kayevcee
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The Weather Wizard
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 13, 2012 20:45:38 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 19, 2012 13:58:29 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Aug 19, 2012 15:23:43 GMT
Is that article written in English?? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 11, 2012 15:48:17 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 11, 2012 16:23:48 GMT
Sales to stores. Not actual sales.
Still very impressive, but let's face it, Liefeld's X-Force 1 sold fucktons to stores and it's in 50p bins everywhere!
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Oct 11, 2012 16:47:20 GMT
Man Phil, the trading cards they give away free at conventions are going for like, $200 on ebay. It's absurd. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 11, 2012 17:43:20 GMT
True...... Wikipedia reckons 5 million copies of X-Force 1 were sold, and 8 Million of X-Men 1
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 11, 2012 19:04:03 GMT
It's been a long while since we've seen a licenced comic launch like this. Do we have to go back to Dreamwave Transformers to see store order numbers like this?
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Oct 11, 2012 19:56:18 GMT
Those are pretty large numbers. It does not mean that it will be a success - but it does suggest that people have reason to believe that it will.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 11, 2012 20:08:28 GMT
I think so.
Andy
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kayevcee
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Post by kayevcee on Oct 12, 2012 6:06:17 GMT
It's out? Holy crap! I need to get down the comic shop!
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 12, 2012 7:23:08 GMT
And there was me thinking the days of licenced comics pulling big numbers in the direct market were well behind us. I stand corrected.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Oct 12, 2012 8:34:40 GMT
And there was me thinking the days of licenced comics pulling big numbers in the direct market were well behind us. I stand corrected. -Ralph It's a combination of a massive fanbase with lots of disposable income, and very little official product to spend that money on. Personally I'll wait and see because the creative team on it are a bit of an unknown, but it has to be better than Hasbro's other official efforts for Pony comics, which are insulting to 2 year olds, let alone anyone else. |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 12, 2012 16:46:08 GMT
It should make other licenced comic editors sit up though and think : "Why can't our comics sell like that?". Remember, the likes of Transformers and GI Joe could pull in a 100k readership at one point.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Oct 12, 2012 17:37:56 GMT
It should make other licenced comic editors sit up though and think : "Why can't our comics sell like that?". Remember, the likes of Transformers and GI Joe could pull in a 100k readership at one point. -Ralph Well, it's about fanbase size and availability of other media. The GI Joe fanbase isn't THAT big, especially comic-buying age, I don't think it could support massive readership. Transformers could at one point, because people were so starved of G1, it was riding high on the nostalgia train, but Dreamwave fumbled the ball. There's no reason the comic shouldn't be selling in the 40-50k region, especially given the huge worldwide publicity, but it's a very very oversaturated market for space robots now, and there's a lot of burnout. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 13, 2012 20:17:46 GMT
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