008 to be the best month for unit orders since May 2007. It’ll depend on what happens at the bottom of the charts. And remember, a large number of DC titles still have orders under-reported by Diamond by 10-20%, owing to DC’s returnability offer. The upshot is that [comicbook

http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif](‘http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=390878&page=22#’) unit sales went positive for the year this month, and dollar sales are within a hair’s breadth of doing the same.

On to the market shares, and a new record set by DC. DC’s market-leading dollar share was 42.47%, which beats its old Diamond Exclusive Era dollar share record of 40.88%, set in December 1999. That was the JLA Earth 2 month, and DC had 39 more comics than Marvel in the Top 300 that month — giving DC more than double Marvel’s market share. The 42.47%-to-29.10% gap between DC and Marvel this month is thus by no means the largest seen — and in fact, with the growth of the market this month, it’s not necessarily the case that all of DC’s increase comes at the expense of others’ final order totals. (Marvel’s top dollar share in the Diamond Exclusive Era was 45.31%, set in September 2008.) The chart:

**It’s a common misconception that Marvel always leads in dollar market share: DC led Marvel in Final Order Dollars in December 2010 and eight other times in the last 10 years. And DC led Marvel in that largest category every month from January 1999 to October 2001, much because of the comparative size of its offerings and trade paperback backlist in those days. You can see it visually here. **

DC published more than half of all units sold, and had a 20-point lead in that category. I do not have historic tracks on that, because unit sales comparisons are not as clean when comics and trade paperbacks are in the same category. (That December 1999 month when DC had double Marvel’s dollar sales, for example, Marvel was nearly even with DC in Top 300 units.) But Marvel had a 50.92%-to-28.47% unit share lead in September 2008, so there are earlier gaps of similar size in the Diamond Exclusive era.

DC’s Justice League #2 led the market, and DC had 19 of the top 25 comics titles ordered. This is a remarkable figure, but, believe it or not, it is not a record. Marvel had 23 out of the Top 25 spots in March 2005.
Source: http://www.comichron.com/

Anyway on Stormwatch, Cornell seems to be showing some love and respect for the character but i hope he brings his action comics run (The Black Ring) A-Game here and am not really digging Sepulveda’s art.

Animal Man in the third week continues to be the best in the series for me

IMO Jeff Lemire and Scott Synder are on the same League as Aaron, Hickman and Remember, brilliant work on DC’s dark lineup

OMAC is the bottom tier but Didio writes it so it might be safe from the chopping block, i do feel bad however about Blackhawks, I kinda liked the first issue and it’s promising kinda like DC’s G.I.Joe instead of their S.H.I.E.L.D.

Thanks for the suggestions AYO and Zeph.

Anyone know the expiration period for the digital code for Justice League combo packs?

No problem, there is also a 7.99 100 page comic by Chuck Dixon out that is a reprint of when Rhas brought in the Joker as a foil for Batman. I think the most interesting scene in the story, without spoiling, is when Rhas and Joker are playing Chess and having a discussion on methods.

Vote for your favorite DC characters!

Laaaate reply, but your image jogged my mind. I think what you have an idea of is an episode of “The Batman” where Joker douses Batman with his gas to make him Joker, and he himself becomes a parody of Batman taking out crime with a different bend of justice. Good episode from an alright series.

DC Wise I goooot:

Batman & Robin #3
Batgirl #3
Swamp Thing #3

Some left in my folder like Green Lantern, Rez Man, Action Comics, Hitman and Jonah Hex trade. Dropped Deathstroke, Demon Knights, Detective Comics, Superman, DCU Presents, and Blue Beetle off the top of my head. They weren’t doing it for me or weren’t a necessity at this time unfortunately.

Superboy
Penguin Pain and Prejudice
Deathstroke
Suicide Squad
Batman and Robin
Batgirl
and finally Batwoman

DC always loads up the second week with the stuff I’m reading =/

Hey they are setting up to film part of the next Batman movie right outside my job! Awesome!

^Try to make it in the movie, lol.

He’d be wearing a spider-man shirt with a scowl on his face.

I swear to god.

Full body Spidey suit so there can be one good Spider-Man movie in 2012. :rofl:

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I would pay double for that^^

Why is sinestro so freaking Godlike? I really enjoy Green Lantern series. He’s literally schooling Hal Jordan in every aspect of the Green ring.

Which doesn’t make sense, I am surprised each page isn’t accompanied by a little man yelling “Don’t remember the past! All those years of Hal beating down Sinestro…never happened, PAY NO ATTENTION!”

It just seems dumb to me that Sinestro is yoda’ing Hal when Hal kicked his ass with the said ring going on 50 years now.

Even Hal reminded him how he always beat him…even Comicvine has a topic about this.

Ummm… Flashpoint?

What about Flashpoint, it was basically “Infinite crises but hey not really” the book and doesn’t erase memories of printed work in my brain. Maybe you…dunno.