@jsphsmth said:
Not terribly worried about I, Vampire.
A DC exec said they wouldn't always be trimming the line from the bottom of the sales chart. This would mean that they would keep loosing great niche titles primarily from the Dark and the Edge lines because they will always sell less than the main superhero titles.
(Yes,I keep quoting a DC exec without providing a link. I am attempting to find it again. Pretty sure it was one of the monthly interviews with Bob Wayne/John Rood at Newsarama)
IIRC, it was Wayne, who was recently incredibly upbeat about the sales of I, Vampire. Definitely not a tone of speculating cancellation.
Additionally, the previously set margin of cancellation titles (purely from a viewer perspective) was around the level of 13,000 units... dropping within that range historically has suggested the potential cancellation of the title in the next round of solicitations (offering it about a 4 to 5 month closure period). Many books have been sustained at much lower rates than this. How about a chart to support my evidence you say? Ah, good madame or sir, I supply!
| | | |
Streets | 23830 | 22390 | 21684 | 21592 | 21434 | 21342 |
JSA All | 18395 | 17920 | 17409 | 16987 | 16706 | 16384 |
Batman Confidential | 14112 | 14450 | 13495 | 13116 | 12779 | 12578 |
Outsiders | 13133 | 12838 | 20074 | 13092 | 12840 | 16265 |
REBELS | 10619 | 10354 | 10351 | 10257 | 10014 | 10000 |
Freedom | 10028 | 9437 | 9050 | 8886 | 8601 | 8425 |
Doom | 9564 | 9375 | 10681 | 9386 | 9435 | 9299 |
Warlord | 8532 | 8430 | 8130 | 7915 | 7755 | 7306 |
Azrael | 8198 | 7841 | 7699 | 7825 | 7558 | 7617 |
Magog | 8119 | 7743 | 7264 | 6749 | 6608 | 6202 |
The Shield | 6444 | 6010 | 5568 | 5288 | 5201 | 5082 |
The Web | 5809 | 5276 | 4981 | 4763 | 4640 | |
This is (in fact) a list of every major title that was cancelled pre-new 52 for about the past 2 years... excluding those cancelled for the purposes of the relaunch itself (which admittedly might include JSA All-Stars, given the timing of the final issue). The first column indicates the released sales the month cancellation was announced, the final indicates the sales # of the final issue. The Web did not chart its final issue. Streets of Gotham, included here, was noted to have closed its story, so those numbers are less indicative of the trend.
Whats that you say? This trend was just in the past couple of years? No no my friend, no no! "All-New Atom" was previously announced cancelled with the sales level of at 13,560. Infinity Inc. at 11,328. The previous run of Firestorm was announced cancelled at the level of 16,068 (making the recent number of 16,007 less than ideal).
Even higher tiers, like Aquaman were previously cancelled at the level of 16,778. Hawgirl at 16,575. Catwoman at 18,609. That would appear to be threshold (IMO) for the B-listers... which brings me again to another (wildly substantiated only by my somewhat logical mind) proposal, the cancellation thresholds:
A-List Threshold: 30,000 Units (The once acclaimed Green Arrow run bowed out at 31,798).
B-List Threshold: 16,000 to 18,000 Units (At least moderately tenured heroes)
C-List Threshold: 13,000 Units (Covering the bases of most the rest)
D-List Threshold: 8,000 (The most acclaimed of critical darlings, you know, the ones people aren't reading)
F-List Threshold: 5,000 (A focused series of reprints, one-shots and the like)
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