Marvel Sales!

Stocky Boy · Post by **Stocky Boy** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:44 pm

Alway worth a read!

http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog ... uary-2009/

Comments later.

XIII · Post by **XIII** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:31 am

I'm gonna pretend I'm moderating and sticky this thread.

Stocky Boy · Post by **Stocky Boy** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:51 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 · Post by **Mr Wallstreet** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:23 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 · Post by **Stocky Boy** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:24 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 · Post by **Fasheem** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:31 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 · Post by **Fasheem** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:32 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 · Post by **Goshin** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:53 pm

Fasheem wrote:*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 · Post by **William McDert** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:05 am

Wow, definitely interesting!

Fasheem · Post by **Fasheem** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:23 am

Still pleased to know that Young X-Men is no longer being inflicted on the reading audience.

wolf_2099 · Post by **wolf_2099** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:51 pm

Fasheem wrote: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 · Post by **Goshin** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:39 pm

i miss the old new mutants and generation x u actually cared what happened to those characters

wolf_2099 · Post by **wolf_2099** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:19 pm

Did anyone ever read Warren Ellis's like, 8 issue stint on Generation X?

MGM · Post by **MGM** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:22 pm

Didn't he write on Gen X during the AoA?

Goshin · Post by **Goshin** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:43 pm

MGM wrote: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 · Post by **jedispyder** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:46 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 · Post by **XIII** » Thu Mar 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 · Post by **Goshin** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:11 pm

XIII wrote: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 · Post by **MGM** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:37 pm

Uh... that was rather beyond Claremont.

Goshin · Post by **Goshin** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:51 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..