Analysts: August 2009 DM Estimates

The comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com offers their usual array of lists, estimates and analysis regarding the performance of comic books and graphic novels in the Direct Market of comic and hobby shops, this time for August 2009.

* Overview
* Analysis
* Top 300 Comic Books
* Top 300 Graphic Novels

John Jackson Miller at The Comics Chronicles has begun his analysis of the month right here.

I'm not sure there's anything that jumps out at me from these figures and charts. DC's Blackest Night crossover, which I believe involves various dead DC Universe characters coming back from the dead with black energy rings to make more dead DC Universe characters, seems to be doing quite well for the publisher. It seems sort of odd to me for this kind of thing to come out in Fall rather than in Summer, but I'm no publisher.

One thing that strikes me is that the first couple of DC's Red Circle one-shots seem to have launched out of the top 100. If I have that right, that would indicate either a badly conceptualized project, a terrifically odd use of popular writer J. Michael Straczynski, or both. Robert Kirkman's top two series (Walking Dead, Invincible) continue to do well in trade form, and a lot of mainstream titles linger at what seem to me astonishingly low sales levels. I imagine there will be some discussion of Wednesday Comics' relative tumble in such a short time, although interpretations are going to vary wildly on whether or not it's a more than expected drop and why it happened. But that's the Direct Market question, isn't it? Why do so many titles routinely tumble? Is there a glitch in the system that forces over-ordering on early issues? Because I can't imagine quite that many superhero fans with quite that many unfinished series in their long boxes.
 
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