Newsarama: Artist Tom Raney to join Green Lantern in June
Veteran artist Tom Raney will reteam with writer Geoffrey Thorne, joining the Green Lantern creative team with issue #3 in June.
Thorne and Raney are currently teaming for the two-part 'The Last Lanterns' story in the Future State: Green Lantern anthology in January and February.
Thorne and Raney were initially announced as the creative team of the new Green Lantern ongoing series in December during DC's CCXP virtual panels but just days later Thorne was confirmed as the writer of the series in a follow-up press release by the publisher but no artist was mentioned.
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Good news!
I know a lot of people think Raney is "old", but I vastly prefer his style to Dexter Soy's...
Right but once again you can't really extrapolate anything from a single stores sales, this is just a snapshot into this one store so using it as evidence that a lot of the chart topping books don't sell is flawed. As a counter example lets look at the Books with Pictures shop in Portland. The owner, Katie Proctor, appeared on the Off Panel podcast a couple of years back and mentioned that 30% of her sales come from floppies and that for floppies her top four sales in terms of companies are:
- Marvel
- Image
- Boom
- DC
And in terms of her customers taste she only keeps 2 copies of Watchmen in stock, 1 copy of V for Vendetta and doesn't carry The Killing Joke - given all that I'm sure you could find a month where she didn't sell Batman in floppies, but using that to conclude that people don't actually buy Batman would also be flawed since it's just one store.
Yea, he also mentioned on twitter that "going forward" it'll be a backup, doesn't sound like there are any plans to bring it back as it's own book anytime soon.
I will just mention that this sounds like a 'book store' that also happens to sell comics and is in an area with several other shops that probably compete for that audience, which is not to discount your counter point but something that actually illustrates what I am wanting to see. Instead of one big number which is not all that useful, I would like to see more particular charts and sales. So, for example, I would expect this book store is among those that caters to a demographic that is not your stereotypical Big 2 reader, but I am not going base anything on something could be wrong, but whatever their demographic, seeing the sales trends from similar stores is much more useful than seeing what the small handful of Big Fish are ordering in bulk. Because headlines focusing on Spider-Woman shipping 150K units does nothing to promote anything anyone is interested in knowing about comics.
Nah, they're definitely a comic book store, just one that is non-traditional and makes most of their sales from trades.
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/book...tures-portland
Page from the Justice League Dark back up in April's Justice League #60:
Well you would have to visit EACH comic book store.
Also I DOUBT that would change the minds of folks (mainly the GATORS and their ilk) who take issue with certain books existing.
It wouldn't be an issue if the usual suspects would NOT throw a fit about it. When its NOT Batman-every thing from "orders to stores" or "Obama bought all those copies" is tossed out. Yet when it's BATMAN-nobody questions it.Because headlines focusing on Spider-Woman shipping 150K units does nothing to promote anything anyone is interested in knowing about comics.
Batman does not get questioned but everyone else does. Yet it's Batman with that pile of unsold books after everyone who wants one buys one.
It's Ms Marvel killing comic book store. It's Savage Dragon killing store when most store DON'T stock the book or constantly sell out of the 2 copies that they have.
Each store would need a POS system that tracks it. The shop we are talking about uses ComicHub which tracks sales. If stores could use it to see similar purchases it could help them see that they could try to promote things lower on the charts because of something else they have that is selling or being asked about. Right now the charts only help a one size fit all mentality or shops don't use the charts because they 'know' what sells and those are probably the shops that are failing to grow their audience.
And the Clayton Henry teasing Shazam story/possible series continues, because while showing off art skills he’s clearly drawing Billy Batson talking to Mary Marvel while he’s at Titans Academy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/claytonhe...24634419982339
"It's fun and it's cool, so that's all that matters. It's what comics are for, Duh."
Words to live by.
It was nothing to do with the extended Arthur & Mera separation. Abnett put together a terrific, epic run, the Kelly Sue came in, arrogantly and narcissistically ripped it apart and cobbled together a below average, unengaging run of issues.
DC just gave the wrong writer the job and it stood out more because the prior run was so well written.
It’s a fairly simple formula; good writers + good artists + good editors - interference = good comics
KSD’s Aquaman was not good but it was not down to any single plot decision.
Last edited by WelcomeBackFrank; 01-22-2021 at 04:56 PM.