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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Sept 12, 2011 11:56:34 GMT -5
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Post by chumped on Sept 12, 2011 14:27:04 GMT -5
Action was pretty good, as expected. Glad that it's selling.
Justice League on the other hand...
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Post by threehgame on Sept 12, 2011 17:18:16 GMT -5
Pretty good news, but lets wait and see in a few months how many books remain at the 100K mark. Then the line is a success and they have created a model to revive the comic industry.
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Post by CM Poor: DeepFigureValue on Sept 12, 2011 17:51:29 GMT -5
Eh, we'll see. My LCS offered subscribers the chance to "subscribe" to either entire series from the new 52, or individual issues. Thus far, I've only tried Detective, Justice League, and Action. I may give Detective and Action a few more issues' chance, but thus far I only plan on switching Justice League to a full subscription. A few series that I took the plunge on right off the bat start this week (Green Lantern, The Red Lanterns), so I'm excited for that, but thus far I'm not any deeper into DC than I was a few weeks ago - in fact right now they've got less pulls from me than they did.
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Post by T R W on Sept 12, 2011 19:47:19 GMT -5
A little too early to say it is a success. Let's look at sales of all the new books in 6 months and see where we are, which I think is right back where were sales wise.
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Post by jlavaia on Sept 13, 2011 16:40:06 GMT -5
yeah, i agree with everyone else, no way can this be called a success after only 1 week. also most comic shops offered a deal where if you could get all 52 # 1's for $52 and alot of people jumped on that just to try each title. i didnt, i'm actually also reading less books now and the only new books i'm excited for and i'm adding are Red Lanterns and New Guardians. i was going to read Hawkman, but the previews for the first 3 issues arent sitting well with me and dont have me excited at all.
but yeah, we'll see what happens. i see roughly 20 titles being somewhat successful and only under 10 actually succeeding and like those were already successful titles anyway.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Sept 13, 2011 18:08:18 GMT -5
I didn't read any of them. For me to read any of them, two things would basically have to happen.
1. Make an app for Android and/or WebOS. (This is already done for Android) 2. Offer a subscription through said app.
Instead I've got to pay $2.99 for a digital comic. WTF?? And there's no subscription model so next week I have to pay $2.99 again. Meanwhile, Time magazine has an app where I can subscribe for $2.99 a month and I get a new issue every week. They have my business.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Sept 15, 2011 16:38:59 GMT -5
Forgive me, I meant to say it's initial sales has been touted a success. And that's still a really good thing.
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Post by T R W on Sept 15, 2011 18:47:04 GMT -5
Any sales of comics are a good thing. However, history shows us, that whenever they do something like this, there is an initial surge, then the numbers go back to where they were, or below once people lose interest, and when old subscribers don't come back.
I've read every comic so far, and I think there are more good issues than bad, I'm not blown away, and I really hate the excessive lines and "armor" on a lot of the new costume designs. Reminds me of the 90's and all of the excessive shoulder pads and belts.
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Post by threehgame on Sept 15, 2011 20:36:30 GMT -5
Normally there is a drop off of 2/3rds of the print run from a #1 to a #2. Something tells me their might be less of a drop of with the DCnU, however they set the bar high and a few of the higher ups said they wanted success across the line and low selling books wouldn't be tolerated. Come Dec./Jan. we should be hearing about which books are going away and what they will be replaced with.
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