[SPEAKER_00]: Injustice comes to compact comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keke's delivery service sequel comes to the US.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our sellouts, the new blind bags.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for June 2nd, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two dark takes on the DC universe are getting compact comics as the publisher has announced collections for injustice and dark nights metal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Price EV2 and just as gods among us here one presents writer Tom Taylor's adaptation and expansion of the world of the hit fighting game, which finds Superman going a hog wild and Batman building a team to take him down.
[SPEAKER_00]: 416 pages and hit stores on July 21st.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile Dark Knight's metal will collect the six issue series by Scott Snyder and Greg Kapoolo as well as two tie-in-one shots.
[SPEAKER_00]: That mainstream continuity event found the evil Batman who laughs bringing the dark multiverse to the DC universe and the heroes rising to stop him.
[SPEAKER_00]: At a relatively slim 280 pages, this will hit on August 4.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether you like a bad Superman or a bad Batman, both titles will be in the popular pocket-sized compact comics format at cost $9.99 in full color.
[SPEAKER_00]: Miyazaki's classic Kiki's delivery service is only part of the story, and now for the first time ever, the sequel Kiki and the new magic will be published in English, making up where the graphic novel that inspired the movie left off, per PR quote Kiki's career services made her a local celebrity but fame brings unexpected pressures, as increasingly difficult deliveries test her confidence in friendships, Kiki must confront self-down and discover a new kind of magic.
[SPEAKER_00]: created by ICO Cadodo, Kiki and the new magical hit stores on August 25 alongside a new deluxe edition of Kiki's Delivery Service.
[SPEAKER_00]: Move over, blind bags, the new hotness is comic selling out.
[SPEAKER_00]: At least that's what the marketing would like you to think as speaking for myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Press releases have been coming in mass announcing sold out comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a partial list of some comics that have been announced as sold out over the past week as of this recording.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of the Earth No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1, Oden No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1, Dork No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 through No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 3, keeps No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 7 in Tigris Island No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 all from image comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Destination Kill No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 from Oney Press and Ben 10 No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 and 2 from Dynamite.
[SPEAKER_00]: To be clear, these comics are all sold out at the distributor level, meaning the stock that publishers had in hand was sold to comic book stores.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether customers were actually buying these issues in store or not is unknown.
[SPEAKER_00]: Basically, these announcements are a sales tool to drive interest for customers and speculators to tell their shops to order more copies of subsequent issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: So with so many titles being announced as sold out, will it prove to be diminishing returns?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the bigger question is this a valid sales tool or yet another stretching of the speculator bubble?
[SPEAKER_00]: More on this as it develops.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Zalbe.
[SPEAKER_00]: And can Keaky deliver me a pizza I'm starving.
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