Uncanny X-Men was at the top of the August comic book sales charts. The next big event from IDW’s Star Trek line is Lore War. Mike Mignola is getting a gallery show, and art book.
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Uncanny X-Men tops August sales charts.
Star Trek: Lore War is coming from IDW.
Mike Mignola gets a gallery show
This is Comic Book Club News for September 5, 2024.
Uncanny X-Men Was The Best-Selling Comic Of August 2024:
Marvel’s X-Men relaunch continues to be big for the publisher, as Uncanny X-Men #1 was the best-selling single issue of August 2024.
Per ICv2, the Gail Simone and David Marquez title was tops on both units sold, and dollars earned last month. And while Ultimate Spider-Man #8 took the number two slot, it’s followed by X-Men #2 at number three on units sold. On dollars earned, Aliens vs. Avengers #1, with a $7.99 price point, takes the number three slot. However, showing that perhaps that price tag was too high, it only reached number 14 on units sold.
Though DC continues to struggle on the overall list with only eight titles on units sold, they did have two crack the top ten: Batman at number four, and Absolute Power at number seven. After not making a dent in the first month of the event, it’s promising to see it climbing the charts.
Transformers continues to be a powerhouse for Image Comics at number eight. And Marvel’s Red Band program of adults-only comics is a success, too, with both the regular and polybagged versions of Wolverine: Revenge in the Top 20, while the Werewolf By Night Red Band also charted in the Top 20.
In fact, Marvel continues to have a stranglehold on the charts, with 35 of the Top 50 best-selling titles of the month.
One bright spot to the contrary? IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, which popped up on both charts despite debuting in July — proving the Turtles have s-t-a-y-i-n-g power.
Star Trek: Lore War Coming From IDW:
Speaking of IDW, the publisher has officially announced their next big Star Trek event: Lore War.
The 2025 debuting event was teased in the pages of this week’s Star Trek #500, where Lore, aka the evil version of Brent Spiner’s Data, is looking to remake the universe in his image. When that becomes too generic and boring for the bad android’s taste, he instead decides to create a version of the Star Trek Universe where he rules but can enjoy the rest of the characters fighting back.
Lore War will kick off in its own dedicated series, and spin out into both the ongoing Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant series, as well as TBA one-shots. It will be written by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Christopher Cantwell, with art by David Tinte.
Said Cantwell on the event, “Since the line’s inception, our grander story in both titles has dealt with STAR TREK’s concept of godlike beings and the rejection of those godlike beings — order and entropy as it exists throughout the four quadrants of the galaxy. Who pulls the strings and who dares to cut them? LORE WAR is quite literally the apotheosis of that shared theme, two years in the making.”
Added Lanzing, “This is it. The moment we’ve been building to since the Theseus left spacedock and the Defiant was stolen. The ultimate STAR TREK comics crossover event – as the heroes and villains of the galaxy must band together to defend its very existence.”
Star Trek: Lore War debuts March 26, 2025.
Mike Mignola Is Getting A Gallery Show And Art Book:
Mike Mignola is getting a gallery show. The lauded artist will be featured starting September 19 at the Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York City. Titled Hell, Ink & Water: The Art of Mike Mignola, the exhibit will host a reception on the 19th, and a release party for the upcoming art book of the same name during New York Comic-Con.
Said Mignola via press release: “It does seem like suddenly there is a whole lot going on. Most of these things have been in the works for ages but nice to have them out in the world at last—Especially as all this stuff (the paintings, Pinocchio and Bowling With Corpses) is about life beyond Hellboy. I still love Hellboy (of course) and have my hand in several new Hellboy related projects, but I’m excited to see a very new and different side of myself out there.”
The exhibit will feature 30 watercolors as well as over 100 black and white pieces by the artist, including selections from Beehive Books’ Pinocchio.
If you want to check it out for yourself, the exhibit will be open until October 26.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And when’s my gallery show? Can you put podcasts in a gallery?
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