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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 22:39:46 GMT -5
Secret Six is a recent, highly successful villain team-up book. If by highly successful you mean it launched selling over 44K copies for #1 and was already selling less than 20K copies per issue by it's sixth issue, and was selling under 13K copies by the issue 13 (the first issue of its second year), then sure it was highly successful. Losing 2/3 of your initial sales in a year is not a model that is going to inspire launching more books of that type. -M |
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Post by foxley on Jul 11, 2016 23:49:35 GMT -5
Secret Six is a recent, highly successful villain team-up book. If by highly successful you mean it launched selling over 44K copies for #1 and was already selling less than 20K copies per issue by it's sixth issue, and was selling under 13K copies by the issue 13 (the first issue of its second year), then sure it was highly successful. Losing 2/3 of your initial sales in a year is not a model that is going to inspire launching more books of that type. -M I was thinking of Gail Simone's original run on the book, which achieved a fair amount of critical acclaim. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 1:29:46 GMT -5
Oh that one, that debuted with a little over 31K is sales on the first issue, was down to a little over 24K by issue 6, under 24K by the start of its second year with #13, just over 20K by the start of it's 3rd year with #25, and under 20K by the time they wrapped up with issue 36 and didn't relaunch it with the new52.
Critical acclaim sure, but still not a sales success. Slower sales attrition than the next try, but it debuted with much lower sales and never increased, always lost sales. And it's sales that inspire copycats, villain books don't seem to generate the kind of sales success that gives them any kind of longevity or inspires the green lighting of more books like them.
The success of the Harley Quinn book might change that, but the question on Harley's book is this-is it a successful villain book, or is it a successful Batman spin-off? I think it's success is because of the latter, not the former.
Suicide Squad launched in the new52 with just under 45K copies for #1, by issue 6 it was under 28K, almost plateaud through issue 13 with just over 27K, and down to 22k when it ended, even with Harley Quinn as aprt of the cast. The relaunched New Suicide Squad qith Harley more prominent launched with just over 49K for it's first issue, but it's most recent issue (#21) sold just under 24K, so has dropped 50% of its sales in under 2 years.
None of which is the kind of success that breeds copycats or inspires publishers to "do more villain books because they'll sell" which is what drives the copycating on comics and the proliferation of certain types of books.
-M
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