It makes me sad that people will buy COUNTDOWN by the assload, but a book like CRIMINAL barely scrapes by. Put one week of COUNTDOWN money into CRIMINAL, god damn it!
It makes me sad that people will buy COUNTDOWN by the assload, but a book like CRIMINAL barely scrapes by. Put one week of COUNTDOWN money into CRIMINAL, god damn it!
PS - CRIMINAL #2 comes out this week.
I don't really think Countdown is selling "by the assload."
It makes me sad that people will buy COUNTDOWN by the assload, but a book like CRIMINAL barely scrapes by. Put one week of COUNTDOWN money into CRIMINAL, god damn it!
PS - CRIMINAL #2 comes out this week.
I don't really think Countdown is selling "by the assload."
What's weirder is that it's still selling almost 230k copies a month. Retailers are rewarding DC for publishing complete shit.
I really wish there was a way to know how many of those are actually being sold to customers, and how many are going to be in retailer quarter bins in two years. I just can't wrap my head around the idea that 70k people are buying this book every week. Insane.
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Ultimates 3, OMD, Loeb's Wolverine were all in the top ten for their months of sale, and they had far less redeeming qualities than Countdown.
Even the supplemental issues are selling in the 40-50k range. ARENA sold in the low 50s, the RAY PALMER SEARCH issues were selling in the 40s. Incredible.
Why, a sudden 20% sales increase for no apparent reason with the 13th issue. Quite surprising, isn’t it?
Well, not entirely. In fact, the same thing happened with 52 a year ago. Back then, I suspected the increase was due to retailers reacting to high demand. Even then, though, something didn’t seem right, because there was no significant reorder activity for previous issues.
Since then, I’ve been told that the supposed sales boost for 52 Week 13 was nothing more than a statistical correction on Diamond’s part. It works like this: Because DC made the first three months (Week 1-12) worth of That’s not rhetoric, by the way: I’m genuinely curious what’s going 52 returnable under certain conditions, Diamond knocked a token 20% off of the sales of each of those issues for their charts. Once the book stopped being returnable with Week 13, Diamond naturally stopped compensating for the returnability, and consequently the charts displayed a miraculous 20% increase.
I suspect the same is happening with Countdown now. For the record, I’ve not been able to find a public announcement on the returnability of Countdown past issue #44, but it seems to be the most likely scenario to me. If you’ve got inside knowledge on the matter and can confirm or deny its accuracy, though, feel free to chime in.
If the theory were indeed correct, that would be quite bizarre, of course. Why 20%, exactly? Did Diamond have any empirical data before setting the figure? Did they use a dartboard? Does this practice pertain to 52 and Countdown only? Or are they applying it to any books which were always meant to be returnable (which would include All Flash #1, Flash #231 and The Highwaymen #1)? And what about books which end up being returnable due to last-minute content changes or delays?
It'd be hilarious if the entire point of Countdown was to provide back story for a new Kamandi ongoing, but there are still issues remaining so I guess there's more.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the end of Countdown wasn't going to be setting up Final Crisis almost at all and thats why they had Johns and Morrison write DC Universe #0
Well according to your posts your hardon for Kyle Rayner is so great that you'll spend $2.99 a week on a book that may only show him in a single panel, or in none at all.
Well according to your posts your hardon for Kyle Rayner is so great that you'll spend $2.99 a week on a book that may only show him in a single panel, or in none at all.
I don't care about this random earth with a virus that turns everything into furrys. The end made me think the writers had just seen I Am Legend and really really liked it.
I don't care about this random earth with a virus that turns everything into furrys. The end made me think the writers had just seen I Am Legend and really really liked it.
It's supposed to be in line with what happened to Kamandi. (obvious differences aside)
Ah, it was a tie in special reference. Still not excusable. If they are going to do a tie in, this kind of shit should be in the actual tie in and not interrupt the main story.
At least now I know that there was some cohesiveness to the whole thing.
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Which is everyone except Bad Karma.
And bobgorilla I guess.
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I think it's more like Stockholm Syndrome.
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PS - CRIMINAL #2 comes out this week.
I don't really think Countdown is selling "by the assload."
it is.
Although Countdown's numbers certainly aren't blowing anyone away.
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/03/12/dc-mowoodnth-to-month-sales-january-2008/
05/2007: Countdown #51 — 91,083
05/2007: Countdown #50 — 83,752 (- 8.1%) [85,564]
05/2007: Countdown #49 — 81,484 (- 2.7%) [83,188]
05/2007: Countdown #48 — 79,810 (- 2.1%) [81,828]
06/2007: Countdown #47 — 77,504 (- 2.9%)
06/2007: Countdown #46 — 76,362 (- 1.5%)
06/2007: Countdown #45 — 74,918 (- 1.9%)
06/2007: Countdown #44 — 73,971 (- 1.3%)
07/2007: Countdown #43 — 73,912 (- 0.1%)
07/2007: Countdown #42 — 73,116 (- 1.1%)
07/2007: Countdown #41 — 72,621 (- 0.7%)
07/2007: Countdown #40 — 72,102 (- 0.7%)
08/2007: Countdown #39 — 88,021 (+22.1%)
08/2007: Countdown #38 — 87,260 (- 0.9%)
08/2007: Countdown #37 — 86,405 (- 1.0%)
08/2007: Countdown #36 — 85,536 (- 1.0%)
08/2007: Countdown #35 — 84,350 (- 1.4%)
09/2007: Countdown #34 — 82,537 (- 2.2%)
09/2007: Countdown #33 — 81,744 (- 1.0%)
09/2007: Countdown #32 — 81,097 (- 0.8%)
09/2007: Countdown #31 — 80,127 (- 1.2%)
10/2007: Countdown #30 — 78,222 (- 2.4%)
10/2007: Countdown #29 — 77,755 (- 0.6%)
10/2007: Countdown #28 — 77,003 (- 1.0%)
10/2007: Countdown #27 — 76,401 (- 0.8%)
10/2007: Countdown to FC #26 — 75,514 (- 1.2%)
11/2007: Countdown to FC #25 — 74,668 (- 1.1%)
11/2007: Countdown to FC #24 — 74,047 (- 0.8%)
11/2007: Countdown to FC #23 — 73,241 (- 1.1%)
11/2007: Countdown to FC #22 — 72,765 (- 0.7%)
12/2007: Countdown to FC #21 — 71,524 (- 1.7%)
12/2007: Countdown to FC #20 — 71,331 (- 0.3%)
12/2007: Countdown to FC #19 — 70,805 (- 0.7%)
12/2007: Countdown to FC #18 — 70,619 (- 0.3%)
01/2008: Countdown to FC #17 — 69,587 (- 1.5%)
01/2008: Countdown to FC #16 — 69,629 (+ 0.1%)
01/2008: Countdown to FC #15 — 69,504 (- 0.2%)
01/2008: Countdown to FC #14 — 68,770 (- 1.1%)
01/2008: Countdown to FC #13 — 68,099 (- 1.0%)
I really wish there was a way to know how many of those are actually being sold to customers, and how many are going to be in retailer quarter bins in two years. I just can't wrap my head around the idea that 70k people are buying this book every week. Insane.
Countdown was 52 issues of shit
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Because you are like everyone else and secretly like it while you bash it on the intertrons.
Well according to your posts your hardon for Kyle Rayner is so great that you'll spend $2.99 a week on a book that may only show him in a single panel, or in none at all.
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it is a pretty big hardon, after all
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oh my god what have i become
I don't care about this random earth with a virus that turns everything into furrys. The end made me think the writers had just seen I Am Legend and really really liked it.
It's supposed to be in line with what happened to Kamandi. (obvious differences aside)
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At least now I know that there was some cohesiveness to the whole thing.