DC Likes It with the Light Out
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Which is my oblique way of saying that DC’s Blackest Night saga is kicking some serious ass. As Robot 6 reports, for the first time since 1968 — more than forty years ago — DC had the top 6 best-selling comic titles last month. Check out October’s Top 10 from Diamond:
TOP 10 COMICS
| RANK | DESCRIPTION | PRICE | ITEM CODE | VENDOR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BLACKEST NIGHT #4 | $3.99 | AUG090086-M | DC |
| 2 | BATMAN AND ROBIN #5 | $2.99 | AUG090106-M | DC |
| 3 | GREEN LANTERN #47 | $2.99 | AUG090095-M | DC |
| 4 | BLACKEST NIGHT: BATMAN #3 | $2.99 | AUG090091-M | DC |
| 5 | GREEN LANTERN CORPS #41 | $2.99 | AUG090097-M | DC |
| 6 | BLACKEST NIGHT: SUPERMAN #3 | $2.99 | AUG090089-M | DC |
| 7 | NEW AVENGERS #58 | $3.99 | AUG090495 | MAR |
| 8 | DARK AVENGERS #10 | $3.99 | AUG090460 | MAR |
| 9 | UNCANNY X-MEN #516 | $2.99 | AUG090513 | MAR |
| 10 | AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #608 | $2.99 | AUG090442-M | MAR |
Now Marvel still had and has the bigger market share, but DC’s gotta be feeling good — that’s total domination right there. I’ve actually been reading the Blackest Night titles, and while I like ’em, I’m kind of frustrated that it’s still just superheroes fighting superpowered zombies. There’s been no movement, just fighting and running (mostly running, actually), although I admit I haven’t been reading either of the Green Lantern titles. Is that where the action’s going down? Because everyone on Earth is getting their asses handed to them for the last four issues in a row.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.