Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 12, 2013
Categories: Retailing/Industry
It has been a little while, but here’s a new TILTING AT WINDMILLS, wherein we show the inherent value of conflict! Not a single comment in the CBR thread, gotta love it! -B
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BookScan 2012: important addendum
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 16, 2013
Categories: Retailing/Industry
It was observed to me by a third party that for a good part of 2012 Barnes & Noble was not stocking the “top 100″ DC Comics, which I entirely forgot about in my BookScan 2012 report. There are published reports that say that this ended at the end of June 2012, but there’s also reports from everyone’s favorite muckraker, Rich Johnston, that some/much of the books were returning to some B&N locations before 2011 even ended. What does this actually do to the charts? I have no real idea. Typically 4th quarter is the strongest sales quarter, so, in theory, this should have impacted DC’s 2011 numbers much stronger than 2012, but even that’s uncertain — how much demand… Read More…
Tilting #221 — BookScan 2012 is live
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 15, 2013
Categories: Retailing/Industry
You can find it at Comic Book Resources. That represents like twenty hours of my life in the writing, so I hope you find some useful intelligence in it! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 18, 2013
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Talking about Marvel NOW! and it is available, as usual, at CBR. Comment here if you can’t over there. -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 7, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
You can, as always, read it at Comic Book Resources. Feel free to comment here, if you like. Spurgeon got what I was trying to say; somewhat predictably the readers at CBR seem to have not. -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on November 16, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
As always, it is at Comic Book Resources — feel free to comment here if you can’t / won’t there (though there’s already a healthy early AM debate going on in the comments, it looks like) -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on September 13, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Mm, look, it’s up! A (full-on) rant on the subject of variant covers, it’s be at my prickliest. If you can’t/won’t comment at CBR, feel free to do so below. -B
New Tilting is, in fact, up (it is #216)
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 17, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Hey, for once I’m actually awake/at the computer late enough on a Thursday night to actually see my name in lights, at the very top of CBR. Click that shit, and read some thoughts about DC’s reboot, a year into it. Comment here if you, y’know, won’t do the CBR thing (I get it, I get it!) -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 27, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
You can find it at Comic Book Resources. I discuss what I perceive as the marketing and branding failure for “Marvel NOW!”. I’ve hit some sort of nerve, as it’s already got 25 responses before 9 am…. As always, feel free to comment here if you don’t/can’t reply there. -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 6, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Coincidentally running the same day as the creator roundtable, I talk about why creator-owned comics (and Walking Dead #100 in particular) is great news for retailers. Go read, and let me know what you think! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 11, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
You can read the latest right here, as I talk about FCBD, changes at DC Entertainment, Diamond’s breaking street date, and some bits on digital. I’m a little behind on writing reviews (as I pretty much haven’t read any comics yet this week [it's been hectic], but I expect I’ll get something up BEFORE the next batch arrives, just watch me! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 13, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
It’s the newest Tilting at Windmills! You can of course comment here if you don’t want to comment there! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 16, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Find it on CBR. It must suck, since no one is commenting over there…. orrrrrrr I’m so insanely reasonable that everyone has been struck dumb! U decide! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on November 18, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Showing you just how busy I’ve been this week, I’m just getting to linking this now. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=35526 How sad is that? Comment here if you’re not up for CBR commentary. -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 21, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
At Comic Book Resources, as usual. If you can’t bear to comment there, we have this forum. I’m actually a little surprised at just how positive the CBR commentary has all been — where are the internet trolls? I guess they simply haven’t woken yet today! Anyway, go find out about DC #2s, B&N, and why Comix Experience won’t be racking AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #1. -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on September 23, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Geez, forgot to link this, didn’t I? Been some crazy weeks…. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=34535 -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 26, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Comic Book Resources has it, as always. Feel free to use this comments section to discuss it, if you like. -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 29, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry , Site News
In other news, we’ve completed a refresh of the Comix Experience website, which was pretty long overdue, I hate to say. In addition to it just looking visually fresher, there’s a fair chunk of new content on the site for you to examine — in super-particular I’ve put up an additional 26 Tilting at Windmills, and you can also find a scan of the ultra-rare Comix Experience 5th anniversary magazine, yay! Spend a few minutes tooling around, let me know what you think? Much love to my Mom, who did the rebuild! THANKS MOM! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 15, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
You can find it at CBR, by clicking this link. If you don’t like to post over there, you have the option of posting comments here. -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on June 10, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Find it at CBR, all about how the market is likely to respond to DC’s reboot plan. I thought I was clear, but, man, already the talk back threads are filled with people who don’t seem to have much reading comprehension? Anyway, chat here, as well, if you like. -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 24, 2011
Categories: Reviews
It looks like Graeme and Jeff and I are now playing Chicken again. Which of us will blink first?
