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Welcome to yet another Marvel Sales Analysis. Reminder: I'm French, so that's why I'm talking funny. Please address your complaints to my let's-scare-Courtney-Love-with-our-mean-taxi-drivers country.
However, one thing seems sure: following the conclusion of Secret Wars, all titles will be renumbered at #1—even titles that didn’t reach double-digit issue numbers. This includes books like Hawkeye, Howard the Duck and the armada of female spider characters.
109- MASTER OF KUNG-FU LTD
05/15 Master of Kung-Fu Ltd #1 – 23,407
Disappointing, because this is honestly one of the genuinely best (art and writing) Secret Wars minis right now! I was hoping post this mini, the same team would stay on for an on-going – but with these numbers…
The last Master Of Kung Fu mini series they did, I gave up on it after the second issue. Still gave the Master Of Kung Fu Secret Wars mini a shot and was I ever surprised!! Can’t wait to see how it ends. You can see bits and pieces of the original series in it but these concepts are presented in a different way that actually works. Would like to see a regular series but with these sales it’s not likely to happen.
I’ll try and read this article again later – it’s hurt by poor formatting and layout. :(
If you guys wanted to hold on to Courtney Love, we wouldn’t mind.
Wow, extremely negative on so many of these very good books. It’s disappointing that someone that doesn’t like Marvel is doing the sales chart. The other charts are much more even-handed, IMO.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad: “Shops are probably too fed up to stock unsold issues of these mini-series from outside the MU.”
I think that comment is a little too brusque. The Disney Kingdoms titles (which IIRC BTMR is only the third one so far) are well outside the interest of the majority of comic shop customers. But it is pretty clear that shops underestimated demand for the Figment mini-series, so I’m not sure that “fed up” is really what’s going on here.
Storm: “Don’t expect new solo X-Men titles before a long time.” Sure, there is a general track record of solo X-Men titles not selling in huge numbers. However, I don’t see why Storm’s cancellation should be any more of a belwether event than the cancellation of other X-Men solo titles.
We already know that Old Man Logan and All New Wolverine are coming out. And maybe Wolverine-related titles are special exceptions, but Marvel has a history of trying solo X-Men titles on a fairly regular basis.
The Editor also inserted a note regarding the return of the Squirrel Girl title.
It’s stuff like this that make me wonder if maybe Lancel’s knowledge is too spotty to be effective for this column.
MJ: Sorry for the formating, something happened that indeed, made this chart look different than usual. I will use a completly new format beginnign in August.
Chris: negative? I don’t think i wrote many negative comments on the quality of the books produced but would be happy to argue about anything. I remind that this analysis shouldn’t be taken too seriously, there is some black humor here. To not like Marvel? I’m not sure what that means. I for sure don’t like at all their current pricing and relaunching policy but otherwise, I don’t have anything negative to say about the quality of the books produced.
You’re right when you say that perhaps the other charts are perhaps more even-handed. Good thing: different people are wirting each of them. :)
comicssatemybrain: yes, I repeat, you can find perhaps that some coments are too brusque (but did you spot the “probably”, how can that be brusque?), it’s part of the style in which this column is written. Seing how th shops are cutting theirs orders of those outside-of-the-MU people and reducing their orders drastically from one mini-serie to the other, I really think that they seem to give up on trying to guess how much they’re gonna sell and prefer to cut their orders.
Not Storm more than the other, this comment could have find its way also with the Cyclops serie. Wolverine is certainly not a fair example, he is a brand of his own, that’s pretty clear.
Yes, the editor (thanks to him) inserted a note regarding the Squirrel Girl title because, at the time I wrote this column, there was no confirmation of the return of the title. I corrected this in the June marvel sales charts, written some weeks after this one, if it can help erase one of your many doubts about my ability to write this column.
I can for sure make mistakes and thank god, many people can disagree with many of my comments and find them not fair – but I don’t see in any of your examples any fault on my part, only that we have slightly different opinions on some very specific matters-, that’s the spirit for me of this column.
Anyway, thank you all for your comments!
Is there this much cynicism and negativity in the Month-to-Month analysis for the other companies? Or just Marvel?
I plaid ghuilty with the cynicism (but frankly, currently, with Marvel renumbering its titles every 6 months and , despite being the leader, having the lowest production value of all the publishers, its hard for me not to play with that), but not with the negativity. The only really negative comment was on Old Man Logan. Reading the rest, I find many nice things said, and other mainly neutral/factual.
No, the others column have their own tone.
Again, this analysis shouldn’t be taken too seriously. I’m happy to take any comment and will be happy to try to improve this column, but frankly, don’t expect leaps of joys from me for relaunch/renumbering overused gimmicks. Content of those comics matter to me more than the gimmicks surrounding them. I’m trying not to hurt anyone feeling writing it, that’s why I’m almost never saying anything about their inner artistic value and when it happens, it’s mostly for saying how good one member of the artistic team is.
Xavier, you’re doing a great job with the numbers, and your insight is certainly welcome in this internet already filled with spaces devoted to the behemoth Marvel. Keep up the good work.
One quick thing. Since you’ve got a better handle on Marvel numbers, would it be safe to say that if you separated the Star Wars titles and made them their own company, they would be number four? With just FOUR books! And where does that leave Marvel numbers against DC and Image? Food for thought.
Thanks again!