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Friday, April 16, 2010

Booster Gold Versus The Clock King

Booster Gold Volume 2 Sales Vs Canceled Titles Recent sales of Booster Gold have continued their downward trend from before the hiccup of Blackest Night, demonstrating unequivocally that DC's zombie-fest has provided no long-term boost in readers for Booster. Note that these numbers are linear with the continued downward trend in sales for Booster Gold and are not indicative of any significant change in readership habits due to the planned departure of Dan Jurgens. (The truth of the previous statement will be revealed in coming months, once sales figures are released for the first few Giffen and DeMatteis issues.)

Fortunately, recent history also suggests that DC's average cancellation threshold (the line in red above) is low enough and flexible enough that the series will last at least another 12 months, benefiting from the full length of the Generation Lost maxi-series. And despite Booster's falling sales numbers, DC clearly has a lot of faith in the character to feature him in at least 3 series this summer. Should Generation Lost or Time Masters: Vanishing Point perform well, there could still be a be a sales boon for Booster Gold which would postpone the executioner's axe. Only time will tell.

Comments (5) | Add a Comment | Tags: graph sales

Harry posted on Apr. 16, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Mmmmmmm..... graphs.

Harry posted on Apr. 16, 2010 at 4:44 PM
But seriously, while I wish the sales would stabilize, 20K at this stage is not bad for this title in this market. DC would be hard pressed to cancel the title with Gen Lost and Time Master's going. I think we are well on track to get to issue 50, and that would be a solid run for Booster. Does anyone see a reasonable senario that takes BG much beyond that mark?

Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 16, 2010 at 8:06 PM
DC could always try to up the profile of the book by putting some HUGE names on it (Jim Lee, Grant Morrison), but they'd be more likely to relaunch it with a new title or number 1 issue and a retooled direction. I don't mean to sound pessimistic, however, because if rates of readership decline remain the same, sales won't dip below the cancellation threshold until issue 58, which counting issues 0 and 1,000,00, will be the 60th issue of the series. That's pretty respectable in today's market for, let's face it, a second-tier character with limited market appeal. Heck, more famous names like Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, and the Spectre have a hard time stringing that many issues together in all their many series. It'll have been a good run when it inevitably comes to an end.

tiggerpete posted on Apr. 17, 2010 at 4:02 AM
I would think the Generation Lost might boost readers, and if the economy would turn around, people might be more inclined to add titles to their pull list rather than cutting them, that would help too, besides, my other favorite series (Green Arrow) just got restarted, but then again it also reflects a major shift in the status quo (it had just hit 32 too, the last series hit 75, the one before was in the 120's, if trends matter, than this one will be lucky to make it 2 years) so count your blessings that Booster seems to have a nice place in the market and will still be around for the foreseeable future.

KMD posted on Apr. 21, 2010 at 9:53 PM
Sorry did not see this post till now-would have not had made post for 4/21 entry on Blackest Night had I seen this. What bother me is Booster is now out of the top 100. Not the best of signs

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