Sales Review: March 2019

The comic sales figures for March 2019 came out recently and as always they are fascinating to look at. And, as always, I'd recommend heading to ICv2 for the breakdown here:
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/43079/top-500-comics-march-2019

It was a very interesting month because it included Detective #1000 and several other major DC books which made it a great month for DC. And the Superman books continue to move along at similar numbers. It will be interesting to see if Event Leviathan ends up raising those numbers as that crossover seems to be born in the super-books.

Supergirl #28 came out last month. It was a turning point of the story where all the Appa Ali Apsa stones were united and the story of the Circle and Rogol Zaar was fleshed out. It also felt somewhat rushed as the stones unification seemed a bit deus ex machina and then we got a big exposition dump.

We also got Supergirl as being called 'Queen of the Axe', nothing I can truly get behind.

So how did it sell?

Now you may remember that last issue sold less than 20K, a concerning number always.

So I was pretty surprised to see this book had an order number of 32,720. That is an impressive lift.

The only thing different?

An Artgerm variant.

You cannot live by the variant.

So I guess I am still a little worried. That said, on Twitter, Brian Michael Bendis did say that Supergirl has a good role in Event Leviathan and the Danvers and the DEO are involved. So maybe there will be a lift.

All that said, DC scooped the top 6 slots in orders. That's impressive.

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