Bleeding Cool is reporting that Incredible Hercules is cancelled with issue #150. I haven't seen this anywhere else yet, but I haven't looked very hard, either.
If this is true, and not a step to relaunching the title with a new #1, this will make me very sad. :(
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Isn't the latest issue #138 or #139? #150 would be a year from now.
According to John Jackson Miller's site, in October #136 sold an estimated 26,431 and #137 an estimated 23,449 issues. I don't know what Marvel's cut-off point is these days, but those sales are probably well above it. The question is how fast the title's sales are declining. If #137 came out late in the month it may be the former number includes late orders and the latter does not. It may be that about a year from now the title's sales are likely to be getting into the cancellation zone, but would Marvel cancel a title a year ahead? I wouldn't despair.
Sometimes, strangley enough, cancellation is a sign of faith that the company has in a character/writer. It's all about setting up a new number one that they can push and try to build on good, but limited fan reaction.
Hercules sounds like almost a breakthrough character of the last few years and more people should be reading him. I'd like to, but, you know, finances and that.
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According to John Jackson Miller's site, in October #136 sold an estimated 26,431 and #137 an estimated 23,449 issues. I don't know what Marvel's cut-off point is these days, but those sales are probably well above it. The question is how fast the title's sales are declining. If #137 came out late in the month it may be the former number includes late orders and the latter does not. It may be that about a year from now the title's sales are likely to be getting into the cancellation zone, but would Marvel cancel a title a year ahead? I wouldn't despair.
Sometimes, strangley enough, cancellation is a sign of faith that the company has in a character/writer. It's all about setting up a new number one that they can push and try to build on good, but limited fan reaction.
Hercules sounds like almost a breakthrough character of the last few years and more people should be reading him. I'd like to, but, you know, finances and that.