Spider book sales February 2019

[oldschool]

Kinda surprised that ASM #16 would sell almost 7,000 fewer copies than ASM #15 seeing as #16 was a prelude to "Hunted". It's not a huge difference but still enough of a difference to stand out....not sure if it means anything in regards to readers' interest in "Hunted" or not. I suppose March sales will be more telling.

[Snoop Dogg]

Kinda surprised that ASM #16 would sell almost 7,000 fewer copies than ASM #15 seeing as #16 was a prelude to "Hunted". It's not a huge difference but still enough of a difference to stand out....not sure if it means anything in regards to readers' interest in "Hunted" or not. I suppose March sales will be more telling.

#16 cost more money.

[oldschool]

#16 cost more money.

Hmmmm.....well, so did #17 so I guess we will soon see if that extra buck on the cover price is keeping some readers away.

[Celgress]

Kinda surprised that ASM #16 would sell almost 7,000 fewer copies than ASM #15 seeing as #16 was a prelude to "Hunted". It's not a huge difference but still enough of a difference to stand out....not sure if it means anything in regards to readers' interest in "Hunted" or not. I suppose March sales will be more telling.

I have a feeling "Hunted" might underperform (that is what I'm hearing from my buddies in the industry), but we'll see.

[JGC]

Call me crazy but I don’t like all these copycat Spidey characters in their own books. While I enjoyed Superior Spider-Man immensely when it came out, having the title alive today with the real Peter Parker as Spider-Man in ASM seems silly and not needed. I have never been a fan of alt-universe Spider-characters so I don’t pick up Miles’ or Spider-Gwen’s books. All that’s left is ASM, FNSM and SM/DP (which is getting cancelled) for me. I would prefer FNSM gets cancelled and we have ASM three times a month.

[Celgress]

Call me crazy but I don’t like all these copycat Spidey characters in their own books. While I enjoyed Superior Spider-Man immensely when it came out, having the title alive today with the real Peter Parker as Spider-Man in ASM seems silly and not needed. I have never been a fan of alt-universe Spider-characters so I don’t pick up Miles’ or Spider-Gwen’s books. All that’s left is ASM, FNSM and SM/DP (which is getting cancelled) for me. I would prefer FNSM gets cancelled and we have ASM three times a month.

I do agree with you that there is a glut of spider people right now. Some might hate me for saying this, but unless the quality of Gwen's book picks up I can see it being canceled for low sales by about Fall.

[Frontier]

Call me crazy but I don’t like all these copycat Spidey characters in their own books. While I enjoyed Superior Spider-Man immensely when it came out, having the title alive today with the real Peter Parker as Spider-Man in ASM seems silly and not needed. I have never been a fan of alt-universe Spider-characters so I don’t pick up Miles’ or Spider-Gwen’s books. All that’s left is ASM, FNSM and SM/DP (which is getting cancelled) for me. I would prefer FNSM gets cancelled and we have ASM three times a month.

At this point I'm just fine with the spinoffs for other spider-characters as long as they have no bearing on what's going on with ASM, which seems to be how the writers prefer it.

It makes them a pain to fit in adaptions though.

[Batman Begins 2005]

I do agree with you that there is a glut of spider people right now. Some might hate me for saying this, but unless the quality of Gwen's book picks up I can see it being canceled for low sales by about Fall.

I'm a fan of the character and that wouldn't surprise me.

[Digifiend]

At this point I'm just fine with the spinoffs for other spider-characters as long as they have no bearing on what's going on with ASM, which seems to be how the writers prefer it.

It makes them a pain to fit in adaptions though.

It's actually Peter who's the pain. The adaptations always de-age him to how he was in 1963!

[Jekyll]

Dang, am I the only one who kind of likes FNSM? Even though I think PPSSM was better, I know that Taylor will kick it up a notch with issue 5 (the Peter/Aunt May issue)

I love the title! It's at the top of my stack when it's released. While I love Zdarsky, his run on Spec didn't do it for me.

[Frontier]

It's actually Peter who's the pain. The adaptations always de-age him to how he was in 1963!

That just makes it even more of a pain to try and work all these spider-characters together .

[Snoop Dogg]

More Spider-Verse characters = more character diversity = more flavors of book to choose from >>>>> Multiple Peter books that struggle to distinguish themselves from ASM.

[Frontier]

More Spider-Verse characters = more character diversity = more flavors of book to choose from >>>>> Multiple Peter books that struggle to distinguish themselves from ASM.

I never argued the value of having these multiple Spider-related characters with their own series.

I just don't think they work well with Spider-Man as a character or concept aside from specific instances.

[Uncanny Mutie]

Tom Taylor clearly doesn't have the pull Zdarsky does, let's hope it doesn't drop much further or FNSM won't be lasting long.

Well, Tom should write better stories. FNSM has been REALLY, REALLY bad. Some of the worst, blandest Spidey stuff I have read in 30 years of reading and collecting Spidey. I have read Spidey backup/filler stories by writers who I have never even heard of before or since, that were of higher quality than what's going on in FNSM.

[WebSlingWonder]

Well, Tom should write better stories. FNSM has been REALLY, REALLY bad. Some of the worst, blandest Spidey stuff I have read in 30 years of reading and collecting Spidey. I have read Spidey backup/filler stories by writers who I have never even heard of before or since, that were of higher quality than what's going on in FNSM.

Oh here we go again...