The following is from Comic Book Resources (04/11/13):
LOBDELL ON “TEEN TITANS,” “SUPERBOY” & “ACTION COMICS”
The Titans have had the opportunity to jump all over the DCU with the recent foray into “Death of the Family” and Teen Titans #18’s battle with the Suicide Squad. What part of the DCU will they hit next?
Well — I want to say they are going to find themselves in the 31st Century soon, which most people will assume means they are going to be running into the Legion of Super-Heroes — but I am actually eager to explore the most remote edges of the Universe — a place where people ask “Legion of what--?” I want to see the galactic underbelly, so stay tuned!
The following is from Comic Book Resources (04/09/13):
SALES ESTIMATES FOR March, 2013
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
132 |
— |
11.71 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #18 |
$2.99 |
16,148 |
-0.58% |
Here are the continuing series titles on either side of the Legion book:
Manhattan Projects #10
All-Star Western #18
Ame-Comi Girls #1
Smallville: Season 11 #11
Batman Beyond Unlimited #14
Spawn #229
Alpha: Big Time #2
—> Legion of Super-Heroes #18
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #20
Red She-Hulk #63
X-O Manowar #11
Fairest #13
Invincible #101
[Legion of Super-Heroes had the tiniest drop — statistically insignificant. Is this due to stores taking note of Giffen from the previous issue, or the lack of a second Legion book to sap sales? Unclear at this time.]
Compare to February 2013:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
128 |
— |
10.78 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #17 |
$2.99 |
16,242 |
-1.53% |
Compare to January 2013:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
122 |
— |
11.30 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #16 |
$2.99 |
16,494 |
-2.47% |
| 141 |
— |
9.26 |
Legion Lost #16 (FINAL ISSUE) |
$2.99 |
13,510 |
-3.53% |
Compare to December 2012:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
117 |
— |
11.16 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #15 |
$2.99 |
16,911 |
-4.83% |
| 146 |
— |
9.24 |
Legion Lost #15 |
$2.99 |
14,004 |
-5.17% |
Compare to November 2012:
(not available)
Compare to October 2012:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
132 |
— |
12.47 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #13 |
$2.99 |
18,485 |
-2.23% |
| 154 |
— |
10.37 |
Legion Lost #13 |
$2.99 |
15,376 |
-4.29% |
| |
| 101 |
— |
0.80 |
Legion: Secret Origin |
$14.99 |
1,193 |
— |
The following is from Newsarama (03/31/13):
WonderCon: DC’s Sunday ALL ACCESS Panel — Live!
Around [Teen Titans] issue #23, Kid Flash is going to be “yanked back into the future where he’s from, by the people who sent him into the Witness Protection Program.” It’s going to be up to the Titans to figure out how to get him back. “Whether or not he wants to come back is a whole different question.”
[This references Echo, the 30th century Science Police Witness Protection Program which Harvest and Chameleon Girl are linked to.]
The following is from Newsarama (03/25/13):
Long and Short of It: The 10 Best SIZE-CHANGING Superheroes
 7. COLOSSAL BOY
One of two size-changing members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Gim Allon got his powers from a radioactive meteorite that sadly didn’t give him the ability to pick a better superhero name for himself. (In later continuities, he called himself “Leviathan,” which was a little bit better, let’s be honest.)
The greatest re-interpretation of Colossal Boy came in Mark Waid and Barry Kitson’s sadly short-lived 2004 reboot, where it was revealed that he was actually a giant who could shrink to human size who hated being called “Colossal Boy.”
 6. SHRINKING VIOLET
The second of the two Legionnaires to change size, Shrinking Violet — a.k.a. Salu Digby — was created a year later than Colossal Boy as his equal and opposite number… and also, future unrequited love.
Throughout the years, the character has had to fight against her name in many ways, becoming tougher and more violent to prove that she’s not a pushover (she’s also been known as Atom Girl, Viru,s and LeViathan). If only she’d thought to name herself “Ass-Kicking Violet” instead…
The following is from Bleeding Cool (03/25/13):
DC One Million Omnibus And More
DC Comics titles scheduled for October 2013:
DC Comics One Million Omnibus HC
Writers: Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Mark Schultz, Chuck Dixon, Ian Edginton, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Dennis O’Neil, Doug Moench, Alan Grant, Devin Grayson, D. Curtis Johnson, Len Kaminski, Mark Waid, Michael Jan Friedman, Ron Marz, Garth Ennis, William Messner-Loebs, John Francis Moore, Tom Peyer, John Ostrander, James Robinson, Jerry Ordway, Karl Kesel, Peter David, Christopher Priest, Chris Roberson, Dan Jurgens and Geoff Johns
Artists: Val Semeiks, Phil Jimenez, Mike Wieringo, Richard Case, Georges Jeanty, Cully Hamner, Flint Henry, Norm Breyfogle, Dusty Abell, Ron Lim, Will Rosado, Tom Grindberg, Vince Giarrano, Yvel Guichet, Mark Buckingham, Jim Balent, J.H. Williams III, Shawn Martinbrough, Greg Land, Josh Hood, Bryan Hitch, John McCrea, Craig Rousseau, Howard Porter, Keith Giffen, Sean Phillips, Greg Luzniak, Tom Mandrake, Scott McDaniel, Jerry Ordway, Butch Guice, Staz Johnson, Peter Snejbjerg, Tom Grummett, Dusty Abell, Norm Breyfogle, Anthony Williams, Michael Collins, Todd Nauck, Angel Unzueta, Roberto Flores, Jesus Merino, Dan Jurgens and others
Collects: DC One Million #1-4, Action Comics #1,000,000, Adventures of Superman #1,000,000, Aquaman #1,000,000, Azrael #1,000,000, Batman #1,000,000, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1,000,000, Catwoman #1,000,000, Chase #1,000,000, Chronos #1,000,000, The Creeper #1,000,000, Detective Comics #1,000,000, The Flash #1,000,000, Green Arrow #1,000,000, Green Lantern #1,000,000, Hitman #1,000,000, Impulse #1,000,000, JLA #1,000,000, Legion of Super-Heroes #1,000,000, Legionnaires #1,000,000, Lobo #1,000,000, Martian Manhunter #1,000,000, Nightwing #1,000,000, Power of Shazam #1,000,000, Resurrection Man #1,000,000, Robin #1,000,000, Starman #1,000,000, Superboy #1,000,000, Supergirl #1,000,000, Superman #1,000,000, Superman: The Man of Steel #1,000,000, Superman: The Man of Tomorrow #1,000,000, Wonder Woman #1,000,000, Young Justice #1,000,000, JLA in Crisis Secret Files, DC One Million 80-Page Giant #1, Booster Gold #1,000,000 and Superman/Batman #79-80
$99.99 US, 1,024 pg
The following is from When Worlds Collide (03/18/13):
WHEN WORDS COLLIDE: Catching Up With Green Lantern, Ultron & More
 Legion of Super-Heroes #17 by Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen, Scott Koblish, and Javier Mena
On some relatively recent episode of Wait, What?, Graeme McMillan describes the plot of this Legion issue to Jeff Lester, and though Graeme shows complete scorn for every choice made in this issue, there’s a moment, after he’s done describing the comic that Jeff pauses for the moment, and I got the feeling that he was undecided about whether or not to declare the summary “amazing” or “horrifying.” He went with an expression of the latter sentiment, but I know, deep down, that Jeff Lester longed to read the comic. How could he not?
Here’s a comic — and it’s the one where Keith Giffen comes back to draw the Legion and co-write the series and it’s only going to last for a few months because as soon as he came back to the Legion he decided (or maybe was asked) to leave the book — and, anyway, here’s a comic drawn by Giffen in high-Kirby dynamics, in which a splinter group of Legionnaires has crash-landed on an alien planet and Sun Boy’s head has been mashed by massive machinery and everything is going crazy and the Fatal Five are about to be reunited and it turns out the alien planet is actually a culture built on the floating corpse of one of the Promethean Giants.
It is everything that has been missing from the Legion over the past few years, crammed into one issue. It is a moment of crisis for the team because it is a moment of crisis for the series — one that has been deadly dull and seemingly self-absorbed. The Levitz Legion has read like well-intentioned explorations of a fictional universe — not dissimilar to, say, the Kevin J. Anderson Star Wars novels or something — but none of it has felt like it meant anything, even within its own context. In Legion #17, everything feels bigger, more potent, already exploding into the kind of story worth paying attention to. There’s no reason to hold back on a divorced-from-current-continuity book like Legion, and Giffen’s return to the series holds that idea up as a beacon.
But soon he’ll be gone again. At least we had this, and whatever tiny blasts of energy will follow before he leaves.
The following is from Comic Book Resources (03/12/13):
SALES ESTIMATES FOR February, 2013
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
128 |
— |
10.78 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #17 |
$2.99 |
16,242 |
-1.53% |
[Now down to only one Legion title a month.]
Here are the continuing series titles on either side of the Legion book:
Batman Beyond Unlimited #13
Smallville Season 11 #10
Garth Ennis: Red Team #1
Revival #7
Scarlet #6
Superior Spider-Man #1 (reorders)
Spawn #228
—> Legion of Super-Heroes #17
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #18
Fairest #12
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #19
Batman: Arkham Unhinged #11
Fables #126
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: Willow Wonderland #4
Thief of Thieves #12
[Legion of Super-Heroes had a smaller than usual drop — due to Keith Giffen coming on board as artist. The fact that the sales did not increase, merely slowed the fall, may be part of why Giffen left the title two issues later.]
Compare to January 2013:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
122 |
— |
11.30 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #16 |
$2.99 |
16,494 |
-2.47% |
| 141 |
— |
9.26 |
Legion Lost #16 (FINAL ISSUE) |
$2.99 |
13,510 |
-3.53% |
Compare to December 2012:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
117 |
— |
11.16 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #15 |
$2.99 |
16,911 |
-4.83% |
| 146 |
— |
9.24 |
Legion Lost #15 |
$2.99 |
14,004 |
-5.17% |
Compare to November 2012:
(not available)
Compare to October 2012:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
132 |
— |
12.47 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #13 |
$2.99 |
18,485 |
-2.23% |
| 154 |
— |
10.37 |
Legion Lost #13 |
$2.99 |
15,376 |
-4.29% |
| |
| 101 |
— |
0.80 |
Legion: Secret Origin |
$14.99 |
1,193 |
— |
Compare to September 2012:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
109 |
— |
13.77 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #0 |
$2.99 |
21,559 |
+14.03% |
| 122 |
— |
12.00 |
Legion Lost #0 |
$2.99 |
18,785 |
+16.92% |
| |
| 44 |
— |
1.18 |
Legion Lost v1: Run From Tomorrow |
$14.99 |
1850 |
— |
The following is from Bleeding Cool (03/12/13):
How To Write Comics And Graphic Novels by Dennis O’Neil #23 — Take Notes
Last week, I promised that this week we’d look at what has become the dominant narrative form in comics, and damn near everything else. We’re referring to continued stories, here, or serials, or arcs, all of which have pretty much the same meaning. Rather than perpetrate what could be a lengthy riff on the subject, I’ll cop out and simply give you my lecture notes for next week.
[…]
Levitz model.
Several plots continuing simultaneously.
One ends in every issue and another is introduced.
“B” plot graduates to “A” plot, etc.
The following is from Comic Book Resources (02/13/13):
SALES ESTIMATES FOR January, 2013
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
122 |
— |
11.30 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #16 |
$2.99 |
16,494 |
-2.47% |
| 141 |
— |
9.26 |
Legion Lost #16 |
$2.99 |
13,510 |
-3.53% |
[How in the heck did they manage a percent drop with that much significance to the team? (Adventure Comics #247 was the Legion’s debut.) Nifty coincidence!]
Here are the continuing series titles on either side of the Legion books:
Spawn #227
Ultimate Comics: Iron Man #4
Spawn #226
Punisher: Nightmare #2
X-O Manowar #9
JSA: Liberty Files — the Whistling Skull #2
Fairest #11
—> Legion of Super-Heroes #16
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe #6
Punisher: Nightmare #3
Batman: Arkham Unhinged #10
Fables #125
Punisher: Nightmare #4
Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #1
X-Treme X-Men #9
Masks #3
Punisher: Nightmare #5
Ravagers #8
Team 7 #4
Dial H #8
Angel and Faith #18
Stormwatch #16
Bedlam #3
Demon Knights #16
Sword of Sorcery #4
Fury Max #8
—> Legion Lost #16
Frankenstein, Agent of S.h.a.d.e. #16
Batwing #16
Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Spike #5
Shadowman #3
Conan the Barbarian #12
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secret Foot Clan #2
Arrow #3
[Both titles held steady against other New 52 titles in the same zone, Legion Lost gaining little ground due to other titles dropping faster.]
Compare to December 2012:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
117 |
— |
11.16 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #15 |
$2.99 |
16,911 |
-4.83% |
| 146 |
— |
9.24 |
Legion Lost #15 |
$2.99 |
14,004 |
-5.17% |
Compare to November 2012:
(not available)
Compare to October 2012:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
132 |
— |
12.47 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #13 |
$2.99 |
18,485 |
-2.23% |
| 154 |
— |
10.37 |
Legion Lost #13 |
$2.99 |
15,376 |
-4.29% |
| |
| 101 |
— |
0.80 |
Legion: Secret Origin |
$14.99 |
1,193 |
— |
Compare to September 2012:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
109 |
— |
13.77 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #0 |
$2.99 |
21,559 |
+14.03% |
| 122 |
— |
12.00 |
Legion Lost #0 |
$2.99 |
18,785 |
+16.92% |
| |
| 44 |
— |
1.18 |
Legion Lost v1: Run From Tomorrow |
$14.99 |
1850 |
— |
Compare to August 2012:
QTY
RANK |
DOLLAR
RANK |
INDEX |
DESCRIPTION |
PRICE |
EST.
SALES |
%
CHANGE |
134 |
— |
15.10 |
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #12 |
$2.99 |
18,907 |
-2.66% |
| 149 |
— |
12.83 |
Legion Lost #12 |
$2.99 |
16,066 |
-5.71% |
|
