[SPEAKER_00]: Batman Books Top September's graphic novels, General holograms heads to boom, IDW Darkline Expans.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Comic Book Club News for October 9, 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yesterday on the podcast, we brought you the breaking news of how the character Batman is pretty popular, at least when it comes to single-issue comic book sales.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in a true shocker, people like Batman graphic novels, as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Per ICV2, DC's new compact comics volume for Batman, Arkham Asylum was top of the charts for September 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: Following that, the absolute Batman volume one soft cover came in at number two in the Batman Court of Owls' Compact Comic came in at number three.
[SPEAKER_00]: In addition, three more batman graphic novels hit the charts, including those six DC Comics took 12 slots on the top 20 with absolute Wonder Woman and absolute Superman rounding out the top 5 and 8 of DC's entries were part of the massively popular compact comics lie.
[SPEAKER_00]: That left 8 remaining slots.
[SPEAKER_00]: for Marvel and for for image comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel's titles were all from the ultimate universe with ultimate spider-man volume three ranking the highest at number six.
[SPEAKER_00]: Image comics in a change of pace did not write anything from the energon universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead, the four titles included our exquisite corpses, knives, a criminal book, assorted crisis events, and the second volume of the power fantasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's some truly outrageous news, Boom Studios has snagged the publishing rights to Gem and the holograms which was previously held by IDW.
[SPEAKER_00]: Boom will work with Hasbro to mount a tour, read, make comics, featuring Gem and the holograms starting in 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will kick off early though, with Perpie R. Quote, a boom direct reserve campaign collecting the historic run of Jim and the holograms comics launching on Kickstarter this November.
[SPEAKER_00]: First launch in 1985, the classic cartoon created by Christy Marks has some comic bonafides.
[SPEAKER_00]: A long-side has for the original series came from Marvel Productions.
[SPEAKER_00]: The show focused on a character named Jericho Benton who used hologram tech to masquerade his gem, the lead singer of the band.
[SPEAKER_00]: While they tour, they'd also tangle with their evil opposite band the misfits.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might be able to do the math here, but this is the 40th anniversary of gem and the holograms.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first gem comics were released in 2011, followed by an IDW series in 2015 launched with writer Kelly Thompson, as for upcoming creative teams, TBA.
[SPEAKER_00]: First announced that last year's New York Comic-Con ahead of this year's New York Comic-Con, IDW Dark is finally open the seller door to Gaze and Terror on four new titles coming soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: First up, following on Smile and its sequel, writer Hannah Rose May and artist Mariana Puglia will take on Smile for
[SPEAKER_00]: For the camera set in 2005, the title follows a group of international models all together for fashion month in New York.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, the smile entity is on trend too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next is a quiet place storm warning, which we've written by Phil Hester with Art by Ryan Kelly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Focus on a small island town in the Midwest who have to do the thing hardest for people in the Midwest to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shut up for a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: They do need to be quiet, though, because there's the whole aliens thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: As a prize announcement is the exorcism at Buckingham Palace, also by May, with Art by Kelsey Ramsey.
[SPEAKER_00]: A sequel to the excellent exorcism at 1610, probably figure this one out, but it transports the action to London.
[SPEAKER_00]: And last up is Operation Iron Confine by Kenny Porter and Tyrell Cannon, based on Dracula transposes the action to World War II, when the British dropped the titular coffin on a train full of Nazis.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then up to the good count to stop Hitler from creating a vampire army.
[SPEAKER_00]: All four titles will hit in 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Elbitt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's real let them fight situation with Dracula and Hitler, huh?
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