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I told myself a while ago that I was going to stop reading comic book interviews, as all they ever seem to do is upset me.
And I will stop. Just...not today.
So apparently the Plastic Man book that didn't sell was a good tool to measure how receptive fans are to books with lighter tones.
Yes, DC publishes one humor book, and its horrible sales show how uninterested fans are in reading about heroes who aren't paralyzed with unutterable sorrow. (Or dead.)
But wait! Marvel Zombies was a humor title (...kind of), and it produced *amazing* results. Both the JLI minis were light hearted, and they sold out and have done considerably well in trade. For all their teenage angst and dramatics, I'd call Young Avengers and Runaways light hearted, and YA is doing pretty awesome, all things considered. Cable/Deadpool, as far as I know, generally sells between 23 and 25k a month, which isn't fantastic, but isn't pathetic, either.
What's more, books like Spider-man ♥ Mary Jane, She-Hulk, and Runaways are the ones that actually sell well in, you know, real book stores. Well enough to keep the comics in print despite relatively poor single-issue sales, anyway; there's got to be profit in there somewhere.
Sigh.
Also, apparently Dick was supposed to die. Now I'm even more bitter, because perhaps that means that Conner was supposed to live.
...Not that it really matters anyway, at this point.
And I will stop. Just...not today.
So apparently the Plastic Man book that didn't sell was a good tool to measure how receptive fans are to books with lighter tones.
Yes, DC publishes one humor book, and its horrible sales show how uninterested fans are in reading about heroes who aren't paralyzed with unutterable sorrow. (Or dead.)
But wait! Marvel Zombies was a humor title (...kind of), and it produced *amazing* results. Both the JLI minis were light hearted, and they sold out and have done considerably well in trade. For all their teenage angst and dramatics, I'd call Young Avengers and Runaways light hearted, and YA is doing pretty awesome, all things considered. Cable/Deadpool, as far as I know, generally sells between 23 and 25k a month, which isn't fantastic, but isn't pathetic, either.
What's more, books like Spider-man ♥ Mary Jane, She-Hulk, and Runaways are the ones that actually sell well in, you know, real book stores. Well enough to keep the comics in print despite relatively poor single-issue sales, anyway; there's got to be profit in there somewhere.
Sigh.
Also, apparently Dick was supposed to die. Now I'm even more bitter, because perhaps that means that Conner was supposed to live.
...Not that it really matters anyway, at this point.