[SPEAKER_00]: absolute Batman dominates October graphic novel sales.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hellboy and hell gets second artist edition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim and the holograms Kickstarter launches.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for November 6, 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: After a slight dip in September to make way for another Batman graphic novel, absolute Batman volume one was back at the top of the charts for October 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: For ICV2, DC Comics actually took the entire top 10 out of 20 for the month forcing every other publisher down the list, and one outlier, the compact comics edition of Watchman at number 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: As with previous months, a healthy sampling of these trade collections were Batman focused,
[SPEAKER_00]: In addition, Supergirl, woman of tomorrow, stage strong on the charts, and a new entry, DCX, Sonic the Hedgehog, hit at number 9.
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel and Image hit with four titles each in the top 20, where Marvel that included volumes 1 and 3 of Ultimate Spider-Man, the Predator versus Spider-Man Collection, and a premiere collection of Old Man Logan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Images selections included the first volume of bug wars and exquisite corpses, and
[SPEAKER_00]: as well as a Digest for Invincible and a Transformers Compendium.
[SPEAKER_00]: That left one additional slot for IDW's TMNT Exynoruto.
[SPEAKER_00]: Will absolute Batman hold on to the number one slot in November?
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay tuned.
[SPEAKER_00]: Say hello to Mike Mignola's Hellboy & Hell Book 2 Artists Edition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Act 4 publishing will release the Deluxe Edition next year featuring pristine looks at Mignola's Pencils and Inks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Running over 180 pages, the book collects Hellboy & Hell issues 6 through 10 with scans of the original art pages.
[SPEAKER_00]: presented in their original artboard size.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will also include a new introduction by Kevin Nolan, who designed the Hellboy logo at a new afterward by Steve Prassell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mike Mignolis, Hellboy, and Hellbook to our traditional hit comic book stores on February 4th, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: Follow my book stores on March 25.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yesterday, we mentioned that Boom would soon be launching a Kickstarter for old Jim in the holograms comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: It launched.
[SPEAKER_00]: Title Jim in the holograms truly outrageous comic collection.
[SPEAKER_00]: Campaign features a four volume set of every Jim comic ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though the campaign page doesn't specify, first Jim comic titled Unit E launched in 2011, followed by several IDW series and one shots that ran from 2015 through 2019.
[SPEAKER_00]: volumes, as of this recording the campaign is more than doubled its goal of $25,000, it is available to pledge until December 4th, whom further teases that a new gem comic will kick off sometime in 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Alvin, and when you die, do you think they say hello if you go to hell?
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess I'll find out.
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