Also: SCALPED! (it bears repeating)

I was wondering the same thing. Is that experiment over? If so, could Marc start adding them back to his analysis?

Action Comics and Superman right now are really Nightwing and Flamebird and Mon-El & Friends, just with different names. And there’s no way that they’d sell nearly as well as they’re selling now with those names.

We’ll see how Superman: Secret Origin debuts, I guess, though.

When Bart failed they brought back Wally plus his kids. Now we have Barry and Bart back in the mix. That’s five - depending on how you factor in the kid’s powers.

Instead of mapping out a plan with any ONE Flash they just keep throwing more characters at the problem. It’s not exactly an idea that looks like a good one at all.

The main problem DC has had with the Flash relaunches is simply executing bad ideas with poor creativity. Someone thought it would be a good idea to follow Geoff Johns’ well-received run with a lackluster final arc and then take Wally West out of the equation and replace him with an aged Bart Allen. They hyped the relaunched THE FLASH: THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE well enough, but gave it to Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, presumably only because they happened to be the producers of the 1990-91 FLASH TV series. Fans were less than impressed, which forced DC to kill off Bart (albeit temporarily) a year later and cancel FLASH: TFMA.

ALL FLASH #1 seemed promising, but the return of Wally West and his series featured an unimpressive initial arc by Mark Waid that was soon followed by another unimpressive arc by Tom Peyer and then a final arc by Alan Burnett that quietly ended Wally’s series…again.

So now DC is trying to bring back Barry Allen after their success at bringing back Hal Jordan. And unless the same formula is used of following a REBIRTH series written by Geoff Johns with a monthly ongoing series written by Geoff Johns, it may be hard for DC to finally get a Flash relaunch right.

Really interesting to see the rather small gap in numbers (both periodical and TPB) between Air/Scalped on the one hand and Young Liars on the other hand. Are we able to pinpoint the current Vertigo cancellation point from this?

The Mighty was always talked about as a 12 part story with hopes it woudl progress past that if sales were worthy. Hence why they listed it as an ongoing.

I would think DC’s going to be willing to let it run to that.

And can we have indie sales for April, please, please, please ?

I had mercifully forgotten that mess. The Doom Patrol Annual especially was jaw droppingly awful.

I have read somewhere in the vicinity of 60,000 comics in my life and I would have no hesitation in placing that amongst the absolute worst ever imo.

And are written by the 21st C. iteration of Bruce Jones. Following the spectacular collapses (in terms of both sales and general reception) of every single one of his DC titles in the past few years, I suspect his number may finally be up.

Blocking “Children’s Crusade” from your memory, eh?

In regards to the sales - Is “The Mighty” even going to get to finish off it’s current storyline?

But I think the real point is that previous FLASH relaunches had very strong starts, only to fall off a cliff almost immediately. So it would be premature to call this relaunch a success (even provisionally). Given the book’s track record, it needs to show a bit more staying power before that conclusion would be justified.

In other words, for all we can tell so far, this relaunch might be on track to do the same as the previous ones. Or it might not - perhaps this time it’ll stick. All we can really say for now is that it didn’t crash straight away.