Anonymous asked:

On the one hand we're blamed for Nighthawk being cancelled, on the other told even when we buy A-force at what's usually enough it'll get cancelled anyway. Great. I feel very empowered.

jordandwhiteqna answered:

Ok, ok–don’t overthink it.

There’s a reason comic book companies don’t release their sales figures*, and it’s because those things are not your concern. Like I said–whether a book is profitable factors in a lot of numbers, NONE of which are for public consumption, so you as a fan are neither expected nor even asked to know them.

The only thing you are responsible for is buying the book. If you want to go above and beyond, then you can encourage others to buy it as well…but that is not your responsibility, it’s ours. That’s just a thing you can do if you want to go the extra mile.

Beyond that, the only other thing a fan can do is hone their craft and get a job at the company putting the book out, and then work to make the book sell from the inside. Because it’s the job of the people making, distributing, and selling the comics to make a comic that people enjoy and want to buy.

*They don’t–the sales charts that are posted online every month are estimates. The actual chart that’s released doesn’t have sales figures, it just ranks the books and says what each title sells relative to what Batman sold that month. Not a joke, that is really what it does.

[hellyeahteensuperheroes]

If you are cancelling your monthly books based on how well they perform compared to DC’s top-selling bi-weekly title at the time when DC generally outsels Marvel then even with their weaker titles then oh boy, we’re in for a lot of cancellations.