The Adventures of Magic Space Dad
Action Comics #1000 is out this Wednesday (at 12:01am). How many covers do you plan to buy?
Are you ready for the Bendis era of Superman? Superman’s past 5 years have been kind of rocky…
Nick Spencer and Ryan Ottley’s Amazing Spider-Man looks like it’s going to be great. Their Free Comic Book Day issue is a lot of fun, as is Jason Aaron’s Avengers. Don’t miss these new series. Also, Oni’s Shadow Roads and Transformers Unicron.
Catching up on new comic announcements, such as the new creative team and cast for Astonishing X-Men and Joëlle Jones’ Catwoman ongoing.
This week’s Domino #1 is wonderful, fun, and a solid book about female friendships.
Planning a hypothetical signing on a holiday. Hypothetical.
The most adorable bat-symbol we’ve ever seen.
“Sometimes we need to remind people of the business aspects of this.”
It’s a busy week as we talk about the Diamond Retailer Summit, C2E2, a new BOOM! Studios retail initiative, two Richie Kotzen concerts, filming the “My Comic Shop Country” documentary and, of course, BaconFest Chicago. Strap in as this one is over 2 hours!
The First 10 Years of Challengers Comics + Conversation
We proudly announce our creator line-up for this year’s Free Comic Book Day.
What comic-themed gift can you get for someone that works in a comics shop?
Protecting the privacy of our customers (from other customers).
Challengers has been in business for 10 years!
A brief history of how Challengers started and what it took to get the doors open for business.
Our main takeaways from 10 years.
Thank you for being part of our first decade!
Sometimes Comics Need to Slow Down
It’s been a week. How have the new changes been received?
As a consumer, do you want to be immediately help in a store or left alone?
It’s time for new Challengers business cards!
Coleen Doran gives a brief history of the direct market (via Twitter).
Meltdown (a 25-year-old comics shop in L.A.) is closing their store. We don’t think it’s due to sales.
May is going to be SO EXPENSIVE for shops AND fans. SO MANY COMICS!!
Some new Marvel comics have match-to levels up to 350% of previous issues in order to get a sales break.
Would we rather have free copies overshipped for a new title, or returnability of bought copies?
Gene Luen Yang talks about teaching with comics.
By the time you hear this, change will have occurred.
But, what? What is changing?
Fine, we’ll tell you. We’re making some pretty big layout changes, while not moving any of the furniture.
We’re about to turn 10 (but please don’t congratulate us until it happens)!
We get pretty detailed as to how these changes were made, all the math behind the scenes.
We voted early! We hope you’re going to vote, too (if you live somewhere where voting will occur).
There are a few more new title announcements this week (yup, again), including a new round of DC/Hanna Barbera crossovers that look SO fun!
Why is the new Laura Kinney (All-New Wolverine) comic called X-23?!?
Patrick thought we’d briefly mention Toys-R-Us and then move on, but that turns into, like, 20 minutes on them.
2 new really good horror books this week, INFIDEL from Image (really moody and creepy and modern) and VAMPIRONICA from Archie (just fun, and gorgeous). Horror comics are the new black.