tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post7194440111274921698..comments2024-03-28T00:34:40.797+00:00Comments on Louder Yay: August IDW comics sales figures: a nasty surpriseLoganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769758118827489093noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-15006700555630704132013-09-11T12:46:16.577+01:002013-09-11T12:46:16.577+01:00Yipe! So he is. I never noticed that, and I didn&#...Yipe! So he is. I never noticed that, and I didn't notice that there's a Luna (I think) in the last of those panels with Spike. I wonder what he spent all the money on. Hopefully a figure making course...<br /><br />I just spotted the baby Phoenix in the corner of that page too, which I'd never noticed before. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15825456972207959200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-83911520012276869262013-09-11T12:15:56.121+01:002013-09-11T12:15:56.121+01:00He's in this one... sort of. Take a closer loo...He's in this one... sort of. Take a closer look at some of those terrible figures Spike is selling at the fair. :PLoganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03769758118827489093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-87554740167384519252013-09-11T09:57:19.015+01:002013-09-11T09:57:19.015+01:00Which could happen of course. Comic sales figures ...Which could happen of course. Comic sales figures tend to be up and down all the time. So there's no reason why things shouldn't improve. If only they could find a way to put Discord into the *main* comic rather than a spotlight, somehow. That would be an almost guaranteed way to boost the sales.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15825456972207959200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-77423715126193083152013-09-10T14:08:35.276+01:002013-09-10T14:08:35.276+01:00It's strange, isn't it? The only other big...It's strange, isn't it? The only other big thing that's happened recently was the release of the Equestria Girls film -- and that was *better* received than most people expected. So it really is a mystery. Of course IDW's break-even figure is a little under 10,000, so there's plenty of leeway yet. I'd like to see the main-series number in particular bounce back next time, though.Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03769758118827489093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-25304842713551871302013-09-10T13:49:23.717+01:002013-09-10T13:49:23.717+01:00Ouch! Those are certainly not the kind of figures ...Ouch! Those are certainly not the kind of figures we'd hoped for. As you say, it's not cause for panic and it's still pretty impressive sales figures, compared to what they probably expected originally. But it's certainly a warning that they can't take any of it for granted.<br /><br />At one time I was... well, definitely no expert, but I was fairly up on the comics world, and I used to keep track of why a comic may have done badly one month and better the next. Sometimes a comic would be up against a particular new release from a larger company, or another comic would have a major new storyline and loads of alternate covers, which meant other comics suffered from poor sales as the fans spent their money on the other stuff. But I've no idea what the competition was like for that issue 10 and the CMC spotlight, from other comics and other companies.<br /><br />I thought the issue 10 was a very strong issue - not *quite* on a par with #9, but it was still very good. And I enjoyed the CMC issue. Not an amazing issue, but still enjoyable enough. I don't know... maybe a lot more fans are waiting for the graphic novels, but that's a total guess.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15825456972207959200noreply@blogger.com