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Sunnyside Comics


being a podcast about comics, from Belfast N.I.

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Back From The Dead

New Year, new promises to break. 

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We're at a new location! Again! Ron delivers a bombshell, Scott reviews Batman: Noel and PJ tells us about his Christmas. 

And we allude to a super secret project...

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Special Episode - Tintin Movie Review

This Friday sees the release of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's big screen incarnation of Tintin, one of the most iconic non-superhero characters in comics. 

The three of us went to see it this morning, check out the show for our thoughts!

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Also, check out Tintin stuff on Amazon here. Remember if you buy it via our link we get a wee kick back. Might make you feel better about us doing this for nothing... 

Season 2 Episode 7 - What Do You Do?

In which we mourn the passing of Steve Jobs, discuss the DC New 52 and debate the correct way to dis-impact a child's bowels.

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Seriously, stick with us this week. It took a few unexpected turns down VERY dark alleys, but that's what happens when we don't see each other for a while.

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Season 2 Episode 6 - FX2, the Revenge

Just kidding - the effects are kept to a bare minimum this week.

We do a run-down of developments on the various iPad comic stores, chat about Locke & Key and some other things.

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Season 2 Episode 5 - Throw Us on the Fire

We've been camping it up at Sunnyside Towers!

Or rather, Ron's got a bit carried away with the sound effects. Never mind.

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Still, we had our fun, and that's what counts.

Some chat about the iPad 2, BPRD - Plague of Frogs, Thor and the fact that Scott's not single. For how long, who can say?

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Season 2 - Episode 4 - Will it Stick?

So, we're back. Again.

We chat about the Pomodoro Technique, catch up on what we've all been at, Scott reviews Luthor and some other Superman book and we talk about the iPad, just for a change.

I'm sure I'll add more to this in a bit, but at the minute I'm starving and need my lunch.

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App Store Comics

I have done a little tiny bit of research (in lieu of actual work)

When Apple's App Store first launched, every app had a download count. This was soon removed. The only firm numbers we have now are the number of reviews an app has received. Everything else is conjecture.

That said, I sampled various comics apps for various regions. Marvel, DC and Comixology are all built on the same 'engine' and material purchased for, say, Marvel, within the Comixology app is also available within the Marvel app (though not the DC app, for obvious reasons). Comics+ is/was the iVerse comics app renamed. Panelfly is a US/iPhone only app. PocketGods is based on iVerse's comic reader.

Region
Marvel
Comics+
DC
Comixology
Panelfly
PocketGods
US
31,795
789
2,592
586
616
148
UK
6,038
132
460
111

28
Japan
274
21
13
141

Canada
3,264
107
317
70

Total
41,371
1,049
3,382
908


I picked US/UK for obvious reasons, Japan since I expected Japan to how a high level of comic consumption and Canada since, I reasoned, it's part of the North American Comic book market. If I had more time/inclination, I'd'a loved to grab numbers for each region.

The number of reviews is a total, including one star and five star. So includes people who don't like the app as well as those that do. Arguably, one star reviewers should be dismissed from the count, but since we've no idea how many have downloaded it, buy from it but DON'T review (a figure that could be substantially higher) this is the only way to get some notion of numbers

When infurious (who released one of the first comics on the appstore) put out comics, we found we had 200 downloads for 12 reviews. Does this ratio hold up for all of the above? I've no idea. I know we pushed to get reviews - but, even then people don't tend to leave reviews or rate the apps.

Some conjecture:

The Marvel App is the clear frontline winner on number of ratings. I'd put this down, largely, to Apple's pushing the Marvel app - don't forget this was one of the first apps available on the iPad and one of the apps that Apple used to demonstrate the iPad on its website. The numbers clearly reflect that.

The top selling comic on the marvel app is Civil War #1 (this is true in each of the regions I checked). 

Assuming a sales figure of 40,000 copies (that's one sold to every single person who rated the marvel app in the US, UK, Japan, Canada) - selling at £1.19 

This puts the gross income at £47,600 (BASED ON CONJECTURE!)

Apple take 30% of that, leaving  £33,320 

Assuming a 50/50 split between comixology and Marvel (which is PURE CONJECTURE - at a guess I'd say 50/50 is very generous to comixology) then Marvel are looking at a take home of £16,660

Which isn't a bad figure for something that's already been paid for and for something with fixed production costs - in other words, the more this sells the more production costs, as a percentage, reduce to zero.

Anyway, hope that's interesting to some.

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Yaaarrrr!

Piracy. It's a funny old game. During the week there was a bit of chat on Twitter about Colleen Doran's article at The Hill. We took this as a jumping off point to discuss our own experiences with piracy, what we think of it, who does it...

Or at least we do our best while PJ waves around his new favourite appendage.

Along the way we do mention Chris Scheitzer's excellent book Crogan's Vengeance. And anything we admit to that's illegal or dodgy is just us having a joke. Our lawyers told us to say that.

We also squeeze in a bit of a chat about comic collections, and then Scott goes off on one about TV downloading.

Also, our last show of this year is coming up, and we'd love to know what you think the books of 2010 have been, and also what you'd like for Christmas. Fire your thoughts into the comments, or over at Twitter.

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Season 2 - Episode 1 - The Return!

So, we're back after a lengthy absence. Sorry about that. Life and a few other things got in the way.

On the show we review the all-new Dandy comic as well as Darwyn Cooke's latest Parker adaptation, The Outfit.

We also chat a bit about AMC's The Walking Dead, PJ's adventures in Con-Land and what we've all been up to while we were away.

We're going to try and keep it together to be regular again, so thanks for coming back!

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Episode 32 - Everyone's A Critic!

A few weeks ago Ron was on a panel at the 2D Festival in Derry. Alongside him were the lovely Emma Vieceli, the erudite Gary Erskine, the winsome Leigh Gallagher and the Falstaff-ian Mark Kardwell. It was pretty funny, and well worth a listen. The subject was the internet, namely blogs, Twitter and suchlike, and how these have changed the industry.

Thanks to Wez Nolan for getting the audio to us - it's most appreciated.

Oh, by the way, we've got new podcast artwork courtesy of our very own PJ. It looks pretty spiffy, n'est pas?

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