TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS BY UNITS INVOICED > 1. HOUSE OF X #1 (MAR) > 2. POWERS OF X #1 (MAR) > 3. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (MAR) > 4. THE WALKING DEAD #193 (MR) [*] (IMA) > 5. BATMAN: LAST KNIGHT ON EARTH #2 (DC) > 6. BATMAN: CURSE OF THE WHITE KNIGHT #1 (DC) > 7. THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS #7 (DC) > 8. BLACK CAT #2 (MAR) > 9. IMMORTAL HULK #20 (MAR) > 10. BATMAN #74 (DC)
TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS BY DOLLARS INVOICED > 1. HOUSE OF X #1 (MAR) > 2. POWERS OF X #1 (MAR) > 3. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (MAR) > 4. BATMAN: LAST KNIGHT ON EARTH #2 (DC) > 5. THE WALKING DEAD #193 (MR) [*] (IMA) > 6. BATMAN: CURSE OF THE WHITE KNIGHT #1 (DC) > 7. THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS #7 (DC) > 8. BLACK CAT #2 (MAR) > 9. IMMORTAL HULK #20 (MAR) > 10. VAMPIRELLA #1 [*] (DE)
>Among the premier publishers, Dynamite Entertainment's Vampirella #1 from Christopher Preist and Ergun Gunduz was their top book in July at #11; Dark Horse Comics' Black Hammer/Justice League #1, a crossover with DC by Jeff Lemire and Michael Walsh, ranked #64; IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #96 was their top book at #99; and BOOM! Studios' Buffy the Vampire Slayer #6 ranked #108.
TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS BY UNITS SHIPPED > 1. THE JOKER TP (DC) > 2. BAD WEEKEND HC (MR) (IMA) > 3. DEADLY CLASS VOL. 8: NEVER GO BACK TP (MR) (IMA) > 4. THEY CALLED US ENEMY TP (IDW) > 5. ADVENTURE ZONE VOL. 2: MURDER ON ROCKPORT LIMITED GN (FIR) > 6. DEAR JUSTICE LEAGUE TP (DC) > 7. CONAN THE BARBARIAN VOL. 1: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CONAN BOOK ONE TP (MAR) > 8. MILES MORALES VOL. 1: STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN TP (MAR) > 9. DIE DIE DIE VOL. 1 TP (MR) (IMA) > 10. DAREDEVIL BY CHIP ZDARSKY VOL. 1: KNOW FEAR TP (MAR)
TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS BY DOLLARS INVOICED > 1. CONAN THE BARBARIAN: ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 2 HC (MAR) > 2. THE JOKER TP (DC) > 3. MONSTRESS VOLUME 1 HC (MR) (IMA) > 4. BAD WEEKEND HC (MR) (IMA) > 5. DC UNIVERSE: BRONZE AGE OMNIBUS BY JACK KIRBY HC (DC) > 6. ADVENTURE ZONE VOL. 2: MURDER ON ROCKPORT LIMITED GN (FIR) > 7. THEY CALLED US ENEMY TP (IDW) > 8. SUPERMAN: THE GOLDEN AGE OMNIBUS VOL. 6 HC (DC) > 9. MARVEL MASTERWORKS: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 11 HC (MAR) > 10. THANOS BY DONNY CATES HC (MAR)
TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS >>RETAIL MARKET SHARE > 1. MARVEL COMICS - 41.38% > 2. DC COMICS - 26.79% > 3. IMAGE COMICS - 8.43% > 4. IDW PUBLISHING - 4.22% > 5. DARK HORSE COMICS - 3.10% > 6. DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT - 2.31% > 7. BOOM! STUDIOS - 2.05% > 8. VIZ MEDIA - 1.51% > 9. TITAN COMICS - 0.74% > 10. ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS - 0.68% > OTHER NON-TOP 10 - 8.80%
>Please note that comics marked with an asterisk (*) have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may rank lower on the charts than their actual sales would reflect.
>Value judgments are tough to avoid in describing economic activity, even when the changes under discussion are very small. One person's "stable" is another person's "stagnant." Much depends on expectations: if you think comics stores should be proliferating like sandwich shops, then "flat" is a bad word. If you think over-fast growth often leads to chaos, "steady" sounds just fine.
>The Comichron position is often seen as defaulting toward the positive — at least in headline copy! — but it's a bit more nuanced than "ties go to the runner." For the last 20 years, monthly periodical sales in comics shops have oscillated around a mean of about 7 million copies a month — all while the dollar volume of the comics market overall has nearly tripled thanks to graphic novels collecting those monthly comics. If you believe that a desirable level of comics sales is "whatever allows Direct Market stores to subsidize the serialization of enough stories to keep the bookshelves full," then sales volume has clearly hit that level most years, and "unchanged" is, very much, "stable." (Inherent in that is the strong belief that serialization is not just a necessary part of the publishers' toolkit, but a valuable one; monthly comics amortize as they advertise, and feed a secondary market which many retailers also realize revenue from.)
Christian Hill
>Whichever way your adjectives go, a market constantly dipping above and below "no change" throws a constant series of choices at headline writers — and thus far, 2019 has been a workout for those of us looking for new descriptive terms. This year and last year haven't tracked exactly, but the deviations have been small, like January, which saw the release of a lot of comics delayed from 2018. Or the fact that while Action Comics #1000 came out in April 2018, this year's anniversary blockbuster, Detective Comics #1000, dropped in March. We see now from Diamond Comic Distributors that July, aided by a fifth shipping week, had another wobble, this time to the plus side; look here on Monday for the estimates for individual comics sales in July 2019.
>Against last July's Batman #50 and Amazing Spider-Man #1, retailers last month had Jonathan Hickman's X-Men relaunch and Robert Kirkman's surprise Walking Dead finale. The net result was a July that was up 7% in dollars, or by about $3 million; that brought the year-to-date total to $298 million, up about $2 million, or less than 1%.
>Marvel beat its dollar sales of comics and graphic novels from last July by more than $2 million, or 13%; it's up 8% year-to-date. That July performance was boosted by House of X #1 and Powers of X #1, and it also had Amazing Spider-Man #25 in the Top 3. It's published 118 more new comics this year than last year, so far, but its July total was only up by one new comic despite the extra shipping week.
>Not counting when Avengers Vs. X-Men double-shipped, July was the first time two X-Men comics finished 1-2 since August 2001. X-Men comics finishing in the top two slots was once incredibly common, back in the 1990s days of Uncanny X-Men and "adjectiveless" X-Men.
Thomas Adams
>DC, meanwhile, saw a major rebound in its number of new comic books on the market, with 86 titles out; far above its 50 from June and its most since January. The publisher, which had the top graphic novel in the Black Label [re-]release The Joker, was still down in dollars versus the previous July (again, supercharged by Batman #50). The publisher still has a long way to go to catch up to its new-release pace from 2018, if that were its interest: it's published 92 fewer comics and 18 fewer graphic novels so far this year.
>Image had a stronger July than it did last year thanks in part to Walking Dead #193, which placed fourth; eBay prices for #193 that had approached $40 seem to have settled back into the teens as the reprint became available, though professionally graded copies differ (a 9.9 CBCS-slabbed issue, priced by its seller at $855, appears to be the high end).
>Dark Horse had another strong month and is up 27% year-to-date thanks in part to Umbrella Academy. And Dynamite saw a big jump in dollar sales overall with Vampirella #1, which broke into the Top 10 on the dollar charts; we know 90,000 copies of that went to Diamond, though that figure likely includes overseas copies.
>The number of new graphic novels on the market was essentially unchanged versus July 2018; dollars brought in by the category improved 12%.
>One other thing we know — while we don't track the category, Diamond is having a blockbuster year when it comes to toys. They were up 72% in July, and 32% in the year overall. It's been some years since Diamond published data about the relative sizes of its categories, but the contribution of toys to Diamond and many of its retailers is significant.
Wyatt Nguyen
>The normal prediction would be that August 2019 would see the market dip back under the 2018 pace year-to-date; last August was a $47 million month and had both Fantastic Four #1 and one more shipping week. But with [Absolute Carnage #1 and] Marvel Comics #1000 in the mix as well as continuing reorders on House of X and Powers of X, it's too early to say. A year-over-year increase in August, if it happened, would be the first time all year we've had three in a row.
Bendis is coming...but not to any top 10 bestselling lists and it’s lovely to watch King’s abortion sinking what used to be DC’s top selling title for over a decade to #10. When your main title is getting outsold by multiple miniseries...just wow! Snyder is the only thing keeping them afloat. I love DC but can’t stand Harris, Didio, Lee, King, Bendis and getting real tired of Geoff. I don’t want to be a hater but when the worst people in the industry are in charge of my favorite characters I’m fine with rooting for their failure.
Glad to see ASM continue to rise from the Slott crater it was left in and the continued strong sales of Incredible Hulk is...well...incredible. Black Cat is baffling though, boring as fuck and the art is hideous. Are fans so thirsty that they’re literally buying it for the cover? Seriously...get laid already! No Star Wars is a nice surprise as well.
Trying to be positive about the X-franchise but, honestly, my least favorite aspects of the X-Men stories are time travel and mutants vs humans so this is really not off to a great start. I realize this makes me a minority in the fan community but I like my X-Men functioning like an actual school where mutants live in secret, occasionally venturing off into space/the savage land/demonic realms/etc. to face a grab bag of threats. I liked the mutants vs humans stories but it’s beyond repetitive at this point and the time travel shit was NEVER good. Still anything is better than what we’ve been subjected to for the last ten years.
With the Walking Dead over I don’t expect to see any indie comics in the top 10, oh well...at least Saga is gone. Just once I’d like to see a swell of support for something like Beasts of Burden.
Christian Rogers
Damn. Hulk beat Batman again
Jaxon Green
Immortal Hulk House of X/Powers of X Daredevil Batman: Last Knight on Earth Superman: Year One
These are the best Book 2 books right now.
Luis Foster
Obviously, DC needs more PTSD and suicide.
Jacob Gomez
Not going to comment on Hulk beating Batman since this is pretty much a given at this point, what surprises me is that Spencer managed to restore ASM sales to the point only Hickman outselled it.
Kevin Williams
>Hickman >Spencer on ASM >Ewing Did Shogun really usher a new era of prosperity?
Camden Lopez
Why isn't ya boi zack there. He says Jawbreakers is top 3 nationwide
> 9. IMMORTAL HULK #20 (MAR) > 10. BATMAN #74 (DC) HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
Mason Nelson
Lmaooooooo
Robert Diaz
He truly is the last samurai.
Xavier Jenkins
I tweeted a half-joking remark about Black Cat #1 outselling Absolute Carnage this week and an artist from Marvel contacted me privately calling the former a "fucking embarrassment" and "insult to the other titles." Apparently, there are a lot of folks at Marvel Comics who aren't too fond of the variant cover scheme and the series as a whole. I then asked if Black Cat would have a prominent role in Absolute Carnage and how they planned on including her in the event. They said she would have a relatively minor role and absolutely nothing Jed MacKay is currently writing would impact her involvement—referencing Slott's Queenpin and Spencer's recent writing instead. No one aside from the editors even bothers to read Black Cat despite it being the highest-grossing comic book in June. I have to agree: this "ongoing series" is an absolute embarrassment and insult to all fans of her character. Felicia can't catch a break unless it's an appearance in a video game or animated series.
Lucas Reyes
>X IT'S OVER, DC (AND EVERYTHING ELSE) IS OVER AND FINISHED
Did you read Absolute Carnage? For a series based around the most one note character in existence, it was a pretty good issue. Hopefully they keep up the moody horror angle.
Anthony Brooks
> 9. IMMORTAL HULK #20 (MAR) > 10. BATMAN #74 (DC) Go to the Below-Place, Tom
>1. MARVEL COMICS - 41.38% >2. DC COMICS - 26.79% What went wrong?And what went right?
Anthony King
Marvel publishes around 200 different comic books per mouth against DC's 50. The difference is a given.
Hudson Cox
Marvel is appealing to the lowest common denominator and offering the low-brow shlock that plebs like: 1. Tits (Black Cat) 2. Reddit humor (Spider-Man) 3. Reddit humor and edgy gore South Park style (Immortal Hulk)
Jack Richardson
Unlike the much more refined DC and their Juggalo Batman.
Andrew Gonzalez
Good to see Immortal Hulk still going strong after 20 issues.
Isaiah Gomez
>Reddit *Yawn*, don't you NPCs have better buzzwords?
Isaac Ross
>have 1 more weak in sales >only manage to break last years sales by 7% Yikes, comics are really dying. Also they only talk about money, I wonder how many issues they actually sold. Might be less
Gavin Rivera
DC is writing smart books that deconstruct the superhero genre in ways you cannot even comprehend. Try reading some John Williams or Gene Wolfe.
Joshua Wood
Geoff Johns' departure the Samurai.
Mason Turner
flooding the shelves with cheap shit so that smaller indie comics don't get a chance
Caleb Price
>1. Tits (Black Cat) I wish, the interior art is ugly as hell >2. Reddit humor (Spider-Man) that one is true however. Spidey still get's written like the average loser redditor, unable to go 5 seconds with out making a crinchy reference joke
Brandon Lee
Does DC make Lex Luthor omnipotent every year and claims that it is "the apex of writing"?
Sebastian Hernandez
Name 3 of their books coming out right now that are like that and are good.
Lucas Wilson
>DC is writing smart books that deconstruct the superhero genre in ways you cannot even comprehend. BAT CAT BAT CAT Fuck of back to /r/comicbooks, Tommy
Jace Davis
Batman: Last Knight on Earth Batman: Curse of the White Knight Batman Who Laughs
Isaiah Brown
This.
Luke Carter
>Batman: Last Knight on Earth Okay, this actually pretty good. >Batman: Curse of the White Knight Mediocre so far. >Batman Who Laughs LOL
Mason Sanders
WOW! Retailers must have been PISSED.
Nolan Clark
I enjoyed Absolute Carnage, but I'm not sure how all the upcoming side stories will be recieved (the aforementioned artist was on one of these books). It would be a disgrace for Black Cat #1 to outsell Absolute Carnage #1 simply because of pretty covers. I cannot find one redeeming quality about the Black Cat series—the writing, artwork, coloring, and even lettering are all substandard. MacKay apparently wants to write cliche stories about a heistress. It's a shame because Felicia and Peter are my favorite characters and I just want the series canceled.
Brody Howard
It would be number one if it was accounced.
Luis Reed
> 9. IMMORTAL HULK #20 (MAR) > 10. BATMAN #74 (DC) Gotta admit that I was worried that the spell would be broken this month, but it's quite clearly the status quo now. I'm actually surprised about Spider-Man though, Spencer is going strong! Good for him.
Nathaniel Flores
>marvel has to beat dc by overshipping very apt picture
Easton Butler
Nah perhaps above Spider Man but that's it.
Jordan Rodriguez
X is returning at full power, with them marvel is invincible
Luke Lee
DC gave Supes to Bendis and Batman to King. Marvel gave ASM to Spencer and Hulk to Ewing
Ryan Long
Marvel publically announces what they overship now. Last was invisible Woman I think, retailers are also saying it’s not a line wide issue anymore
Jacob Johnson
>DC is writing incomprehensible crap No wonder their sales are getting worse.
Brandon Morgan
Hahaha, he truly is delusional.
Brody Baker
I get the feeling Spencer really doesn't approve of what they've done with the Black Cat series. He hasn't commented on it once or been mentioned by MacKay. Despite the occasional cringey artwork from Land and coloring errors, Symbiote Spider-Man is flying under the radar with PAD writing a solid story. I'd recommend it if you're looking for more Pete and Felicia.
As a fan growing up in the 80’s; Felicia is my favorite female character in ASM and the one I prefer for Peter. The new series is just a waste of time though, dull plotting ... boring characters ... hideous art. No redeeming qualities whatsoever, no forward momentum for Felicia either.
Fanboy boners are the only thing propping up this abysmal book. Unfortunately I also hate Carnage (and any symbiote past Venom), so Absolute Carnage is not doing anything for me either...but that’s just because I am a grumpy old man at 35. I stopped reading Spider-Man in the 90’s and now a whole generation is nostalgia grooving on it. Scary to think that someday people will be looking back fondly on Sins Past or some other pile of shit.
David Myers
That sums it up nicely.
Jason Rivera
What is DC’s plan to keep Scott Snyder around? What’s to stop him from going Indie or Marvel? Are they going to give him a raise? Because at this point, Scott Snyder is the one holding DC up.
Jordan Diaz
Never doubt the power of minorities.
Alexander Richardson
TOO LATE
TRANNIES LOVE MARVEL BETTER
Hunter Russell
Black Cat's popularity is steadily rising among younger and international readers, but this excuse of an "ongoing series" will likely dissuade a lot of them from buying/reading comics. As for the covers: there are a lot of beautiful variants from artists I genuinely like, but I trade all of them for a well-written Spider-Man/Black Cat series.
Nolan Hernandez
It's all DC has to offer.
William Ortiz
And it is not like DC didn't try to pander to them simce Batman canonically dated one, and probably fucked him too.
Ayden Roberts
Fuck Donny Cates, again. Hope he's off Cosmic after Ewing outsells GOTG with his Annihilation Agenda I'm secretly hoping he's the one actually writing the thing and not Cates, let me have this
Daniel Carter
Cates already confirmed he isn't writing it.
Cooper Cooper
[scary green man grinning intensifies]
Joseph Reyes
>reddit humor
That is unironically Wonder Twins.
Blake Ross
>3. Reddit humor and edgy gore South Park style (Immortal Hulk) Where's the Reddit humor in Immortal Hulk? And edgy gore, really? You have all the shit going on in Venom and why isn't that outselling Hulk, then? You'd think with the Cates hype, it would be topping the charts too, and look...
Connor Lopez
> 1. HOUSE OF X #1 (MAR) > 2. POWERS OF X #1 (MAR) we're not getting good X-Men stuff anytime soon and I blame you faggots
Aaron Ross
Well imagine being a Superman or Justice League editor at DC. The top spots being hugged by the Batman books and none of your books on there. Can't imagine it being pleasant.
Liam Price
no user, blame your own shit taste
Jose Jenkins
Oh fuck off. Hickman is a fresh breath of air compared to Bendis, Lemire and Guggenheim. Marvel is doing something right for once.
Chase Walker
Can you really point out what's wrong with HoX/PoX?
>Marvel is appealing to the lowest common denominator Has Marvel shown anyone's dick yet?
Christian Diaz
>> 5. BATMAN: LAST KNIGHT ON EARTH #2 (DC) Remember when this shit was number 1 for units and dollars invoiced?
Jose Hernandez
>Scott Snyder is the one holding DC up. really? what are the sales for JL?
Camden Harris
I think he is talking about Batman who keks, and what's keeping him from jumping boat is a contract, assuming he wants to jump boat or that someone's else would be willing to take him.
Camden Taylor
HOW COULD THIS BE HAPPENING FELLOW HULK CHADS?!
Andrew Thomas
8 is technically a spider-man tie in thing but did it really sell that well or is this another to many variants situation?
Lincoln Phillips
>Superman isn't outselling a shit ton of Batman and Spider-Man books Holy fuck this is surely Bendis's fault
Colton Fisher
>timetravel Its a rather cool aspect and really good for X-Men. But the 3 times they used it, it was bad and used for shock reveal than actual story or "vision of doom"
Xavier Cox
I wonder
When DC puts Bendis on Batman, will he hurt sales even more? Increase sales? Or have no effect at all?
Would be interesting to see and test it. But as a Marvel fan, i think i am not a good counsel for that, since i dont care for DC after they ruined Wildstorm, Authority and Vertigo.
Luis Parker
Have the sales in Action Comics improved since the last writer? Is his event selling well?
Logan Cruz
This. Spencer's ASM is boring crap. People have no standards anymore
Eli Hall
Just a friendly reminer that Immortal Hulk only continues to sell this well because Marvel continue to pump out a bunch of store exclusive variants with each issue.
Jordan Thomas
Maybe you should marry the Hulk, then.
Justin Gutierrez
Based Hickman.
Charles Watson
Yeah numbers are all bullshit anyway. All it means is copies ordered by stores. I go into stores and see piles of the fucking things lying around, end up in dollar bins a year later. The comic industry is a corpse being kept alive by electricity. The comic book industry has become the definition of "fake it 'till you make it." They might fool the suits but to any of us that have our ear to the ground we know it's dying a slow death.
Justin Walker
>deconstruct the superhero genre Yaaaaaaaaawn.
Asher Gonzalez
>coping this much Maybe Tom King should swallow his pride.
Aaron Howard
Sweet tears.
Benjamin Gray
This is a hilarious take. Yeah, there are store exclusive variants, but Immortal Hulk isn't the only series doing this. You have Venom also pumping out a similar amount of covers like this, and for a while they were the most hyped series out there... So why isn't Venom outselling fucking everything, then? Same with other Cates' series like GOTG or even the Silver Surfer: Black series, which had around 20 (!) variant covers for its #1, and by #2 is nowhere to be seen on the top 10. Why don't you explain that?
James Rivera
It is true. Ordinary Superheroes are courageous, caring, fun, smart, and sane. But writers like Tom King and Bendis have shown us that superheroes should be damaged, mentally unstable, abusive, angry, and stupid. From Batman abusing his partner with his fist to Superman saying how he thinks about killing Batman every minute of his life. And lots of PTSD and suicide. So deep and mature!
Andrew Rogers
Don’t bother with Logic, their brain cannot handle it.
Bentley Wilson
>using her hair as a chair In a similar way, I can use my legs as a stand.
Ethan Taylor
if that's the case than X-Men have been "deconstructing" the superhero genre since their inception. Quit throwing around the word Deconstruction
Evan Nelson
I've been out of the loop - what's all this about Black Cat tits?
Hudson Martinez
Cry more, Tom.
Grayson James
nothing really to talk about. j scott cambpell is doing covers for black cat. people like the way he draws tiddies. so it sells well. it's a perfect fusion of getting the black cat people and the j scott campbell people all at once
Eli Thompson
And yet they repeat this as if it were an undeniable truth, same as the "overshipping", something they scaled back a while ago and only do for a couple of titles at most (none of their top series in any case).
Ian Morris
>X-Men #1 and #2 >God is in his heaven, and all is right in the world.
J Scott Campbell is an absolute megastar, Black Cat is fucking terrible and these books sell on weight of his covers alone.
Colton Thomas
JSC is THE cover artist. speculator's wet fucking dream
Oliver Nguyen
>contrarian-man enters the thread
Julian Nguyen
>speculator's >destroying the comic industry still in 2019
Julian Evans
Him and Liefeld's. The ridiculous book that is "Major X" didn't have a day or so out and it was already running for $20 or $30 in the speculator market, and of course he was already having hissy fits over "first appearances" for the Spider-Man/Deadpool drama.
Brandon Collins
Sadly speculator's are the one thing propping up the industry, and the comic publishers know it. no coincidence we have to contend with an endless deluge of first appearances of new characters, #1 issues, variant covers, and even stupid shit like holofoil or acetate covers. Every year unit sales go down but the dollar amount stays around the same. The comic industry is propped up by whales, and rather than increasing its base readership that readership is shrinking. you don't have to take Econ 101 to see this is a party that will produce a nasty hangover.
Whether any of these books actually make it into the hands of readers has become an afterthought. as long as they can trick LCS's into filling up back-issue bins with the latest crap, Marvel and DC's job is done. What happens when the last comic store goes out of business?
Juan Sanchez
Variant covers are not the same as store exclusive variants.
And what makes you think Venom isn't doing exactly that, when Cates released his own exclusive cover for Absolute Carnage not too long ago precisely for the speculative factor? We're talking about 23 covers here, for a single issue. These "store exclusive covers" are hardly something only Immortal Hulk is doing, other well hyped series are also doing it. The difference is that, unlike other series (excluding HoX/PoX and Spider-Man by the looks of it), IH is gaining new readers every month instead of losing them over time. It's that simple. If you really think the series is propped up by variants then I got a river to sell you.
John Murphy
Leviathan is a Batman focused mini and yet it's not near the top 10.
Luke Watson
>And what makes you think Venom isn't doing exactly that Because they're not...
>Silver Surfer Black #1 >Immortal Hulk #20 All Marvel #1's get a shit ton of variants and store exclusives for the first issue, but no other one is still getting them 20 issues in besides stuff like Spider-Man.
Tyler Wright
Mind listing all the store exclusive variants Immortal Hulk #20 got? Let's have it, since you're so intent of proving it's getting propped up by those. Mind you, all the stuff I'm finding are reprint variants, not "store exclusive" variants. In the meantime, list all the regular variants Venom #16 got during the same period, this should be fun.
Angel Reed
Ugh, I can smell you from here.
Owen Myers
Also, I'm totally ok with reprints having new covers, why not? And IH has had SO many floppy reprints, can't think of anything that compares
Nathan Gray
I just like how popular him and Hughes and Artgem are despite people constantly bitching about titttays
Mason Morales
No but you see, they're censored in Marvel and they aren't allowed to make sexy female characters yadda yadda >still get regular work across the line and their covers sell well
Logan Russell
>Even a Batman event can’t save Bendis Superman Jeez
Juan Ramirez
user, nothing can save superman. Superman is fucked as a concept right now. As a matter of fact, DC is a hairs bredth away from being canceled.
Rumor states that Jim Lee is getting Stormwatch back and leaving DC to rot. I don't see why not. Him and Warren Ellis can quite honestly open up a patreon and rake in millions and start selling a simple comic magazine that they and a few other authors make comics for.
Nathan Collins
quit talkin out your ass
Jaxson Jones
Yeah, this is fine. Everything is fine. For all my eyebrow raising at House of X making muggas have the biggest mugga moment yet I’m just grateful somebody finally knocked The Batman Who Laughs out of the top 5. Good on you, Marvel. You make a shitton of shit I don’t like but it’s about bat-smacking time somebody put Judge Juggalo in his place.
>Tits Fair play to them. I’m all for more tits in comics, but preferably more thighs and ass too.
