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February 3, 2011 10:20 pm @Wood  Where are these numbers from? On Comichron.com they share this:

Here's the estimated change within the Top 300 comics dollar sales from December to January from 1997 to 2009-2010:

December 1996 to January 1997:   -15.3%
December 1997 to January 1998:   -27.7%
December 1998 to January 1999:   -15.2%
December 1999 to January 2000:    -18.5%
December 2000 to January 2001:   -8.9%
December 2001 to January 2002:   -3.6%
December 2002 to January 2003:   -4.8%
December 2003 to January 2004:   -19.9%
December 2004 to January 2005:   -26.7%
December 2005 to January 2006:   -17.0%
December 2006 to January 2007:  -4.8%
December 2007 to January 2008:    -7.0%
December 2008 to January 2009: -24.36%
December 2009 to January 2010: -13.96%
December 2010 to January 2011 (all comics): -27.7%

Basically showing January as a normal drop off month. Makes sense, after the holidays there isn't a lot of money available, until after your rebates come in and your returns are complete.

February 3, 2011 10:14 pm @josh  Sorry, didn't get the reference. Watchmen was just plain boring to me. Couldn't make it very far into it.
Even the movie was boring.

Personal opinion.

February 3, 2011 12:44 pm Like any industry sales go through cycles. But to say the end if nigh is a bit much, yes? In tough economic times entertainment is the first thing to suffer. Movies sales are down even the massive WWE is having a drop in it's Pay Per View sales. It happens but it isn't the end.

Your suggestions on what we fans can do is spot on and something we should ALWAYS do, not just during a low sales point. I push Fables all the time because that book is AWESOME!

February 3, 2011 12:36 pm Yeah, rape as satire. I guess I can see that.
Both Powell and Harris are doing a great job making themselves less interesting to me. I have some of Powell's books, and plan to read Godzilla (not because of Powell but because I'm a fan of Godzilla) but I don't agree with him blaming me for reading Amazing Spider-Man for the fact some 'indie' comic doesn't sell. Not my fault. Give me an indie comic that interests me and I'll read it.
My collection is full of indies that I like from Nightmares & Fairy Tales to Strangers in Paradise.

Don't put your failures on me. Give me something worth reading and I'll support it. Otherwise stop trying to push me away by, well, by being a jerk about it.

February 2, 2011 5:26 pm @Asteraceae  Wait..I thought I was the only one who called them Scum of the earth...who else has?
Maybe I should be clear on my remarks: If someone stole the work of Tony Moore, for ANY reason, then they are Scum of the Earth. I'll stand by that. Anyone who steals the product of someone else hard work like this is true scum. Even more so if they try to sell the pages off.
That makes them lower than scum.
This is just within the sphere of the industry in which this website is based, an industry we are all fans and supporters of. It's like someone coming into your house and crapping on your couch.

February 2, 2011 12:46 am @Slockhart  Misleading marketing? How? All they said was it was going to be Zombies Vs. Everyone. There was never any mention of Ghostbusters meeting Stark Trek or anything like that...

I'm going to smell my comic and see what if mine was like that, I read mine as soon as I got home (it was more important than Fantastic Four since Marvel pissed me off by screwing the fans over in favore of a cheap pop) so my nose was still very cold and the sense of smell wasn't working.

February 2, 2011 12:43 am Only two words to say:

LOVED. IT.

February 2, 2011 12:42 am What a load of CRAP! Whoever did this is the lowest for of scum walking the earth.

Fine, I'll put my support behind this book for the first issue. When it's released I'll buy a copy of it. I won't make any promises after that because, to me, the premise sounds very boring. (Hoping to be surprised though!)

January 31, 2011 5:31 pm Why do these people think we HAVE to have two seperate camps in comics? Yeah, Marvel and DC are the Big Two and sell the most but that's because they have established characters and creators and there is NOTHING wring with that.
Creator owned and mainstream don't have to be different things. Myself, for the most part, I just see comics. If it's good (in my opinion) I'll buy it until I can't find it anymore. I did that with Last Blood from Blatant Press years ago. I loved that book and raved about it until the creator/writer, from what I remember, simply decided he didn't want to make comics anymore. That had nothing to do with Marvel or DC the creator just walked away.
Powell comes off as bitter. Almost as if he's saying his books aren't selling because of Spider-Man. It's never the creators fault, it's always someone else's

January 31, 2011 12:58 pm hrmm..I always wondered what indie-elitism actually sounded like and now I know. People buy what they like. I buy mostly super hero stuff because, well, I like Spider-Man and some others but my comics collection has tons of non-super hero titles.
Everything from the great EC Comics to Fables and Nightmares & Fairy Tales. The point is, like those mindless drones who ;love' movies 'based' on comics, popular doesn't always mean right but to whine and moan like this just makes you sound lame.

I'm buying IDW's Godzilla comic. I have to admit I'm not getting it because Powell is writing it I'm getting it becuase I've been a G-Fan most of my life. Does that make me a bad person? No.