>>7943218>>7943224>>7943227>drrrrrrrrrrrr imma make unbacked statements and ignore all evidence about actual sales because im wrong and can only reply with contrarian responses!!!!seems we have three angry dogs just barking up a storm about shit they don't understand.
Reprints and trades make up a tiny fraction of what singles sell. The exception is Watchmen (maybe Killing Joke), which is constantly in print. See
https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2019.htmlNo comic book company likes to wait on trade sales because they'er relatively low and not constant. This is why Peter David's shit gets canceled, despite his series actually selling really well in trade (~5k for 5-6 issues collected vs ~25k for singles). So even the comic book companies themselves think of their sales as negligible. Plus, trades, like DVDs/BDs/etc, are all front heavy, so the majority of their sales come from the month they're released.
You bitch about "hurrr that's 14 years of sales", but you have no idea what you're crying about.
And again, the BD/DVD sales only make up a fraction of sales in the age of digital and streaming. It used to be ~50% five years ago, but streaming and digital makes up 3x the sales now of BD/DVD. So that 244k number? That's underestimating the absolute MINIMUM of viewers.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/dvd-and-blu-ray-sales-nearly-halved-over-five-years-mpaa-report-says/vs 1/10th of digital sales for comics:
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/43105/digital-comic-sales-growing-againAlso love the bit with moving the goalpost by pretending Gone with the Wind isn't popular because it's not talked about more in the current day than Star Wars. Sorry, but more people have watched and know about Gone with the Wind than they do TFA. Same way more people know Batman: Hush from the animated movie.
Seriously, shame on you for defending Mattel's bullshit.
BTW, i mentioned trades way before you here:
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