Schwarzkopf wrote:But with everything that's been said and predicted and guessed bout CGL in this 192 page thread WHY WERE THEY EVEN ABLE TO WRITE THE BIGGEST CHECK?
Probably because they were the
only people even offering to write a check? Look, "Comics" is a big field with some big names in it. Amazing Spiderman #1 sold over half a million copies last month. But, Valiant is not the biggest fish in that pond. They aren't the second or third biggest fish in that pond. And let me tell you, the drop off from 2nd to 3rd is pretty fucking big. Every comic in the top ten circulation last month was from Marvel or DC. The Walking Dead is the first indie comic in the sales list at #12 (for Image, which is a much bigger fish than Valiant). Valiant does not have any comics in the top twenty. It only has one comic in the top
one hundred (and that is a first issue with a circulation of less than thirty thousand).
Can you name three Valiant titles that have been brought back since the bankruptcy without googling? Here, I'll give you a freebie: Unity. It was rebooted last November and in April had its sixth issue. It is the highest selling continuing comic in Valiant's stable. Its April circulation was 9,351. That's not
stores, that's
total copies sold. It placed 194th in comics sales for April, 2014. Valiant also had a trade paperback released in April. It sold one thousand and four copies.
You can get the rights to the Valiant universe for the change in your couch. You might as well ask yourself how Guardians of Order managed to pick up so many licenses during
their death spiral. The reality is that there are a lot of potential licenses out there which in the absence of an HBO miniseries or major motion picture simply aren't really worth very much. Valiant comics is very small fries. A Shadowrun book that sold as many copies as the best selling Valiant comic book would be considered a failure.
-Username17