Demon Knights #8 Solicit

The Source has posted the solicit for April's issue of Demon Knights.

DEMON KNIGHTS #8
Written by PAUL CORNELL
Art by BERNARD CHANG, DIOGENES NEVES and OCLAIR ALBERT
Cover by MIKE CHOI
On sale APRIL 11 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Just how exactly did Madame Xanadu become the paramour of both Jason Blood and Etrigan, the foul demon trapped inside him? On the road to Alba Sarum, there’s nothing but time for tall tales…and this one’s as unbelievable as they come! Featuring guest art by Bernard Chang (DC UNIVERSE PRESENTS)!

For more Bernard Chang, check out his official website and his deviantART page.

CBR Interviews Paul Cornell

Comic Book Resources delivers with this fantastic Paul Cornell interview. Some highlights:

• How the idea of dinosaurs at the end of issue #1 came about.
• Cornell's movie influences.
• The role of Camelot and Merlin in the story.
• Etrigan's role in the team and how that is effected by his relationship with Madame Xanadu.
• Shining Knight's gender and friendship with Exoristos.
• Horsewoman's integration into the team.
• The next arc will take place in a city, influenced by Skyrim and Conan.

Demon Knights #5 Reviews, Part Zwei

• A Comic Book Blog (85/100)
• Comics Nexus (positive)
• Foogos (positive)

We're still at four and a half Baby Etrigan Heads for this issue.

In other news,

• iFanboy picks the cover to Demon Knights #5 as one of the week's best.
• Speed Force picks Demon Knights as a comic that would just miss the cut if forced to buy only three titles.

Demon Knights #5 Reviews

My local comic book store didn't get this week's shipment of Demon Knights #5 for some reason. Sad face. However, the local comic book stores frequented by these reviewers apparently did. Yay!

• The Blue Fairy's Bookshelf (positive)
• The Buy Pile (positive)
• Comic Book Resources (3.5/5)
• Comic Vine (4/5)
• IGN (8/10)

Issue #5 stands now at 4.5 Baby Etrigan Heads:

And in a new feature, I'll starting pointing you to issue-specific forum threads around these here interwebs. Talk with your fellow fanboys/fangirls at any of the following:

• Comic Book Resources
• DC Comics Message Boards
• GameFAQS

Also, in other news:

• Gamma Squad lists Demon Knights as #3 in the 5 New 52 comics you must be reading.
• The Journal and Courier interviews Paul Shelton of Von's Comics in West Lafayette, IN, who mentions that Demon Knights is a "hot-selling title".
• Christian A. Young's Dimlight Archive discusses the presence of Shining Knight as a transgender character.
• Bleeding Cool theorizes that Demon Knights is really just a Dungeon & Dragons game in comic book form.
• PLAYBACK:stl doesn't include Demon Knights in its Top 10 New 52 comics, but is mentioned for having the potential to have a "quite interesting" dynamic between its characters.

Demon Knights #4 Sales Figures

As always, thank you Diamond Comics and ICv2 for the figures. We have a rank of 75, dollar rank of 74, index of 18.91, and estimated quantity of 25,298. As you can see from the graph below, the drop off from #3 to #4 is about the same as it was from #2 to #3 as far as index and estimated quantity are concerned and not quite as bad for rank and dollar rank.

Demon Knights #5 Preview

iFanboy has a preview of this week's new issue.

Demon Knights #4 Preview

Maxim has an exclusive preview of Demon Knights #4.

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.

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.

Demon Knights #5 Solicit

So um, there's this blog that I'm supposed to be blogging from time to time. I haven't been for a bit. Whoops. Anywho, while I was gone, DC went and posted the solicit for Demon Knights #5. Here's the rundown:

Written by PAUL CORNELL; Art by DIOGENES NEVES and OCLAIR ALBERT; Cover by MIKE CHOI
The pressure is mounting as the Horde prepares to breach the walls of Little Spring – but inside the town, our heroes are at each other's throats! With their fragile alliance in tatters, and the enemy whispering in their ears, someone's going to break – but for a reason you never saw coming!
DC Universe | 32pg. | Color | $2.99 US
On Sale January 11, 2012