Basement Tapes 22 Nov 2005 (Comic Book Resources)
Comments(0) FRACTON: I don’t know how you can not expect a downward trend with most books, just going over the numbers for the last year and a half. I don’t know if it’s defeatist– if anything, it’s just realistic. I think a publisher that understands these specific vagaries of the market and anticipates them knows, then, what that mild decay really means– X-hundred people didn’t stop reading INDEPENDENT MAN this month necessarily; following the trend up the charts, you’ll see that Extra-Media Celebrity Y is writing ALL-ULTIMATE CRISIS HOUSE with a variant cover that’s jacking up everyone’s numbers.
[Joe Casey and Matt Fraction are talking about comic book sales and buying trends this week. Fraction’s “All-Ultimate Crisis House” comment made me laugh hard because DC is going through Infinite Crisis now. BK]
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