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Post by The Doctor on May 18, 2016 20:11:52 GMT
They continue to make their way through the Doctors. So just waiting on series for Docs 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7 to complete the set!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 19, 2016 22:46:04 GMT
WHOA!
You forget about The Valeyard series...
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 17, 2016 8:54:01 GMT
I must alert the Kaptain! The next UK newsstand issue due out at the end of the month will have River Song in it.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 17, 2016 10:23:36 GMT
I'm confused by Titan's intentions with this title now. They're into a routine of printing the 10th-12th stories, but what about all the others? and the Supremacy 'event'? It seems really odd to me that you buy one title in a newsagent which has adverts on the back telling you to go to comic shops to buy imported comics to read others. Does that mean they're not putting Supremacy in the UK book? I wish they'd put a proper editorial in the front to explain.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 17, 2016 12:30:54 GMT
Titan's strategy for printing the DW comics has been a bit confused but they haven't skipped anything yet so we shall see. I would not get too worried about their house ads. It makes sense to promote other Titan products. They ran ads for the Four Doctors trade even though they printed it in the monthly comics. On a similar vein, Panini ran ads for their Civil War trade a month before they started their Civil War newsstand title.
If Titan UK skip anything, it would likely be the 3rd/4th/8th/9th comics now coming out as there isn't space unless they start up a second title again or switch to 100-page editions.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 17, 2016 14:22:28 GMT
I have penned a missive to them to enquire. The truth should be known! Without two titles I can't see how they can do it.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2016 20:50:14 GMT
WH Smiths Waverley have started getting Titan DW in so it is much easier to get as previously I could only find one stockist 4 miles away from me!
With regards to the 'year 2' material, the 12th Doctor's run just isn't grabbing me the way the Year 1 run did. Similarly, it feels like the 10th Doc run has really gone off the boil. Hopefully both will pick up again. The 11th Doctor run is still fab though. Abslom Daak as a companion! Amazing.
A bit like Marvel's 6th Doc run, I actually feel that Titan's 11th Doc run is better than the telly version. Doc 11 is just made for comics. I don't think Panini quite got him right but this is great.
No sign of the 8th Doc mini so I may have to just get the trade of that. Have the series with other past Doctors started in the States yet?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 28, 2016 21:44:44 GMT
My missive got no reply.
Four issues of Tom Baker are out, and the first Pertwee is this week. Cakebastard is up to #4 in his ongoing and McGann's five issue mini is done. Supremacy is up to 2 of 5. Don't think we've had any of those and I can't see how they're going to do them without a second title.
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Post by blueshift on Oct 26, 2016 19:05:24 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 19, 2016 21:26:32 GMT
Eighth Doctor trade by George Mann and Emma Viecelli was acquired today. When did £10.99 for a 5 issue trade become reasonable.
Bright and breezy fun, would like to see more Eighth Doctor material from them.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 19, 2016 22:01:25 GMT
I haven't bothered with it as I have found Mann's 12th Doc comics to be intensely boring and his War Doctor novel was not much cop (What is the Daleks' amazing plan: to make a 2-size up Dalek to put the Doctor inside!). I am glad 8th Doc comics are out again though.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 19, 2016 23:38:50 GMT
It's worth a read.
Think you'd like it, wisely avoids any classic monsters and has all-new enemies.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 16, 2017 23:39:20 GMT
Just discovered the Titan comic appears to have gone bi-monthly. Issue 15 came out last week, but 16 is out 30/3 according to the back page. I thought it was a typo, but the cover does say this issue is Feb/Mar.
That's actually 11 weeks between issues. What the fuck?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2017 8:09:19 GMT
Oh dear.
I have found the smaller size version has much poorer distribution since it launched round my way.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 17, 2017 19:41:36 GMT
It's disappointing. Doctor Who is such a strong brand in this country I thought that comic would be safe. Unless there's another reason for the gap. If only they'd put an editorial in it so readers aren't constantly in the dark about their intentions.
I was just trying to work out if the Year Two stories were close enough to concluding that it would make a break point to switch to trades instead. I could easily lose the Eleventh stuff but I like the Tenth and Twelfth stories. It's at an odd point though:
Current issue is 10 #2.12, 11 #2.12 and 12 #2.11
So there's 5x10, 3x11 and 4x12 left of Year 2.
Doesn't look like they'll even complete those!
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2017 19:50:40 GMT
It may be that there just isn't a market currently for FIVE (!) different DW publications. We have:
-Figurine collection series
-Hachette partwork series
-DW Comic
-DWM
-DW Adventures
In addition, there are 3 DWM specials a year and a few DWM trades too.
Considering that in its Panini incarnation DWA has a proper comic strip, DWC faces competition from it and for the older fan DWM has a strip and that fanbase is aware that trades of the DWC stories exist.
DWC going bimonthly in context is not a huge surprise.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 17, 2017 19:59:29 GMT
Plus 3-4 Essential Doctor Whos. They must be selling to keep producing them
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 17, 2017 20:19:26 GMT
The thread on GB for the Titan comics also seems to suggest the sales of the US issues are dropping to floor levels (5000) so the line may need a rethink. Although they're probably hoping the Year 3 relaunch will boost sales a bit.
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Post by blueshift on Jan 17, 2017 20:41:27 GMT
The thread on GB for the Titan comics also seems to suggest the sales of the US issues are dropping to floor levels (5000) so the line may need a rethink. Although they're probably hoping the Year 3 relaunch will boost sales a bit. Oh wow 5k is terrible! |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2017 21:22:24 GMT
Not a huge surprise. Titan are pumping out an enormous amount of DW titles in a niche market.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 17, 2017 21:29:22 GMT
Tenth Doctor sold 5900 in December. That looks like the best seller. 600 less than Til All Are One! www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2016/2016-12.htmlNoticed a specific Tales from the TARDIS thread on GB; apparently distribution in the north is poor, Ralph. Doesn't sound like Titan have said anything about the frequency change. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2017 21:39:20 GMT
The distribution problem has been odd. The larger size title Titan put out was everywhere: very easy to get a hold of it (other than the first couple of issues). When the smaller size title came out all shops I frequent dropped it bar one four miles away. It takes extra effort once a month to buy it!
As an aside I had no idea TF sales were that low.
Though I do wonder how licensed titles shift in the digital market. Do such sales add to the core readership or have some existing readers merely migrated to digital?
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jan 17, 2017 21:44:15 GMT
I thought 10k was the cutoff, unless that doesn't include digital sales, and they're going gangbusters
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 17, 2017 23:09:16 GMT
No, that's an old Marvel/DC thing.
Also again any of those reports are flawed, due to comics companies inability to move with the times and properly publish accurate sales figures.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 26, 2017 21:35:55 GMT
Poster Sarah's Dad at OG got a reply back from Titan: ' "Many thanks for the information, it was passed on to our Distributor and the problem has been identified (a miss-delivery resulted in copies for one group being sent to another) - this has now been resolved and stores will have copies available once more. Regarding the schedule, we have had some changes of late which we do try and keep our readers updated with, however here is the current plan for on-sale dates for 2017: #15 - 12th Jan #16 - 30th March #17 - 27th April #18 - 25th May #19 - 24th August #20 - 23rd Nov"' Source: gallifreybase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229316&page=8So it's planed to still run for this year but on a wacky schedule! -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 26, 2017 21:58:46 GMT
Jesus that's frustrating. We try to keep our readers updated, so here's a list of release dates which clearly don't make any sense whatsoever and will make you want to ask more questions, but no, we ain't answering those even though we obviously know you really want to ask them.
Twats.
So what does that mean - it's going back monthly for the three months the show is on the air, then quarterly for no apparent reason. If they run the remaining twelve issues of the Year Two titles, those will finish in the August issue and then they start Year Three almost a year behind America in November?
MAKES NO SENSE!
I think I'll hope it reaches August and finishes Year Two, but start buying trades for the Tenth and Twelfth Year Three books and give up on the comic at #19.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 31, 2017 13:33:06 GMT
I see that DWA has quietly slipped to an every-8-weeks publication schedule. It can't be long for this world.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jan 31, 2017 14:05:22 GMT
That's a shame. But then again the show's not been particularly child-friendly, and not been on tv in forever, apart from Christmas
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 31, 2017 18:26:49 GMT
Sales were in a noisedive before Panini took the title over. The quality has improved significantly but not having a show on the air isn't going to help.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 31, 2017 23:12:14 GMT
They'll relaunch it when the new Doctor comes in.
Andy
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