Those are nice numbers but to be honest I thought they were going to be higher.
specially X-force
Those are nice numbers but to be honest I thought they were going to be higher.
specially X-force
This is the modern comic market. Too much competition and speculator/variant driven. The latter does not mean only speculators (flippers) are buying but when they want to get interest out there, they spread the word and regular buyers follow suit. Not only that, but post-event sales do not exist. People came for Hickman's crazy twist, and they either got it or they didn't, but nothing about the rest of the books have suggested people need to read them. They will just wait until the next Event.
Consept wise it was good, it's just kiwi is killing the book. If other characters need to be nerfed and weakened to to make her stand out, that's probably a hint she should be the lead(also anyone think magneto treating a telepaths vision of a new enemy as a dream in the aftermath of a terror attack that killed Xavier is odd) I still dont see why sets it apart from the others or why it isnt xforce?
I thought X-Force would sell much better than the other series
Any book featuring Quire NOT dominating sales is a win in my book (tho I feel X-Force is doing more than fine sales wise).
But Quire... still so painful to read.
What metrics are people judging for success? Are you expecting every book to be in the top ten? Was all 6 books suppose to work? Are X-books magically suppose perform over what the market standard for good is today? Anyways What does success look for me
1. A X-men book that is top ten books,You want at least two of these books there but that is a little greedy
2. Every other book finding a stable audience before 20k or dropping below being in top 100.
X-men Gold was former flagship book its number floated around 30k, Extraordinary X-men/Uncanny floated around 40k to 30k as the top book in that era. If Marauders, X-force and New Mutants sustain around 40k to 30k that is a success. 4 out of 6 books probably maintaining above cancelation level would be success. I am just saying some people are going to undersell that 3 or 4th best book in Dawn of X will be around the same numbers that flagship book like X-men Gold or Extraordinary X-men was doing.
They certainly can’t outperform the market... there are only 3 books regularly selling at 60-70k Batman, Venom and Amazing. If X-Men should become one of them it would an incredible success. The other best-selling books in the market sell between 40 and 50, Justice League, Super Man, Avengers, Immortal Hulk, these are all very big names and Hulk is the biggest success story of the last two years. Then you are already in under 40 territory. This is the market. If X-Force, Marauders and New Mutants should settle between 40 and 50 X-Men would become the most successful franchise in the market considered the secondary Batman and Superman books are selling around 35k. So if they settle between 30 and 40 it will be a success, because these are the numbers in the current market. Successful doesn’t mean outperforming the market and becoming instantly number one. It’s easy to say it’s not good if the standard set is impossible. And big titles like Giant Size X-Men and Wolverine, that will definitely sell more than New Mutants or Fallen Angels have still to launch.
Last edited by PeterParked; 12-09-2019 at 03:17 PM.
Huh. Guess the whole 'wasting the book folks assume to be the flagship on promoting other books' strategy makes a whole lot of sense now that the numbers are in, lol.
Keep in mind, those numbers are good in relation to the current market. It's just that HoX/PoX's numbers were insane. I dunno, a few issues in and we'll be back to X-Men Gold/Blue numbers for every book that isn't Hickman's? Oh well.