Demon Knights #4 Preview

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Demon Knights #3 Annotations

Issue #4 comes out tomorrow, so let's get this out there.

Previously...

The Questing Queen and her Horde have been trying to get past the town of Little Spring, but her outriders (and their "dragons") have been defeated by the Demon Knights (and the dragons eaten by Vandal Savage). As the queen continues more attacks on the village, Madame Xanadu makes a sacrifice to erect a magical barrier around Little Spring.

Demon Knights #1 Reviews, Part Dix

I actually started this post back in October...

• BookHound (positive)
• Comic Book Focus (positive)
• Comic Book Revolution (6/10)
• Comics of Doom (positive)
• (Cool) Shite on the Tube (positive)
• Fear of a Ghost Planet (positive)
• The Idol-Head of Diabolu (negative)
• Ink Hero (positive)
• PiercingMetal Musings (positive)
• (postmodernbarney.com) (50/52)

So issue #1 is still rocking four Baby Etrigan Heads:

Comics Nexus has ranked the entire Demon Knights team as its top "character" of the DC relaunch.

Grant at the Weekly Crisis names Demon Knights as the third best title of the DCnU.

Demon Knights #3 Sales Figures

Diamond has published their sales figures and ICv2 their estimates for November's comics, including Demon Knights #3. There was a rank of 72, a dollar rank of 69, an index of 20.67, and an estimated quantity of 31,213 sold. Quantity-wise, this is a very large dropoff from #2, and rank-wise, it's right about in line with where #1 was in September. Here's our graph thus far:

Demon Knights #3 Reviews, More Linkblogging

Let's dust off Google Reader and start checking out some reviews!

• Comic Book Bin (6.5/10)
• Comics Bulletin (2/5)
• Comics Fondle (negative)
• Comics Nexus (positive)
• Geek Overture (positive)
• Knights of the Black Banner (positive)
• Major Spoilers (3.5/5)
• Modern Myth Media (B+)
• The Outhouse (positive)
• Reading with a Flight Ring (positive)
• Yet Another Comics Blog (2.5/5)

Issue #3 has three and a half Baby Etrigan Heads.

And more stuff:

• BC Refugee Blog gives the first 3 issues an A.
• Man in Black Reviews also groups the first three issues together for a 9/10.
• Benjamin Tiesma has been presenting his original art featuring characters from all of the New 52 titles on his blog. Check out his Etrigan. Excellent!
• Small Galaxies muses about Exoristos after seeing the cover for issue #6.
• CSICON picks on of issue #3's panels for its Panels of the Week.
• ComicBook.com has Demon Knights as #3 in its Top 10 New 52 titles.

Don't forget that Demon Knights #4 will be in stores this week!

Demon Knights #7 Solicit

From The Source:

DEMON KNIGHTS #7 Written by PAUL CORNELL
Art by DIOGENES NEVES and OCLAIR ALBERT
Cover by MIKE CHOI
On sale MARCH 14 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
This is it! The walls have fallen, the battle is joined, and the only possible outcome is death…but the Demon Knights keep fighting! History has a grand destiny in store for this alliance of unlikely outcasts – should they survive this issue, that is! After all, beyond the mountains, on the road to Alba Sarum, greater evils than the Horde are lurking…

Linkblogging

Wow, thank you Paul Cornell himself for the shout-out!

Here's some recent Demon Knights-related news:

• The Outhouse has posted a character spotlight of our friend, Etrigan.
• Paul Cornell will be leaving his other New 52 title Stormwatch after issue #6, but staying on Demon Knights.