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Friday, April 16, 2010
Booster Gold Versus The Clock King
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.
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Booster Gold Versus The Doom Patrol
Today's graph compresses the timeline of yesterday's graph to compare apples to apples: issue by issue of Comicchron.com sales numbers for recently canceled DC titles. The trend becomes pretty obvious here as ballooning early enthusiasm quickly deflates to a sloping plateau before finally petering out altogether. Note the recurring late series crossover spikes as Blue Beetle #20 is a Sinestro Corps crossover and both Manhunter #13 and 26 got boosts from Infinite Crisis-related stories. I wonder how big those spikes would have been if little plastic rings had been involved?
DC's sales cancellation threshold, while dependent on editorial discretion, is approximately 15,000 units. That's the white line in the graph above. Unless "Blackest Night" or the arrival of Keith Giffen can earn Booster Gold some new regular readers, it looks like the series will be targeted for termination by issue 50. I find that unacceptable. So spread the word, Boosterphiles, and lets see if we can't get some more air under Booster's sails.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Booster Gold Versus The Losers
I certainly hope that Booster Gold never gets canceled (again). But curiosity got the better of me, and I compared the sales numbers for Booster Gold against some recent DC titles that got the axe for poor sales. It's pretty easy to spot a recurring trend in Comicchron.com's statistics. Here's hoping Booster Gold's recent sales spike is more than just outlier data.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Booster Gold Versus The 300
A better indicator of Booster Gold's relative sales than yesterday's graph is probably today's comparison of Booster Gold's sales against its position in Comicchron.com's Top 300 sellers each month. Note that in general, Booster Gold's sales position has fallen at a steeper rate than its actual sales rate. Yesterday's graph indicated a gradual decline in the overall numbers of the highest selling book each month, so clearly there must be more books selling higher numbers than Booster Gold now than before. That's probably good for the industry but bad news for Booster Gold.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Booster Gold Versus The Leader
Comparing monthly sales of Booster Gold Volume 2 to the top monthly seller, it would seem that the series isn't really doing too badly, all things considered. While monthly sales of the "flavor-of-the-month" book vary wildly from month to month, Booster Gold's audience looks comparatively stable despite its naturally shrinking audience. Comicchron.com statistics indicate that industry per unit sales have been declining steadily in recent years (down about 14% since 2006 even as industry revenue is increasing from increased per unit pricing), so some decline in unit sales must be expected beyond those associated with a diminishing audience over time.
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