Brian Hibbs's Forecast (Latest Tilting at Windmills)

[drew]

i edited his links out of my post

[bralinator]

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Tidbit for you Prez fans. DC is skipping the promised 6-issue follow-up and giving you a 12 page back up story in a Catwoman one-shot in November. All you need to do is pay the $5 cover price for this closure...

Details here: http://www.comicbookresources.com/artic ... ht-special

[JohnMayo]

Tidbit for you Prez fans. DC is skipping the promised 6-issue follow-up and giving you a 12 page back up story in a Catwoman one-shot in November. All you need to do is pay the $5 cover price for this closure...

Wow. What an amazing deal that is...

[bralinator]

Tidbit for you Prez fans. DC is skipping the promised 6-issue follow-up and giving you a 12 page back up story in a Catwoman one-shot in November. All you need to do is pay the $5 cover price for this closure...

Wow. What an amazing deal that is...

My sentiments exactly.

[JohnMayo]

For those interested, Brian Hibbs' column Tilting at Windmills has moved to The Comics Beat.

[drew]

Brian Hibbs' column Tilting at Windmills has moved to The Comics Beat.

Why i tend not to give marvel the benefit of the doubt:

"Marvel flatly never ever make material returnable (even in cases like new store openings, where literally every other publisher offers returns), and they don’t have any kind of co-op program or anything, so it isn’t like we can reach out to new potential readers."

"A few weeks ago Marvel released their Marvel Now Previews, where the majority of the titles being offered are new first issues – thirty three out of sixty-two listed titles are first issues. And, even of the twenty-nine (currently listed!) continuing titles, thirteen of them are below issue #12, so would have been… awkward… to restart already."

I sure hope so:

"The market is easily capable with the current audience of sustaining multiple ongoing comics with six figure circulations, and the reasons that we don’t are almost always on publishing, editorial and marketing decisions, not to the lack of an audience."

[drew]

his latest if you are interested: http://www.comicsbeat.com/category/tilt ... windmills/

looks like he got his hands on 2016 data for bookscan a few other leaked sources

So, yeah, that’s another year of amazing growth in 2016, and it brings the Top 750 to the highest numbers it has ever charted in the history of this exercise – Now topping over ten million graphic novels sold! Amazing performance, and hopefully we can now stop talking forever about silliness like “the death of comics” or “the death of print”. Both are doing just fine!

The trend for print books in general (not just looking at comics) through BookScan appears to be a general growth of 3.3% in 2016 — which continues the three-year trend of comics-material being far stronger than the curve.

(For what it is worth, overall book sales through Diamond in the Direct Market appear to be up by just 1.2%, so the book market continues to grow significantly faster. Diamond only directly reports the Top 300 best-sellers each month, and those Top 300s in the DM sum up to $93.72m. Deep deep into the micro, my own individual sales were up 7.76% in 2016.)