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Stocky Boy
03-08-2009, 05:44 PM
Alway worth a read!

http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/03/06/marvel-month-to_month-sales-january-2009/

Comments later.
XIII
03-09-2009, 10:31 AM
I'm gonna pretend I'm moderating and sticky this thread.
Stocky Boy
03-09-2009, 01:51 PM
Ah thank you very much!

I read a tiny bit of this at the end of my working day.

Have a gander at the Obama issue of Spiderman. Sales are ridiculously high for the book, or any book really.
Mr Wallstreet
03-09-2009, 03:23 PM
Article said it best: the Obama issue was just a piece of memorabilia that drove up the sales for Spider-man for that one issue and not proof that Spider-man's sales are increasing.

I'm trying to recall if the same happened with the Stephen Colbert issue; it certainley happened with the Civil War / Spider-man unmasking issue and Cap's death.

Marvel typically has these single issue events whereby a massive increase in sales occur due to some celebrity appearence or "change in the status quo" which is undone months later.
Stocky Boy
03-09-2009, 05:24 PM
Which then also leads to them solidifying a lead on the sales chart.

Marvel may not be demonstrating an ability to play critically, but commercially they are kings. While DC on the otherhand - Final Crisis :(
Fasheem
03-09-2009, 08:31 PM
*skims for relevance*

Thank christ Young X-Men has been canceled. I read the first two issues and they were so bad I've hated the book with a PASSION ever since.
Fasheem
03-09-2009, 08:32 PM
Also whoa, financial crisis. Was sorta wondering what effect it would have on publishing (comics in particular) and it looks like: not good.
Goshin
03-09-2009, 08:53 PM
*skims for relevance*

Thank christ Young X-Men has been canceled. I read the first two issues and they were so bad I've hated the book with a PASSION ever since.


FINALLY!


what they do kill off the last surviving characters x-force/x-statix style?
William McDert
03-10-2009, 08:05 AM
Wow, definitely interesting!
Fasheem
03-11-2009, 04:23 AM
Still pleased to know that Young X-Men is no longer being inflicted on the reading audience.
wolf_2099
03-11-2009, 01:51 PM
Still pleased to know that Young X-Men is no longer being inflicted on the reading audience.

I never knew the hate for this was so wide spread.
It pleases me. It pleases me muchly.
Goshin
03-11-2009, 02:39 PM
i miss the old new mutants and generation x u actually cared what happened to those characters
wolf_2099
03-11-2009, 05:19 PM
Did anyone ever read Warren Ellis's like, 8 issue stint on Generation X?
MGM
03-11-2009, 05:22 PM
Didn't he write on Gen X during the AoA?
Goshin
03-11-2009, 06:43 PM
Didn't he write on Gen X during the AoA?


funny, i remember most of claremont's 70's and 80's run more vividly than the blue and gold team days and all that in the mid-90s.
jedispyder
03-11-2009, 07:46 PM
Ellis' run on Gen X only lasted from issues 63-70. It wasn't that great, I felt a lot of the decisions were made just to tear the team apart. Still pissed at him for killing Synch, bastard lol. He co-wrote the arcs with Brian Wood (like he did with X-Man and X-Force)...

It was X-Calibre that he wrote during AoA, and that was badass! Seeing Nightcrawler 'port someone's head off was something astonishing to a little kid like I was.
XIII
03-12-2009, 10:00 AM
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere Brian Wood saying that there was a a lot of editorial interferences with what Ellis and him had planned. I think.
Goshin
03-12-2009, 03:11 PM
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere Brian Wood saying that there was a a lot of editorial interferences with what Ellis and him had planned. I think.

same reason claremont left the x-titles in '91. things went okay but after AoA and onslaught everything turned to shit
MGM
03-12-2009, 03:37 PM
Uh... that was rather beyond Claremont.
Goshin
03-12-2009, 03:51 PM
well i remember reading that there was a lotta things he wanted to do but the editors were forcing him to do things and wouldnt allow him to do a lotta stuff, such as killing off wolverine and bringing him back as an agent of the hand, etc..
Fasheem
03-13-2009, 08:41 AM
well i remember reading that there was a lotta things he wanted to do but the editors were forcing him to do things and wouldnt allow him to do a lotta stuff, such as killing off wolverine and bringing him back as an agent of the hand, etc..

Good. That's a dumb idea. Who the fuck are the hand? At least bring him back working for someone cool.
MGM
03-13-2009, 10:00 AM
The Hand are ninja's and therefor by definition cool.
Fasheem
03-14-2009, 05:47 AM
Ninjas haven't been cool since 2003!
IrishCream
03-14-2009, 10:07 AM
Millar ended up using the idea for Wolverine: Enemy of the State
XIII
03-14-2009, 12:41 PM
Yeah, Millar had a widely successful run on Wolvie with the idea. I even the complete TP of his run.
IrishCream
03-14-2009, 01:07 PM
Doesn't hurt when John Romita Jr. is the artist. Man, he needs to do more Wolverine...