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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

What Beloved Comic Book Series Will Be Canceled in 2010?

Here are some sales figures on recent ongoing Marvel series that were critically well-received but quickly canceled due to lackluster sales. One from 2006-2007, one from 2007-08, and one from 2008-2009.

NEXTWAVE: AGENTS OF H.A.T.E.
#1 - 41,041
#2 - 29,911
#3 - 27,126
#4 - 26,728
#5 - 30,818
#6 - 24,626
#7 - 24,245
#8 - 23,059
#9 - 22,357
#10 - 21,644
#11 - 22,259
#12 - 21,574


THE ORDER
#1 - 57,264
#2 - 40,274
#3 - 33,936
#4 - 29,746
#5 - 26,311
#6 - 24,446
#7 - 21,539
#8 - 19,194
#9 - 18,317
#10 - 17,301


CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI-13
#1 - 43,281
#2 - 37,986
#3 - 39,100
#4 - 36,826
#5 - 32,999
#6 - 28,033
#7 - 22,189
#8 - 21,236
#9 - 18,483
#10 - 20,627
#11 - 17,757
#12 - 19,992
#13 - 17,947

Anyone want to guess what series will be 2009-2010's version?

Hint:

AGENTS OF ATLAS
#1 - 34,449
#2 - 26,783
#3 - 29,748
#4 - 25,377
#5 - 25,207


(Sales figures taken from Paul O'Brien's posts on The Beat. David Uzumeri also came up with Agents of Atlas when I posted this question on Twitter. I should note that Matt Fraction has stated that The Order only was canceled because he wanted to move on to other projects.)
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3 comments:

  1. TrehernJuly 21, 2009 at 4:18 PM

    The same happened to Flash sales over at DC...both with The Fastest Man Alive AND the Wally West series. It is really sad to see good series go over cost, but that's the way the business works, I guess.

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  2. kevin n.July 22, 2009 at 1:20 AM

    without looking at sales figures I'm going to nominate Nova. It's a great read, but come on its Nova. I can't believe it hasn't been canceled already.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 30, 2009 at 6:29 AM

    And when this does happen, we will see the typical depressing-to-behold response:

    Fanboy: "Curse you Marvel! How could you let this happen?!"

    Non-Fanboy: "Nobody bought the comic?"

    Fanboy: "It's Joe Quesada's fault!"

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