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by **Punchy** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:47 pm

Black Jumbo wrote:
Which half of people have never even heard of, so that tells you how often that happens.

This doesn't bode well for literacy.

by **Punchy** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:47 pm

habitual wrote:Since the Mayan calendar is actually a wheel the universe isn't ending as much as it's being rebooted

Hab

Will it be more like Marvel Now or The New 52?

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:49 pm

habitual wrote:Since the Mayan calendar is actually a wheel the universe isn't ending as much as it's being rebooted

Hab

Only rubes would listen to the Mayans anyway, look how things turned out for them? Real bunch of Nostadamuses.

by **Zechs** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:57 pm

This bodes well for Marvel. :twisted:

by **holtom2000** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 2:07 pm

This took a little longer than I thought but it was entirely predictable.
If dc opts to go back to the way things were it would be another huge event. Please let this be so

by **Log-Man** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 2:31 pm

Black Jumbo wrote:Bodewell would be a good last name.

Vertigo Bodewell should be the name of a new columnist.

Or a Bond girl.

by **Herald** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:17 pm

habitual wrote:Since the Mayan calendar is actually a wheel the universe isn't ending as much as it's being rebooted

Hab

Except, of course, for the USA and China, which are the highest sellers.

by **Herald** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:29 pm

As for you, Dan and the Gang:

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:32 pm

Log-Man wrote:
Vertigo Bodewell should be the name of a new columnist.

Or a Bond girl.

Totally true.

I demand VB!

by **Herald** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:36 pm

Oh, and Jude: Is DC still "riding high", hmmm?? :lol:

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:47 pm

Herald wrote:Oh, and Jude: Is DC still "riding high", hmmm??

Are you using an article I wrote full of made up quotes, hyperbole, and absurd humor to make a serious point about sales in the industry?

by **holtom2000** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:47 pm

Herald wrote:As for you, Dan and the Gang:

Lol herald nice one!

by **Herald** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:50 pm

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:
Are you using an article I wrote full of made up quotes, hyperbole, and absurd humor to make a serious point about sales in the industry?

No, I'm using actual sales numbers to chide you about one of your posts, about DC "riding high" due to the DCnU.

I'm glad that you finally learned how to read a sales report, though.

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 4:00 pm

Herald wrote:
No, I'm using actual sales numbers against one of your posts about DC "riding high" due to the DCnU.

I'm glad that you finally learned how to read a sales report, though.

But you do realize that there are no hard numbers here, right? It is just a ranking showing Marvel sold more. But compared to last year, the industry as a whole soles MORE comics, so in terms of actual book sales, DC is selling as many if not more books than last December.

by **BlueStreak** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 4:04 pm

As the resident sales expert on the site, I can indeed confirm that, based on a top ten filled with marvel comics employing the same tactic that DC used a year ago, DC is no longer riding high and is now on the verge of financial ruin. My inside source at DC (Rich Johnston in a wig and fake mustache) has told me that based on this top ten chart, WB execs showed up at Dan Didio's office an hour ago with a tanto and encouraged him to commit seppuku as there's no way that DC can recover from this staggering, not at all inflated, blow to their market share.

This seems to coincide with the death poem just published on Didio's facebook page. It reads:

Softly falls the New 52's sales.
Like a freshly fallen mountain snow.
Shame covers my bald head,
Much like Marvel's books covers the Top Ten chart.
Because of Marvel NOW!, I am Didio no more.