Sales Review: February 2020

I walked out of my comic book store yesterday with my usual  amount of books. But the store was pretty barren, perhaps due to the current social distancing people are doing. The store owner said they would be taking it day by day but were planning to stay open.

I came home and checked ICv2 for their sales coverage knowing it was about the time they review things. The news was as dismal as the empty store. Here is a link to their coverage.
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/45423/top-500-comics-february-2020

Most of the comics I read are struggling, selling in the mid-30K. And, of course, by the time Supergirl #39 came out the news had broken that the series was cancelled.

You might remember Supergirl #39. In it, Supergirl fought Wonder Woman. She battled the US government. And in the end, she is twisted even more by the Batman Who Laughs virus, becomingless Eric Draven Crow and more of a grinning ghoul.

It's hardly a Supergirl comic.

So you can guess how it sold.

The book landed at #159 (standard cover) and #218 (cardstock) selling just north of 18K.

What can I say?

The book has been going in a mostly wrong direction since the advent of the Bendis Superman run. From Mistress of the Axe to Xenobite from Hellraiser, this just isn't Supergirl. So of course it didn't sell.

Hard to know just what DC was thinking here. But there thinking was off.

Hoping one day we'll get the Supergirl book her fans deserve on the shelf.

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