Spider-Man Newspaper Strip Restores Marraige!

[Eldar]

Though I don't read Spidey, I think Mr. Negative and Anti-venom are very nice characters.

 

[Skyknight]

If John Romita Jr didnt draw everyone looking like they had a healthy diet of cancer and AIDS, I'd agree.

 

[MrMonk]

You're fine with mediocre bullshit that is in steep sales decline, has Aunt May bonking Jameson's freshly ressurected mary-sue father, tons of regressed characterisation, Peter not remotley acting like Peter, and The Osborns switching from homicidal maniac goblins to glorified Power Rangers?

Whatever floats your boat, but BND is no shape or form true Spider-Man.

Peter acts just fine, Waid/Kelly/Martin/Romita/Bachalo are doing a bang up job on the books, and not only are they quite fun, but they're actually trying something new instead of mining the same old villains, for better or for worse. I enjoy Harry, hate his ex-fiance, enjoy Carlie and the new newspaper Urich's running. Outside of the first JMS arcs, Spider-man had been mire for quite a long time. Even Peter David couldn't rock it.

Again, like the Clone Saga, I hated One More Day, but that **** is done. Move on.

Sales-wise it sits at around 60K, same as Captain America, one of the best titles Marvel publishes. I see no problem there.

 

[Eldar]

Sales-wise it sits at around 60K, same as Captain America, one of the best titles Marvel publishes. I see no problem there.

Regarding sales
- they are consistently falling.
- pre-OMD/BND, the 3 Spider-Man books combined were selling more than BND/OMD so sales wise, it has been a failure.
-most likely the current numbers for June and May are probably around 50k or less

 

[MrMonk]

Regarding sales
- they are consistently falling.
- pre-OMD/BND, the 3 Spider-Man books combined were selling more than BND/OMD so sales wise, it has been a failure.
-most likely the current numbers for June and May are probably around 50k or less

Regarding sales, outside of random cases (see Captain America) and special events (new number #1, comic sales always fall. Spider-man remains in line with this, losing 0.5-1% per month.

Not really on your second point. The new Amazing sells lower than the old Amazing, but it sells higher than Sensational and Friendly did, and unlike the old Amazing actually comes out every month of the year.

I'd say the sales will probably be around 56-57k if I had to guess. Still probably equal or ahead the old sales. In addition, the ICV2 number don't take account subs. Amazing is Marvel's highest subbed title.

Again, they're not as behind as you think. And if they are they'll switch it up. The economy probably hurt Marvel move than OMD did.

 

[Eldar]

Spider-man remains in line with this, losing 0.5-1% per month.

The problems are of course:

- it's losing +1% or more of its readership each issue
- it cant solidify any of the gains made. It could barely pick up 5000 readers for the Obama issue, despite the Obama issue selling over half a million units.

Not really on your second point. The new Amazing sells lower than the old Amazing, but it sells higher than Sensational and Friendly did, and unlike the old Amazing actually comes out every month of the year.

But the number of mainline spider-man comics combined sells lower in the end post-OMD than it did pre-OMD and thats a failure businesswise especially since it was clearly intended to sell at 52 level numbers.

Again, they're not as behind as you think. And if they are they'll switch it up. The economy probably hurt Marvel move than OMD did.

No. Several factors to consider.
-I think Marvel has indeed alienated a significant part of its spider-man readership with that stunt who probably wont be coming back anytime soon to the mainline spider books. Prior restruturing in comics on the scale of OMD/BND does indicate that it can happen.
-they are running two events currently (Dark Reign and War of Kings) while upping the prices for their top sellers

Given that the readership's overall income isn't expanding currently due to the economy while the cost of comics has and that the top draws aren't spider-man related, it's easy to see that ASM isn't going to be getting any new readers soon.