#1 on the Humble Book TabAnd they went on to say:
#1 Highest Overall Average for any Bundle.
#1 Media Coverage for a Book Bundle
This bundle was particularly special since it elicited such a beautiful and positive reaction from both our fans and Humble newbies alike. I talked with our Customer Service Manager yesterday and he reported that there wasn't a single negative comment. (Except new customers not understanding how to redeem their bundles. A very common complaint.) This has never happened before either!I was so happy how many friends, acquaintances and people I do not even know gave it a push.
There was a tremendous amount of delighted energy at Humble HQ since the launch. Everyone here was stoked to be involved. Dare I say that it was almost in the realm of The Magical.
John Scalzi went further -- he reviewed my 1985 Duran Duran book, and let the review become a gentle meditation on who we are and who we were and who we become. It's at http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/09/22/duran-duran-neil-gaiman-and-beginnings/ and you might enjoy it.
Here are the final results for your interest:I'll post the actual numbers here, and how much money that actually makes and how much is going where, when I get the information from Humble. Hurrah for transparency.
Humble Book Bundle: Neil Gaiman Rarities
https://www.humblebundle.com/books?view=pPpiWRbzesK-Launch Date: September 9th 2015
End Date: September 23rd 2015
Avg. price per bundle: $19.63
32,294 bundles purchased
Total Revenue: $633,787.98
(Note the numbers might change ever so slightly over the next few weeks.)
(Also, I commend to you the Banned Comics Humble Bundle that's going on right now: $231 of forbidden comics for Pay What You Like https://www.humblebundle.com/books )
I thought it’s long been clear that Gaiman and Buckingham both want to work on finishing their Miracleman/Marvelman story. Now that Buckingham is free and clear of his Fables commitments, he should be free to finish his story. Now, with the continued delays on Sandman, it’s a fair question as to what the schedule will be for Marvelman if Neil needs to finish his work. But I think all the legal issues are well clear. at least for Neil and Mark.
After Eclipse went out of business it was discovered that there was another completed (written, penciled and inked) issue of Miracleman which was never published and which has been part of the bait to get Miracleman back into print. At the very least, that will see print at last.
If Gaiman’s work on this is as rapid as his Sandman has been, I will be dead long before Issue 2, so what the hell do I care?
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“If Gaiman’s work on this is as rapid as his Sandman has been, I will be dead long before Issue 2, so what the hell do I care?”
That’s the problem with hiring celebrities who have no financial incentive to write comics. They’re doing it as a hobby, so they work at their own pace. And they don’t get fired for missing deadline after deadline. The book just comes out late. (See also: Kevin Smith.)
If I remember correctly, didn’t Neil Gaiman have at least the outline for a few more issues done, which he dug up years ago while going through his basement back in the middle of the McFarland lawsuit?
“That’s the problem with hiring celebrities who have no financial incentive to write comics.”
Even back in the day I remember the original Sandman getting horribly late as it concluded.
Also I would say that Neil Gaiman is more than just a celebrity. His problem is that he has a crazy number of writing projects on the go beyond his comics and from his comments online seems to be missing deadlines on a lot of things.
Also Sandman is likely to sell really well, no matter when it comes out. Eventually it will be collected into a hardcover and trade and sell a huge number of copies no matter how late that is.
IIRC Gaiman was going to do three arcs of MM: Golden Age (which went #17-22), Silver Age (#23+) and then Dark Age. MM #25 was finished (at least up through inking) but never published. There was the three-issue Apocrypha standalone mini that was published by Gaiman & other creators that could be inserted into this run as needed, plus there were some extra MM Apocrypha tales, like the John K Snyder III one, that were started and never completed but could be finished by the original creators.
So there is more MM material in the can right now. Plus Buckingham is more confident & established as a writer at this point in his career than he was almost 30 years ago, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the working relationship slipped to be more 50/50 on writing than originally planned.
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