May 2019 sales

[Maestro 216]

Dark Phoenix bombing was CAUSED by Disney buying Fox. Since people know the franchise is dead, they're not interested. New Mutants might as well be direct to streaming/DVD.

Pffft! How the **** is Disney responsible for Fox's movie?

[Maestroneto]

Dark Phoenix bombing was CAUSED by Disney buying Fox. Since people know the franchise is dead, they're not interested. New Mutants might as well be direct to streaming/DVD.

Disney did a better job marketing it than Fox. And the general audience has no idea about the Fox/Disney stuff.

[cranger]

Wow the Hickman news really did sink Uncanny sales.

[Digifiend]

Pffft! How the **** is Disney responsible for Fox's movie?

They're not. But by buying Fox, they killed the franchise, as the characters will be rebooted into the MCU. Makes the movie pointless (even more than it already was - it's basically a remake of X-Men 3: The Last Stand)... and New Mutants is itself a stillborn franchise.

[Silver Fang]

Wow the Hickman news really did sink Uncanny sales.

Rosenberg is doing that on his own with the pointless gimmick, lame deaths every issue & a supposed plot that's all over the place. Lol

[PsychoEFrost]

Rosenberg is doing that on his own with the pointless gimmick, lame deaths every issue & a supposed plot that's all over the place. Lol

Seriously this. People turned away from Uncanny fairly early. Pointless killing (with Blindfold, Chamber, and Wolfsbane getting the special mention for pointlessly stupid kills), and the lead characters acting like bad caricatures of themselves.

[cranger]

Rosenberg is doing that on his own with the pointless gimmick, lame deaths every issue & a supposed plot that's all over the place. Lol

Seriously this. People turned away from Uncanny fairly early. Pointless killing (with Blindfold, Chamber, and Wolfsbane getting the special mention for pointlessly stupid kills), and the lead characters acting like bad caricatures of themselves.

13,14,15,16 sales were flat, just below 50K. If we are looking at a 10K drop, that is not because people just finally all at the same time realized they didn't like issue 11. I am not talking about where issue 11 started, or where it has been at the last 2 months though, I am talking specifically about the effect that Hickman was taking over, everything was getting canceled, it looks like a reboot, and everything has been thrown under the bus and made to look like filler. No large group of people are dropping it because some d-list characters got killed.

[PsychoEFrost]

13,14,15,16 sales were flat, just below 50K. If we are looking at a 10K drop, that is not because people just finally all at the same time realized they didn't like issue 11. I am not talking about where issue 11 started, or where it has been at the last 2 months though, I am talking specifically about the effect that Hickman was taking over, everything was getting canceled, it looks like a reboot, and everything has been thrown under the bus and made to look like filler. No large group of people are dropping it because some d-list characters got killed.

Or maybe they hoped this would lead somewhere, and when it became clear that wasn't going to be the case (16), they stopped buying. Rosenberg was given the benefit of the doubt for a long time, for some reason.

[Silver Fang]

Or maybe they hoped this would lead somewhere, and when it became clear that wasn't going to be the case (16), they stopped buying. Rosenberg was given the benefit of the doubt for a long time, for some reason.

Thankfully I knew not to expect much after Phoenix Resurrection. lol Again, all Rosenberg's run did was constantly make me miss Bunn's Uncanny. Then again, I miss that anyhow. For me, it was the best team book where TWO of my favorites were there & getting good treatment.

But I agree. Many probably thought this was be big given the return of the title finally, but like AoX, it's being written like something just to pass time. And when it's not coming off like filler, it's infuriating with the useless character deaths and nobody but Magik & Logan being written decently. Emma is controversial. I have seen good praise for her, but just as much disappointment.

[PsychoEFrost]

Thankfully I knew not to expect much after Phoenix Resurrection. lol Again, all Rosenberg's run did was constantly make me miss Bunn's Uncanny. Then again, I miss that anyhow. For me, it was the best team book where TWO of my favorites were there & getting good treatment.

But I agree. Many probably thought this was be big given the return of the title finally, but like AoX, it's being written like something just to pass time. And when it's not coming off like filler, it's infuriating with the useless character deaths and nobody but Magik & Logan being written decently. Emma is controversial. I have seen good praise for her, but just as much disappointment.

I thought Resurrection was okay. Probably could have been wrapped up faster, but it did it's job without a lot of controversy.

The Emma controversy boils down to five camps:
A) The Emma fans that liked it due to her still fighting the good fight despite the horrors inflicted on her
B) The Emma fans that dislike it because her decisions made her look cowardly and desperate (Me)
C) The neutral camp
D) The Emma haters that liked it for hurting Emma
E) The Emma haters that dislike it for focusing on Emma, or calling out people for apologizing for Emma's actions.

[Silver Fang]

I thought Resurrection was okay. Probably could have been wrapped up faster, but it did it's job without a lot of controversy.

The Emma controversy boils down to five camps:
A) The Emma fans that liked it due to her still fighting the good fight despite the horrors inflicted on her
B) The Emma fans that dislike it because her decisions made her look cowardly and desperate (Me)
C) The neutral camp
D) The Emma haters that liked it for hurting Emma
E) The Emma haters that dislike it for focusing on Emma, or calling out people for apologizing for Emma's actions.

Don't forget F. Emma haters who don't like the Scemma aspect being brought up again.

Myself, I am not a fan of Emma, and I don't like Scemma. But I try not trashing her too hard, because I empathize with her fans. If writers & the X-Office don't pay attention to her, she is a character that is EASY to screw up, and I am suffering that with TWO of my three favorites. Only it's gotten so bad, all I can do is joke about it myself.

I am wondering about where she & Magneto will be. Both seem like antagonists, but they're both wearing X Uniforms in HoX and PoX.

[phoenixzero23]

How much do you think Uncanny is selling? It reaches 35k?

edit: What do you guys/girls estimate for both uncanny and age of x-man?

[Omega Alpha]

Thankfully I knew not to expect much after Phoenix Resurrection. lol Again, all Rosenberg's run did was constantly make me miss Bunn's Uncanny. Then again, I miss that anyhow. For me, it was the best team book where TWO of my favorites were there & getting good treatment.

But I agree. Many probably thought this was be big given the return of the title finally, but like AoX, it's being written like something just to pass time. And when it's not coming off like filler, it's infuriating with the useless character deaths and nobody but Magik & Logan being written decently. Emma is controversial. I have seen good praise for her, but just as much disappointment.

Yeah, I wouldn't even put Logan in the written decently. Not only there was the whole thing with Rahne, but from this issue we know he'd gladly let Cyclops die and any hope for mutantkind left if it wasn't for Emma mind-controlling him to.

[cranger]

How much do you think Uncanny is selling? It reaches 35k?

edit: What do you guys/girls estimate for both uncanny and age of x-man?

Uncanny is probably going to be around 43K. I thought it was lower but I think a few new titles this month bumped it down in ranking, and it is hard to pin down based on comics around it because of variants and other sales spikes such as event tie ins, but it is still above Flash which most likely had a Year One bump, for example, and Action and Star Wars are probably still above 40K this month.

I doubt AoX moves much from the 15K-18K range it is in.

[fsger]

Those Age od X-man #5 will be shameful to see.
I bet there will be some on 12 or 11k.