Comic book Industry: Why is no one buying our comics?
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Comic book Industry: Why is no one buying our comics?
Also Comic book Industry:
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I'm not totally useless. I can always be used as a bad example...
Yep, looking at May's ranking data was collected from May 1 to June 3, 2023., this is the top 4 places on the chart and their date of release.
1. Batman #135 (900th issue special) - published on 2 May 2023, that's approx. 33 days' worth of actual sales data.
2. Amazing Spider-Man #25 (MJ's lost years' special issue ) - published on 10 May 2023 that's approx. 25 days' worth of actual sales data.
3. Avengers #1- published on 17 May 2023- approx. 18 days of actual sales data.
4. Amazing Spider-Man #26 (Ms. Marvel's death) - published on 31 May 2023 approx. 4 days of actual sales data.
Even with the least amount of days of actual sales data ASM#26 was only outranked by other 'special' issues that had more data to take into account.
I agree with some of the criticism about ICv2, but I still think it can be useful for detecting sales trends.
It's not intentional, but a physically disabled superhero whose powers are physical is kind of offensive. It diminishes the very real limitations of disability and casts them as some inconvenience to be overcome with the proper amount of will.
Even the highlighting of extraordinary disabled persons in real life tends to be about making able-bodied people feel less bad about the realities of the lives of the disabled and just how little we really do to help (check working rates for the disabled, even after passing of the ADA).
And was created by a person who is an ambulatory wheelchair user. And was then appeared in a story written by a wheelchair bound person. I keep reading how people want to see characters just like them on the page.
So I’d really like to know why this character is such a problem for Marvel and their sales?
Last edited by exile001; 07-10-2023 at 04:14 AM.
"Has Sariel summoned you here, Azrael? Have you come to witness the miracle of your brethren arriving on Earth?"
"I WILL MIX THE ASHES OF YOUR BONES WITH SALT AND USE THEM TO ENSURE THE EARTH THE TEMPLARS TILLED NEVER BEARS FRUIT AGAIN!"
"*sigh* I hoped it was for the miracle."
Dan Watters' Azrael was incredible, a constant delight and perhaps too good for this world (but not the Forth). For the love of St. Dumas, DC, give us more!!!
Are you seriously trying to suggest that a wheelchair user created a problematic wheelchair using character? And that a wheelchair using writer wrote a problematic story with that wheelchair using character?
I'd like to know too.
The headline in the image Ulysian_Thracs posted tells us exactly three things about Sun-Spider:
1. The character is a woman
2. The character is a lesbian
3. The character is a wheelchair user
So does Ulysian_Thracs take issue with the character being a woman, the character being a lesbian, the character being a wheelchair user, or the combination of those attributes?
Last edited by Lee; 07-10-2023 at 04:31 AM.
Your personal feelings are yours to feel whatever they may be, but, were I you, I’d take a moment to step back and examine those feelings if you’re disagreeing over the portrayal of a character with a disability that was created and written by someone with that same ability
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Because that person has more experience with the disability they’re writing about than an able bodied person? Your perspective on this issue is ignorant in comparison to theirs? It should be common practice to re-examine your feelings on an issue when someone who actually has to deal with that issue in everyday of their life offers their take on it
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I can only go by what little I've read in the Slott Spider-Man run. And nothing there indicates the granular differentiation from other people who use crutches that is being heavily implied here.