Sundays are beautiful, but they are often slow on news. So here is a collection of stories from the past week that I didn't cover in the site for you to read while, i don't know, enjoying your tea. This format of posts will be including both comic and non comic Charmed news.
- Comic book companies have started overshipping their titles in order to boost new launches and meet demand. According to Bleeding Cool, Dynamite joined the trend by shipping 20% more comics for Charmed #1 (and Nancy Drew And The Hardy Boys #1).
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- Nick Barrucci (Dynamite's CEO/Publisher): "We have two great series by incredibly talented creators, and series that have the potential to bring in readers from outside of the comics market. We will be promoting each launch with the support of our rights holders, CBS and Simon & Schuster, to reach a broader market, and wanted retailers to have copies on hand as we reach out to a broader market. We want to take risk away from retailers and shipped an additional 20% of their orders at no cost to help them capitalize day and date. We know that this promotion will be successful for our retail partners and look forward to evaluating the results for future new promotions."
- The article also features a new summary for Charmed #1: "Charmed #1 proudly continues the story of Phoebe, Piper, and Paige, television’s favorite witches, in all-new adventures set within official continuity! By the creative team of Erica Schultz and Maria Sanapo, the story follows the Halliwell Sisters as they confront a terrifying force in the San Francisco art world, a threat perhaps greater than the Power of Three!"
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- Source: BleedingCool
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- If you read Charmed #1, you can also read a writer's commentary by Erica Schultz on some of the issue's pages. Erica touches on pages 1, 2, 8, 11, 19 and 22.
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- Source: BleedingCool
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- On Twitter, Erica shared some updates on how the comic is progressing and what she is working on now.
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- Erica Schultz: "Working on script for
#Charmed 5 while#Charmed 1 comes out tomorrow. Just did lettering pass on#Charmed 2.#ComicsScheduling" - Erica Schultz: Looking at the art for
@DynamiteComics#Charmed 2 and@MLSanapo and#HaertworkStudios are kicking ass!
- Erica Schultz: "Working on script for
- The Infamous Podcast had an extended interview with Joe Corroney. You can listen to the podcast here.
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- The Infamous Podcast: "This week Johnny and Brian sit down and talk with artist Joe Corroney in this extended interview episode. Joe shares how he became a professional artist, what it is like to work for Lucasfilms, how he got into comics and more!"
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- Source: TheInfamousPodcast
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- Something a bit out there but interesting to read. THR did a "Buffy at 20" article in which they talked with the actors about the show's legacy. In a "should there be a revival?" question, Michelle Tranchtenberg, who played Dawn, answered:
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- Michelle Trachtenberg: "A great idea would be an animated version of Buffy where it's just our voices. It's hard because everything is a remake these days. They're rebooting Charmed. I was able to tell Joss (Whedon) recently that I'm in the Writers Guild now and I've sold screenplays and pilots, but the thing I struggle with in my writing is that Buffy lived in a world where social media and cellphones weren't a part of the story. You couldn't Google "blah blah blah demon." You had to go physically to the magic shop and find a book. You cannot re-create that today. Even if you tried to date it to back then it wouldn't have the same impact as when it was fresh. If it ain't broke don't fix it. From a writer's perspective that's what I view the show as. It would ruin the legacy to have it be in modern times, and we already did it right back then."
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- Source: THR
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