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There were a lot of drops in January's sales charts -- however, some of them may not have been as steep as they seem.
Marvel's domination of DC increased in January sales figures just released by Diamond, as DC's market share was exactly half of Marvel's. Ouch. Holdin' on for a Rebirth, alright.
There were a lot of drops in January's sales charts -- however, some of them may not have been as steep as they seem.
Marvel's domination of DC increased in January sales figures just released by Diamond, as DC's market share was exactly half of Marvel's. Ouch. Holdin' on for a Rebirth, alright.
Things weren’t helped by DC not having an issue of Justice League (Darkseid War) and DKIII out in January, their two biggest trains are really off their scheduled ship dates.
Well, the fact the DK3 issue two didn’t make the top ten in sales in January was a scary drop for a book recieving that much press. Thought it would hang in the top ten for a bit longer, anyway.
@Vernon DK3 #2 came out in December and was the #2 comic for the month. No issue of DK3 shipped in January.
Meanwhile, Kirkman continues to show the whole industry how to make comic books work but how many are paying attention. No reboots. No renumbering. No flood of variant covers. #150 issues of serialized storytelling.
I mean, no offense to Kirkman but nobody puts him on the level of Gaiman or Moore or even Morrison, do they? It’s not like he’s reinventing the wheel. The man is just writing fundamentally sound comics that utilize a lot of the storytelling concepts that used to make comics so popular.
Mike
@Mbunge –
I certainly like Kirkman and enjoy walking dead, but i’d say its success is owed more to consistency, both in end product quality and the creators that chip in. In many ways it’s Snyder/Capullo Batman is quite similar.
Mbunge: you’re so rtight. Kirkman changed the industry and is one of the few people who still know how to make comics the good old way, with with modern storytelling. His last issue of Invincible is amazing, again, making fun of those stupid entities who pop up constantly in maintream super-heroes books to inflige on it artificial changes.
If things don’t turn around by the end of the year Didio & Lee may be out on their ears.
Heck, they may get blamed if the WB?DC movies fail.
Kirkman’s consistency, storytelling skills and longevity are good lessons to take away for the industry for certain, but … maybe … a multi-million dollar nationwide pay cable franchise contributed just a hair?
@Allen: I think something interesting is that the Walking Dead comic launched at #233 with about 7k in sales in October 2003, was nurtured by Image’s TPB system of releasing the trades where the next regular issue was hitting the stands at the same time, and it was allowed to run for seven years before the show came out.
DC, for instance, would be quick to cancel a book launching under 20k, their TPBs don’t come out for about six months after the issues collected so there’s very little (if any) transfer of readers from trade to floppies, and can you imagine a DC (or Marvel) title being left alone for seven years to build an audience?
@Allen – It certainly doesn’t hurt, but I can’t imagine it plays much of a role in the periodical sales. Marvel movies do insanely well but Avengers sales figure are very meh. Man of Steel made hundreds of millions of dollars in the box office and Superman still sells horribly.