Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it s time to write about change.
At times comic books have a unique form of storytelling. Comic books have been around for decades. Comic book continuity is a comic publisher s attempt to link various stories told by the publisher together. Some people love comic book continuity; some do not. Why do comic book publishers use continuity? It is a great way to try to increase sales with crossovers. King in Black is the latest Marvel crossover. People may say one does not have to read each issue of a crossover, though let us be honest. Marvel wants sales. Marvel wants as many people as possible to buy every issue of a crossover, as does each publisher that has crossovers. Publishers use continuity to try to increase sales.
Comic Store In Your Future: 25 Hot Back Issues And Not Just Star Wars
Comic Store In Your Future: 25 Hot Back Issues And Not Just Star Wars
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Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it s time for one of his rummages through his comic store s back issue stock, what is selling and for just how much.
2021 is seeing a lot of hot back issues.
Star Wars is blazing hot currently. I could have typed up a 25 hot
Star Wars list by itself. People that have been collecting
Star Wars comics for years may easily have comics worth hundreds of dollars.
Former Editor in Chief for Marvel,
Axel Alonso, was fired years ago and replaced by
C.B. Cebulski. I know of no one who claims Marvel is now better in any way. A lot of past hyping under C.B. Cebulski too often did not live up to the hype. Cebulski updated the announcement that an upcoming Marvel comic would sell a million copies, stating he never said which Marvel title would. Well, none did soooo… The overhyped Marvel limited series Spider-Man by
JJ Abrams and his son finally recently concluded. It ended with not much interest here.
I did a double-check of my recent ordering for Marvel because it is so low. DC is cutting back with their new comic releases, so I expected our Marvel ordering to go up or at least stay the same. That is not the case. I just had another person trim Marvel titles off their pull list.
Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. He writes of 2020 and 2021;
2020 is over. With 2020 gone, our hope is 2021 would be much better simply because it is a new year. The Capitol being overrun by rioters was quite the shocker. That said, I ran across a meme. It basically said just wishing 2021 to be better is not going to be enough.
Expecting 2021: Screencap: Star Trek: The Next Generation
For much of 2020, my focus was making it through 2020. Being shut down two months, wondering if the store would be forced to close for good, and working more to do my best to ensure we did not have to close was basically 2020 for me. In December 2020, a customer came in and bought some of the gift-wrapped five-pack comics we were selling and asked we donate them to a charity. That was really nice of him. We also had a manager of a pizza restaurant supply us with coupons for free pizza or breadsticks. We randomly included th
Daily LITG: Comic book industry birthdays
There may not be much of a party atmosphere right now. All depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date.
Michael Zulli, artist on Puma Blues
James Van Hise, comics writer on Ghostbusters
Rantz Hoseley, former editor at Heavy Metal Magazine
Aman Chaudhary, designer for AIT/Planet Lar
Mark Allan Haverty, comics journalist
Eric Mengel, publisher of Ocho Comics
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