Last Update August 3, 2026
"Mind-Blowing $355 Million Debut" for Spider-Man Brand New Day– Variety
It’s the second-biggest debut in domestic box office history following 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” with $357 million, not adjusted for inflation. “Brand New Day” could end up eclipsing the all-time record if Monday’s final tally lands above estimates..."
The main point being made by this cash avalanche surrounding this Spider-Man in the summer of 2026 is that there are superhero films the crowds are willing to go to the theatre to see, and then there are the superhero films they are not willing to pay for, which so far had been the whole slate of superhero films of 2026 until this film broke open the box office.
Odyssey is moving off its exclusive Imax deal and Spider-Man Imax schedules are coming – Deadline
Online collection of Caleb Henshaw comics – AOL News
Stefanie Cragg profile – The Comics Journal
Whoa: summer box office has suddenly outstripped all projections
Spider-Man Brand New Day at $927,000,000 worldwide and The Odyssey at $911,397,000 worldwide
"The biggest weekend in box office history" – Yahoo
Spider-Man box office numbers – The Numbers
The Odyssey box office numbers – The Numbers
"Not bad for an adaptation of a nearly 3,000-year-old poem."
The incredible career of Bob Staake – Daily Cartoonist
"Superhero fatigue" takes a hike
Spider-Man Brand New Day breaks record with opening gross of $168 million and could reach $325 million+ by Sunday – Variety MSN
The cash rolling in on Tom Holland's latest Spidey outing could mean this one film eclipses everything else superhero so far this year combined.
Marvel Wonder Man TV Show gets the axe – MSN Today
The 2026 Eisner Award Winners – ComiCon
Spider-Man Brand New Day is setting records with $72 million domestic start – CNBC MSN
The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art is moving, acquired by the County College of Morris – Daily Record Morristown MSN
Tel Aviv Anime Festival – Jerusalem Post
Print vs digital – Comicsbeat
Even at the height of digital comics, Haines said, digital comics still accounted for around 10% of the market, and that never changed. It did not eat into the print market, and as the print market grew, the digital market stayed at 10% or less. Sometimes it even shrank below that. Digital simply hasn’t had the opportunity to cannibalize print comics..."
Does Amazon even want Batman: Caped Crusader season two animated series to succeed? – Yahoo
60th Anniversary of the novelizations Batman vs. 3 Villains of Doom and Batman vs. The Fearsome Foursome – 13th Dimension
Nolan's The Odyssey has cleared $700 million since July 15 – Variety MSN
Obituary for Will Franz – The Comics Journal
After 1970, Franz mostly left comics behind. He wrote one story, “Slave,” that appeared in 1972’s Weird War Tales 5 sans byline and a few one-off war stories for Charlton. An attempt to write "Haunted Tank" comics for DC was dashed after an editor, who Franz never identified, sent a rejection letter mocking Franz for his overconfidence in sending completed scripts. Stung by the experience, Franz gave up on writing war comics for the company. In 2002, he reunited with Glanzman for the Ancient Rome-set webcomic The Eagle, which was printed in Negative Burn in 2006."
Fund raiser for Will Franz end of life care costs.
"The video Marvel doesn't want you to see" – Comicsbeat
ComiCon roundup – Boston Herald
36 years ago "Swamp Thing" was a "weird" TV Show – Comicbook
Marvel's "Midnight Universe" schedule – Bleedingcool
The first trailer for Bill Sienkiewicz: That Polish Guy San Diego Comic-Con – Film Threat
Music takes over ComiCon – CA Yahoo News
What was once a comic book convention is now, has been pointed out for more than a decade, something that is really "all things pop fandom."
Spaceballs hype at ComiCon, Johnny Depp scolded as Ebenezer Scrooge, more – Washington Post
Do you have jobs? It seems as though you have so much spare time. Why are you here?" said the actor, clad in an overcoat and top hat as he emerged from a faux snow-lined downtown San Diego storefront marked with a "Scrooge and Marley" sign. A crowd gathered, recording on cellphones and calling out “Merry Christmas!"
New Jonah Hex series coming from DC – Screenrant Yahoo
What's wrong with "Blind Bags"? – CBR
DC's marketshare outstrips Marvel last week – Bleedingcool
Announcement on the Ryan Gosling Ghost Rider movie – Comicsbeat
The Star Wars animated parody series "Detours" getting limited exposure – MSN Hollywood Reporter
"Sword of Pandemonium" series coming featuring Indiana Jones – Polygon
Just saw Masters of The Universe (2026) and the beginning and ending sections of the film show a thoughtful effort to multi-plane the story with a hovering self-conciousness about the use of fandom and fantasy, an inward commentary about the film within itself trying to identify where the manipulation of "reality" goes beyond mere escapism (for example the brutal parodying of HR relationship language), but, alas, it can't be maintained. The main middle section of Masters of The Universe has the look of a $200 million dollar adventure-superhero film (frequently gorgeous) but the script is a SNL comedy sketch gone feral. Few of the moments of seriousness built up within the story are allowed to go by without being underminded with a joke of some kind to cap the scene. All of this winking at the audience about the material shows a complete lack of confidence in the project.
Before her death Kaylee Hottle had signed to appear in What Doesn’t Kill Us superhero film – MSN E News
How superhero movies can still make money despite flopping at the boxoffice – National Review
.... revenue from video-on-demand is modest, but some big movies have a significant "second life" this way: Jurassic World: Dominion made $66 million, Super Mario Brothers made $75 million, and Wicked made $100 million. And note, "An important feature of the VOD model is that studios keep 70 percent of rental sales, as opposed to the typical 50/50 split for theatrical box office."
With product placement (which comes with a hefty fee attached) and licensing, there can be many alternative revenue streams, such that superhero movies, perhaps more than any other genre, demonstrates the Hollywood Maxim that often the real creativity energy goes into the contracts for a film, not the film itself.
The severed hand lightsaber from Empire Strikes Back auctions for $3.75 million – Heritage Auction
So the rumour is that (as has been announced) Robert Downey Jr. is doing Dr. Doom in the coming Avengers V movie, but part of his hundred-million dollar deal with Disney is a new Iron Man movie with Downey coming back again as Stark. Does the logic of this, as a story, gets expained in the coming Avengers film?
Odyssey at $327,835,227 worldwide – The Numbers
Nolan's ‘The Odyssey’ piles up $124.5 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada – NY Times
The new Spider-Man movie trailer
Jerry Moriarty has died – Comics Journal
Moriarty was a singular artist whose haunting and poetic Jack Survives comic strips meshed the seemingly incongruous worlds of Edward Hopper with Ernie Bushmiller, creating a form of art he coined "paintooning."
Jack Survives was literally a painted cartoon and each page took a month," he wrote in Comic Art magazine in 2007. "It was done with black ink and white acrylic on 18 x 24 [inch] Arches paper."
"Unexpected" at ComicCon with Thump Records getting into comic book publishing with East Side Story #1 – Daily Journal
The Wednesday releases for July 22 – Fresh Comics
Supergirl at $121,656,634 worldwide – The Numbers
Batman
The Pattinson Batman II is delayed again – Yahoo News
James Gunn's Brave and the Bold Batman movie ... is going to cast Mitchell Slaggert? – Geek Tyrant
National Cartoonists Society "Reuben Events" film – Daily Cartoonist
Ryan Reynolds "next Deadpool movie" will lean heavy on the comics – Total Film
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is now selling tickets – Daily News
Disney+ doing a TV "Afterlife With Archie" show – Deadline
Penned by Aguirre-Sacasa based on the Archie Comics characters, Afterlife with Archie turns the all-American town of Riverdale into a zombie-overrun apocalypse — where the only thing scarier than the undead is trying to survive your teenage years..."
Here comes Fuzioncon in New England – Yahoo News
Official Website – Fuzioncon - 1305 Memorial Ave, West Springfield, MA 01089, USA
Boris Vallejo
The word all over Twitter is that Boris Vallejo has announced his retirement, message via his wife Julie Bell. He is suffering from Parkinsons. I didn't see any mention on their official website.
Pushing the Wall with Frank Miller – Libsyn
Audio interview with Frank Miller talking his book Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing and the Art of Storytelling
Dick Giordano’s Batman art - he was born July 20, 1932 – 13th Dimension
Editorial Cartoonist Pat Oliphant has died age 90 – NY Times
Pat Oliphant, the dean of political cartoonists, who drew and sometimes eviscerated a rogues’ gallery of presidents, pedophile priests, warmongers and other editorial-page villains for American newspaper and online readers for half a century, died on Monday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 90..."
Friday panels at ComiCon – MSN KPBS
James Gunn is fired? – Comicbookmovie
Marvel Comics has a new Editor-in-Chief: Stephen Wacker – Comicbookmovie
Marvel Comics in quitting New York City after 90 years – MSN Hollywood Reporter
The publishing division is to shift all New York based employees of the comics and franchise group, (approx. 100+ people) to Burbank, California.
The move to California is seismic. New York City is considered the birth place of the comic book industry and the company's earlier incarnations, Timely Comics and Altas Comics, were headquartered on 42nd Street. New York is where most of Marvel's classic creators, including Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, resided. It is also where most of its key heroes – the Fantastic Four, the Avengers – lived; Spider-Man is perhaps the most New York hero of them all..."
After nearly a hundred years, Marvel Comics quit NYC – MSN New York Post
Spider-Man's new "scary" costume – AOL News
2026 box office "The Good, the Bad and the Meh" – Variety
There have been a few costly misfires (RIP, “Moana” and “Masters of the Universe”), but domestic ticket sales are up 10% from 2025, according to Rentrak. And Hollywood is having its hottest summer since COVID, with revenues for the four-month season expected to surpass the $4 billion mark for the first time since the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon of 2023...."
Marvel's new "Midnight Spider-Man" – Bleeding Cool
"Disney, have you learned your lesson yet?"
Moana tanks at the box office, the latest in a list of money-losers. However, there are a few very bright spots in the recent box office past - Learning lessons with Disney
Supergirl may have flopped, but Woman of Tomorrow is coming anyway – Polygon
...this isn't the end for fans of Supergirl — not by a long shot. Coming this fall, DC has partnered with Penguin Random House Audio to release a full-cast audiobook production of Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, the comic that inspired Gillespie's Supergirl (even if the differences are there for everyone to see). The eight-issue comic book series in audio form will include a talented cast, innovative sound effects, and original music..."
New ‘Avengelyne’ Comic from Image by Rob Liefeld – Yahoo News - Hollywood Reporter
"How Frank Miller changed comic books forever" – MSN Complex
The coming Avengers Doomsday movie is three hours long? – Mid Day
Scott Snyder had an idea for Marvel, they said "no", so Snyder did Absolute Batman – Comicbookmovie
Starting to look like Supergirl is going to top out at $130 million... significantly much less than what it cost to be made – Comicbookmovie
The total worldwide take since the release on June 24 stands at a terrible $115,601,000 [The-Numbers]
This isn't just one film getting creamed at box office engagement, this is another well-known title character being ignored by movie ticket buyers. Look at this:
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - world wide take: $342,213,780 against a $166 million production budget plus $100 to $150 million spent on marketing. To break even, the magic number is estimated at around $550–$600 million. It's not even close. The Star Wars name can still pull bodies into seats, but only enough to cover the cost for a $80 million dollar film, that is, a mid-level sci-fi feature film, at best.
Masters of the Universe - international boxoffice is at $113,245,816 – the estimated production is $170-$200 million, plus a conservative marketing budget probably at $100 million, meaning the film needs approximately $540 million worldwide to get positive. That's impossible at this point. This is like turning on a movie recording camera and standing in front of it and just setting thousand dollar bills on fire.
The Death of Robin Hood - total earnings globally are apparently at $5,862,102 million against a $20+ million production budget. A $50 million take in ticket sales would probably cover the production and make some money for the financing entities The marketing was not very good and the poster put into theatres to trumpet the film was frankly offensive for a character with such a broad and deep recognition factor.
The disconnect between ticket buyers and the movie making studios seem to be getting wider. For a medium in which the term "popular entertainment" is attached there seems to be a specific and strong effort within the movie making system to shed the popcorn eaters and make product only for an elite smaller audience. With The Odyssey and Spider-Man Brand New Day-O coming, maybe that calculation is about to change.
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