Keep also in mind that it’s not because a copy is sold to a shop that it’s sold to a customer. American comics do get sold somewhere else in their original floppy editions.
Reminder: those sales are estimates, sales to comics shops situed in North America. Marvel, like Samantha Fox, used to say, “Nothing’s gonna stop me NOW”? Well, you know what, you’re wrong– something will, Marvel! Do we see the first signs of new readers getting fed-up? Frankly, I don’t know if we shouldn’t hope they are. One day or another, the big two are gonna pay for all these short-term looking behaviors (multi events, constant relaunching, variant cover craziness, over exploitation of trends). And most of those families are not feeling well right now. There are so many big events going on at the same time (Civil War II, Inhumans Vs X-Men, Clone Conspiracy) with absolutely no time to catch your breath between them that it can only produce one behavior: forcing hardcore Marvel readers to either give up everything or restrict themselves to one family of titles. Even putting high profile creative teams on these books doesn’t mean good sales, with Infamous Iron Man, Black Widow and Thanos selling less than what should be expected from such comic book stars. Mosaic and Great Lake Avengers are seemingly doing ok while Solo and Prowler have already failed. The new daring launches of secondary characters in their own ongoing series has had mixed results.
All hope of revitalizing the Avengers franchise can be forgotten: the franchise is agonizing with very weak debut launches of Avengers, Avengers 1.1 and Occupy Avengers.
The expansion of Thor’s, Iron Man’s, Black Panther’s and Dr Strange’s success to other titles is not working out and, worst of all, the Deadpool franchise seems to have reached its limit, if not went over it. The illusion behind Champions’ and Dr Strange: Sorcerers Supreme‘s numbers have faded out and one of them woke up with a very bad headache. Please address your complaints to my “beware dictators, or we will turn the switch off the Eiffel Tower again!” country.īoy, that’s not a good month for Marvel Now!’s new launches. Reminder: I’m French, that’s why I’m talking funny. Welcome to a new analysis of the Marvel sales.
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