it seems more like market speculators (yeah they still exists), I'm not sure if WW#38 sold out on stores or only on diamond distributor level. Bleeding cool report seemed to say that it was on distributor level.
It's the first appearence of donna troy, so I can see why it sold out. But i didn't saw ww on advance reorders.
the drop was 43k to 39k, for a star like finch it is underperforming. batgirl with a mostly unknown creative team is more or less stable at 45k
I's pretty sure it was at the distributor level; we never really know if the stores sold all their copies. But if it sold out at the distributor level, that means that stores ordered more copies from the distributor, presumably because they thought they could sell those copies to customers (whether speculators or readers). They probably thought so as soon as they saw Donna's return on the lat page of 37, prompting them to place additional orders for 38 after the "final cutoff date.".
I think we agree; the second print probably represents a one-time bump in orders because of Donna's return.It's the first appearence of donna troy, so I can see why it sold out. But i didn't saw ww on advance reorders.
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http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/02/...-wonder-woman/DC Comics have sold through their backstock of Batman And Robin #38, Deathstroke #2 and Wonder Woman #38 and, believing folk still want to buy them, have taken the brave step of putting them back into print – for a second time!
I'm disappointed in Rich for writing this last line "That’s what bringing back Damian, bringing back Deathstroke and bringing back cheesecake will do for a comic book," when it's most likely that the high demand for Wonder Woman #38 was due to Donna Troy's return, not cheesecake.
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WONDER WOMAN #39 is now selling less than half what the previous creative team was. Sad times.
saw this on a comic shop twitter
There was a pretty good couple of paragraphs of sales analysis on Tim Hanley's blog:
After Wonder Woman #36 debuted at 58,956 copies sold in November, Wonder Woman #37 fell to 43,006 copies sold in December, a drop of 27%. In January, Wonder Woman #38 slipped down to 39,669, a drop of 8%.
On the one hand, this isn’t too bad as far as third issue drops go. It usually takes a little while for retailers to find the right level when a new creative team takes over, and initial enthusiasm quickly wanes for most series. Nothing’s at all settled in only three issues into a new run.
On the other hand, after debuting far higher than the numbers for Azzarello and Chiang’s final issue of Wonder Woman, the Finches are almost back down to that level, less than 4,000 issues away. Currently, Wonder Woman is selling only about 10% better than it was before Meredith and David Finch took over. Azzarello and Chiang’s tenure was one big three year storyline with little in the way of jumping on points for new readers; by the end, only the diehards were left buying the book. I can’t imagine that anyone at DC is pleased to see that their revamped, accessible take on Wonder Woman, headlined by a superstar artist, is already nearing the previous run’s sales.
Wonder Woman #38 is going back to print, so the sales might tick up somewhat, and that perhaps bodes well for Wonder Woman #39. It’s still early days. But it’s very unlikely that things will improve. The best DC is looking at right now, if things level out quickly, is that Wonder Woman will sell in the mid-30,000 range, which isn’t much of an improvement on what they had before and a bit of waste of an artist who’s been regularly selling other titles at a much higher rate.
This analysis and most of the review don't factor in that Meredith is essentially a brand new writer. They may make note of it but I really don't see anyone giving her consideration for it. It's true that David is a superstar artist but Chiang is pretty popular too as is Azzarello(after all he's writing DC's current event book Future's End) so I would think that Azz and Chiang's combined popularity is equal to, if not greater than, David's popularity.
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Currently(or soon to be) Reading: Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Superman, Shazam, Titans, Wesley Dodds: Sandman, Wonder Woman, & World's Finest: Teen Titans.
This made me decide to do a comparison to Batgirl since both books got revamps with Wonder Woman getting the more traditional one and Batgirl opting for the more unique route.
Last issue of previous creative team:
Batgirl #34 - 34,590
Wonder Woman #35 - 35,968
Debut issue of new creative team:
Batgirl #35 - 62,644
Wonder Woman #36 - 58,965
January sales:
Batgirl #38 - 45,096
Wonder Woman #38 - 39,669
Two things to note:
- The Batgirl creative team has been around for an extra issue
- [I]Batgirl[I] sales may have stabilized around 45k since sales actually increased from December to January (+36)
It's a small sample size but I think it adds a tiny bit of context to DC's June revamp and makes me wonder if Wonder Woman will see similar creative changes in the future.
OK, here's that consideration, then: the book is probably selling relatively well compared to other books that also have new writers who are still learning their craft.
Of course, most of those writers are probably working on low-profile books published by small indies. And, realistically, Hanley's probably right that "it's highly unlikely that [sales] will improve" for the run; even if Finch's writing noticeably improves while she's still on this book, I doubt a lot of the fans who have left (or will have left by then) will give the run a second chance.
Last edited by Silvanus; 02-25-2015 at 05:34 AM.