Action Comics, Justice League, and Batgirl previously were announced by DC Comics as going to third printings of their first issue, and now Detective Comics and Swamp Thing join the crew.

Detective is a natural: along with Action and JL, it is absolutely considered a flagship book for the company. Likewise, Batgirl received a lot of attention from the media (us included) due to the miraculous healing of paralyzed Barbara Gordon, placing her back in a walking, running, jumping costume. Swamp Thing is a bigger indication of the diversity of stories being told in the New 52, though, and the fact that they are also selling well.

Justice League #1, so far, is the only one of the titles on its fourth printing. The second issues of the week one titles, including both of these new additions to the third printing club, hit stores tomorrow.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold is ending its three-season run imminently, but DC’s iconic hero won’t be away from TV sets for too long.

Comic Book Movie is reporting that Warner Bros. Animation has announced Beware the Batman, a CGI-animated series targeted for 2013 on Cartoon Network. The news comes from the recently wrapped MIP Junior showcase in Cannes, France.

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Last week’s announcement that DC would be offering exclusive digital versions of certain graphic novels and collected editions on Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet may have raised a few eyebrows, but not as many as the price point of Watchmen is going to. ICv2 has noticed that Amazon’s Kindle Fire edition of the collected Watchmen will sell for just $9.99, compared with $19.99 for the print version.

While the decision was presumably Amazon’s – The site lists a “digital list price” of $17.99, and Amazon has a history of offering significant discounts on digital books – this nonetheless marks an interesting departure for DC’s digital pricing, which has generally held something close to parity with print or thereabouts ($2 cheaper for digital sounds like a DC decision, if that makes sense). I’m curious to see how much retailer outcry there will be about this, if any; after all, digital sales are nowhere near print sales at this point, and Watchmen will be a Kindle Fire exclusive title, cutting down its potential audience even further. And yet… 50% cheaper? I can’t see that going by entirely unchallenged, if only for the precedent it establishes…

That Avengers-centric issue of Entertainment Weekly proved to be more newsworthy than one might think. A sidebar in the cover story — titled “What’s next for Marvel?” — saw Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige comment on five potential projects, including Guardians of the Galaxy and Inhumans.

Guardians of the Galaxy has been rumored since August, but this would be the first official confirmation that a film is in development. Says Feige: “There’s an opportunity to do a big space epic, which Thor sort of hints at, in the cosmic side of the [Marvel] Universe.” Of Inhumans, which is a bit of a curveball, not much information is disclosed than “expect an X-Men style ensemble, a la The Avengers.” (Which sounds kind of redundant, but there you go.) Of course, that’s not equivalent to either of these actually for sure getting made, just a statement that they’re at the very least being considered. (And for our list of unlikely comic book properties that somehow made it to the big screen, click here.)

Two obvious ones, Iron Man 3 and Thor 2, with no real updates beyond what’s already been announced (IM3 is slated for May 2012, Patty Jenkins is in talks to direct T2). Ant-Man remains in flux, which Feige saying that Edgar Wright has “developed an excellent draft recently.”

The Avengers is, of course, the next Marvel Studios film to hit theaters, scheduled for May 4, 2012.

First Archie, then DC Comics, and now Image Comics: The linewide day-and-date revolution is slowly continuing. According to press releases from both ComiXology and Image Comics, as of this Wednesday, Image’s line will be available day-and-date on both ComiXology and Graphicly, including the latter’s Facebook app.

Oddly enough, while the ComiXology press release makes a point of saying that it will be offering “the majority of their highly acclaimed comics the same day as print,” the Image Comics release describes their agreement with Graphicly as one that will “digitally supply and share their entire publishing catalog, including such hits as Walking Dead, Invincible, Savage Dragon, Chew and many more, to be released same day as print on Graphicly” (emphasis mine). Whether this means that ComiXology is being explicitly denied titles or simply that all the Image creators haven’t agreed to ComiXology terms yet but will soon is unknown.

In the Image Comics release, publisher Eric Stephenson is quoted as saying “For years, print comics have been dependent on a single distribution network, so it’s interesting to be a position to utilize a variety of different digital platforms. As digital comics continue to become a greater concern, it’s important to embrace as many different options as possible.”

Add this to the mild-confusion over continuity in the new DC Universe: No Crisis event has taken place in the New 52niverse. Or, at least, so said Dan DiDio on Facebook over the weekend:

This doesn’t just knock out Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis, but also Zero Hour, Final Crisis and, potentially, Identity Crisis, which opens up all manner of new possibilities for characters and storylines for creators to play with. Perhaps understandably, DiDio was forced to clarify this statement a day later:

What I really want to know is, does this mean that Ralph and Sue Dibny are still alive now? Because, if so, I really, really want to see them have their own strip in DC Universe Presents sooner rather than later.

(Via Bleeding Cool.)

After reading Vaneta’s great One Month Later piece about retailers’ takes on the New 52 over on the main site, I’m reminded about one thing that I was curious about, not from a retailer point of view, but a reader’s: How many people who normally buy books in their stores bought books digitally?

I’ve been thinking about this recently, in part because I’ve seen people online say things like “I wanted to try [Book X] but my store was sold out, so I’ll either wait for a second print or skip it,” and found myself wondering, why didn’t you just buy a digital copy? The price is one answer to that question, of course, but we’re into October now, so the digital price point for first issues will start dropping to $1.99 this Wednesday – Will that be enough to convince people to pick up books that they otherwise would have skipped?

Use the comments, people: Have you replaced print with digital now that the New 52 has put the entire DCU day-and-date? Have you sampled books digitally that you wouldn’t have bought in the store? And, with prices dropping this month for last month’s debuts, are you likely to take a second look at some of the New 52 launches now that they’re a third cheaper?

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