X-Men sales figures for November

[Witchfan]

Here are sales figures for November:
https://www.cbr.com/doomsday-clock-n...ales-charts/2/

Horrible! No X-Men team book sold over 40,000 copies.

[Ulfhammer]

Here are sales figures for November:
https://www.cbr.com/doomsday-clock-n...ales-charts/2/

Horrible! No X-Men team book sold over 40,000 copies.

Not good at all. I still have not idea how Gold is outselling Blue but the fact that 35K is the new normal for a core X-men title is just surreal. Most of the solo's are not doing well either. JG at 17K and Iceman at 12.5K.

I wonder if these numbers helped Mr. Alonso out the door? To be fair they've not been great for a long while now but this seems like a new low.

[Ambaryerno]

I wish we got to see estimates for digital sales. I'd be curious how that would affect the numbers since we already know some books (RE Moon Girl) sell better digitally than via Direct Market.

[ChildOfTheAtom]

well damn

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[Ulfhammer]

I wish we got to see estimates for digital sales. I'd be curious how that would affect the numbers since we already know some books (RE Moon Girl) sell better digitally than via Direct Market.

Honestly the fact that Marvel never releases this information is a sign to me that the news is not great. If the digital sales numbers were strong (compared to offline) I feel like Marvel would be screaming it from the rooftops, just to have something positive to say about its sales figures.

[Frontier]

Honestly the fact that Marvel never releases this information is a sign to me that the news is not great. If the digital sales numbers were strong (compared to offline) I feel like Marvel would be screaming it from the rooftops, just to have something positive to say about its sales figures.

I know they sometimes cite digital sales for keeping a title affloat or for non-brick-and-mortar comic shop success, but it doesn't seem like an across the board thing.

[Ulfhammer]

I know they sometimes cite digital sales for keeping a title affloat or for non-brick-and-mortar comic shop success, but it doesn't seem like an across the board thing.

Sure and in those cases I think they're identifying some successes. Generally speaking, corporations (especially publicily traded corporations) remain very quiet about failures and oversell successes. Given the focus on digital distribution in other areas of entertainment (Spotify, Steam, Amazon, Hulu\Netflix, etc.) you'd think if this delivery platform was a success, they'd be talking about it in no uncertain terms.

[Anduinel]

Honestly the fact that Marvel never releases this information is a sign to me that the news is not great. If the digital sales numbers were strong (compared to offline) I feel like Marvel would be screaming it from the rooftops, just to have something positive to say about its sales figures.

Marvel never releases any sales figures, though. The sales charts are all guesstimates from Diamond. Marvel will brag on a book if its digital sales exceed expectations (a la Ms Marvel), but no reason to make noise over business as usual.

[CuteClops]

Well, I don't buy an X-title since Uncanny X-Men #600...

[wano]

I wish we got to see estimates for digital sales. I'd be curious how that would affect the numbers since we already know some books (RE Moon Girl) sell better digitally than via Direct Market.

The best you can get is the comixology weekly top 12's, want me to dig em for you?

[Ambaryerno]

The best you can get is the comixology weekly top 12's, want me to dig em for you?

You can see more than just the top 12 if you pull up the entire chart for the week but it doesn't give us much beyond numerical ranking, and AFAIK there's no way to see how things stack up monthly.

[Dthirds3]

Holy shit that was a bad month for marvel. I hope the Phoenix varents bring the X-Men back up.

I wish we got to see estimates for digital sales. I'd be curious how that would affect the numbers since we already know some books (RE Moon Girl) sell better digitally than via Direct Market.

In the marvel app top 6 for last week are Spider-Man, blue,jean, and ANW, star wars, wepond x legacy. Id expect didital to add some were between 20 and 60 peecent to the sales numbers maby more.

[Jirrenm]

Unpopular opinion here but these aren't bad news for me. Maybe it's time to realize X-books don't sell as much as they did back in the 90s and 00s. So there is no need to flood the market with them, their number needs to be reduced. It's time re-focus and have only two books, one called Uncanny X-men focusing on the main team and another one called New X-men focusing on the school. This would increase baseline sales and become easy for old and new readers to follow. Also it's time to stop the editorial dictatorship that the franchise has suffered since the late 80s and 90s and hire one single writer that can have creative freedom to do what he wants (My pick would be Kurt Busiek but any other GOOD writer that can have the same creative freedom Claremont had back in the day would do). We need to move foward let's try to bring fresh ideas to the franchse for a change please.

[salarta]

Unpopular opinion here but these aren't bad news for me. Maybe it's time to realize X-books don't sell as much as they did back in the 90s and 00s. So there is no need to flood the market with them, their number needs to be reduced. It's time re-focus and have only two books, one called Uncanny X-men focusing on the main team and another one called New X-men focusing on the school. This would increase baseline sales and become easy for old and new readers to follow. Also it's time to stop the editorial dictatorship that the franchise has suffered since the late 80s and 90s and hire one single writer that can have creative freedom to do what he wants (My pick would be Kurt Busiek but any other GOOD writer that can have the same creative freedom Claremont had back in the day would do). We need to move foward let's try to bring fresh ideas to the franchse for a change please.

I'd say the problem isn't "too many comics." The X-Men franchise has already been severely cut down since 2014, from around 14 comics at one time to more like 6 or 7.

The problem is the wrong focus for what comics they do have. The focus has been on nostalgia instead of development.

I'll agree Marvel editorial should have less influence, but I mainly say that because of the Avengers side. My observation of the Avengers side is that they keep making mistakes that are usually based in editorial/executive demands and not what actually works for the characters or story. Someone at Marvel thinks a character isn't "good enough" or whatever and suddenly they're omitted from stories where they have a huge stake in things, while characters that have no stake at all are everywhere just cause someone at Marvel wants to push them.

[Maestroneto]

Unpopular opinion here but these aren't bad news for me. Maybe it's time to realize X-books don't sell as much as they did back in the 90s and 00s. So there is no need to flood the market with them, their number needs to be reduced. It's time re-focus and have only two books, one called Uncanny X-men focusing on the main team and another one called New X-men focusing on the school. This would increase baseline sales and become easy for old and new readers to follow. Also it's time to stop the editorial dictatorship that the franchise has suffered since the late 80s and 90s and hire one single writer that can have creative freedom to do what he wants (My pick would be Kurt Busiek but any other GOOD writer that can have the same creative freedom Claremont had back in the day would do). We need to move foward let's try to bring fresh ideas to the franchse for a change please.

Kurt Busiek's trash ideas ruined the X-Men. He can stay away.