It's an in-depth examination of Marvel's sales trends over the past seven or eight months. It's pretty easy to go to the store every month, pick up the titles you like, and walk around dazed when you find out they're getting cancelled. After all, you loved the book, you're smart, why shouldn't the book stay in print? Fascinating to watch such infallible personal beliefs disintegrate after looking through a single article about sales figures.
I'm now stunned that any books I like keep getting published. You look at something like this and the trends are so blindingly obvious, it's really remarkable that Marvel and DC take any chances at all.
How does this tie into Warren Ellis' latest column, another fantastic one about covers? Beats me, but I feel like it does somehow.
All in all, an illuminating day.
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