Originally Posted by
skyvolt2000
Her book came out and NOBODY raised hell about. When books are left alone to fend for themselves without fans targeting those books like we see with Moon Girl & Mosaic-LOL they either succeed or fail.
It's hard to address that when the main books targeted are books with POC, LGBT & Inhumans.
Marvel at most has tossed out 60-80 books a month. Even if you bring everybody back and plan to put out 65 books a month. You would still have room for books like Moon Girl.
I tried it myself and even tossing out books for Darkhawk, Original Nick Fury, Namor, Sleepwalker, Quasar & 4 books for Peter Parker. I might post that list.
I think the wall is big enough but FANS have to realize-YOU have to support the books YOU like and stop worrying about the ones you don't. Even Miles's recent issue went off on that.
I mean IDW has tossed out books no one on the PLANET asked for. Who wanted dead properties like Jem, MASK & Rom? We have Saved by the Bell, Punky Brewster, Knight Rider and Garbage Pail kids with comics. I have YET to see a single complaint about those books. Nor kids books like Lumberjanes yet Marvel does a kid's book called Moon Girl and you see the results.
That's because back when Squirrel Girl was released, the market wasn't as flooded with product yet. I believe same for Mighty Thor.
I actually don't know of an LCS in my area who carries any of those IDW titles you mentioned on shelf. Don't recall ever seeing Lumberjanes, either. Maybe they don't care because they don't order them in the first place? Meanwhile, there's a certain expectation that LCS have to carry each and every one of DC and Marvel main universe titles. If stores don't carry Black (Black Mask) or Heathen (Vault) or Lumberjanes (Boom), there's little backlash. If they don't carry Mockingbird, Mosaic or Moon Girl, it's discrimination. Note, I actually did have a 12-issue print subscription to Mockingbird that I transferred over to Hawkeye (Kate) after the former got cancelled.
I try to buy the titles I enjoy or have cool covers or that seem interesting. Problem is there are far more stuff that seem interesting than I have disposable income so I have to prioritize. Doesn't help that incentivized percentage gated Marvel variants tend to cost 30-40% more online than regular issues plus shipping (~$5 extra). If I get them from my LCS, it'll cost even more since I have to pay for all the extra regular copies needed in order to qualify. True, I'm feeding Marvel's belief that they need to put out more variants. It's hurting their other titles though because I'm trying less titles than I would otherwise. If they increase variant production even further, I'll just give up altogether. Again, too much chasing short-term money at the expense of long-term.
Big Two Comic Publishers Increased Production Dramatically This Fall
The Big Two comic publishers, Marvel and DC, increased their title counts dramatically this fall, but dollar sales didn’t follow, according to an analysis by ICv2 based on information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors. According to Diamond title counts, Marvel released 382 comics and graphic novels in the September – November period in 2016, up from 315 releases in 2015; while DC released 352 comics and graphic novels in Fall 2016, vs. 312 releases in 2015.
That means the Big Two comic publishers released 107 more titles in September through November 2016 than they did in the same period in 2015 (734 vs. 627).
That’s a 21% increase in title count for Marvel and a 13% increase in releases for DC in the September through November 2016 period vs. the same period a year ago, a 17% increase overall.
During that same period, Diamond reported that North American sales of comics and graphic novels to comic stores were roughly flat: 2.2% increase in September (see “DC Wins Third Month”), 1.09% increase in October (see “Marvel Returns to #1 Comic Publisher in October”), and a 4.25% decline in November (see “Comic Sales Slide in November”).
There have also been price cuts by DC to $2.99 from $3.99 with its Rebirth launch, which certainly helps, and in fact, DC sales do seem to be holding up better than some others. We took a quick look at November numbers and found 24 DC titles with sales over 50,000 copies in November of 2016 vs. only five with sales over 50,000 copies in November of 2015. The reverse was true for Marvel, with 19 Marvel titles over 50,000 in November 2016 vs. 32 over 50,000 in 2015.