DCU gets remade - all books are #1s, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee on Justice League, more

Newsarama chooses the top 10 series to watch in 2012. Grant Morrison's Multiversity and watchmen 2 tops the list..

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/10-to-watch-in-2012-series-111229.html

DC had more books (from the new 52) on CBR's top 100.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36140

Some character design teases...

Sounds like Rob Leifeld will be writing Deathstrok!! 🙁

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/01/02/rob-liefeld-write-deathstroke-series/

Originally posted by Prep-Man
Some character design teases...

good designs those are..

Originally posted by Prep-Man
Sounds like Rob Leifeld will be writing Deathstrok!! 🙁

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/01/02/rob-liefeld-write-deathstroke-series/

i just read this.. i think it is a mistake

Nice Silver Banshee.

"Her name is Pandora"

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2012/01/03/dc-comics-in-2012-her-name-is-pandora/

Liefeld on Deathstroke?

Thanks for destroying one of my favorite characters, DC. 👆

http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=52186

As Bleeding Cool report, they started closing the gap back in November and DC's decision to release almost no comics in the fifth week of December meant that they've no fallen behind once again. As the site reports, "Marvel rose from 33.3% to 34.43% of dollars spent in December 2011, while DC fell from 34.69% to 33.74%. And for the number of comics bought, Marvel led again increasing from 37.94% to 39.05% against DC falling from 39.66% to 37.72%."

From Bleeding Cool:

Marvel earned 39.05% unit share and 34.43% dollar share; publishing 124 (according to Marvel.com) comics in December.
DC earned 37.72% unit share and 33.74% dollar share; publishing 80 (according to DCComics.com) comics in December.

(Marvel kindly put the total number at the top of their December release page, for DC I had to count the books each week - I included all books including licensed, kids, and the DC Presents mini-trades - but manually excluded the trades/hardcovers.)

Now let's look at the numbers slightly differently, based on production per book. If we factor the number of books into the dollar share it works out that the mythical "average Marvel book" contributes 0.28% of total dollar share while its equally mythical counterpart the "average DC book" contributes 0.42% towards the total dollar share.

That's right, on average, DC generated 50% more revenue per book than Marvel - and they did it with a lower average selling price.

I very much doubt that there's a significant difference in average creative cost per book between DC and Marvel, so that's probably a wash. I'd expect print costs to be higher for Marvel, just because the numbers indicate a larger number of smaller print runs, which is always more expensive.

What this tells me is that regardless of who "wins" the market numbers; DC is probably not only more profitable on a per book basis, but is probably pulling in significantly more total profit from comics sales than Marvel. That's the number that's making John Rood so happy.

Lol @ Liefield. Eh, at this point I don't even care what they do to Desthstroke, maybe it's that Higgins put the final nail in the coffin for the character or maybe its just a side-effect of me losing interest in comics, but honestly I almost welcome Liefield at the helm since I know he'll run the character into the ground, lose the book, and Deathstroke will be allowed to Rest In Peace.

For a little while.

Hopefully.

Scans for the New Stormwatch. Shadow Cabinet seems very powerful and interesting what he said to MM. Really curious who will be writing after Paul Cornell.

Originally posted by Prep-Man
Some character design teases...

Awesome designs. BTW does anyone know who the blue guy is?

Originally posted by Prep-Man
DC had more books (from the new 52) on CBR's top 100.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36140

That may be but Marvel's comic book sales has beaten DC last month

http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=52186

Phil's post sheds more light to that, though.

Originally posted by Kazenji
That may be but Marvel's comic book sales has beaten DC last month

http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=52186

Yeah, it was very close and DC put out less books. Not to mention, they didn't include the digital sales. The Digital sales were up and Marvel wasn't close to DC.

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
Phil's post sheds more light to that, though.

Phil Ken Sebben?

Originally posted by Prep-Man
Yeah, it was very close and DC put out less books. Not to mention, they didn't include the digital sales. The Digital sales were up and Marvel wasn't close to DC.

I don't really pay attention to Digital Sales anyway, i don't use it.

Batman/Spiderman crossover?

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/01/04/scoop-marvel-and-dc-to-publish-new-twelve-issue-crossover-spider-man-batman/

Hm.

Could be false, but it's nice to imagine.

Shit got real in Action Comics.

Not that I haven't been enjoying all this "champion of the opressed" a lot - but Grant Morrison writing the "time-travelling team-ups of Anti-Superman army" type of stories is one of the things I was looking forward to most when I heard he'd get the title.

^ 👆