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2020/08/08 18:10:56
Subject: Re:Marvel and GW present - Marneus Calgar
Albertorius wrote: even though just the digital sales are almost twice all the comics market at the turn of the century. Ignore it is.
Comichron states that estimated overall sales in 2000, a significant dip in the market, were $255-275 million. It also states that digital sales in 2019 were $90 million. Top 300 floppy sales (significant majority of overall floppy sales) in 2018 were put at $390 million. At the start of 2020, Bleeding Cool didn't think digital sales were much cop and something needed done.
I think you might need to see an optician.
Go first, maybe? Also, if you're already answering to a month and a half+ old post, maybe go to the start? Maybe that way you'll see I was talking digital sales, not digital comic sales. Meaning, online sales.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: I have to admit, the photoshopped version looks...if not better, a lot more like Warhammer 40k than the original version to me. Warhammer will always look like the paintings of Blanche, Kopinski, Smith, England and Dainton, as far as I’m concerned. The modern era of GW art looks wrong, and so does this comic book cover. Not bad, just wrong for Warhammer 40k.
But also bad. The central focus of the illustration is the guy with the worst proportions and perspective errors.
The art is honestly not up to the quality of GW's level, that's for sure. The photoshopped cuts, and the digital stuff is lazy looking...
What happened to Black Library's own comic book lines, anyway?
Why did they go to Marvel, again?
Comics aren't very profitable, especially not these days. Marvel's comic department has been haemorrhaging money for years despite the MCU, arguably, making their brand as popular as it's ever been.
In GW's case it's more about brand awareness/advertising. Stick Marvel on the side and you've got an air of legitimacy about it that might tempt readers of comics to look up what this whole Warhammer malark is. Like how Warhammer Adventures is less about making money off the books and more providing another avenue for dads to awkwardly try and get their kids interested in their plastic addiction than dragging them to the local GW and pointing at colourful boxes.
Interesting... care to share your sources? Because mine say that while single issues of printed comics has decreased by 20% in the last 20 years, comic book companies have tripled their market size through trade paperback sales, digital sales and increasing prices.
That would point to exactly the opposite of "not being very profitable".
According to ComicChron, which has statistics going back to the 60s, since 1997 year-to-year sales of comics have more than doubled.
In 1997 the estimated size of the market was $300-320 million, today it is $780 million, and that doesn't count digital sales which are exploding. In 2014 digital sales were $540.38 million.
If you do the math that's $1.320 billion last year, which is four times what the comic industry was making nearly 20 years ago.
And they're talking about comic sales, there, mind. Not revenues from licensing.
That said, it is true that sales have gone down a bit since 2017.
Of course, the context of the phrase you quoted got lost due to a bunch of post being deleted, included the one it was answering to. But keep on keeping on.
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2020/08/09 14:33:02
Subject: Re:Marvel and GW present - Marneus Calgar
When C and I got married, this is how we named our tables. #WarhammerCommunity
(She had a veto on any which sounded too murderous, so no Mortarion and chums.)
and before we all go off..
Spoiler:
"Omeron"?
Kieron Gillen
@kierongillen
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54m
My typing is TERRIBLE constant badthoughts
@allwrongthink
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53m
"But that means this table isn't the REAL Alpharius.. which means..."
Kieron Gillen
@kierongillen
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52m
I forget if I was smart enough to actually throw shade by who was placed on what table.
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