[SPEAKER_00]: Eisner nominations announced, X-Men event DNX gets prologue issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ben 10 sells big.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Comic Book Club News for May 15th, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: The full list of nominees for the 2026 Eisner Awards are here as writers, artists, editors, publishers, and more compete for the highest honor in the industry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dominating works published between January 1st and December 31st, 2025 and 32 categories.
[SPEAKER_00]: The winners will be announced this year as usual at San Diego Comic-Con on July 24.
[SPEAKER_00]: Overall, DC Comics let the nominees with 16 nominations, total plus 10 shared nominations, meaning where I writer, artist, letter, etc., was nominated for multiple works in one category.
[SPEAKER_00]: And absolute Wonder Woman and absolute Martian man enter each held six of those total nominations while absolute Batman had five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Believe, for the absolute universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Image Comics came in a close second with 12 nominations in Nine Shared, with a sorted crisis event scrubbing five nominations total while the Department of Truth got four.
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel, meanwhile, got three nominations in five shared, while Dark Horse got four and four.
[SPEAKER_00]: I-D-W got two nominations in five shared, and Boom Studios at O'Neepress had two nominations in one shared each.
[SPEAKER_00]: Creators wise, Dennis Cap, Nab, five nominations, James Town in the fourth got an appropriate four nominations, and Kelly Thompson, Juni Ba, Huffier, Rodriguez, Jesse Lonerkin, Linius, Sturt, and Ericsson, Wadski, tied with three nominations each, congrats to all the nominees.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether it's the road to Armageddon or the road to DNX, comic book fans love walking road.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now, Marvel Comics is announced that you can rev your motor for the latter event with two prelude issues in X-Men 35 and X-Men number 36, as the evil version of Hank McClellan makes his move on the world of mutants.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're not up to speed, there's a good beast, the blue one, and a bad beast, the white one.
[SPEAKER_00]: The latter, thanks to the events of the Age of Revelation crossover, has discovered something called the X-Virus, which will turn some people into mutants and kill pretty much everyone else.
[SPEAKER_00]: The crossover series will find the X-Men at Fantastic Forward, teaming up to stop bad beast and his evil millions of 3K.
[SPEAKER_00]: But before that, you've got these two issues of X-Men, where 3K targets an ailing magneto.
[SPEAKER_00]: Based on synopsies, the first issue seems to re-center the two pieces different signs of the struggle, while the second issue reveals the connection between the X-Virus and the mysterious melody that's been plaguing the Master of Magnetism.
[SPEAKER_00]: X-Men 35 hit stores on August 12, followed closely by X-Men 36 on August 26.
[SPEAKER_00]: Big news for fans of Ben Tennyson, the second issue of the new Ben 10 comic book series from Dynamite is sold more issues than the first issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, thanks to a second printing, Ben 10 number one is sold more than 112,000 copies to comic book stores.
[SPEAKER_00]: To be 100% clear up front, this is comic sold at the distributor level, meaning
[SPEAKER_00]: Ordered by comic bookstores not necessarily purchased by customers had said comic bookstores.
[SPEAKER_00]: To break the numbers down even further thanks to the Dynamite Ben 10 No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 80 2000 units with the open order covers retailer covers and mystery blind bag orders.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with reorders and the second printing covers it went up to the 112K, which means that including reorders the second printing covers, another 30 thousand copies were sold.
[SPEAKER_00]: The number that frankly would be great for any comic just on its own.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what about Ben 10 No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 2, likely due to the demand and underordering on issue 1, retailers have purchased 83,000 copies, including open-order sales, incentives, and mystery blind bags, and without any retailer exclusives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well that number go up as well, maybe Ben 10 is all about numbers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ben 10 No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 2, hit stores on June 3rd, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Zeldman, and theizers won't nominate podcasts, which is why this podcast wasn't nominated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's the reason.