Transformers was tops on Novembers graphic novel sales charts. DC’s Wednesday Comics is coming back in a new collection. Spider-Gwen heads to space in a new story arc starting next year.
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Transformers tops November graphic novel sales charts.
DC’s Wednesday Comics returns.
Spider-Gwen heads to space.
This is Comic Book Club News for December 6, 2024.
Transformers Tops November Graphic Novel Sales Charts:
Yesterday we brought you the top-selling single comics of November, and now it’s time to look at the best-selling graphic novels. Top of the charts? Transformers Volume 2 from Skybound and Image Comics.
Per ICv2, Skybound’s Energon Universe actually snagged several spots on the Top 20, with Scarlett coming in at number six, and Destro at number 11. Image also claimed two more slots for We Called Them Giants and the ninth volume of Monstress.
But the bigger story here, perhaps, is that Ultimate Spider-Man continues to hold on for the third month in a row, hanging out at number two on the chart after taking the top slot for the past two months. The only other Marvel entry — other than the best-selling DC Versus Marvel Omnibus, which is published by DC — was Ultimate X-Men, which hit number seven on the chart.
As usual, DC was the winner in number of titles, with four Compact Comics books in the Top 20, plus the second volume of Wonder Woman, a DC Finest collection for Batman, and the YA OGN Teen Titans: Starfire.
Other highlights include BOOM! Studios at number four and sixteen with volumes of Something is Killing the Children, and IDW snagging two slots, for Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, and TMNT: The Last Ronin.
DC’s Wednesday Comics Is Getting A New Collection:
Back in 2009, DC published a bold experiment that harkened to the past: Wednesday Comics, an oversized print weekly that looked like a newspaper and contained 15(ish) stories by all-star creative teams. And now, after years out of print, it’s getting a new collection.
Per 13th Dimension, before you get too hyped this isn’t new material. It’s an 11″ by 17″ collection of all 12 issues of the series, plus two stories that were exclusive to the previous collected edition: Plastic Man by Evan Dorkin and Stephen DeStefano, and Beware the Creeper by Keith Giffen and Eric Canete.
Other standouts include Batman by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, Kamandi by Dave Gibbons and Ryan Sook, Hawkman by Kyle Baker, Sgt. Rock from Adam Kubert and Joe Kubert, Adam Strange by Paul Pope, and many more.
The new 200-page hardcover will cost $75, and hit stores on August 26, 2025.
Spider-Gwen Heads To Space In New Marvel Story Arc:
Gwen Stacy is heading to space in an upcoming arc of Marvel’s Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider series. And in a stunning turn of events, nowhere in the provided press release does Marvel refer to her as “Gwen Spacey.”
Written by Stephanie Phillips and art by Paolo Villanelli, in March the title will kick off an arc titled “Ghost-Spider Beyond” in Spider-Gwen: the Ghost Spider #11. In it, Gwen heads to the stars, where she’ll “come across unimaginable power and the only thing stopping her from using it to fix all her life’s problems is Loki!”
Not only will this be a new status quo and team-up for Gwen, but Mark Brooks is giving cosplayers everywhere a brand new Ghost-Spider costume to wear at upcoming conventions with the spacesuit designed for this arc. Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider #11 hits stores on March 5, 2025.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. Gwen Spacey. It’s right there!
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