The Infamous Maple Doughnut

And it’s National Doughnut Day in the US!!!  Bryan Q. Miller will definitely be having a good day.  Well deserved.

Soon Smallville Season 11 digital #6 will be released and we all can enjoy a REAL Superman comic.  Let’s see if Smallville S11 #6 can soar to the top of the digital sales faster than #4 & #5.

For a more tactile read, don’t forget Smallville Season 11 print #2 will be in your comic shop on Wednesday, June 6th.  Hope you’ve started your pull list so you can be sure to get your copy.  This helps with order numbers which is a important determination of success in the comics world.  Support this book so we can feed our Smallville/Superman addiction.

While you’re at the comic shop, if you haven’t already, pick up Superman Family Adventures #1 by Art & Franco.  It’s a book for EVERYONE (including grown ups).  Bring the joy of reading comics back into your life for another day.  Read it to the munchkins.  Gotta start that Superman addiction early.

These two books will save the Superman fan in you.  Somebody saaaaaave meeeeeee.

Hold onto Smallville!

After some difficulty with its various apps, Smallville Season 11 #5 went to the top spot on Wednesday, May3oth.  One day later, after the print firsts were released, Smallville Season 11 #5 was third, only to be surpassed by a $2.99 comic based on another television show and a Batman Annual at $3.99.  Well done!

Superman fans are awaiting to see how Bryan Q. Miller makes Hank Henshaw into his comic canon self.  For fans who are not familiar with the history, his most famous appearance came during the unprecedented Death of Superman  story arc.   All the elements are there for Smallville Season 11 Henshaw to meet his tragic metamorphosis with some encouragement from the budding evil master genius, Lex Luthor.

Will Smallville Season 11 digital #6 give us more about the mysterious person at the end of digital #5?  Will STAR labs keep this arrival secret from Clark or will our hero have multiple jobs for Superman to contend with?  Get your apps ready to purchase  the download Friday, June 1st to find out!

Also available in comic shops and digitally on Wednesday, May 30th, was/is Superman Family Adventures #1.  This comic is for EVERYONE!  (including grown ups)  Give it a try – you may find yourself chuckling at Art and Franco’s take on Superman and his cast.  This comic is a joy to read!

Smallville Season 11 print #2 will be available in comic shops on June 6th for $3.99.  Packed with more story than any new 52 book and more of the Smallville tv series episode guide.  BUY IT!  (Print numbers are important to the future and continuance of this comic.)

If you’re using the DC Comics app, this may be the case.  While the folks at Comixology work on the situation, let’s get you that copy of SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 #5.

All digital comic purchases go through Comixology.  Yes, even when you have a DC Comics app or use the DC Comics digital website.  You only purchase once, but all purchases go through Comixology, that’s the hub for all the digital comic app and webpage ‘spokes’.

To purchase your desired digital, go to Comixology.com and login using the same user name and password you use on your app.  If you haven’t ‘registered’ on the Comixology website before, do it now.  This will hook you up with the same account that you use on your app — be sure to use the same user name and password for this to go smoothly.  You will see all your purchases in the My Comics section.  Find Smallville Season 11 #5 — it will definitely be on the top selling page, and purchase it.  (You may have to register a credit card if you’ve been purchasing through iTunes or some other venue).   Then you can download onto your device as usual.  Added benefit, you can read your comics on the Comixology website if your device is not handy.

If you have any problems, either tweet @cmxlgy_support or contact Comixology support via the website using the Contact webpage for email.  Give them all the info they will need to help you — like which app or webpage, your device’s operating system, etc.

May 28th is a holiday in the US, so they may only have a skeletal crew working, please be patient.  Comixology has always been very good about helping its customers with their situations.

Let’s get Smallville Season 11 #5 in the top spot by the morning of Wednesday, May 30th.

You, like Clark and Lois, may work better with visual aides.

It’s Mambo Smallville Season 11 # 5 day!!!  Another digital-first to make your day a little bit brighter.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find this icon on your app or on a website.  Buy the book!  Your life may depend on it.  At least the part that is still holding onto Smallville, loves Superman, and wants to see Smallville Season 11 become a neverending story.

Smallville Season 11 #4 carried out its mission in just six days showing its pack of digitals what victory looks like.  Now Smallville Season 11 #5 needs YOU!  to make these digital-firsts even more successful.  Let’s do it!

Best 99 cents you’ll ever spend.  Get the joy of reading comics, especially a comic with Clark Kent.   Written by Bryan Q. Miller with interior art by Pere Perez.

C’mon Smallville fans, let’s show TPTB why this story is the BEST Superman story DC Comics has to offer.

Look into my eyes & find a surprise!

SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 digital #4 hit the top of the digital comics’ chart, beating out well established and new print-first digitals.   This after a two week hiatus which many feared would effect the sales momentum.  Smallville Season 11 is a 99 cent price point so in order to outsell a $3.99 digital, it has to sell more than 4:1.  But the excitement doesn’t stop there.  Less than 24 hours from now, Smallville Season 11 digital #5, chapter 5 of the episode GUARDIAN will be released on Friday, May 25th.  Let’s see if #5 can beat #4′s race to the #1 spot.

If you haven’t purchased #4 yet, do so now.  A review follows (but I’m not going to reveal too many details, so buy it).

A change of cover and digital icon, see above, for this chapter since it and #5 & #6 digitals will be made available in print on June 6th, a Wednesday.   Cat Staggs is the cover artist.  Fantastic job on Lex’s face (Michael Rosenbaum).   The Kyrptonian glyphs may spell out MURDER.  Written by prolific Bryan Q. Miller with amazing interior art by Pere Perez, chapter 4 of GUARDIAN starts at the Metropolis General Hospital.  Keeping with the Smallville tradition of scenes in a hospital.

Lex’s incredible brain function is explained by the Series (Season Ten) Finale neurotoxin.  This plot point also allows us to see how Lex does recover some memories.  Keep in mind Tess always protects Clark’s secret.   Otis shows up to get his boss on track.  And Superman has some cool gadgets while investigating in space.  Batman has a utility belt; Clark has an electronic utility belt buckle.

Virgil Swann (Christopher Reeve’s character on the show) is represented while Dr. Emil Hamilton and Chloe discuss the latest findings of the mysterious energy burst and also Clark’s growing powers.

Superman fans will appreciate the HEDs since they could be several ‘instruments’ from the Superman comics.

Miller knows these characters inside out.  There is never a mis-step in what they say or do.  Clark is Clark, Lois is always Lois and Lex is becoming the greatest evil mind of our time.  Clark and Lois reporting on Lex!

Another cliffhanger with the introduction of a ‘hero’ to Smallville fans.

RATING:  Please, Sir, may we have some more?!

This book is a beacon of hope to Smallville and Superman fans alike.  Let’s make sure it continues.  Support this book by purchasing it!

Would you like to hear what Bryan Q. Miller has to say about Smallville Season 11, Smallville tv series, Batgirl and doughnuts?  Take a listen to G2Factor’s interview on talkshoe.  (Also available on iTunes)  Bryan arrives about 70 minutes into the show.  Amazing guest.  Truly a great guy.  HE made US feel at ease.  We ‘tortured’ him for 2 hours.  Fun time had by all.

Important Dates:

5/25, Friday — Smallville Season 11 digital #5 released.

5/30, Wednesday — In print, Superman Family Adventures by Art & Franco.  It’s not just for kids.  

6/1, Friday — Smallville Season 11 digital #6 released.

6/6, Wednesday — In print, Smallville Season 11 #2.  Look for Lex on the cover.

E! News is reporting that Michael McKean who Smallville viewers know as Perry White , who is the husband of Annette O’Toole who played Martha Kent on the series – has been hit by a car in New York. Michael is in the hospital with a broken leg and doctors are reviewing his other injuries. We all wish him well.

“Honestly, it mostly comes down to sales, John. My experience has been that people vote with their dollars, more than ever. With so many titles to choose from each month, both from DC and the other companies out there, I think we can reliably look at our month-to-month sales and gauge whether what we’re doing is working or not. As far as determining what, specifically is not working, that’s a little trickier.” – Matt Idelson, Superman Group Editor, on Ask Matt for Supermanhomepage.com

The average percentage of diminishing orders of the TOP TEN DC COMICS since October, 2011 is 29.41.  In other words, 29.41%  less books were ordered in April, 2012 than in October, 2011.   How do some of the Super books compare to that average?

Action Comics written by Grant Morrison has 42.82% less orders in April than last October.  Superman, who started out with George Perez for six issues, has new creators Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens who keep this book very close to the average month to month at 31.57% less orders than October.

Let’s take a look at Scott Lobdell’s Superboy.   At 44.45% less books being ordered in April, 2012, it has the highest deficit of the three books and yet – Lobdell has been tapped to take over the consistent  Superman (despite two writing teams already) in September.  WHY?   It certainly isn’t the numbers.  Why put a writer whose story about a young ‘Superman’ is failing to maintain orders month to month on a book that, all things considered, is maintaining its order numbers?

Superman wasn’t/isn’t in trouble.  Action and Superboy are.  The numbers have shown this month after month.  So why mess with the Superman book yet again?  Could it be something besides numbers?

Could it be that Lobdell will be more attuned to editorial’s desires to continuously hard reboot the character of Superman?  And if so, why this insistence that Superman would flourish as an alienated anti-hero rather than the true blue hero he has been for 74 years?  Why not just call him Mister Majestic and get it over with?  Or doesn’t the character of Mister Majestic not sell well even if you put him in Superman’s new 52 armor?  Guess the only way to find that out is to take the character from creators who have written Superman well and who have great love for the character and place him in the hands of someone who will tow the editorial line.

Final question:  At what cost to the iconic character and his fans?

Get your apps fired up!  Another digital chapter of SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 is available today!

99 cents of PURE JOY!  It’ll make you love reading comics (again).  Let’s see this baby launch right to the top of best selling.

If you want more Smallville, if you want to actually see Clark Kent in a comic, then read the BEST SUPERMAN DC Comics has to offer — tell your friends about SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 digital-first.  BUY IT!

And don’t forget G2Factor will be talking with Bryan Q. Miller on Sunday, May 20th at 5pmEDT/4pmCDT/2pmPDT.

Go forth and spread the hope.

“You will soar higher than any one of us” — Carter Hall (Hawkman), ABSOLUTE JUSTICE

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira, much-beloved sister Thea, and best friend Tommy welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he’s become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance. As Oliver reconnects with those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow – a vigilante – to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day, Oliver plays the role of a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be – flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John Diggle – while carefully concealing the secret identity he turns to under cover of darkness. However, Laurel’s father, Detective Quentin Lance, is determined to arrest the vigilante operating in his city. Meanwhile, Oliver’s own mother, Moira, knows much more about the deadly shipwreck than she has let on – and is more ruthless than he could ever imagine.

The series stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, Colin Donnell as Tommy, Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance, David Ramsey as John Diggle, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, with Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen and Paul Blackthorne as Detective Quentin Lance.

Based on characters appearing in comic books and graphic novels published by DC Comics, ARROW is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (“Green Lantern,” “Brothers & Sisters”), Marc Guggenheim (“FlashForward,” “Eli Stone”), Andrew Kreisberg (“Warehouse 13,” “The Vampire Diaries”) and David Nutter (“Smallville,” “Supernatural,” “Game of Thrones”). Melissa Kellner Berman (“Eli Stone,” “Dirty Sexy Money”) is co-executive producer. The pilot was directed by David Nutter from a teleplay by Andrew Kreisberg & Marc Guggenheim, story by Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim.

Source: CW

The CW has released spoiler clips for their new series for next year.
Justin Hartley co-stars in the new medical drama Emily Owens, M.D. airing Tuesdays next fall.
http://www.multipleversesvault.com/2012/05/17/emily-owens-m-d-series-clip/

Arrow is their new imagining of the Green Arrow. It will air on Wednesdays in the fall along with Supernatural.
http://www.multipleversesvault.com/2012/05/17/arrow-series-preview-clip/

Kristin Kreuk is back on the network with Beauty and the Beast on Thursdays after The Vampire Diaries.
http://www.multipleversesvault.com/2012/05/17/beauty-and-the-beast-attack-clip/