Can someone explain to me how this is still ongoing...

Can someone explain to me how this is still ongoing? I can't logically conceive it selling enough to keep it going for 20 years or so.

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It’s Images highest selling book again, now that TWD is over

Plus it’s not like Todd actually needs to work anymore.

Image is a vanity publisher, so it doesn't matter if it sells or not.

Though for some reason Spawn sells really well as of the last few months.

The same reason Nirvana still sells a million albums a year.

There will always be edgy kids/edgelords

Because the cutoff for profitability is far, far below the cancellation numbers that DC and Marvel usually use.
Tarot sells 2100 issues a month and is profitable (although they may engage in direct to consumer sales?). Spawn sells more than 30,000 units at 2.99.
I don't exactly know the cost to produce per book, but 1.1 million dollars revenue for Todd's work seems solid.

Spawn is kept alive though the selling of toy and arts, in fact most of the profit for spawn come from toy, arts and being in video game.

>30000*3 = 90000/month
Retailer gets half
>45000
Diamond gets a 1/6 of the total, or 1/3 of the remainder
>30000
Printing costs go down as more get printed, so probably ~$6000
>24000
To split between Todd, the artist/colorer/letterer, and Image
Todd's probably getting at least 7500/month for not a ton of work

It's not a vanity publisher, it's pay-to-publish but they don't publish everything that is submitted even if you're willing to pay

They just announced him for Mortal Kombat and the comics nearing the big #300

The printing costs are actually probably even lower, since the quotes I got just fucking around with order forms online were about that.

The writer of Spawn is the head of Image and this book and Savage Dragon have the goal of passing the 1970's book Cerebus for longest running indie comic at #300, Spawn will do it next month and Savage Dragon early next year

then books will keep going until Larsen or Todd die and they have the record all to themselves

Savage Dragon has a better right to the record since it's been written and drawn by Larsen for it's whole run (right?)

In both these cases it’s 90s nostalgia

Yeah but it’s wayyyy shittier than Spawn

I stopped in the middle of the Endgame arc, did the more recent ones become readable again ?

What's happening anyway in the current storyline is it heading towards some kind of finale? Last I heard the general public became aware of angels, demons, etc.

they're doing Armageddon... again. With no references to the previous one that was supposed to be the big end all showdown.

is Malebolgia still around or did he die again when Jim Spawn blasted him out of the sky?

niggers are vain creatures

Because Spawn is cool as fuck despite all of the inconsistent, at times repetitive, often uninspired and questionable writing. Here's to many more years.

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Who would cancel it? McFarlane pays out of his pocket to publish it and his pockets are as deep as his ego.

Simmons' skin color was never a big deal in the comics. McFarlane just wanted him to differ from the superhero status quo as much as he could, hence why he got burned and repulsive later on.

It's actually one of the best selling independent books currently. I doubt he "pays out of his pocket".

Not really; at best you can say that Spawn had better writing because of the guest-writer issues but honestly they're not the writers' best and about neck-to-neck with Savage Dragon's quality.

>Simmons' skin color was never a big deal in the comics.
i didn't say it was, i implied niggers made it a bigger deal because they like to look at themselves.

I think the number one reason for the character's popularity is simply because he was edgy enough at a time when that was considered the golden standard. But not everything edgy is necessarily bad. Born Again is edgy and it's one of Miller's best stories.

Savage Dragon is just grotesque, horribly drawn pornography.

Todd refuses to let him die, even though Al and his books are shit

Better to be edgy and unapologetic about it than be an "aware" meta parody like Lobo or Deadpool.

You're fucking kidding me, I thought this ended after God and Satan both lost their powers to Spawn?

It's closing in on 300 issue now, gonna set the record for longest published indie comic.

That happened in about 10 issues out of 200. It's obvious you haven't read it.

Jim Lee did one issue that Larsen had to retcon with a replacement issue.

Nah, God and Satan are back and now they're starting up Armageddon, which is now the first armageddon as the previous one apparently didn't happen, even though everything up to Endgame DID happen including Jim Downings.

What happened to the Mother of Gods?

dunno stopped around 100

I read the first dozen issues or so around 1995 and considered getting back into it a couple years ago. I saw the newest issue at the time and said nope. Unflattering content aside it seemed like it was written by a twelve year old.

shhh we don't talk about that. Because Todd ripped off another character, got sued, and lost.

RIP the last Spawn plot I paid attention to