With New Adult Coloring Book
July 21, 2015
As if Deadpool’s vocabulary wasn’t colorful enough, in January, Marvel Comics is giving the Merc with a Mouth his own coloring book.
The Market, Variants
July 21, 2015
The market in comic stores, bookstores, mass, and digital, and whether variants are at the danger point.
ICv2 Reports on the Spring and Beyond
July 21, 2015
ICv2 found several broad trends at work in comic stores in first four months of 2015, and some big questions about where the market goes next.
From 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence' #88
July 21, 2015
This chart of the ICv2 "Superhero/Genre Franchises" reflects sales in all channels for Spring 2015.
As It Increases Investment in 'Magic Online'
July 20, 2015
Sales on WotC's Magic: The Gathering were down for the quarter as part of a 6% decline for the games category.
From 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence' #88
July 20, 2015
These charts of the Top 5 Collectible Games Over-all, Top 5 Mass Market Channel Collectible Games and Top 10 Hobby Channel Collectible Games reflect sales in Spring 2015.
From 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence' #88
July 20, 2015
This chart of the Top 10 Card/Dice Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2015.
And Adds Femmes Fatales
July 20, 2015
Diamond Select Toys is going back into the Marvel statue business.
'Trainwreck' Proves Popular
July 19, 2015
Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man , which stars Paul Rudd, won the weekend box office derby with a $58 million debut, but that total was, for Marvel Studios, tiny, like the diminutive superhero himself.
Comic Artist, Writer
July 17, 2015
Longtime comic artist (and occasional writer) Alan Kupperberg passed away in California last night from thymus cancer.
