Comics News & Reviews
Webcartoonist Dave (Sheldon) Kellett has some thoughts on DC Comic’s Zudacomics initiative.
Comic Book Resources has discovered a “secret” price hike on some Marvel comics – and asked Marvel VP of Sales David Gabriel to explain it.
Comic Book Resources has a feature article — not quite a review, not quite an interview with Jamie McKelvie, but with bits of both – about Suburban Glamor.
St. Louis Jewish Light reviews Harvey Pekar’s The Quitter. (It would be funnier if I said they gave up in the middle, but, unfortunately, the world is not providing easy jokes for me today.)
Comics Reporter reviews Three Very Small Comics, Vol.III.
Brian Cronin of Comics Should Be Good reviews recent Archie Comics titles.
Brad Curran of Comics Should Be Good seeks absolution for the sin of buying and enjoying New Avengers/Transformers #1.
Graeme McMillan of The Savage Critic finds the Martha Washington Dies one-shot to be awfully small and minor.
Hannibal Tabu of Comic Book Resources sorts this week’s comics into “buy” and “read” piles. (Hey, kid! You gonna buy that? This ain’t no liberry…)
The secret price is a separate price for newstand sales. If the price difference was merely 25 cents, nobody would care. It's $1 different in the US and $2 in Canada. Comics are already overpriced, especially seeing that the quality of advertisers has risen dramatically over the past 2 decades. Just before the first of the year, Marvel added several pages of advertisements to their comics and now they are taking ads for product placement in their stories. Customers see no reduction in prices when this happens.