More examples of how claims Absolute Batman's an utter success are a silly farce

Popverse decided to follow up on a previous news report that DC's Absolute imprint's supposedly selling like hotcakes, and simultaneously admit the "New52" canon from 2011 wasn't exactly the success they surely want everyone to think it was:

According to public reports from its distributor at the time, the 'New 52' Batman #1 sold just over 225,000 copies in September 2011. Over its 52-issue run (not including annuals, specials, and spinoffs), Snyder's 'New 52' Batman run never once dipped under 100,000 copies sold in the first month of each issue's release - something subsequent Batman runs haven't been able to keep up with, based on the limited evidence publicly available. Either way, those numbers don't include any copies sold outside of that window, which would include reprints, digital copies, non-US editions, and collected editions.

Absolute Batman, however, sold just under 400,000 copies in its first six weeks of release back at the end of 2024, and demand has continued that DC recently reprinted it for an eleventh time. According to sources familiar with sales figures, DC's Absolute Batman has settled into the range of selling roughly 300,000 print copies per issue, going on two years later.

"We’re over a year into these titles, and the sales on multiple titles are going up issue to issue — sometimes by really startling amounts," Conroy tells Comics! The Magazine #1, without giving specifics.

Snyder, who made his career thanks to the success of the 'New 52' Batman run, honestly didn't think Absolute Batman would come close to matching that.

So they merely continue the comedy, right down to implying the whole New52 direction taken in the early 2010s was literally a success, when here, they mostly abandoned its "canon" at least a few years later, and reversed some of the directions taken with Identity Crisis. They admit there's hardly any proof of what they claim, but continue to make a joke of their news coverage anyway.

Even if Snyder's Batman run didn't fall below 100,000 in copy orders, what's told still doesn't prove it was a literal success. At best, it's just wishful thinking, and at worst, it's all an insulting joke, pretending it's all as successful as what movies make. And all this is their idea of a substitute for making an argument in favor of switching from pamphlet issues to paperback/hardcover books. In reality, it's just more sad jokes that don't do any favors for comicdom.