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Post by andys on Nov 29, 2018 16:45:02 GMT -5
I was randomly skimming over an upcoming comics catalog recently and I couldn't help noticing how many variant covers are being produced now. It's far more excessive than it ever was in the 90s. I often get the impression that the big shots at Marvel and DC basically want the sales figures they had in the 90s while trying to pretend those sales weren't artificially inflated and resulted in a massive bust. Like an addict getting nostalgic about being wasted while acting as if their kidneys didn't shut down because of it.
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Post by themirrorthief on Nov 29, 2018 18:47:19 GMT -5
it started going downhill when they started putting tiny heads on the characters
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Post by Jason Aiken on Nov 30, 2018 12:44:19 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Nov 30, 2018 13:26:21 GMT -5
I was randomly skimming over an upcoming comics catalog recently and I couldn't help noticing how many variant covers are being produced now. It's far more excessive than it ever was in the 90s. I often get the impression that the big shots at Marvel and DC basically want the sales figures they had in the 90s while trying to pretend those sales weren't artificially inflated and resulted in a massive bust. Like an addict getting nostalgic about being wasted while acting as if their kidneys didn't shut down because of it. Marvel/Diamond also uses variants to force shop owners to buy more copies. You have to hit a certain threshhold before they "let" you buy the variants. What a sordid mess.
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Post by Majere on Nov 30, 2018 23:22:11 GMT -5
Ain’t it great? So glad to live in such a progressive utopia, where feelings reign supreme.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2019 2:31:17 GMT -5
How Marvel Will Persuade Stores to Order More of Their Comics in February–and It’s All Down to X-Men Red #10www.bleedingcool.com/2019/01/11/marvel-order-comics-february-x-men-red-10/According to this Bleedingcool article Marvel have 'all but stopped overprinting in an attempt to persuade retailers that they can sell more than they think they can of certain comic books. Instead, they have switched to volume-based discounts. The more retailers order, the greater the discount. And it’s all based on what they ordered before…especially if that was X-Men Red #10.'
How can Marvel realistically expect retailers to order more copies of the SSOC than the main Conan book? Savage Sword of Conan #1 will give increasing discounts if retailers order 150%, 200% or 250% of their numbers on Conan The Barbarian #1.
Age of X-Man: The Marvelous X-Men #1 will give increasing discounts if retailers order 150% or 200% of their numbers on X-Men Red #10.
Age of X-Man: Nextgen #1 will give increasing discounts if retailers order 150% or 200% of their numbers on X-Men Red #10.
Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler #1 will give increasing discounts if retailers order 150% or 200% of their numbers on X-Men Red #10.
Age of X-Man: X-Tremists #1 will give increasing discounts if retailers order 150% or 200% of their numbers on X-Men Red #10.
Avengers: No Road Home #1 will give increasing discounts if retailers order 150%, 200% or 250% of their numbers on Avengers #9.
Daredevil #1 will give increasing discounts if retailers order 200%, 250% or 300% of their numbers on Avengers #9.
Old Man Quill #1 will give increasing discounts if retailers order 150%, 200%, or 250% of their numbers on Old Man Hawkeye #11.
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Post by johnnypt on Jan 12, 2019 8:56:03 GMT -5
Expect to see SSOC in the bargain bins pretty quick if retailers actually take them up on this. That’s simply unrealistic to expect the spinoff to sell more than the original book, especially twice as much.
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Post by mindboggled on Jan 18, 2019 17:45:45 GMT -5
Are comicbooks sales still going down, or have they stabilized at a some low point? How much more can they drop before the industry goes onto the endangered list?
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Post by terryallenuk on Jan 19, 2019 13:57:07 GMT -5
Year-end 2018 total sales down just 1.08% in dollars versus 2017 and down 5.98% in units. www.newsarama.com/43534-december-2018-comic-book-sales-charts.htmlI think they are fairly stable these days though a lot lower than years past. It's mainly due to rebooting/relaunching titles/cross-overs which boost sales for a few months until the cycle starts again. Sadly the only really successful on-going books that seem to hold sales are Batman , The Walking Dead and Saga. Be interesting to see where the Conan titles stabise , and how Marvel boost them when the sales fall to a level when cancellation is a possibility.
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Post by terryallenuk on Jan 23, 2019 13:43:30 GMT -5
DC Comics Selling Almost Half as Many Comics a Month As It Used To We’ve noted how DC Comics has cancelled Titans, Damage and Scooby Apocalypse. This comes after cancelling almost all of the DC Age Of Heroes line, the disappearance of the solicited Batman & The Outsiders and The Other History Of The DC Universe, the non-solicitation of promised Black Label comics and the dropping of many of the twice-monthly schedules. And the effects are notable. In 2018, DC Comics published fewer titles every month in comic stores than Marvel. But in December they dropped to the lowest level, 52 single issues and 37 collections, compared to Marvel’s 90 single issues and 38 collections. When it comes to single issues, Marvel published almost twice as many as DC in December. At the beginning of the year, January 2017, DC Comics published 89 single issues, more than Marvel’s 86. Now the beginning of the Wonder Comics line at DC may have helped those numbers, as have Bendis’ creator-owned books. But looking at the April solicits, there are 54 single issues listed. And 3 of those are final issues. REST AT : www.bleedingcool.com/2019/01/22/dc-comics-selling-almost-half-as-many-comics-a-month-as-it-used-to/?utm_source=Bleeding+Cool+LitG+Daily&utm_campaign=5721dd8b23-BC_LitG&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0d50dc8fdf-5721dd8b23-710771045&mc_cid=5721dd8b23&mc_eid=1948f2dff7
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2019 14:19:04 GMT -5
DC Comics Selling Almost Half as Many Comics a Month As It Used To We’ve noted how DC Comics has cancelled Titans, Damage and Scooby Apocalypse. This comes after cancelling almost all of the DC Age Of Heroes line, the disappearance of the solicited Batman & The Outsiders and The Other History Of The DC Universe, the non-solicitation of promised Black Label comics and the dropping of many of the twice-monthly schedules. And the effects are notable. In 2018, DC Comics published fewer titles every month in comic stores than Marvel. But in December they dropped to the lowest level, 52 single issues and 37 collections, compared to Marvel’s 90 single issues and 38 collections. When it comes to single issues, Marvel published almost twice as many as DC in December. At the beginning of the year, January 2017, DC Comics published 89 single issues, more than Marvel’s 86. Now the beginning of the Wonder Comics line at DC may have helped those numbers, as have Bendis’ creator-owned books. But looking at the April solicits, there are 54 single issues listed. And 3 of those are final issues. REST AT : www.bleedingcool.com/2019/01/22/dc-comics-selling-almost-half-as-many-comics-a-month-as-it-used-to/?utm_source=Bleeding+Cool+LitG+Daily&utm_campaign=5721dd8b23-BC_LitG&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0d50dc8fdf-5721dd8b23-710771045&mc_cid=5721dd8b23&mc_eid=1948f2dff7I dunno maybe DC have decided to follow a strategy of publishing less books a month that actually sell consistently rather than flood the market with loads of titles that do not sell.
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Post by terryallenuk on Jan 24, 2019 13:27:45 GMT -5
I'd hope both them and Marvel would do that. Flooding the market , especially with spin-offs of whatever event is on is completely over the top and usually add nothing to the overall story.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 16:32:30 GMT -5
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Post by terryallenuk on Jan 25, 2019 14:00:31 GMT -5
I don't know much about him but there's a lot of flack flying around the industry about them getting rid of Mark Chiarello.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 3:33:57 GMT -5
Extract from an interesting article at comicsbeat.com: 'The Retailer’s View // Thank You, Next
“Comics are a waste of money.”
These are the words that linger in my brain. They slip into dreams and colour slow days at work with a sickly grey pallor. As a child, I would hear them after managing to get one of my parents to take me to the local comic shop – a feat usually managed twice a year, around my birthday and Christmas time. After months of reading information on the internet, spoiling myself in bits of pieces in order to arrive at the store armed with a game plan, I’d make my purchase amidst sighs of discontent.
“Are you sure this is what you want to spend your money on?” I would hear in the store.
“Comics are a waste of money,” is what I’d hear at home.
At the time, those words cut deep. They struck at the worth of something tied to my sense of being. Today? Today, I think they are all words we need to hear, no matter how much they might hurt our souls.
Welcome to 2019, my friends.
Welcome to the death of the industry as we know it.
By Brandon Schatz — with edits and contributions by Danica LeBlanc
If you’re reading this column, chances are you’ve been keeping your finger on the pulse of (gestures wildly) the comic book industry and the grim forecast of comics retail in 2019. For those that haven’t, here’s the quick and dirty version: many retailers are having a tough go as of late, and many are closing up shop rather than signing up for a few more years of decline. The reasons for this are legion and sometimes highly specific to a store, but all seem to have an immutable idea at the core: something is wrong. The trick seems to come in identifying what that something is, and when it started happening.'If you wanna read more: www.comicsbeat.com/the-retailers-view-thank-you-next/
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