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The DC Comics Reboot Sales Numbers Are In...
DC has announced that in 6 weeks, they've sold over 5,000,000 "New 52" comics, which is the best numbers they've had in 20 years.
Top Selling Comics:
JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 has sold more than 250,000 copies.
ACTION COMICS #1 and BATMAN #1 have both sold more than 200,000 copies.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1, THE FLASH #1, GREEN LANTERN #1 andSUPERMAN #1 have all sold more than 150,000 copies.
AQUAMAN #1, BATGIRL #1, BATMAN AND ROBIN #1, BATMAN: THE DARK
KNIGHT #1, GREEN LANTERN CORPS #1, GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS #1 and
WONDER WOMAN #1 have all sold more than 100,000 copies.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
George R.R. Martin Discusses the Differences Between Marvel and DC Comics
Martin says:
"George R.R. Martin: I liked Wonder Man. And you know why? [Laughs] Now it’s coming back to me vividly! Wonder Man dies in that story. He’s a brand new character, he’s introduced, and he dies. It was very heartwrenching. I liked the character — it was a tragic, doomed character. I guess I’ve responded to tragic, doomed characters ever since I was a high-school kid.
John Hodgman: Especially those who might die at any minute.
George R.R. Martin: That’s right. Of course, being comic books, Wonder Man didn’t stay dead for long. He came back a year or two later and had a long run for many, many decades. But the fact that he was introduced and joined the Avengers and died all in that one issue had a great impact on me when I was a high-school kid.
John Hodgman: I imagine it was pretty surprising, in a comic book at that time, to see a whole story arc resolve tragically in that way in one issue.
George R.R. Martin: Yes. It’s hard to understand, I think, from the vantage point of 2011 exactly what was going on in comics back in the early ’60s. The Marvel comics that I was writing letters to were really revolutionary for the time. Stan Lee was doing some amazing work. Up until then, the dominant comic book had been the DC comics, which at that time were always very circular: Superman or Batman would have an adventure, and at the end of the adventure they would wind up exactly where they were, and then the next issue would follow the same pattern. Nothing ever changed for the DC characters.
The Marvel characters were constantly changing. Important things were happening. The lineup of the Avengers was constantly changing. People would quit and they would have fights and all of that, as opposed to DC, where everybody got along and it was all very nice, and of course all the heroes liked each other. None of this was happening. So really, Stan Lee introduced the whole concept of characterization [chuckles] to comic books, and conflict, and maybe even a touch of gray in some of the characters. And boy, looking back at it now, I can see that it probably was a bigger influence on my own work than I would have dreamed."
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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Monday, August 15, 2011
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
DC Comics is Rebooting Its Entire Universe!! Here's the First Look at the New Superman!!
DC Comics has announced a historic reboot and redesign for its entire line of superheroes.
DC Comics is currently running a storyline called Flashpoint that involves the Flash (Barry Allen version) and his experiences in a strange timeline where the world's superheroes are very different than they once were in memory. In a bombshell announcement, DC has revealed that Flashpoint will lead into a reboot of the entire DC Universe.
Starting on August 31, DC Comics will renumber 52 different books back to #1. Every single title that takes place in the DC Universe will be affected. It isn't just a renumbering either, as DC is also redesigning costumes, storylines, characters... everything. All 52 #1 issues will launch over a period of 5 weeks.
The flagship book appears to be Justice League #1, which teams DC superstar scribe Geoff Johns with artist extraordinaire and current DC co-publisher Jim Lee. The first image from the reboot (seen below) was done by Jim Lee, partially showing how DC plans to redesign its universe's characters. The idea is to make things more contemporary, but the changes aren't incredibly drastic or anything going by this particular image. Superman's outfit and younger appearance look to be the most changed.
"We really want to inject new life in our characters and line," DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio told USA Today. "This was a chance to start, not at the beginning, but at a point where our characters are younger and the stories are being told for today's audience."
Justice League #1 will also mark the further entry of comic books into the digital age. Though digital comic books are becoming more common, neither DC nor Marvel have begun to release digital versions of all their books alongside the print versions day-and-date. Starting with Justice League #1, all 52 titles featured in the reboot will be released both digitally and physically on the same day.
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