Phil can give a more detailed analysis, but I would hazard that DC's 52 has had an adverse effect on sales and a true reflection on how AF is doing will not been seen before November.
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Phil can give a more detailed analysis, but I would hazard that DC's 52 has had an adverse effect on sales and a true reflection on how AF is doing will not been seen before November.
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It didnt even make the top 100? not good.
i know phil even said after augusts sales that dc's launch is going to push everything down. he was right. i fully expect alpha to be right behind x-factor (which is no. 100) and again, like phil the prophet stated, the main thing is going to be the number sold, as long as it keeps it readership around the same level, it should be good. the reason that second tier books like x-factor and thunderbolts have stuck around is they have a niche and a consistent sales level.
at least, i hope. :(
Yeah, a lot of people are buying DC's 52 who wouldn't have normally. That's gotta ruin the bell curve.
- Le Messor
"If a million people do a dumb thing, it's still a dumb thing."
Yeah, the placement is pretty much null & void this month, and for the next few possibly.
Sales figures will count and they should be out via ICv2's Top 300 soon, or possibly later depending on NYCC.
The thing to look at though is that all DC #1's were returnable, meaning retailers could take a chance on over-ordering and be able to return any unsold units for credit, rather than have them mounting up as dollar-bin territory so the numbers are phantom numbers, as will the next few be with reprints and variants included.
The fact that #4's dropped below X-Factor is not a good sign though.
Looks like the Wolverine appearance can't come quick enough! *sighs*
Doesn't matter to me where Alpha Flight lands on the list. I know it's completely awesome.
More people buy #1's than any other books, most of them don't even stick it out through the whole series. Back in the 90's books like Deathlok #1 would out sell big hitters just because of the gimik of being a first issue and the "collectors" would run out and but 20 copies of these books so that they could sell at a later point in time and hope to make a killing. But the sad truth to it is that these books are worthless if the series dose not continue, or the fact that there have been so many printed and that there are about 500 people who are thinking the same thing that they are.
That's a lot of # 1s! If I thought that # 1s were really, really special these days, that would be an awful lot of comic goodness.
I can only afford (and I am only interested in) Alpha Flight, though. So, if the stories are good and the artwork is good and the story-telling is excellent, Alpha Flight will be well worth the effort.
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"Not as frustrated, not as disgruntled, old-school Al-Fan"...it's getting closer and closer to that change...
That could get abie confusing.
Customer "I'd like to buy Alpha Flight #1 Pleasae"
Store owner "eeerrr, which one? #1 vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, or #1 from this month, or #1 from last month?"
Customer "I don't know? Which one is the real #1?"
Store owner "Well, vol 1 is considered to be the true #1, but due to vol 3 #12 they went back in time and brought them in to the present, So maybe vol 4 #1 is the real #1?"
Customer "Well which one dose it have when Guardian dies in?"
Store owner "Well he did die in vol 1 #12, but came back in #25 vol 1 but it was turned out to be a fake, but then his wife heather took the name Guardian, but she never died, and the original Guardian came back in #88 vol 1 but died again in #100 vol 1, but came back again in #129 vol 1. There was a clone of the original Guardian in vol 2, but he died, then the original Guardian along with his wife who is the second Guardian and with most of Alpha Flight died in the new Avengers, but the came back."
Customer "...oh, What did I come here for again?"
Store Owner " I don't know...why am I here again?"
Alpha Rider, that was hysterical :) :) :) Thanks for the huge LOL!!!
Yeah, I agree. I don't think we need all the #1s we already have.
But I've gotta say, in thinking about this thread - what DC did? It worked. It sold comics.
They haven't forgotten.
They have, however, forgotten what keeps people reading!
Route 666?
I don't know what you were going for with Arche--?
- Le Messor
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base."
~ Dave Barry