Spider-woman the Origin debuted @ #24 with about 64,000 sold and immediately dropped 20,000 - 25000 issues for the duration of the mini averaging around 40,000 sold and hovering around the #40 - #50 range....
...oh and the art was plain fugly!!
Thanks for the info. To add, it launched at the end of Dec. 2005 and finished in early '06 before CW; as time has marched on, comic sales are improving. These days, sales of 40k would probably lead a comic outside the Top 50. But I could be off. Anyway, thanks for the info; it isn't as steep a drop as IIF, but still far from a breakout hit. Like I said, it is curious that while NA itself is the #1 selling ongoing title, it doesn't seem able to launch spin-off's that sell even half as good.
I always liked Julia more than Jessica. She was barely even a presence in Omega Flight, though.
I'm torn between them. Admittedly, my main exposure to Julia Carpenter was the IRON MAN cartoon where you have your avatar from. Which isn't a bad source for a kid, honestly. I sometimes think it is a shame that most fans don't realize that "black spider" design was hers first, not Spider-Man's (he based his black suit on her costume on Battleworld).
But Drew is the original Spider-Woman, which is always cool. The costume is very iconic (and can't EVER be confused with her male counterpart), at least before she started doing pole-dance like jumps post New Avengers on covers. Mattie Frank is...just sort of there, although I haven't minded her in THE LONERS. Enough Spider-Women to go around.
Good. That **** deserved to sell poorly. Bring back my old school, NYC superheroics of the 70's Spider-Woman and call it a day.
I read some of those via reprints, they were fun.
Wow! Marvel has 9 out of the top 10 books and 19 out of the top 30. Way to go Marvel!
I'm trying to enjoy Annihilation: Conquest but it's just not as good as it's predecessor. It's good, but just not AS good. And honestly...................I'm just not feeling the new Quasar.
Love the StarLord
but not Quasar
. They should just bring back Wendall, cuase this book just ain't right.
I was never a huge fan of the original Quasar so I can't say I was TOO miffed that he died. CONQUEST isn't as good as the original, but then again, the original ANNIHILATION was a thrilling new thing; this is a sequal so there are expectations and comparisons. Plus, Giffen ran the core show last time around and this time it is Abnett & Lanning. Not that they have been bad, mind you. But Giffen is Giffen.
The new Quasar is cool. She'd be better if it wasn't for the lame pseudo Shakespearean era lesbo writting style going on. The whole "my love" thing between Heather and Phyla is getting seriously old, real girls don't talk like that, not to mention lesbans, and Phyla was always very frank since pretty much always with the exception of now.
I can understand where you are coming from, but to be frank, lesbians are something that some writers seem to grapple with. They either come off "Shakespearean", especially in sci-fi yarns, or they're S & M ****s. Few writers, or should I say better calliber writers, are able to find that right balence. I haven't minded Quasar & Moondragon too much. I may not read an ongoing, but I've been enjoying the mini.
