While several influencers and comic pros have been saying that the comic industry is going well, Dan Slott has all but admitted that Marvel Comics is canceling books after 5 issues for the most part because of sales, showing that readers are checking out of mainstream comics more than ever before.
You, Dan Slott, are but one mile marker on the highway of self-ruination that Marvel has bulldozed, graded, paved, and thrown up toll-booths for every couple hundred yards.
X-Men 91 #1 sold what, 7,000,000 copies? These days, most titles can't even break 100,000. Jim Shooter used to cancel books with far better sales than that. It would take Marvel's best seller, with blind bags, alt covers, a brand new #1, and all the other nonsense, a year to equal the sales numbers of any random 90s X-Men adjacent title. Probably two if we're talking UXM or XM91 themselves.
(I would use Spiderman as an apples to apples comparison, but I never followed those books and can't speak to their peak sales, but the argument is close enough for the "other" flagship title.)
That didn't "just happen," Dan. You, and your ilk, brought this about.
The problem isn't that readers "who enjoyed your run on Spiderman" aren't buying the new books. The problem is that not enough people enjoyed your run to buy in the first place. You are entreating an entity that exists only in the self-loving, fevered landscape of your mind.
When I got out of comics at the end of the 90's ( due to reliance only on art , bad stories , 8 to 10 variant covers of one issue , and and multi year cash crab pointless super cross overs ) I figured if the comic industry didn't change its ways they be bankrupt by 2010. Somehow they are still stumbling along .
Isn't Dan Slutt just another TDS clown? FAFO.
I'd rather spend the money on manga.
How about no, Dan Slott?
The fact that "blind bags" exist is reason enough to ignore that Dan Slott and his groveling exist.
Marvel Comics delenda est.
"If you are a, like a reader and you love reading, you know, you had fun reading my run as Spider-Man..."
Blindingly, appallingly, unrelentlessly narcissistic.
You, Dan Slott, are but one mile marker on the highway of self-ruination that Marvel has bulldozed, graded, paved, and thrown up toll-booths for every couple hundred yards.
X-Men 91 #1 sold what, 7,000,000 copies? These days, most titles can't even break 100,000. Jim Shooter used to cancel books with far better sales than that. It would take Marvel's best seller, with blind bags, alt covers, a brand new #1, and all the other nonsense, a year to equal the sales numbers of any random 90s X-Men adjacent title. Probably two if we're talking UXM or XM91 themselves.
(I would use Spiderman as an apples to apples comparison, but I never followed those books and can't speak to their peak sales, but the argument is close enough for the "other" flagship title.)
That didn't "just happen," Dan. You, and your ilk, brought this about.
The problem isn't that readers "who enjoyed your run on Spiderman" aren't buying the new books. The problem is that not enough people enjoyed your run to buy in the first place. You are entreating an entity that exists only in the self-loving, fevered landscape of your mind.
Good news, comics fans! There's only 57 reboots of your favorite series left to go.
In 2026. 2027 is another story.
When I got out of comics at the end of the 90's ( due to reliance only on art , bad stories , 8 to 10 variant covers of one issue , and and multi year cash crab pointless super cross overs ) I figured if the comic industry didn't change its ways they be bankrupt by 2010. Somehow they are still stumbling along .
"...the comic industry is collapsing under its own weight."
HELL YEAH! Fist pumps! Qapla'! And other etc. celebrating that We Are WINNING!