Archive Page 2246
August 2025
"Regression hurts everything in the long run... it will be Marvel's undoing..." – Comicbook
There are multiple reasons that Marvel has fallen in the esteem of many fans, but a big one is regression. Marvel has stopped moving its characters forward in any appreciable manner, and some characters have gotten it worse than others. When most fans think of Marvel character regression, they think of Spider-Man and for good reason..."
Archie's October book list
Archie Comics News page with October release list
George Lucas at SDCC to talk up his new "Narrative Art" museum – San Diego Union-Tribune
The museum has been under construction for seven years already, and has 300,000 square feet of space. Meant to open back in 2021, there have been multiple delays.
...details on the upcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a $1 billion museum co-founded by Lucas and his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson, that is expected to open sometime next year in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park..."
Fantastic Four has estimated $218M global opening – Deadline
Fantastic Four gives Marvel their first $100 million opening this year – Associated Press
That makes it the fourth biggest opening of the year, behind "A Minecraft Movie," "Lilo & Stitch" and "Superman," and the biggest Marvel opening since "Deadpool & Wolverine" grossed $211 million out of the gate last summer...."
Fantastic Four money "clobbering" Superman – MSN New York Post
Saturday: Fantastic Four start piles up $106 million thus far – The Numbers
Superman at $472,441,578 – Box Office Mojo
2025 Eisner Award Winners – Comicsbeat
The Riddler
The most expensive stuff at SDCC – MSN San Diego Union-Tribune
A DC and a Marvel superhero film in the same month "ignites rivalry" between the fans – MSN Reuters
The cameos in Fantastic Four First Steps – MSN Variety
Profile of the Eisner Awards – KPBS San Diego
Positive reviews are pushing expectations higher for Fantastic Four movie - could hit $210 million to start? – Geek Tyrant
Superman movie flies high, but not overseas – MSN Hollywood Reporter
"Superman comics are cool again" – Daily Dot
There was a time when Superman defined the comics landscape. Shortly after the hero’s debut in the late 1930s, Action Comics was selling 500,000 copies of every issue of Superman comics; by World War Two, the company was selling over a million copies per month..."
Pat Oliphant hits 90 years of age and joins the "Senior Strippers Club" of the Daily Cartoonist – Daily Cartoonist
"Senior Strippers" is a jokey play on the old publishing world term "strippers" referring to artists who prepare artwork for printing by inking over pencil drawings and preparing the art for reproduction ('strippers' is also an old graphic design term for the personnel that prepped page layout negatives to make, or "burn," printing plates, especially for color separation in printing).
Comic-Con takes over downtown San Diego – Deadline
Jim Shooter obituary – The Comics Journal
Although Shooter’s hard-driving editorship made Marvel wildly profitable with a rainbow of projects such as the miniseries Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984-1985, Shooter also scripted the series), a number of toy tie-in titles like The Micronauts, Rom, Hasbro’s GI Joe, among others, he was not wholly unerring. His attempt to vastly expand the Marvel Universe with a whole slate of new characters in his New Universe titles was a bust ...None of Shooter’s new creations were especially memorable, and although some of them were used in later mainstream Marvel titles, they failed to achieve lasting success and are barely remembered today."
October 2025 Marvel books list – Bleedingcool
"...new report explains that Marvel’s upcoming film is actually beating its DC competitor in several ways..." – MSN Superhero Hype
Vintage, rare comics at auction at SDCC 2025 – KSWB San Diego Video Report
Fantastic Four movie – "good is good enough" – Chicago Tribune
TwoMorrows Publishing and "preserver of comics history" – Publishers Weekly
Until January, the publisher’s primary distributor had been Diamond Comic Distributors, whose sudden bankruptcy left TwoMorrows owed more than $65,000, nearly bringing the press to its knees..."
...Signing with Lunar and SCB saved TwoMorrows, but Diamond’s bankruptcy still delayed shipping of many of its titles for months, forcing Morrow to ask customers to buy directly from the TwoMorrows website. "Our readers really came through for us," he says...
Fantastic Four First Steps Prospects
Fantastic Four looking for $110 million domestic market start – Variety MSN
Fantastic Four looking for $190-210 million global start – Deadline
Drugstore Rack with Fantastic Four July 2025
Guide to SDCC 2025 – MSN San Diego Union-Tribune
Day by day guide plus "...there’s plenty to do around the San Diego Convention Center for locals and visitors alike who didn’t score a coveted Comic-Con badge."
Liefield earns $500K on Youngblood #1 – Hollywood Reporter MSN
For Youngblood No. 1, Liefeld tried a similar tactic. He launched a bespoke, direct to consumer version of the book that he sold directly to fans on his website in April. The experiment worked and now reveals to The Hollywood Reporter that the book generated $500,000 in sales across five editions featuring different covers..."
Superman cleans up with another near $60 million dollars in box office – Associated Press - now at $408 million worldwide - see Top Earning Superhero Films of All Time
The Altadena wildfire and watching your 50,000 comic book collection burn, along with your house – Bleedingcool
George Lucas making rare appearance at SDCC2025
San Diego Comic Con 2025 – USA Today
What may come as a surprise to many, this year's San Diego Comic-Con will be Lucas' first convention panel. He will be joined by director Guillermo del Toro and artist Doug Chiang to discuss the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The Los Angeles museum, dedicated to Lucas' work, is expected to open in 2026. The panel, held from 11 a.m. to noon PT on Sunday, July 27, will be moderated by actress Queen Latifah...."
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Original page August 1, 2025