The Coming Of… Not-All Man!
Will he save the comics community… or destroy it???
PLEASE LISTEN TO ME!
Will he save the comics community… or destroy it???
PLEASE LISTEN TO ME!
http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/comics-brian-michael-bendis-spider-man-guardians-x-men.html
You know what Captain America would never do? Go online anonymously and shit on a girl for having an opinion.
And yes, Brian has a new book out today. The United States Of Murder. Go get it.
Patrick Stewart stars as Professor Charles Xavier in [[[X-Men: Days Of Future Past]]], opening in America on May 23. And yes, for this tweet he can have a free ad.
http://kriswrites.com/2014/04/23/the-business-rusch-all-good-things/#sthash.fGx9olHX.dpbs
April marks the fifth anniversary of the blog. Not of the Business Rusch, exactly, but of writing every Thursday about business or writing or something to do with publishing. And now, it’s time to wrap it up…
http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/weirdest-debate-spider-man-gwen-stacy-death-neck.html
A tale of morality, physics, and the great unanswered question about Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker.
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/05/learn-math-from-troubling-tribbles/
The original series of Star Trek didn’t just break the boundaries of race and expand our vision of the future — it even got its math right. There really is a huge trouble with tribbles… and it shows the power of exponential growth.
http://io9.com/why-do-we-care-so-much-about-what-female-superheroes-we-1573674640
It’s no secret that female characters are portrayed in a different way than their male counterparts are in comic art. But in a medium where superhero costumes are already so silly, why do we care so much about how our lady heroes dress?
As you may remember, we asked Emerald City Comicon attendees to fill out a survey after this year’s show, to get a better idea of what worked, what didn’t, and who are attendees are. The majority of the data we received will remain private to our team, but we thought this piece of information was quite interesting and worth of sharing.
In response to the question, “what is your gender?”, with a blank text box to fill in, we received a wide variety of answers. When we compile the data, these are the results:
52% of respondents referred to themselves as female (examples of terminology include: “cis female”, “female”, “female identifying” “girlthing”, “lady”, “Wonder Woman”)
46% of respondents referred to themselves as male (examples of terminology include: “cis male”, “boy”, “dood”, “I’m a MAN!”, “male”, “man?”)
2% of respondents referred to themselves in non-binary terms (examples of terminology include: “agender”, “genderfluid”, “genderqueer”, “non-binary”, “Is Bad-Ass a gender?”, “Cthulhu”, “a nebulous glow cloud”)
http://blog.comichron.com/2014/05/april-2014-comics-sales-amazing-spider.html
As expected, Marvel’s second reboot of the Amazing Spider-Man title was a record-setter in April: Diamond Comic Distributors reported today that the issue “was the best-selling comic book in both units and dollars in over a decade.” More importantly, the market turned positive for the year, mostly erasing a slow start. Diamond sold nearly .2 million in comics and graphic novels to comics
shops in the month of April, a larger total than any month in 2013 except for the record-breaking million October…