They're not combining them. Those are how many copies the issue sold in August. The same issue had already sold 70-80 times that figure in July.
New Mutants 20 came out in July and sold 30,234 copies there. https://www.comichron.com/monthlycom...1/2021-07.html It went on tp sell an additional 402 copies in August. New Mutants 19 is also listed in the July sales even though it came out in June, with 1,366 copies sold in July. That's why New Mutants is listed twice in July.
X-Men Legends is another example. X-Men Legends 6 has 31,761 copies sold in August. X-Men Legends 5 has 402 copies sold for August. That's because X-Men Legends 5 actually came out in July where it sold 32,561 copies.
If an issue only sells 400 copies, that should be a red flag that something's up. In this case it's a product of the issue being from the previous month when it sold so much better.
Last edited by sunofdarkchild; 10-19-2021 at 06:30 AM.
Agreed. Claremont [who created her] got how to use her, despite her powers not having the most straight forward value in combat. Simonson [and many other writers] struggled with that, and tried to modify her powers to give it more functional utility -- hence, the solid illusions.
I didn't have a problem with it back then -- seemed like a logical progression of her maturing powers [I know that she got it after exposure to a high evolutionary machine], but I never liked the idea of her being able to just conjure up machines that worked. The car thing was stupid; now, if it was the outward SHELL of a car, that makes sense. But simple machines only, or inert versions of more complex things.
I liked the arrow evolution, too, because it gave her a way to "weaponize" her abstract powers, but it seems like that's all writers try to do with her now. Lazy.
Vita Ayala is indeed continuing to write New Mutants and the book isn't getting relaunched or renumbered.
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Last edited by Kingdom X; 10-19-2021 at 02:43 PM.
Weak? From a mutant who called herself stronger than Apocalypse? Calling WS to 'free' 100 mutants that she and Apoc herself sent to Amenth as the vanguard before going in themselves is so unlikely ,it's honestly ridiculous. Nah it is more likely she wanted him to parlay with Annihilation.