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March 31, 2011 11:17 am I love the All-Star Superman recommendation, HOWEVER, since it's a "Where do I start" maybe better to refer people to Vol. 1 & 2 of the TPB instead of a $100 Absolute edition....

March 30, 2011 4:35 pm I'm curious about how many tickets there were that sold in that minute.  Was it 5 or 25 or whatever?

March 28, 2011 9:17 pm I'd have liked tro see some kind of follow-on to the observation that Civil War sold 300k, Siege sold 100k, now we get Fear itself.   How does the Times think it will do, based on journalistic observation?    Seemed like they were just quoting people without doing any kind of actual research & drawing any actual conclusions.

@PotatoPope - puff peice is right.

March 24, 2011 3:55 pm @ash  wrote: "I remember Marvel saying recently that they were going to try to get 18 issues a year out of some of their books,"

I don't recall seeing this bit of news, but it would certainly explain the # of double-ships

@player1 wrote: "Aren't there 5 Wednesdays in that month?"

Yes, there are, however there have always been 5 week months on the calendar, and I don't recall seeing the large # of double-ships for that reason in the past.  I'd me more inclined to believe that the double-ships are due to a desire to ramp up output to 18 books per year (or whatever).....

That said, it goes back to my original points:
1) If you LOVE a book, 18 issues per year is just more to love

2) If you are on the fence about a book, do you really want 18 issues a year?
       This pre-supposes you actually have a decision point because you are buying some books that are just "ok" to your eyes.

March 24, 2011 3:45 pm @MBurnsOH  Sorry.  Spider-Girl has been cancelled as of #8.

March 24, 2011 2:47 pm Also......  Especially for people who buy "off the rack", I'm guessing that pumping out more product is targeted at taking extra $$ out of the pocket of fans of the titles because every $ Marvel can capture out of a fan's pocket on a double shipped book will likely translate in a sale that is lost by another publisher. 

This is assuming fans have a finite budget to spend on comics.

I'm ALSO wondering if the plethora of double ships is also a reaction to DC's huge drop of 16 Flashpoint minis and 4 one-shots that are on top of their normal books (which provide a net increase of ~14 books even taking into account recent cancellations from DC).

March 24, 2011 2:43 pm @Slockhart  Mystery Men is a new marvel series with "pulp style" heros set in the 1930's that pre-date the current start of the Marvel Age of super-heroes (as shown in the recent "Marvels Project")

March 24, 2011 2:40 pm I wasn't counting .1 issues as double ships.  If you do that you get 1 more:
AVENGERS ACADEMY #14.1

BTW, from the responses I got on the 11 O'Clock thread as well as one on the ComicBookPage forums, what I found is that most people had already down-selected all series that were not there favorites.  They basically fell either into the "It's just more to love" or the "I'm not getting that title so no skin off my nose" categories.

Not a lot of people buying books they are iffy about where this kicks them into a decision point on keeping the series.

March 11, 2011 5:54 pm @JohnVFerrigno  Mmmmm, I love Ham & pineapple pizza.
I also like some off-the-wall Indie comics

But I like Pepperoni pizza  too (that's Marvel/DC super-heroes)

March 11, 2011 12:53 pm You are my hero, Tom......

This quote  “You want it to be one way....But it’s the other way “ applies to SO many things, and I keep on referring people to this article in forum threads all over the place when it's clear people want things to be a certain way and they are just not......