On Thursday, July 21st, DC previewed more interior artwork at their Batman panel at SDCC. The artwork is from the following books: BATMAN, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT, BATMAN AND ROBIN, BATWING, BATWOMAN, CATWOMAN, DETECTIVE COMICS, NIGHTWING and RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS.
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On Thursday July 21st at the DC Comics “The New 52” panel at SDCC, DC previewed more interior artwork. This time the books included were WONDER WOMAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL, STORMWATCH, GREEN ARROW, CAPTAIN ATOM and LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES.
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DC Comics debuted more artwork at their “Designing the New DCU 52” panel at SDCC on Sunday July 24th. The titles included were ALL-STAR WESTERN, ANIMAL MAN, BATGIRL, BIRDS OF PREY, THE FLASH, GREEN ARROW, THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN, I, VAMPIRE, LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS, SUICIDE SQUAD, SUPERBOY, SUPERGIRL, SUPERMAN and TEEN TITANS. Take a look!
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DC Comics unveiled more interior art at SDCC ‘11 on Saturday July 23rd. At their “New 52” panel they debuted artwork from BLUE BEETLE, DC UNIVERSE PRESENTS, HAWK AND DOVE, LEGION LOST, STATIC SHOCK and TEEN TITANS.
Take a look:
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On Friday July 22nd in the DC Comics “Justice League” panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, DC debuted some interior art pages for their “New 52” titles. Here they are:
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On Friday July 22nd at the San Diego Comic-Con, DC Comics previewed artwork from their Superman group of books. Here’s a sneak peak of artwork from the following books: ACTION COMICS, SUPERBOY, SUPERGIRL, and SUPERMAN.
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On Friday July 22nd at DC Comics’ “The New 52” panel at San Diego Comic-Con, attendees got a look at the first eight pages of Justice League #1 by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee. Here are the preview pages.
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In DC’s “The Dark and The Edge” Panel on Saturday June 23rd at the San Diego Comic-Con, artwork was debuted from the following titles: ANIMAL MAN, BLACKHAWKS, DEATHSTROKE, FRANKENSTEIN, AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E., JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK, MEN OF WAR, OMAC, RESURRECTION MAN, SUICIDE SQUAD, SWAMP THING, I, VAMPIRE, and VOODOO.
Here is the collection of the artwork shown on DC’s The Source Blog.
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Recently I was having a conversation with a friend who had read comics years ago, but hasn’t picked one up in a long time. We had just come from a local comic shop where I picked up a few books I was missing and told me that he was overwhelmed by the amount of titles that were being published and didn’t know what to buy. He likes the X-Men, but there are too many X-Men titles to choose from, and on top of that, he didn’t want to get anything that was in the middle of a storyline. Having to pick up #1-10 of a series that was on issue #11 wasn’t what he wanted either.
This is one of the hurdles that the industry has to overcome. Only through the efforts of publishers, retailers, and fans, can this be accomplished effectively.
One problem with the marketing strategy of the Big Two (Marvel & DC) publishers is their reliance on restarting a series in order to increase sales. Surely it will increase short term sales because people love to get in on a ‘first’ issue of a series, but that ‘first issue,’ more often than not, is just a different storyline that could have been continued in the previous title.
You don’t always have to change the numbering when something drastic happens, just indicate it on the cover and make sure your audience is aware. If this ideology of “Number One’s always sell well” becomes the status quo, why would we ever need a series to go more than 15 issues, or 20, or 25? Do we need 10 different Flash #1’s or 15 different Wolverine #1’s? No. Lately, though, it seems like we’re moving in that direction. Does every change to a new creative team require a restart of a current series? Does a major change to a character need to have the series cancelled and retitled? I hope the answer to those, and similar questions, is no.
The first official trailer for the Warner Bros. Animation ‘Batman: Year One’ original animated feature hit the web today. The story is an extremely faithful recreation of the classic Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli which originally ran as a four issue story arc in Batman #404-#407 and was later collected as a trade paperback.
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