Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Save for one title, everything else sold below 73,000 last month
This ICV2 sales chart shows that, while Fantastic Four #587 sold 115,000 copies, all other series sold below 73,000 copies in January. So many once majestic titles are now plummeting to dismal numbers thanks to the destruction the people in charge of the big two have caused, and again, it's going to be exceedingly harder for the big two to justify the sales results.
In semi-related news, Sports Illustrated ended print-only memberships this week.
ReplyDeleteWe're going to see a mass migration of all periodicals into digital formats. The Big Two may be held back from this transition by the ties to the direct market, but it's going to happen.
Print-only subscriptions.
ReplyDeleteThe digital drift, soon to be a digital tsunami, makes the current print comics the rarest issues ever. Given the attrition rate of past print issues, the fact that the current crop are printed in low numbers to begin with means the retarded SlottSpiderMan, the horrible JMSuperman and JMSWonderWoman and the rest are guaranteed rarities of the futures.
ReplyDeleteBi-freakin-zarre.
There has to be demand in order for rarity to mean anything.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I'll never get the mega-bucks now that my early Valiants used to go for back in the day. :)