Article: Alpha Flight #3 Sales Position AND Figures *UPDATED*

[Phil]

You can view the page at http://www.alphaflight.net/content.p...Sales-Position

[varo]

yikes! i always figured it would sell around the 30k mark or so anyways. the thing i keep seeing is that it is still ahead of x-factor which has been around that spot for as long as i can remember, and that book never seems to on the verge of being canceled.

[Phil]

Yeah, but X-Factor has levelled out and found it's home at the bottom of the Top 100 and stayed there for the best part of 5 years.
If AF continues to drop at the rate it has been and slides out of the Top 100...

[varo]

well, hopefully alpha has leveled out as well. jeez, i can't imagine that readership for this book is so low.

[batman_von_gein]

where can you subscribe to this. marvel.com doesnt offer it

[Flightpath07]

Ugh. I can't do any more than i am already doing. And Marvel seems to be very much behind this. We've got a world-class artist, and practically-legendary writers.

If it fails, it fails, and it is meant to be.

Hopefully it'll get at least a two-year run. Be nice to look at the figures after one year, and after two years; that'd give a better reading than the first three issues. Especially with DC flooding the market right now.

[Phil]

Exactly.
It's not all doom & gloom at all.
For all we know sales may have increased slightly from #2 or hardly dropped.

The drop in place is due to all the DC titles which is going to continue for at least the next few months.
I personally wouldn't be surprised if #4 isn't in the top 125 next month, because of all the DC titles.

As long as the actual figures are relatively steady the index number is irrelevant.

[Alphan East]

I've been picking up both the Fear Itself cover and the Variant cover versions since the start. There seems to be so much hype on this series right now, hopefully word of mouth will spread and increase the sales.

[CMatt78]

Has anyone compared the rankings for just Marvel books? If it's still in, say, the top 50 of Marvel alone, maybe everything's cool.

[Flightpath07]

I've been picking up both the Fear Itself cover and the Variant cover versions since the start. There seems to be so much hype on this series right now, hopefully word of mouth will spread and increase the sales.

Unfortunately, where I order from does not seem to get any of the variant covers...so i will have to go back later and pick them up from elsewhere. Expensive, but necessary.

[DelBubs]

Alpha Flight at #90 in Top 300

Here

Estimated Sales = 24,872
Previous Issue Sales = 27,803
Drop = 2,931
Percentage Drop = 10.54%

Would have copied and pasted actually segment of list, but it was being a noob.

[Flightpath07]

On another note entirely (not meaning to derail anything though), I just (literally, JUST) finished reading issue 3 for the first time (and issue 2 just before it!); looking forward to reading them again, then doing reviews of them both later tonight sometime (hopefully) at my Alpha Flight blogsite.