Don't panic:

It would appear that after a brief up-tick of curiosity seekers interested in Giffen's & DeMatteis' take on Booster Gold starting with issue 32, the series has resumed it's steady reader attrition. This shouldn't necessarily be considered a bad thing, however, as reader attrition is a normal cycle for comic books as readers move on to newer things. Note that the slope of decline is nearly the same pre- and post-G/D. Since sales got a boost for G/D's arrival, this means that the series sales numbers are ahead of where we should expect them to be at this point if Jurgens hadn't left the book. (Nothing against Jurgens. As I said, this is pretty natural.) But lest this graph fool you, let's change scale a bit and take a look at sales over the past year:

When you look at it that way, the line looks much better, yes? Sure, sales have been declining relatively steadily, but not as bad as the the steep slope of the first graph would have you believe. The aberration driving the change in scale is of course the Blackest Night DC ring promotion. So, as I said, don't panic.

(FYI: The reason that these charts look different from past charts is because these charts have been created dynamically against the Boosterrific.com database. I wrote this script for better information processing, but haven't figured a good way to include it dynamically on the site just yet.)

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