Venom Space Knight selling like absolute garbage before it hits 8 issues, and current Venom hitting sub-40k by issue fucking 4. that's bad!
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Replying to @spacetwinks
and Venom is a very well known spider-man character with deep, deep cultural pentration beyond comics. sells like shit though! weird!
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hm hm hm hm. hey! what about iron man? y'know, the character Marvel has been relentlessly trying to make an a-lister for years now?
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specifically tony stark, not riri. his latest volume launched at issue 1 with... over 270k sales! great, right? of course!pic.twitter.com/ZEXZaVUGvk
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butttt issue number 2 which was sold the same month tumbles down to... fucking ouch, my guy!pic.twitter.com/zmQP9NfWxT
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now, mind you! this is a book marvel HEAVILY promoted, with their ever big name Bendis on board, PLUS variant covers...
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...plus marvel's general ceaseless promotion of Tony in general, he's become an ever more important character since Civil War and his movie
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so let's jump around a little! issue 5, tony is being outsold by issue 33 of saga. fucking ouch! it doesn't have half the promo tony does!pic.twitter.com/pnIssB2wCl
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not to mention, by all rights, sales drift should've DESTROYED saga's sales that far into the game. certainly is how marvel operates now
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what with constant renumbering and relaunching to recoup lost sales and start from the "beginning" again
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i often wonder if anyone up-chain knows that the economic function of the #1 is to fuck over retailers' ability to accurately gauge demand
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Replying to @chaosprime @spacetwinks
for some reason people talk like it's "oh readers lost interest"... no, retailers were able to get a handle on how many they could move
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the #1 runaround is literally just an economic transfer from retailers to producers and i'd like to say distributors but lol distributor
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