October Sales Figures

Sales figures are up for October, but no one's quite certain what they mean. The top is rattled a little bit. Series always suffer downward slopes and we're hitting the 2/3 marks for the big events, but the effect seems slightly more dramatic. The surprising news, though, is how well things are going in spite of that, especially for tier 2 and tier 3 books.

As Heidi points out:

Obviously, rising comics prices had much to do with it, but as we pointed out earlier, and Miller affirms, the overall sales on the chart were much higher than in the past, with even the #300 book selling over 4000 copies. In January 2005, the #300 comic sold 679 copies.

Maybe I'm just a goddamn optimist, but it's an exciting prospect to me when more niches can thrive within the already niche market of the comic book.