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Dark Horse Comics has 161 employees. Over the first year, Lee expects his own games staff will remain small, with less than 10 people.

Stanley Cheung, the executive chairman of Dark Horse Comics, is the former chairman of Walt Disney Greater China.

Daily demand for CW shows is around 4x more than Netflix every single month. 

An episode of Arrow isn’t $25 million (the cost per episode for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) or even $9 million (the reported cost for Jupiter’s Legacy). 

Finally, there’s one other obvious superhero category option that has found an incredible level of success over the years: animation.

For the first time, however, comcis represent less than half the comcis market, when digital and crowdfunding are factored in.

Reports that comics are dying are total horseshit. • These numbers are still only what Avengers: Endgame made in a week or so.

Sales in the book channel, which includes chain bookstores, mass merchants, major online retailers, and Scholastic Book Fairs, were up by double digits, with sales of kids graphic novels the biggest factor.

I see it as a restart for the whole industry. We’ve always had an industry that was the Rodney Dangerfield of pop culture, but in recent years we had gained tremendous respect as movies paved the way to show comics to the world.

“one thing this has done is laid bare the supply chain and how things work.

roth appreciated the positive message but reiterated that retailers operated on slim margins, and a 20-30% drop in business could be a disaster. This led to a rather curious exchange from Geppi about back issues. “Don’t underestimate the retailer’s survival instinct. Many of them are subsidizing their lack of new product with back issues and stuff like that.” I guess he meant…graphic novels too, but never mentioned them. Diamond is only 40% of the product at some stores, and they are really pop culture stores