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Post by AndrewCrossett on Aug 18, 2009 8:38:25 GMT -5
Wow... this issue really crashed and burned on the sales chart, I'm sorry to say. It came in at #31... by far the worst showing of any issue of the series so far. I'm hoping this was a one-time dip because of ComicCon, with Marvel and DC pumping tons of money and effort into promoting their comics. I'm waiting to see the actual sales figures to see whether this was a case of Buffy dropping in sales, or just the other comics increasing because of all the ComicCon promotion. |
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Post by Emmie on Aug 19, 2009 20:39:18 GMT -5
That's shocking! And it's a very good issue. Boo!
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Aug 19, 2009 20:56:07 GMT -5
"Safe" I think had the previous record for lowest chart position... #22 or something like that. But then "Living Doll" rallied and made the top 15 again, IIRC.
That's why I can only assume (hope) that #26's sales numbers held steady and its lower position on the chart is just a relative thing, due to all the promotion Marvel and DC were pumping into their books for ComicCon.
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Post by Max on Aug 21, 2009 4:18:17 GMT -5
i just got my issue,and i have to say that it was really great !! From the first page to the last,i just love it . Buffy and Will flying as fish and bird was fun,and i really like the picture where Giles is back,hugging first Will,and then Buffy  .It was like the bond between them were coming back . Just a thing that disturbed me,when Willow take the demon with her,she "unskinned" it  ?Why didn't she just read its mind ?'Cause we've seen her doing some pretty powerfull thing this season,and without going "dark",here it's like the writter wanted to give an excuse to Giles to make his speech to Buffy about the fact she will loose her.... Anyway ,the whole issue was great !! |
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Aug 21, 2009 9:15:01 GMT -5
Willow's mind-reading powers have been mostly ignored by the writers in situations when it would be the most logical and easiest approach... I think because they realized it "breaks" the story and gives the good guys too easy a solution to too many problems.
Plus, they're trying to show that Willow is drifting back toward a darker place. They can justify this behavior with Will "doing what needs to be done" (the Jack Bauer Defense), but she's doing it a little too happily and readily for comfort.
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Post by Max on Aug 21, 2009 9:35:27 GMT -5
Yeah,I agree that Will is turning into Jack Bauer'mood^^but maybe this is gonna be the solution against Twillight ......?
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Sept 8, 2009 8:57:18 GMT -5
The sales figures are out for July 2009 comics.
#26 sold 55,352 copies. That's down a bit more than 3,000 from what #25 sold in May. However, its sales position dropped all the way from #14 (for "Living Doll") to #31 (for "Retreat Part 1").
Looking at the sales figures, it looks like a lot of that was due to the massive publicity binge Marvel and DC did in July to take advantage of ComicCon. In May, no comic sold over 100,000 copies (or even 90,000). In July, however, several titles got over 100,000 and a couple approached 200,000.
The Buffy comic is losing readers, unfortunately, but not as many as the #14 to #31 dip would suggest.
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Post by BlueJay on Sept 8, 2009 13:39:39 GMT -5
The sales figures are out for July 2009 comics. #26 sold 55,352 copies. That's down a bit more than 3,000 from what #25 sold in May. However, its sales position dropped all the way from #14 (for "Living Doll") to #31 (for "Retreat Part 1"). Looking at the sales figures, it looks like a lot of that was due to the massive publicity binge Marvel and DC did in July to take advantage of ComicCon. In May, no comic sold over 100,000 copies (or even 90,000). In July, however, several titles got over 100,000 and a couple approached 200,000. The Buffy comic is losing readers, unfortunately, but not as many as the #14 to #31 dip would suggest. I think it's mostly because interest is waning. Hence my belief that there should be an effort to make the book biweekly. Most of my friends don't even care to find out who Twilight is anymore. Our attention spans are being tested way too much. |
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Post by hitnrun017 on Sept 8, 2009 13:58:38 GMT -5
Predators and Prey definitely didn't make people excited about the series, and while the issues weren't bad (except that one), it was five months of basically nothing. It sucks that it seems like a bunch of people dropped the series during that time. I don't really understand why they would.
It was a bump in the road, and I'm sure Dark Horse understands that and will make sure it doesn't happen again.
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Sept 8, 2009 14:41:52 GMT -5
The weird thing is... sales dropped considerably for #24 (possibly because of the bad buzz), then picked up considerably for #25, and then dropped again for #26. It's hard to think more people dropped the series due to #25 than #24. Or, maybe the break between 25 and 26 lost a few people. Also, some of the casual buyers might have put their comics money into the big splashy Marvel/DC books that month.
I'm hoping to see #27 get back into the top 20.
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Post by Darth Rosie on Sept 17, 2009 1:19:40 GMT -5
I'm sure this has been discussed already, but I need to say that I found the brain-fry-moment extremely disturbing. Willow's almost remark "She's gone" seems to be almost cavalier in tone. Of course, they are in the middle of a battle, but still. And did they not loose slayers in the battle or how did "everyone" make it to the submarine?
Of course, all this does not keep me from loving the issue fervently.
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Post by wenxina on Sept 17, 2009 8:27:01 GMT -5
There were definitely dead Slayers. Look at the panel when the napalm or whatever blows up. There are plenty of little flying figures, presumably all dead, or so far gone that it would be impossible to tell either way.
The sub would presumably be parked in the back, and since the attack was frontal (they were on an island of sorts, since the witches took out the bridge), they could easily have made it there.
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Post by Darth Rosie on Sept 17, 2009 10:32:00 GMT -5
@ Dead slayers - that's what I also thought. And it's not that they should have dragged it out, but I kind of missed some kind of mourning. Somehow it felt as if the slayers had indeed become "canonfodder".
Thanks for the hint concerning the submarine!
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Sept 17, 2009 10:46:26 GMT -5
Like any effective military commander must, Buffy (and Willow and Xander) has learned that you have to put your grief on hold and keep going, and keep focused, even when your friends are dying around you.
During the battle on the island, Buffy said "girls are dying down there." She then made the (good, and necessary) decision to evacuate in the submarine, and then the (very bad) decision to try and hide from the enemy... by disarming her army.
That is the equivalent of a slow-motion surrender... or a planned mass suicide, if your enemy isn't into accepting surrenders.
When a commander lets her priorities shift from "winning the battle, or making a tactical retreat to fight another day" to "avoiding getting people killed," she's started to lose the war. War, unfortunately, is about people getting killed.
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