CBR: CBR Readers Rank the 52 DC Comics Relaunch Titles: Take 2

[CBR News]

The results of CBR's second survey on DC Comics' New 52 titles are in, and while big books like "Action Comics" and Scott Snyder's work made gains, the middle ground seems to have fallen out as fans prepare for September.


Full article here.

[Hulk_Is]

Just how I imagined it ending up.

[shingi70]

Those Results are unnecessary confusing. If im going to buy something should be a yes or no answer. Maybe put maybe in for good measure.

Also looking at those results and the books that are doing lowly, that is the reason why the industry is dying.

[Karl O'Neill]

The interest has gone up across the board.

[Tusko]

I like that every title is so polarized.
Either you love it, or hate it. But the event is not generating middle ground interest. Discretionary income is down, why compete by speculation?

I agree comics need to be marketed as something 'new'. But it seems to me the titles are competing against themselves.

My local comic shop is going to be flooded with #1s but the repeat business will drop so severely its worrying the owner. Is this DC's plan, to have one big month to ride out the year on?

[Karl O'Neill]

This survey is exclusive to CBR. Do you guys think this poll/survey represents anything else but CBR's viewers who took the survey?

It's not indicative of anything else.

[Gary_H]

This survey is exclusive to CBR. Do you guys think this poll/survey represents anything else but CBR's viewers who took the survey?

It's not indicative of anything else.

This is a very good point.

[Hulk_Is]

I pretty sure if you ran this very same poll elsewhere the results would generally be the same.

[The Lucky One]

So disappointed... I really thought my "Absolutely Buying" on All-Star Western and "Absolutely Not Buying" or "Unlikely" on everything else would tip the scales in Jonah's favor.

Fools're jest gonna be fools, ah reckon.

-D

[Let's Kill Hitler]

I'm not sure this means much. Most people said "Not at All" for Flash yet it was one of the titles with over 100,000 orders.

[CyberCoyote]

If DC and other publishers based their futures on polls like these the industry would die even faster :) It'd be neat after September to compare sales figures to poll responses and see how accurate it was.

[starman]

Sorry Dan Didio, Keith Giffen & Scott Koblish looks like even more people aren't interested in Omac. Which is a shame because if it wan't for OMAC's crazy hair I may have though about purchasing it. I like the Kirby like art.

[Samy]

Just as a quick exercise, I pulled the numbers to Excel, and threw up quick estimates for sales of each title if "Justice League" is estimated just above 200k. This does not correlate with what titles were reported to actually have sold above 100k, probably because CBR tastes are different from the general public, but it's still an interesting guesstimate IMO.


205840 Justice League #1 - by Geoff Johns & Jim Lee
189410 Action Comics #1 - by Grant Morrison & Rags Morales
179800 Batman #1 - by Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo
136400 Green Lantern #1 - by Geoff Johns, Doug Mahnke & Christiam Almy
121830 Aquaman #1 - by Geoff Johns & Ivan Reis
117800 Batwoman #1 - by J.H. Williams III, Haden Blackman & Amy Reeder
102610 Wonder Woman #1 - by Brian Azzarello & Cliff Chiang
99510 Batgirl #1 - by Gail Simone, Ardian Syaf & Vicente Cifuentes
97960 Superman: The Man of Tomorrow #1 - by George Perez & Jesus Merino
93620 Detective Comics #1 - by Tony S. Daniel
93620 Justice League Dark #1 - by Peter Milligan & Mikel Janin
93000 Swamp Thing #1 - by Scott Snyder & Yannick Paquette
92690 Batman & Robin #1 - by Peter J. Tomasi & Pat Gleason
88660 Nightwing #1 - by Kyle Higgins & Eddy Barrows
87110 The Flash #1 - by Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato
84010 Stormwatch #1 - by Paul Cornell & Miguel Sepulveda
82460 Green Lantern Corps #1 - by Peter J. Tomasi, Fernando Pasarin & Scott Hanna
82150 Green Lantern: The New Guardians #1 - by Tony Bedard, Tyler Kirkham & Batt
80910 Justice League International #1 - by Dan Jurgens & Aaron Lopresti
78120 Animal Man #1 - by Jeff Lemire, Travel Foreman & Dan Green
70370 Teen Titans #1 - by Scott Lobdell, Brett Booth & Norm Rapmund
64170 Red Lanterns #1 - by Peter Milligan, Ed Benes & Rob Hunter
62930 Batman: The Dark Knight #1 - by David Finch & Jay Fabok
60140 Frankenstein, Agent of Shade #1 - by Jeff Lemire & Alberto Ponticelli
59830 Legion of Super-Heroes #1 - by Paul Levitz & Francis Portela
58590 Demon Knights #1 - by Paul Cornell, Diogenes Neves & Oclair Albert
56420 Red Hood & The Outlaws #1 - by Scott Lobdell & Kenneth Rocafort
54250 The Fury of Firestorm #1 - by Ethan Van Sciver, Gail Simone & Yildiray Cinar
53940 Legion Lost #1 - by Fabian Nicieza & Pete Woods
50530 All-Star Western #1 - by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Grey & Moritat
47120 Catwoman #1 - by Judd Winick & Guillem March
46810 Supergirl #1 - by Michael Green, Mike Johnson & Mahmud Asrar
44020 Resurrection Man #1 - by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning & Fernando Dagnino
43710 The Savage Hawkman #1 - by Tony S. Daniel & Philip Tan
42160 DC Universe Presents #1 - by Paul Jenkins & Bernard Chang
41540 Superboy #1 - by Scott Lobdell, R.B. Silva & Rob Lean
41230 Green Arrow #1 - by JT Krul & Dan Jurgens
41230 Suicide Squad #1 - by Adam Glass & Marco Rudy
40920 Blue Beetle #1 - by Tony Bedard & Ig Guara
37510 Grifter #1 - by Nathan Edmondson, Cafu & BIT
37200 Birds of Prey #1 - by Duane Swierczynski & Jesus Saiz
30690 Mister Terrific #1 - by Eric Wallace & Roger Robinson
30070 Batwing #1 - by Judd Winick & Ben Oliver
26970 Captain Atom #1 - by JT Krul & Freddie Williams II
26660 Deathstroke #1 - by Kyle Higgins, Joe Bennett & Art Thibert
26660 Hawk & Dove #1 - by Sterling Gates & Rob Liefeld
26040 Static Shock #1 - by John Rozum, Scott McDaniel & Jonathan Glapion
25420 Blackhawks #1 - by Mike Costa & Ken Lashley
25420 I, Vampire #1 - by Joshua Fialkov & Andrea Sorrentino
25420 Voodoo #1 - by Ron Marz & Sami Basri
24800 Sgt. Rock and the Men of War #1 - by Ivan Brandon & Tom Derenick
22630 Omac #1 - by Dan Didio, Keith Giffen & Scott Koblish

As personal commentary:

* Batgirl is higher than I would have expected, but then Gail is a CBR participant so she may enjoy a disproportionate fanbase here.
* Supergirl is lower than I would have expected considering her relatively high brand value.
* Flash is also lower represented here on CBR than in actual orders where I believe he was a 100k+ title.
* I never would have expected Swamp Thing and JLDark, or Nightwing for that matter, to chart so high. Snyder explains Swamp Thing I suppose, but over in Milliganland, I suppose the Justice League brand is heavily influencing Dark, far more than the Lantern brand is influencing Red.
* When it comes to genre titles, All-Star Western is in a whole different league than Men of War or I, Vampire. Perhaps because of the good word of mouth Jonah Hex built over six years of consistent material? Nice to see it pay off in spades.
* Finch Batman is relatively low, suggesting that Finch's brand value is more in casual consumers than the hardcore fanbase at CBR
* CBR folks really hate DiDio, don't they? :D
* More people are interested in Dick Grayson than Barry Allen.

[Let's Kill Hitler]

I was fasinated by Justice League Dark's results compared to the other dark books. It seems all a book needs is name recognition (very excited for it, it's just a niche concept)

Quick, someone change "Frankenstein: Agent of SHADE" to "frankenstein agent of BATMAN"

[Skaddix]

i am not surprised