September 2007 Sales Charts & Market Share Report

[PhotoJones]

I'll call that his "Sins Past" and ignore his editing record. As an Avengers writer, he was mostly good to me.

I can't do that, man. If you can, you're a better person then I, but I just can't do that. Harras is the Devil, in my eyes.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

But he made the Black Knight so cool.

Actually, I'm not entirely certain he wrote those issues. I should check.

 

[PhotoJones]

Roger Stern made the Black Knight cool, dude. Go read up on the classics.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Lots of people have made him cool, but Harras' run is the one that really made me a fan of him. And it was Harras. But Steve Epting drew it, so that's gotta take some of the stigma off. A little.

I feel dirty.

 

[PhotoJones]

Oh God. Was Harras the writer during Blood Ties?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeppers. One of them, anyway.

 

[PhotoJones]

Sweet Jesus. My world is shattered.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

We're both dirty now.

 

[PhotoJones]

I need to read something universally beloved to get clean again.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Avengers Forever again? I'll do it if you do it.

 

[PhotoJones]

I just reread that last week. I need something else. I don't want it to get old.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Have you ever read Avengers: Infinity? According to this website it's basically a cosmic Avengers story with Quasar, Thor, Stafox, and some others, and the guy who made that website seemed to love it. He also likes both Stern and Harras' runs, and he hated Disassembled, so I figure his tastes run similar to ours.

Oh, and Stern wrote it and Sean Chen drew it.

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah, it's good. It was sort of a loose sequel to Avengers Forever.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Blurgh, there's no trade for it.

 

[PhotoJones]

Back issue bins.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Back issues are more expensive than cover price at my shop. I'll probably check Mile High and eBay for them.

 

[PhotoJones]

If Mile High is less expensive then your shop, you've got a bad shop.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Sometimes Mile High has good sales on back issues. Actually, Mile High has some kind of sale almost all the time.

 

[PhotoJones]

Not the comics I'm looking for, apparently...

 

[Dread]

It's a mini-series. Marvel very, very rarely pulls the plug on minis, regardless of sales.

I know that. To me it is bad news because anyone who expects to see this writer go anywhere, or to get a sequel mini, will be disappointed.

I sometimes wonder why Marvel continues to approval plenty of these random mini's that sell horribly, aren't advertised, and even if they were, only appeal to a niche market that can't sustain sales that would make them consider an ongoing. It feels like a tease sometimes. Why tease me with stuff like AGENTS OR ATLAS or THE LONERS when we will never, ever see these teams again in any substantial way (no, an issue of SPIDER-MAN FAMILY doesn't count, especially since Namora is on the Renegades and only Wolverine & Storm are allowed two teams at once).

 

[PhotoJones]

The Agents of Atlas appeared in an issue of Marvel Adventures: Avengers, too

 

[Dread]

The Agents of Atlas appeared in an issue of Marvel Adventures: Avengers, too

No one reads that.

I mean good comics are good comics, period. But it gets annoying seeing one promising mini and creative team with it sink like a stone after the other. Even when one of those mini's manages to buck the trend, pull an OMEGA FLIGHT, internal stuff burries it.

 

[Sebastos]

I agree... it's seriously one of the best books being published.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[Red]

But you can say it over and over

 

[PhotoJones]

No one reads that.

I mean good comics are good comics, period. But it gets annoying seeing one promising mini and creative team with it sink like a stone after the other. Even when one of those mini's manages to buck the trend, pull an OMEGA FLIGHT, internal stuff burries it.

No one reads it for good reason. It blows. But, I agree. It always sucks to see a good, quality mini or ongoing fail for whatever reason, be it ignorant fanboys or ignorant company politics.