I think the Immortal Hulk book selling so well just shows the effort they invested into that book. And Marvel is making incredible progress in turning X-Men around imo even if it is too soon to tell. Sure the Avengers franchise needs some work. But I think they are on a better footing compared to DC where it's like Batman is pulling all the weight there and the Justice League and Green Lantern/Superman can't seem to crack the top 10.
It's more the readership fault here : the Wonder Comics are excellent, Action Comics is also awesome, Event Leviathan is set to be great and books such as Deathstroke have been consistently great since Rebirth started. That's without taking into account the New Age of Heroes which was never endorsed by the bulk of DC's readership.
It's flat out wrong to say that DC isn't trying to branch out. They do. Readers don't buy those books, however.
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Reading List (Super behind but reading them nonetheless):
DC: Currently figuring that out
Marvel: Read above
Image: Killadelphia, Nightmare Blog
Other: The Antagonist, Something is Killing the Children, Avatar: TLAB
Manga: My Hero Academia, MHA: Vigilanties, Soul Eater: the Perfect Edition, Berserk, Hunter X Hunter, Witch Hat Atelier, Kaiju No. 8
If you don't talk about those other books you can't blame folks for ignoring them.
If I go to a comic book store and see promo posters for Riri Williams, Image's Excellence, Ahoy Comics and Marvel books via IDW-don't get shocked if I buy those more than the books DC won't talk about.
Outside of here and Bleeding Cool, Newsrama and a few Twitter posts-I have heard nothing about the Wonder Comics, Young Animal or even Bendis's books (Not named Superman).
You can say Dc is branching out but it's still an issue if only Batman is the leader. That speaks more volumes about your product than ANYTHING.
Why are folks not touching your other books?
What is being done with Miles Morales that EVERY issue of his book has to get a new printing?
What was special about Wrong Earth that caused it to increase in readership every issue?
We hear all this about Naomi but it's still Moon Girl & Riri & SHuri's world.
What have YOU done to tick off your fandom? Oh that's right Heroes in Crisis, delays in Doomsday Clock, Vertigo's demise and the crapping on so many fan favorites.
And lets not forget TRADES where Marvel (among others) are killing DC especially among KIDS & TEENS. Where Batman does not even SNIFF their interest and nostalgia got them as well.
And not getting Hickman is coming to haunt them because interest in X-Men is GROWING. Because folks are hearing about the one thing Hickman set in stone-NO NEW FOLKS. You will use who we have. That mean fan favorites (not linked to Bendis) are game. Maybe Dc needs to try that.
We now have the sales data for July 2019:
https://www.comichron.com/monthlycom...9/2019-07.html
Comichron has combined sales for titles that were split due to multiple price points. This includes Batman 75 as well as any comic with a Year of the Villain cardstock variant.
However, Comichron ALSO noted the individual sales for each cover.
Batman 75 all covers combined sold 100,161 copies -- a jump of over 20,000 copies from preceding issues. Combined Sales put Batman 75 into the Top 10 at number 7 on Comichron's "Fused" chart. Separately, Batman 75 regular cover sold about 70k, while the other 30k was from the cardstock cover.
Immortal Hulk lands in the Top 10 once again with issue 20 and 83k copies sold, but IHulk 21 falls all the way down to 23rd place with 54k sold. I guess issue 21 did not have any variants or not the ones where you have to order a crazy amount of the regular cover?
Man, variants skew things so much, even though I guess they also give books a by forcing shops to order them, but that doesn't sound ideal...
A very entertaining spin-off with Joker's disembodied head commentating Batman's adventure, an interesting Luthor-Superman bet about human's hope vs skepticism, and Dick Grayson making a return in DC comic landscape that's starving for him, though that last one probably only make the sale after it got spoiled on the internet. Oh and Snyder.
Super not surprised it takes the top spot.
Wow Batman #74 dropped below 80K.
Im wondering if City of Bane will gee the sales up again (I'm not really counting that anniversery issue) or if it will dropp even lower.
Justice League Dark is hovering just above 20,000 copies. How much longer do you think this series will last?
Too much batman as usual, But even batman series sales is dropping now, DC really has to do something developing other characters
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