Day: November 5, 2002

Well, the Diamond Top 100 is out for November. Let’s see how we’re doing.

A number of folks were quick to point out that “Ultimate Adventures” is now outselling “Captain Marvel.” Well, not exactly. CM #3 is ranked around 86. However, that doesn’t count the alternate CM #3 with the additional Alex Ross illos which is price tagged at $3.99. That’s ranked 141. According to the folks at Marvel, when the numbers for the two books are combined, the total sales jump the ranking of CM #3 to somewhere around #38. If that’s the case, we’re actually climbing in sales. I suppose the make-or-break will be #4.

The single greatest resistence I still hear to buying the book is, “I don’t care about ‘Captain Marvel.'” I know I said as much when I formulated the Countdown System of sales success, ranking buying/ordering priorities as Company (4), Character (3), Artist (2) and Writer (1). But dang, I hate being right.

I just find it fascinating that fans are far more loyal to characters who were, for the most part, created by people who now could not get a job writing those characters.

As for “Supergirl,” my understanding is that #75 is blowing out of stores, and by the end of business today, DC–which currently has less than a hundred copies left–will be sold out. It was ranked #88. So how did #76 sell? Dropped more than 20 places to #110. Apparently retailers didn’t know (or care) that the storyline with Kara continued. Plus it guest featured Superman and Superboy. Didn’t matter.

Sometimes I’m just left wondering.

PAD

Because Peter’s blog reaches many more people than mine does, I’m hijacking it for a post. Considering the subject, I don’t think he’ll mind.

Why? Because down the street from me is my town library, my voting place– and from the steps of that I saw the results of the a very important hijacking– my photo of what it looked like is at left. And two years earlier when I voted here, there was another important hijacking, this was of a presidential election. So when I go to vote today, I’ll be reminded of both those events.

And you should be too.

If you think the current administration has done a horrible job of tracking down the people responsible for that day, or are trying to pull a bait and switch of targets with Iraq, or if you think that Bush should have at least stopped reading to kids when he heard about the plane crashing into the Twin Towers, or if you think that the current administration has done all it can for its corporate contributors and dámņ little for anybody else, or if you happen to think the President is a liar and a buffoon, or if you’re terrified about the judges that would get appointed and everything else that would happen in a Bush-dominated Congress, or if you just don’t want to see what happened to Jesus Castillo happen to anybody else– then your vote is needed.

Remember– you can’t complain about the Supreme Court taking away your vote in the last election if you don’t vote in this one.

So go vote!