Demon Knights #6 Solicit

From DC's website:

Written by PAUL CORNELL; Art by DIOGENES NEVES and OCLAIR ALBERT; Cover by MIKE CHOI
Bodies are piling up, and one of their own has switched sides to lead the charge to destroy them! So how will the Knights turn the tide of battle? It all comes down to the deal Etrigan and Jason Blood have made. But can a demon truly be trusted under fire, or would he rather watch you burn?
DC Universe | 32pg. | Color | $2.99 US
On Sale February 8, 2012

Demon Knights #2 Annotations

Yeah, yeah. Issue #3 is already out, so I have some catching up to do...

Previously...

Our heroes (Jason Blood/Etrigan, Madame Xanadu, Vandal Savage, Shining Knight, Al Jabr, and Exoristos) are enjoying a pint in the small town of Little Spring when it is attacked by outriders from the Questing Queen's Horde. Meanwhile, our other hero (Horsewoman) is traveling to the town to warn its citizens that the Horde is approaching.

First Demon Knights Trade Paperback Announced

The Source released lots of information today regarding the collection of New 52 titles into trade paperbacks, including, of course, Demon Knights, which will appear next July.

DEMON KNIGHTS VOL. 1 TP
Writer: Paul Cornell
Artists: Diogenes Neves, Oclair Albert and Mike Choi
Collects: DEMON KNIGHTS #1-7
$14.99 US, 168 pg

Newsarama Interviews Paul Cornell

Check out this amazing interview with Paul Cornell over at Newsarama. Lots of good stuff.

Some highlights:

• Questing Queen != MLF
• Vandal Savage = Brian Blessed
• Not everyone may survive the first arc...
• ... but Horsewoman does. She's a big focus for the second arc (#8 - 11, set in Alba Sarum).

Demon Knights #2 Sales Figures

This month I discovered ICv2, which takes Diamond's numbers and actually gives an estimate of how many copies of each issue were sold. For example, Demon Knights #1 sold approximately 37,442 copies.

Demon Knights #2 had a rank of 62, a dollar rank of 60, an index of 22.04, and an estimated quantity of 38,007. This is actually an increase over the first issue's numbers in last month! When does that ever happen? My guess is that the overwhelming positive reviews of the first issue caused lots of readers to come in and check out the second issue.

So now that we have two months of data, let's start graphing the trends. What I'll do each month is include these four pieces of data (rank, dollar rank, index, and ICv2's estimated quantity), and create a little line graph using gnuplot to show how they change from month to month. Here's what we have after two issues:

Demon Knights #3 Preview

Check out this PopMatters article for a preview of Demon Knights #3, coming out tomorrow.

Note that, as of right now, none of the images (except for the cover), are loading for me. It looks like the pound sign in the filename might be causing some issues... Hopefully PopMatters gets this sorted out soon.

Update. I did find a working preview at ComicBookRealm.com.