>1. Batman #161 [100%]
>2. Absolute Wonder Woman #10 [89.6%]
>3. Absolute Martian Manhunter #5 [81.3%]
>4. Amazing Spider-Man #8 [70.2%]
>5. New History of the DC Universe #2 [54.9%]
>6. Exquisite Corpses #3 [51.5%]
>7. Uncanny X-Men #18 [51.5%]
>8. Dog Man Vol. 1 [48.9%]
>9. Justice League Unlimited #9 [48.9%]
>10. Cat Kid Comic Club Vol. 1 [48.5%]

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-takes-the-top-three-in-the-bleeding-cool-weekly-bestseller-list/

>>149567215 (OP)
>OGNs now appearing in the list
Rich the leech is an idiot

>>149567215 (OP)
Why did the hype for Absolute DC die out so quickly? If ASM only sells 48k copies and H2SH sells 70k, then both Absolute titles can only sell 55k to 65k copies max. What happened?
And how is the comic book industry still alive at this point, if even the best books are selling this low? What will happen after boomers and Gen X die out?

>8. Dog Man Vol. 1 [48.9%]
But I was told that this little fella was going to save comics and utterly destroy japanese crap, wtf happened?

>>149568529

The numbers that the Thinking Critical guy said for ASM and One World Under Doom was for orders from retailers while the list at Bleeding Cool is sales to customers for the week.

>>149567215 (OP)
Half of the comics on the list were written by 60+ y.o. boomers (Loeb, Kelly, Waid, Simone, and Waid again), who will retire within the next few years, and there will be no one to replace them with.
And I mean, they're all well past their creative prime, none of them have written a good comic since the mid-2000s to early 2010s. Yet, they're the only ones who still sell. After them, it's only Hickman, Snyder, maybe Williamson, and Lemire, and all of these guys are less talented and just slightly younger than Loeb and Waid.

>>149568681
>The numbers that the Thinking Critical guy said for ASM and One World Under Doom was for orders from retailers while the list at Bleeding Cool is sales to customers for the week.
So, the actual sales are even lower than that? Grim.

ultimate bros we're getting absolutely mogged……

>>149568777
There were no ultimate books released this week thoughbeit.

>>149567215 (OP)
Absolute is selling?

>>149567215 (OP)
On one hand, it's awesome that a Wonder Woman book can sell more than Amazing Spider-Man.
On the other, how the fuck is ASM still in the top 10? That book has been shit for 20 fucking years.

>>149568868
Gotta have my Spidey

>>149568529
>>149568735
This also could be because accurate sales number data is harder to come by, and that many people may order comics online or buy them digitally, which would lower these figures.
I find it hard to think that comics have become this niche. Like even a best-seller will scarcely do more than 50k? That's nuts.

>>149568735
Sales in dollars is much higher because of variant covers. That's the business model.
The comic stores don't care if they can't move 50 issues of X-Men if they know they have a guy obsessed with Magik who will buy the 1:50 variant for $300-$500 dollars.
Floppy sales is just extra butter on the biscuit
Comic book news caters to fanboys, they focus on characters and writers and believe that has a direct correlation with sales.
When it's really about popular artists drawing popular characters that drive sales. That's why H2SH, a terrible story is #1, it's drawn by the most popular artist who's ever lived and has the most variant covers this month.
Doctor Aphra and Kamala Khan will always be in a comic because they both have superfans who pay anything for variant covers featuring them, so paying Marvel $200 for 50 issues of Ms. Marvel is nothing to shop owners who know they have a guy who pay $400 for a Ms. Marvel variant.

>>149568868
>On the other, how the fuck is ASM still in the top 10?
Wells is no longer writing it, and Joe Kelly's run has been relatively OK thus far, and he's shipping SpiderCat, which many fans like, he even wrote them do the boombayah thing.

>>149568901
>I find it hard to think that comics have become this niche. Like even a best-seller will scarcely do more than 50k? That's nuts.
Outside of the new #1's of Batman and ASM, no book is selling more than 100k copies anymore. And even those only sell that much thanks to all the variant covers. Not even the X-Men's and Superman's #1's sell above 100k anymore.
Back in the 2000s, even 52, which often wasn't in the top 10 best-selling titles, was selling over 100k copies per issue, according to DiDio (from that Mark Millar's podcast). 60k and lower was the cancellation number for many Big 2 titles.

The Thinking Critical numbers are about 2/3 of the actual numbers. Batman sells at around 100K+ again thanks to Jim Lee, Amazing Spider-Man at about 70K again than to not being Jim Zub. Those are orders of course not actual store sales.

>>149567215 (OP)
>>1. Batman #161 [100%]
>>2. Absolute Wonder Woman #10 [89.6%]
>>3. Absolute Martian Manhunter #5 [81.3%]
>>5. New History of the DC Universe #2 [54.9%]
>>9. Justice League Unlimited #9 [48.9%]

>>149568571
These are sales in comic stores of a new printing of the first Dog Man graphic novel published ten years ago and been in print ever since. It has sold over ten million now but mostly in bookstores and book fairs.

>>149567451
It's happened before. I guess graphic novels don't normally sell enough in comic shops. Though saying that this is a ten year old graphic novel that has apparently already sold ten million copies, it is surprising it made it in last week

>>149569174
>Amazing Spider-Man at about 70K again than to not being Jim Zub.

I think you're confusing writers

It’s kinda crazy that comic books sell so low compared to like manga which would have a book called my penis turned into a magical sword and sell for half a million copies in a week.

>>149569255
Didn't Zub himself tell a joke a couple years ago about a fan coming up to him at a convention and saying something like "I love you dude, but your ASM sucks" to which Zub had to reply "I'm Zub, not Zeb, I don't write ASM"?

>>149569011
>That's why H2SH, a terrible story is #1, it's drawn by the most popular artist who's ever lived
Anon... Sorry to bring you terrible news, but Jack Kirby died 31 years ago. H2SH is drawn by Jim Lee.

>>149567215 (OP)
Why the fuck does Batman keep getting into top ten if it keeps getting objectively shittier with each issue?

>>149568727
PKJ, Watters, Ram V, Spurrier, Ewing, MacKay, and Adams seem to be holding up things well

>>149570055
Buscema started mogging Kirby in the late 60s, that's why his became the house style that was used through the late 80s. By the 70s Kirby's art was seen as an ugly relic of a bygone era.
I don't get why H2SH is selling so much when Jim Lee's technique has significantly degraded from 10 years ago. Guess there's no one except nostalgic deadenders buying floppies now.

>>149570125
>an ugly relic of a bygone era
OK Macchio.

>>149569011
>That's why H2SH, a terrible story is #1, it's drawn by the most popular artist who's ever lived and has the most variant covers this month.
That's depressing, if only because there are better artist than Jim Lee out there.

>>149570078
Most people who buy Batman comics now started with Hush, so buying H2SH is sorta like taking a trip down memory lane for them, a chance to reminisce about those times when they were still young and full of hope, energy, enthusiasm, and potential, when they had full heads of hair and low body fat, when they had wet dreams almost every night about that girl from biology class, when their erections lasted 10 minutes straight every time they saw a seminaked woman, when Raimi's Spider-Man and Singer's X-Men were the coolest movies ever, and when they were spending all their allowances on comic books, toys and GBA cartridges.

>>149570286