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Around the Tubes

It’s new comic book day! What’s everyone getting? What are you excited about? Sound off in the comments! While you wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

The Outhouser – With Industry Focused On Eddie Berganza, Marvel Hires Ron Richards – For fucks sake!

CBR – Rotten Tomatoes Delays Justice League Score – We’ll have our review soon!

Kotaku – Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2: The Kotaku Review – Who’s getting it?

 

Reviews

ICv2 – Dennis the Menace Vol. 3: Dennis the Menace in Hawaii HC

The Outhousers – Elektra: Always Bet on Red

Around the Tubes

It’s new comic book day tomorrow. What’s everyone looking forward to? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments below! While you decide on that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

The Comichron – October 2017 comics sales estimates: Metal #3 near 159k copies, four over 100k; Here’s Negan a $3.9 million book – For those enjoy the numbers race.

Newsarama – Marvel Hires Ron Richards as VP/Managing Editor of New Media – Interesting.

CBR – Wonder Woman 2 Lands Earlier Release in 2019 – We won’t have to wait as long!

 

Review

Atomic Junk Shop – Teeter Topple

Ron Richards Is Image Comics’ New Director of Business Development

Image Comics has announced their hiring of Ron Richards as Director of Business Development. In this role, Richards will be focusing on sales and marketing strategies for the publishing line, ranging from print to digital products while also extending the Image Comics brand to wider audiences.

Richards is best known for co-founding iFanboy.com, in 2001. For over 11 years, he has covered the comics industry with news, reviews, and podcasts. In addition to his time at iFanboy, Richards spent years in the technology industry, most recently at Graphicly, helping to pioneer and innovate eBook publishing and distribution. In 2012, he also co-organized MorrisonCon, the successful comic conference.

In the position of Director of Business Development, Richards will be working closely with publisher Eric Stephenson and PR and Marketing Director Jennifer de Guzman on strategies to broaden the awareness and availability of Image Comics releases via Diamond Distribution, retail stores, digital initiatives and other sales and marketing programs.