Archive Page 2222
February 2025
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
Our Diamond Bankruptcy page
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 – More About Diamond and the Bankruptcy
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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Original page February 18, 2025