Originally Posted by
HsssH
One would obviously need to look at more data, but looking at February, March + doing a quick glance at surrounding months... I think that the whole criticism of DC these days relying too much on Batman is a bit of a bullshit.
Obviously, DC generates lots of sales thru Batman, but it has been the case for years now. 2009 it is about Bruce Wayne dying in Final Crisis, Gaiman doing Whatever Happened issues, whole battle for the cowl aftermath and months later Batman and Robin title will come that will generate lots of momentum as well. 2014 is Snyder's Batman doing great numbers and in 2014 April Batman Eternal weekly will launch that will be a solid seller for the entire year. 2019 Batman and Detective double shipping and hitting 1 000 milestone + Snyder doing these Dark Multiverse Batman's. So you know, Batman was always one of the DC's pillars and consistent top seller.
Some titles drop, some improve, but it is normal for Batman's secondary characters (like Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, Catwoman, Harley and now Poison Ivy) to have high sales and outsell other "big" characters.
Problem is that Flash is struggling for two runs in a row now despite fandom claiming that Adams was doing what they wanted and "smart comics twitter" claiming that Spurrier is great. Problem is that we don't have even one regular JL title for 2 years now and it is not even clear when we'll be getting one. Titans doing about as well as they always did should put the argument about "JL keeping other teams down" to bed, but probably some people will still insist on it. Problem is that Aquaman is gone entirely. And we could go on.
And well, I don't see how Batman is responsible for DC not being able to figure out what to do with Justice League for two years now.