It was cancelled before and Marvel was stupid enough to bring it back.
Liam Long
Yeah, it really isn't about money with these people. They are basically cultists willing to take the entire ship down for the message than make money. I imagine Disney would have to be the ones who cared about money, saw how poorly their comic division of marvel was doing, and completely wipe them clean before they would ever come back from what they have done.
Elijah Thomas
Wasn't the cancelation point supposed to be 20,000? Since when it became 15,000?
Isaiah Watson
Didn't it used to be where less than 100,000 books sold would mean cancellation?
Gabriel Edwards
Standards have fallen.
Landon Roberts
When Marvel realized that not lowering the number meant only Spider-Man, Avengers and the annual Mega-Event series would be their only remaining comics.
Christopher Gray
I think you need to reevaluate what "best" even means. Squirrel Gril has been in the cancellation zone for months.
I'm sure the editor thought bringing Squirrel Girl back was going to create a huge internet buzz, thus more sales(these companies are slaves to the short-term sale). That didn't happen, but I assume the cost of producing the book is so low that they can afford to keep around, especially when TPBs are selling.
If that was even remotely true, they all would've jumped ship when Ike Perlmutter donated to Trump. No, they do care about making money, that's why they hire cheap twitter hipsters who get paid in triple-action webshooters.
Jacob Martin
Why?
Dylan Cooper
Because like most of the leftist shits, they like to talk a big game but not do it when the time comes. Perlmutter is an intimidating guy from what I hear and the lot of them saying 'IM GONNA TALK TO HIM PERSONALLY ABOUT IT' probably tried to walk into his office, one stare from him and they sulked back out.
Ryder Robinson
I think with the HUGE failing across the board of almost everything Marvel Comics based High Lord Mickey will dictate some heads to roll or some lines to be cut, I can only wonder what will happen next.
Still, it's nice to see these numbers are so fucking low, people aren't stupid enough to buy them and if anyone is paying attention useless pandering will get you NOWHERE>
Mason Campbell
So you're full of shit.
Joseph Gomez
And thus, the unfuckening of media began.
Carter Hill
Squirrel Girl sales according to Comic Chron:
As you can see, for some reason Squirrel Girl gets some fairly consistent numbers, so I really doubt Marvel is panicking about this minor drop in sales, especially when books like Hellcat are doing much, much worse (Hellcat only sold 9,181 copies in November).
Honestly, at this point I don't think cancellation threshold is even relevant anymore. It seems mainstream publishers are more willing tolerate low numbers in exchange for digital/TPB sales.
Hunter Wood
It was never cancelled. It was relaunched and renumbered along with almost every other ongoing after Secret Wars. Why does everybody forget this?
If it hasn't been canned by now, it's clearly being sold at a loss for some unknown reason.
That might never happen. Supposedly, Disney management prefers to keep a hands-off approach with companies under its umbrella. Aside from taking Marvel Studios directly out of Perlmutter's oversight, they haven't really done anything else.
Anthony Sanchez
I thought Marvel SJW comics get a pass to 8,000?
Thomas Gonzalez
You know exactly what's going on, or is their fervor for marxist politics but a mere coincidence.
Ryder Wood
One butt-ugly title with a shaky hold on its ratings isn't gonna float a sinking Titanic, m8.
Bentley Bell
If suits from Disney will start getting more involved they will probably force Marvel to emulate films and TV series, since they sell very well.
Nicholas Richardson
Good thing Marvel isn't depending on it. It's just cheap trash to soak up dollars.
Despite what we've been hearing, Marvel seems to be doing pretty well actually. They're not not even close to how bad DC was after Convergence. Then again, they've released a ton #1's last month and that always inflates the numbers.
Suits don't give a shit about the comics man. Like the fanboys, their only investment is in the characters. The medium itself can go to the dogs for all they care. It's an incredibly niche market, soon to get even smaller since a lot of comics shops are projected to close in 2017.
Tyler Thomas
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Luis Brown
According to store owners Marvel shipped A LOT of free books this month and Diamond goes off of copies shipped not necessarily copies purchased.
One store got 150% of their order, there's a thread on it I think, but I'm a lazy shit.
Thomas Bennett
Yeah, Marvel's inflating their numbers by giving away free shit. That's a nice slap in the face to remind me that the Direct Market is built on shenanigans.