Just for kicks, I thought that I'd compare the sales for Booster Gold's three 2010 series: Booster Gold, Justice League: Generation Lost, and Time Masters: Vanishing Point. While I knew what the the sales numbers were, it's kind of surprising to see them stacked against each other.

Booster Gold was the only ongoing series of the three and was also consistently the worst seller of the bunch. Time Masters did only marginally better, despite featuring Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern, three of DC's biggest sellers on a monthly basis. The best seller was a book comprised primarily of characters who have repeatedly proven themselves incapable of sustaining enough fan interest to maintain individual series.

I know that there were more factors at play than just characters (cost, tie-in, promotion, creative teams, etc.), but it would seem that the ensemble cast approach really works.

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I know that I may have seemed especially negative as of late (sorry, it's been a bad few weeks personally), but don't blame the messenger for what I am about to show you, blame the math. At this rate, Booster Gold Volume 2, #50 is looking like a double-sized final issue.

Disclaimer: I'm not T.O. Morrow. I can't say that I looked into the future and saw the actual sales figures for issues 42-47. (Sales data for issue 42 won't be available until next month, and of course there's no telling what can happen during Flashpoint.) I can only say that the slope of that white projected sales line is pretty well defined by recent sales trends.

It might be time to start buying two copies of each issue if you want to keep Booster Gold alive.

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Just in time for the announcement that they would be leaving the book, it appears that Giffen and DeMatteis may have finally found their audience on Booster Gold, as the decline in month-to-month sales seems to be decreasing.

There has been a lot of talk on sites like comichron.com and icv2.com about the fact that far fewer comic books were released by Diamond Comics Distributors in January 2011, giving comic book buyers a chance to actually pick up books they might otherwise have to pass on. Maybe this perceived weakness in offerings is a strength for books like Booster Gold. If fewer number one issues mean that more people are instead picking up copies of Booster Gold, I'm all for it.

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The numbers are in for 2010, and I was a bit surprised by this:

Start your year with some good not terrible news:

Sure, Booster Gold sales dropped in November, but at a slower rate than in months previous. Two weeks ago, I predicted November sales of 17,025; the reported number was 17,276. While that's not great news, it's not really bad news, all things considering. (I'm trying to be positive here, people!)

Maybe Booster Gold Volume 2 is finding its new plateau in the post-Dan Jurgens era. Here's hoping.

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