Last Update: February 18, 2025
Movie version of DC's Basketful of Heads is coming – Comicbook – from Ana Lily Amirpour writing and directing and featuring Natasha Lyonne.
Red Sonja looking for USA release – Comicbookmovie
After spending two years in post-production, a deal has been struck to bring Red Sonja to UK cinemas, but what about North America?"
Cap 4 has good start but can it persevere with a B- CinemaScore score" ? – Variety MSN
Will Midtown Comics And UCS start distributing Comics? – Something
....now it seems would be a perfect time to be the kind of distributor that will pick up all the business that Lunar Distribution doesn't have the space, manpower, or willingness to tackle."
Manhattan’s MoCCA indie comic art festival will have week of free admission – Comicsbeat
How the comic strip world has changed – The Comics Journal
Interview with Tea Fougner, former Editorial Director of Comics, at King Features Syndicate.

Happy Meal toys contain characters that were deleted from Captain America 4 – Comicbookmovie
Marvel is "dead set" on "insulting fans" with another resurrection of Gwen Stacy – Bounding into Comics
Would you like to watch 51 action-packed superhero movies? Forbes made a list for you – Forbes
Udon Entertainment signs with Lunar Distribution – Anime News Network
Looks like Captain America 4 is headed to a $100 million opening weekend – Deadline - the global haul looks like $192 million.

I'd Like to make a Brave New World Order, please – Review of Captain America 4
Cheeseburgers and superheroes – an essay

Price point doesn't match the actual items in the display, and probably scares off more than a few people who might be interested in some Cap #4 gear.
See Photo #2 and Photo #3 of the Captain America 4 toy displays at Wal-Mart.
Profile of Comic book scholar Martin Barker – The Comics Journal
Barker's book began a nearly two decade period of study of the comics form. In a 2002 article for the International Journal of Comic Art, Barker wrote that he had no particular love for comics before he started his research. He wrote that he "didn’t much read comics as a child ... and didn‟t at all as an adult, apart from a brief period of reading 2000AD." Yet, despite this background, "comics, for seventeen years or so," were the “focus of [his] intellectual life...."
The article discusses the amount of research and writing Barker brought to an academic level of analysis of comic books.
Batman to the rescue at Rocksteady – Bounding into Comics
After placing all their bets (whether voluntarily or at the behest of WB Games) on the potential success of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and losing almost everything, Rocksteady Studios is reportedly attempting to dig themselves out of their Braniac-sized hole with a new single-player Batman game...."
How Alan Moore's "From Hell" led to identifying Jack the Ripper – Bleeding Cool
Cap 4 has $40 million start from Friday tickets – Variety MSN
Hey, ChatGPT, show me an image of a Red-White-and-Blue superhero fan happy about earning good boxoffice (on Captain America 4):
Cap 4 aiming for $75–$100 million opening: – Yahoo
Earnings expected on Cap 4 approx $90 million to open – The-Numbers
...that’s well short of the sort of numbers posted during the heyday of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, [but] it’s a big improvement over the $46 million earned by The Marvels on its opening weekend in November 2023..."
Captain America: Brave New World Reviews
Harrison Ford rescues Cap 4 – The Hindu
Chasm between critics and audience scores for Cap 4 – Movieweb
"Anthony Mackie deserves better" – USA Today
"Cinematic gobbledygook" – Washington Post
"Muddled junk food" – East Bay Times
Despite itself, Cap 4 "works" – Los Angeles Times MSN
Cap 4 is the "same old Marvel rubbish" – UK The Times
"Marvel is now a giant slop machine" – Vulture
Captain America Brave New World's job is to introduce us to the new Cap – Washington Post
"Harrison Ford can’t save ‘lacklustre, bloated’ Marvel sequel" – UK Express
Cap 4 "covers little new territory" – Superherohype
"Hey, ChaptGPT, make an AI image of a worried superhero wearing an red-white-and-blue supersuit surrounded by dropped newspapers and he is carrying a round shield"
And then Grok took a swing:
Asked Grok: Make an image of a Bat-Themed Superhero laughing at the newspaper reviews for Captain America 4
New X-Men’s Rogue? Margaret Qualley
Story at Superherohype
Diamond Comic Distributors moving to bankruptcy auction
Story at MSN Baltimore Sun
Besides Diamond Comic Distributors, which supplies stores with Marvel Comics and Star Wars statues, divisions up for sale include Diamond United Kingdom, Diamond Select Toys, Collectible Grading Authority and Alliance Game Distributors...."
Bidding deadline from outside businesses looking to buy Diamond (or parts of Diamond) is set for March 19 with a March 24 auction happening in New York. After that is a court hearing on March 27 with expectation to close-out the legal matters by April 10.
Blood Moon Comics shuts down, blames Diamond bankruptcy – Bleeding Cool
All remaining inventory is being transferred to Sunbury Press to sell in their online store or otherwise disposed of.
Hope there's not going to be more companies joining this list of Diamond Distributors collateral damage.

There a chance ‘Batgirl’ will come out one day, but it'll have to be "leaked" – Bounding into Comics
The cancelled Batgirl has joined that list of DC films people want to see (but can't): the Ayer's Suicide Squad original cut; the Joel Shumacher "dark 3-hour cut" of Batman Forever; and now Batgirl.
Has the Diamond bankruptcy changed the comic book industry forever?
Story at Publishers Weekly
Many publishers had already seen the writing on the wall by the time Diamond began having shipping problems late in 2024, following the closure of its Plattsburgh, N.Y., warehouse..."
The article describes the anecdotal situations of smaller publishers who are owed money and that has put some of them into precarious financial positions. For others it has axed expansion and licensing plans for 2025. Overall, the biggest issue is related by a comic book store owner simply stating the obvious: without Diamond's organized catalogue and ordering system, there simply isn't enough time in the day to go over the offers from hundreds of smaller publishers and ordering from them individually, which means without Diamond surviving in some fashion (and there are efforts by other businesses to buy up Diamond's business), a lot of small comic book publishing operations will be shoved into limbo if not outright ceasing of operations.
Diamond’s downfall is particularly shocking given its near monopoly of the direct market for more than 20 years..."
Image Comics Monkey Meat comic book parodies the comic book industry – CBR MSN
Ultimate Spider-Man graphic novel is the bestseller for January 2025 – Comic Book Club Live
Bringing back Gwen Stacy again? – Bleedingcool
Art and colors by Kudzuposter
Marion Cotillard talks about the stress that screwed up Talia's death scene in The Dark Knight Rises
Video (in French) at Reddit
How Diamond Distributors changed the comic book industry
Story at Comicsbeat
Article has a time line of Diamond's expansion, and features anecdotes from John Shableski, Sales Manager at Diamond Book Distributors from 2007 to 2011.
Disney wants Captain America: Brave New World to get a $95 Million opening during President's Day weekend – Variety MSN

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