Day: March 2, 2009

I checked with John Jackson Miller who knows more about comic book sales than just about anybody.  And he said that since 2001, unit sales on comics are in fact on the increase.  The numbers he quoted are as follows:

2001     66.92 million copies
2002     73.72 million copies
2003     73.02 million copies
2004     74.14 million copies
2005     76.13 million copies
2006     81.85 million copies
2007     85.27 million copies
2008     81.34 million copies

Granted, 2008 was a drop off.  But it’s ridiculous to try and pin THAT on the internet with the struggling economy.

I should not have made the assertion that sales were dropping without double checking.  stand corrected.

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Yesterday was Saint David’s day, the annual celebration dedicated to the patron saint of Wales.  The day is celebrated by wearing a small onion called a leek on your head.

Granted, I’m not a saint, but I feel a certain obligation due to the name.

So go and take a leak and think of me when you do.

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One would think that with a message thread of over five hundred entries, I would have responded to every aspect of a topic imaginable.  (Not that responses really matter to the hit and runners who come in with their minds made up, don’t read the thread, hurl invective and boycotts and then split.) But in cruising around the blogosophere that currently portrays me as being so poisonous that a tarantula could bite me and die, there is apparently one aspect that I have yet to address.

It has been wondered in several places whether I concur with the concept that is popularly referred to as “Byrne Stealing.”  Namely, John Byrne’s philosophy that reading through a book on the stands and then putting it back is basically theft.  Was I, in letting Marvel know about a potential copyright violation, saying that Byrne was right?

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