tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post5926443376314830693..comments2024-03-21T19:12:11.065-07:00Comments on Every Day Is Like Wednesday: Big-Two super-comics that sold worse than Thor: The Mighty AvengerCalebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-44709261342579287542010-11-30T15:01:09.785-08:002010-11-30T15:01:09.785-08:00It’s difficult to see what the difference between ...<i>It’s difficult to see what the difference between the all-ages Thor and the all-ages Spider-Man comics might be, especially given Thor’s far, far superior sales. Does the Spidey team just work half as cheap as the Thor team or something?</i><br /><br />MA SPIDER-MAN may sell south of 6K in the DM, but it does insanely well as a subscription vehicle, regularly moving between twenty and thirty thousand units a month via snail mail. When a book has that kind of locked-in market, actual retail sales (DM or not) almost don't matter.ykwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08139431442039071693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-73160685349579700472010-11-26T06:00:16.102-08:002010-11-26T06:00:16.102-08:00my guess is that the creators are being moved to s...my guess is that the creators are being moved to something higher profile. We all know why the odds were against Thor TMA (all-ages, out of continuity, glut) but it did well critically and commercially. So Marvel is probably moving the creators to something more viable and high-profile.<br /><br />Kind of like Matt Fraction's Order got killed so he could write Iron Man.Kid Kyotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06831945346163986586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-87269486857692136072010-11-26T05:59:12.927-08:002010-11-26T05:59:12.927-08:00Interesting stats. I'm sad about the Thor book...Interesting stats. I'm sad about the Thor book, it's a great read. Does Marvel not have any partnerships with 'real' kids book companies such as Scholastic, or Dorling Kindersley? It might be an interesting experiment to hand the collection co-rights over to a company for a token fee, and in return they put their marketing power behind it - surely they could shift plenty of copies of Langridge and Samnee's Thor come movie time.Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-19722908781917598362010-11-26T02:46:20.460-08:002010-11-26T02:46:20.460-08:00The surprise regarding Thor: The Mighty Avenger is...The surprise regarding Thor: The Mighty Avenger is that it was cancelled before it was traded, and therefore makes it's success (or otherwise) against those other titles selling lower than it on a monthly basis harder to judge.<br /><br />Marvel's Anita Blake and many of the Vertigo titles sell well in the trade market, and has a shelf life longer than many of Marvel or DC's usual trades. The Dark Tower adaptations are similarly very good perennial sellers for Marvel<br /><br />Similarly, for all that the Johnny DC titles sell badly in the direct market they have a sizeable sales base for DC Publishing outside the US. I know for a fact that the Scooby Doo reprints in the UK sell around the 50,000 mark and they have similar numbers across Europe.<br /><br />The final thing that may be a factor in Thor: The Mighty Avenger's cancellation could be the costs of the talent involved: I seem to recall from the cancellation of the Order and Next Wave that both Barry Kitson and Stuart Immomen were too expensive a cost in comparison to the sales involved, and the writers of both titles didn't want to continue without their collaborators. Thor: The Mighty Avenger without Chris Samnee wouldn't have been the same, and for all that it was my favourite Marvel comic while being published, I'd prefer it to end than continue as a shadow of its former self.Careyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04661184760209648937noreply@blogger.com