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Marvel Legacy tops Dark Nights: Metal as the bestselling comic book of 2017

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Diamond Comic Distributors has announced that Marvel Legacy #1 was the biggest selling comic book title of 2017, pipping Dark Nights: Metal #1 to the top spot. The top ten featured five titles from Marvel and five from DC, with Marvel leading the way in terms of both publisher and dollar share. Graphic novels belonged […]

DC dethrones Marvel as bestselling publisher in December 2017 thanks to Doomsday Clock

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Diamond Comic Distributors has released its figures for December 2017, with Doomsday Clock #2 helping DC Entertainment to dethrone Marvel Comics as the bestselling comic book publisher of the month. The second issue of the Watchmen crossover led the top ten comic book chart, with Image’s Saga Vol. 8 the biggest selling graphic novel of […]

Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment announce Crude

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Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment have announced that GLAAD Media Award-nominated writer Steve Orlando (Virgil, Midnighter) and acclaimed artist Garry Brown (Black Road) are set to launch the gritty revenge thriller Crude this April. Killers once feared Piotr Petrovich. Now, they’ve sent his son home to him—in a body bag. Haunted by his failures, Piotr […]

Doomsday Clock and Star Wars: Darth Vader top bestselling comics and graphic novels of November 2017

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The long-awaited Doomsday Clock #1 topped the chart of the bestselling comic books in November 2017, with DC clocking up eight of the top ten titles as the publisher toppled Marvel Comics in terms of unit share. However, Marvel led the way in terms of graphic novels, with Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 1: Imperial […]

Image announces Rich Tommaso’s new crime series Dry County

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Image Comics has announced the upcoming launch of the all new crime series Dry County from critically acclaimed creator Rich Tommaso (Spy Seal). Take a look at a first-look preview here… Miami. Late 1990s—but still suffering a hangover from the 1980s. Young Gen-Xer Lou Rossi has fallen for a lady, and fallen hard. So when […]

Image announces brutal new sci-fi series VS

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Image has announced that superstar artist Esad Ribić (Secret Wars, Uncanny X-Force) will make his creator-owned debut, teaming up with acclaimed writer Ivan Brandon (Black Cloud, Drifter) for the darkly satirical sci-fi series VS this February. Check out a preview of the first issue here… “Making VS is a dream,” said Ribić. “After all these […]

Dark Nights: Metal and The Walking Dead: Here’s Negan top bestselling comics and graphic novels of October 2017

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Diamond Comics Distributors has unveiled the comic book and graphic novel sales figures for October 2017, and while DC didn’t quite manage to dethrone Marvel overall, it did dominate the comic book chart with its Dark Nights: Metal event and Batman titles occupying seven of the top ten spots. Dark Nights: Metal #3 coming in […]

Image announces sci-fi fantasy series Dissonance

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Image Comics and Top Cow have announced that designer Melita Curphy and writer Singgih Nugroho are teaming up with artist Sami Basri for the new sci-fi/fantasy series Dissonance, launching this January. In an alternate world where Earth is populated with powerful human-spirit hybrids called Fantasmen, Folke and Roisia Herviett, two siblings with opposing worldviews, are […]

Marvel Legacy and The Walking Dead lead bestselling comics and graphic novels of September 2017

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Marvel launched its latest revamp last month with the release of Marvel Legacy #1, and the one shot has not only topped the sales chart for the month, but it has also become the biggest selling comic book of the year so far with almost 300,000 copies sold. In addition to Marvel Legacy #1, Marvel […]