Comments on: DC Month to Month Sales: August 2006 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:25:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: News and commentary about comics » Will DC’s OYL backfire on them? http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-144744 Thu, 03 May 2007 12:13:48 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-144744 [...] I looked at this rundown of one of the DC sales charts on The Beat blog, and some, if not all, of the results in sales lead me to wonder if it’s possible that all the changes made in the wake of One Year Later will eventually wear thin. Or, put another way, it does look like some of the more needless steps are beginning to backfire. For example, as they say about the Flash: Sales are leveling out, remaining 30,000 units ahead of the previous Flash series. [...] […] I looked at this rundown of one of the DC sales charts on The Beat blog, and some, if not all, of the results in sales lead me to wonder if it’s possible that all the changes made in the wake of One Year Later will eventually wear thin. Or, put another way, it does look like some of the more needless steps are beginning to backfire. For example, as they say about the Flash: Sales are leveling out, remaining 30,000 units ahead of the previous Flash series. […]

]]> by: The Four Color Media Monitor http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-8181 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:31:15 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-8181 <strong>Will DC's OYL backfire on them?...</strong> I looked at this rundown of one of the DC sales charts on The Beat blog, and some, if not all, of the results in sales lead me to wonder if it's possible that all the changes made in the wake of One Year Later will eventually wear thin. Or, put anoth.... Will DC’s OYL backfire on them?…

I looked at this rundown of one of the DC sales charts on The Beat blog, and some, if not all, of the results in sales lead me to wonder if it’s possible that all the changes made in the wake of One Year Later will eventually wear thin. Or, put anoth….

]]> by: Shawn Hill http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-7303 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:55:31 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-7303 "Writer Steve Niles and artist Justiniano do The Creeper, another book promoted in DCU: Brave New World. The debut issue sold well enough for this sort of thing. As the two-year comparison shows, it’s also quite an improvement over the character’s last series." Actually, Marc, the Beware the Creeper series was another of those Vertigo projects that just takes the name; it concerned twin sisters in Paris involved in anarchy and avant-garde art in the 1920s. So, very little to do with Ditko's character. “Writer Steve Niles and artist Justiniano do The Creeper, another book promoted in DCU: Brave New World. The debut issue sold well enough for this sort of thing. As the two-year comparison shows, it’s also quite an improvement over the character’s last series.”

Actually, Marc, the Beware the Creeper series was another of those Vertigo projects that just takes the name; it concerned twin sisters in Paris involved in anarchy and avant-garde art in the 1920s. So, very little to do with Ditko’s character.

]]> by: sm http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-7286 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:22:26 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-7286 "For some reason, Elfquest: Discovery #4 made the chart again in August, almost doubling its initial sales and now apparently outselling the debut issue. If anyone knows what’s going on here, I’m interested." "184 - ELFQUEST: DISCOVERY Elfquest: Discovery #4 (of 4) — 8,836 (- 3.0%) — [16,447]" "184: 7,611 - Elric: Making of a Sorcerer #4" I think you've mixed up two comics here. The re-order numbers you give for Elfquest you attribute later on to Elric in the "Re-Orders" section. Could this be the source of the confusion? “For some reason, Elfquest: Discovery #4 made the chart again in August, almost doubling its initial sales and now apparently outselling the debut issue. If anyone knows what’s going on here, I’m interested.”

“184 - ELFQUEST: DISCOVERY
Elfquest: Discovery #4 (of 4) — 8,836 (- 3.0%) — [16,447]”

“184: 7,611 - Elric: Making of a Sorcerer #4″

I think you’ve mixed up two comics here. The re-order numbers you give for Elfquest you attribute later on to Elric in the “Re-Orders” section. Could this be the source of the confusion?

]]> by: winnie http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6974 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:43:46 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6974 Text is OK, but the numbers are barely visible...:( Text is OK, but the numbers are barely visible…:(

]]> by: Paul O'Brien http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6696 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:18:33 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6696 To be honest, it looks fine to me, although I admit it's on the small side. Unfortunately, the pre-formatted text tag doesn't support size-changing, as I understand it. To be honest, we got more complaints with the previous font, because the figures were misaligned. And the idea of manually coding the whole thing in HTML tables doesn't bear thinking about. However, if you prefer the text slightlly larger, you can always change it under the View menu. To be honest, it looks fine to me, although I admit it’s on the small side. Unfortunately, the pre-formatted text tag doesn’t support size-changing, as I understand it.

To be honest, we got more complaints with the previous font, because the figures were misaligned. And the idea of manually coding the whole thing in HTML tables doesn’t bear thinking about.

However, if you prefer the text slightlly larger, you can always change it under the View menu.

]]> by: Iain Burnside http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6685 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:02:02 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6685 I always enjoy reading these things, but do you think you (and Paul with the Marvel version) could use a larger font for the title names and sales numbers? Maybe it's just my bleary-eyed self who is struggling, but it is really difficult to actually read that font - particularly when it's so small. And thanks for taking the time to do these, guys! I always enjoy reading these things, but do you think you (and Paul with the Marvel version) could use a larger font for the title names and sales numbers? Maybe it’s just my bleary-eyed self who is struggling, but it is really difficult to actually read that font - particularly when it’s so small.

And thanks for taking the time to do these, guys!

]]> by: Marc-Oliver Frisch http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6528 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:02:57 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6528 For what it's worth, I'm aware of other sources in the know suggesting that the numbers are are much more accurate than Ellis would evidently like us to believe. (Not that I blame him, mind you -- given that he's a creator, I'm not surprised he approaches a public discussion of his sales figures from a different perspective.) For what it’s worth, I’m aware of other sources in the know suggesting that the numbers are are much more accurate than Ellis would evidently like us to believe. (Not that I blame him, mind you — given that he’s a creator, I’m not surprised he approaches a public discussion of his sales figures from a different perspective.)

]]> by: ComicList: New Comic Book Releases List http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6513 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:42:08 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6513 <strong>NEWS: DC Sales For August 2006...</strong> Marc-Oliver Frisch writes "With Marvel’s Civil War #4 delayed by a month, DC Comics was August’s biggest publisher in the North American direct market." Click here to read the rest of the story.... NEWS: DC Sales For August 2006…

Marc-Oliver Frisch writes “With Marvel’s Civil War #4 delayed by a month, DC Comics was August’s biggest publisher in the North American direct market.”

Click here to read the rest of the story….

]]> by: Paul O'Brien http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6508 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:07:47 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6508 "For what it’s worth here’s what Ellis just posted on Engine concerning Fell." Well, that'll be counting sales outside the North American direct market, which don't show up on this chart. So it's no surprise that it's higher. Given that we have ICV2 and CBGXtra both calculating estimates, and both coming up with numbers that are less than 0.1% apart, I'm pretty confident that the estimates they're coming up with are an accurate reflection of the sales that count towards Diamond's chart - and certainly accurate enough to give a true reflection of the trends for each title. “For what it’s worth here’s what Ellis just posted on Engine concerning Fell.”

Well, that’ll be counting sales outside the North American direct market, which don’t show up on this chart. So it’s no surprise that it’s higher. Given that we have ICV2 and CBGXtra both calculating estimates, and both coming up with numbers that are less than 0.1% apart, I’m pretty confident that the estimates they’re coming up with are an accurate reflection of the sales that count towards Diamond’s chart - and certainly accurate enough to give a true reflection of the trends for each title.

]]> by: Journalista » Blog Archive » Sept. 28, 2006: If you’re not with us, you’re with the Marxist Feminist Homosexualist Axis http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6500 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:51:27 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6500 [...] Over at The Beat, Marc-Oliver Frisch uses the latest ICv2 numbers to analyze DC Comics&#8217; month-to-month sales through August. (As previously noted, Paul O&#8217;Brien did the same for Marvel&#8217;s sales figures a couple of days ago.) [...] […] Over at The Beat, Marc-Oliver Frisch uses the latest ICv2 numbers to analyze DC Comics’ month-to-month sales through August. (As previously noted, Paul O’Brien did the same for Marvel’s sales figures a couple of days ago.) […]

]]> by: Nekira Sundance http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6485 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:26:02 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6485 God please get someone who isnt a retarded whiner to start posting replies here. God please get someone who isnt a retarded whiner to start posting replies here.

]]> by: Sam silbert http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6467 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:36:08 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6467 God please get someone who LIKES DC comics to start doing these charts. God please get someone who LIKES DC comics to start doing these charts.

]]> by: Adam http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6392 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:51:28 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6392 For what it's worth here's what Ellis just posted on Engine concerning Fell. These numbers include all reprintings and are coming from Image directly. Rough estimates. #1 - 38,500 #2 - 29,000 #3 - 29,000 #4 - 29,000 For what it’s worth here’s what Ellis just posted on Engine concerning Fell. These numbers include all reprintings and are coming from Image directly. Rough estimates.

#1 - 38,500

#2 - 29,000

#3 - 29,000

#4 - 29,000

]]> by: Matt D http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6361 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:31:39 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/09/27/dc-month-to-month-sales-august-2006/#comment-6361 You sort of have to wonder what DC thinks about all of those Bruce Jones titles right now. I am glad that people are sticking around for Will Pfiefer's Catwoman. It's a lot more fun than he gets credit for(considering who he had to follow up on and all). Facinating stuff, as always. You sort of have to wonder what DC thinks about all of those Bruce Jones titles right now.

I am glad that people are sticking around for Will Pfiefer’s Catwoman. It’s a lot more fun than he gets credit for(considering who he had to follow up on and all).

Facinating stuff, as always.

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