From the comicbookinvest.com site, con recap, surprised he was actually working.
9. Meeting with the Co-Creator of White Widow, Benny Powell: The NYCC hall had an awesome section for Indie publishers and small press which included Absolute Comics Group and Scout Comics. I decided to see what other exclusives I could get and browsed around when I met Benny Powell, co-creator of White Widow.
Wanting to get an insight on what it took to publish an indie book, I told him I was doing an article on CBSI about vendor experiences at NYCC. He was more than happy to give me an inside scoop on how White Widow and starting the Absolute Comics Universe began.
Coincidentally, Benny told me that he, Co-Creator Jamie Tyndall and their team got on the map one year ago at NYCC. It started with a grassroots campaign on Kickstarter and people got excited on their spin of a superhero with spider-like abilities.
Fusing a hero with web slinging nano technology, science, a thrilling story and sexy covers won over many fans and it was in turn a huge hit at NYCC in 2018. Benny had told me that his team were nervous to start the comic and tempered expectations and said if they sold 2,000 copies it would be a success.
Now a year later Benny was proud to humbly tell me that they sold 65,000 copies of #1 with all covers combined with #2 selling 75,000 copies. Wow. Still wanting to stay hot and in trend with audiences they decided to hire Genzoman to give some covers a Japanese anime feel to them.
Seem like the response at NYCC was good as his variant sold out along with Jamie’s as well. It was pretty cool to get some insight on what it takes to have a successful comic book series and it seems like no small feat at all.
