Wizard Lost a Lot of Money on Shows Last Year

ICv2 has the details. Wizard World lost $4.25 million in 2015, so they’re going to cut back on the number of shows they stage this year. They were profitable to the tune of just under a million dollars in 2014. That year, they made $1.36 million per show, on average, for a total of $23.1 million made on 17 shows. 2015, the numbers were less favorable. They made less money, $22.9 million, on more shows, 25, so the show average [...]
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YaoiCon Celebrates 15 Years by Adding East Coast Edition

YaoiCon, to be held in the San Francisco area September 16-18 (the same weekend at SPX, but I imagine there isn’t a lot of audience crossover), will be celebrating its 15th anniversary of gathering fans of yaoi in anime and manga. Now they’re adding an East Coast gathering, BishounenCon, which will launch March 3-5, 2017, in Warwick, Rhode Island. The name change indicates a wider focus with the new show. Viannah Duncan, convention director, said, “we’ve taken our love of [...]
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The Killing Joke Animated Movie Gets an R Rating

The DC Universe original animated movies, over the nine years the line has run, have often featured violent scenes (and the occasional bad word or sexual implication) that firmly put them in PG-13 territory. Just because these are cartoons doesn’t mean they’re for kids. However, this is a new milestone, one of questionable significance. Batman: The Killing Joke will be released as part of the DCUOA line later this year, and the MPAA has given it an R rating. Warner [...]
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Warner Bros. Revamps Studio Tour to Promote Their Recent Movies

The Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood (is there another one?) has announced they are adding a “new interactive experience” called “DC Universe: The Exhibit”, which seems to restrict the DCU to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the upcoming Suicide Squad movie. The new exhibit will open May 24 and feature “Harley Quinn’s original Belle Reve prison cell”, as well as additional props and costumes from Suicide Squad and costumes and Batcave props from BvS. Much attention is paid [...]
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Torchwood Comic Joins Doctor Who Line

Titan Comics has announced that, in addition to their ever-expanding Doctor Who comic line, they will be publishing a Torchwood comic that will be “in continuity with the new hit Torchwood audio dramas from Big Finish”. The story is promised to feature Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper (as played by Eve Myles). (Is anyone else from the team left? I haven’t watched the last two or so installments.) Most excitingly for dedicated fans, the actor who played Captain Jack, [...]
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The New Deal

I have never before seen a graphic novel that so beautifully captures what I enjoy about watching 1940s movies. The New Deal is a rich-vs-poor caper set in 1936 at the New York Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Jonathan Case (Green River Killer, Dear Creature) isn’t doing a purely retro piece, though, since he also incorporates class and racial distinctions that we’re much more aware of now. The time period allows Case to draw gorgeous settings and time-period fashion, but it’s also [...]
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New Monkees Video Uses Comic Art

The Monkees, the band that brought KC and I together, had their peak success in the mid 1960s, although they released singles from 1966-1971. The 80s revival, spurred by MTV rerunning their TV show (which shared a lot in common with music videos and modern editing and comedy techniques) resulted in a few more single releases in 1986 and 1987. So it’s been almost 30 years since the band put out a single (and 20 years since a new album). [...]
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The Readaholics and the Poirot Puzzle

Now that the book club and its characters have solved the murder of one of their own (in the first book, The Readaholics and the Falcon Fiasco), it’s time to see if their abilities extend to another case. In The Readaholics and the Poirot Puzzle, the group is reading Murder on the Orient Express, a classic Agatha Christie mystery where everyone hates the villain. Similarly, Amy-Faye and her friends tackle a case where the dead man is widely hated. Only [...]
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New Bone Graphic Novel Marks 25th Anniversary

25 years after the first Bone issue, and years after the book became a kids’ graphic novel classic, Cartoon Books has announced a new Bone book. The Bone cousins and their friend Bartleby the Baby Rat Creature take a “dangerous journey across the desert back to Boneville in their rickety cow cart” in a story written and drawn by original creator Jeff Smith. Bone: Coda will also include the text of The Bone Companion by Stephen Weiner, now illustrated, as [...]
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Die Kitty Die! Makes Fun of Publisher

Fernando Ruiz and Dan Parent, former Archie Comics artists, teamed up for a Kickstarter at the end of last year to put out Die Kitty Die!, a parody series about a large-breasted witch whose comic publisher is trying to kill her. (Dan Parent was the driving force behind the Kevin Keller introduction, giving Archie its first out gay character, but with the publisher’s revamp, the two haven’t been doing as much work for Archie. And after this series, I expect [...]
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Founding Fathers Funnies

Peter Bagge returns to historical biography. I enjoyed his Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, but Founding Fathers Funnies takes a much different approach: short tales of 5-8 pages with little respect for the subjects. Instead of focusing on historical events, the well-known milestones take background to showing famous men arguing with or sniping at each other. Bagge’s loopy, snaky lines lend themselves well to caricature. His goal is to humanize these historical figures, to demonstrate how their “big personalities… [...]
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So Cute It Hurts!! Volumes 5-6

I rarely remember what’s been going on with twins Megumu and Mitsuru between volumes of So Cute It Hurts!!, but it doesn’t matter, since author Go Ikeyamada does a great job of catching us up as the various characters talk about who’s been doing what and the various relationship permutations. As volume 5 opens, Megumu has returned from her first date with tough-guy Aoi. It’s adorable young love, and predictably proceeding slowly and comfortably (complicated by Aoi’s only-in-manga condition of [...]
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Love Stage!! Volume 5

This boys’ love manga series about two young actors has now been running long enough that it’s time to flip the premise. Previously, the more experienced Ryoma was pursuing Izumi. However, events in Love Stage!! volume 5 amusingly make the opposite necessary. In volume 4, Ryoma was concerned by how pushy, abusive producer Kisaragi was getting his claws into Izumi. He’s so worried about his new boyfriend that it affects his performance. So Kisaragi “hypnotizes” Ryoma to allow him to [...]
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Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor #2

Now that I’ve gotten used to the somewhat stiff art style used for the miniseries by Brian Williamson (probably under constraints to keep the likenesses as on-point as possible), I can relax and enjoy the adventure, and boy, there’s plenty of that! Writers Gordon Rennie and Emma Beeby waste no time in explaining the plot — a crazy old lady has a way to open windows to the past with the Lamp of Chronos — and characters — Professor James [...]
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No Mercy #9

The psychological horror series by Alex de Campi and Carla Speed McNeil concludes its second arc with the most powerful issue yet. It’s also a great starting point, if you’re curious, since it’s a flashback issue focusing on a single one of the doomed teens. (If you’re looking for a more chronological starting point, the first four issues of No Mercy have been collected at a discount price.) Back in issue #6, we saw how poorly siblings Chad and Charlene [...]
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The Readaholics and the Falcon Fiasco

As soon as I heard the premise for this first in a cozy mystery series, I knew it was for me. The Readaholics and the Falcon Fiasco revolves around a mystery-reading book club organized by event planner Amy-Faye Johnson. She lives in a small Colorado town, where the other club members are her best friend, Brooke, a society wife; Lola, who runs a plant nursery and mothers her younger sister; the older Maud, a web designer, hunting guide, and conspiracy [...]
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Decanting a Murder

In Decanting a Murder, sommelier-in-training Katie Stillwell investigates a mystery in California wine country. Her outgoing childhood friend Tessa is working at a secretive winery whose products are much in demand, and Tessa invites Katie to a private party there. The owner is found murdered in one of the fermentation tanks, and the cast of suspects includes his wife, the businessman owner of the neighboring vineyard, the bitchy assistant, the flirty vineyard manager, and Tessa. Katie gets involved in figuring [...]
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The Sculptor

It’s no fun to be Scott McCloud, when it comes to creating comics. He came up with the bedrock work of popular comic theory, Understanding Comics, over 20 years ago. It revolutionized how people thought and talked about the medium, but it sets a very high bar for him when he sets out to simply tell a story. His earlier series, Zot!, was fun retro science fiction adventure, moving into more poignant slice-of-life stories by the end, but that was [...]
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Comics Worth Reading Now Available on Apple News

If you’re an iOS user, you might want to follow this site on Apple News, where it is now available. I’d be really honored if you made it a Favorite by following these instructions: Open Apple News. Tap Search. Enter “Comics Worth Reading”. Locate it in the list of search results. Tap the plus symbol next to Comics Worth Reading.
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

Review by KC Carlson Inspired by the 2010 book of the same name (but different subtitle: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made The National Lampoon Insanely Great by Rick Meyerowitz), Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon is a 2015 documentary film starring all those (surviving) writers and artists discussing what made that magazine so special and so iconic for a sliver of time during the 1970s. That film, which I was lucky [...]
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Good Books to Order for June 2016

The latest Diamond Previews catalog lists a lot of books worth checking out. Here are a few of them, along with others I had something to say about. You can order them now through your local comic shop for delivery in June or later. (The ones with May dates are relists of books that have already been published, so they’re available earlier.) Drug & Drop Dark Horse, $10.99, APR16 0187, May 18 It’s Manga Month! Which is just an excuse [...]
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Honey So Sweet Volumes 1-2

As its title suggests, Honey So Sweet is a lightweight confection, an adorable bundle of teen romance between mismatched types that stands out because of the speed of its plot developments. Amu Meguro presents the story of Kogure, a shy girl just starting high school. She’s stunned when a delinquent, Onise, suddenly requests a conversation with her, gives her a bouquet, and asks that they date. She says yes out of fear, but as their story develops, we learn a [...]
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Real Account Volume 1

I don’t know why I have a fondness for “we’re trapped in a video game and have to kill each other!” manga, but they can be surprisingly fun as escapism. Except, usually, I don’t really identify with hardcore video game players, and they tend to overdo the fan service. (I figure that the genre exists so that readers can dream of a world where being really good at video games counts for something.) Real Account, at least based on the [...]
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The Final Tap

The Final Tap is a sequel to The Final Reveille, a murder mystery set at a living history museum, a reconstructed farm in Ohio, but it works perfectly well as a starting point if you haven’t read the previous. This time, instead of a Civil War reenactor getting killed, it’s a despicable, unliked expert on maple sugaring in this mystery by Amanda Flower. It’s spring at the farm, although the winter weather keeps hanging around. Kelsey, manager of the farm [...]
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Comic-Con International to Launch Subscription TV Service This Summer

Following in Wizard World’s footsteps, Comic-Con International, owner of the San Diego Comic-Con, has partnered with Lionsgate to launch Comic-Con HQ, a subscription video-on-demand service debuting in June. Free beta access begins May 7, Free Comic Book Day. Beta users are promised to have free and unlimited access through July 25, to include week-long live coverage of San Diego Comic-Con. The channel aims to provide year-round access to the fan community and genre enthusiasts. Here’s their description: The ad-free streaming [...]
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