>DC Comics isn’t the only publisher thrilled with the success of Absolute Batman. The series was the best-selling comic of 2024, and subsequent issues have continued to break sales records and top the charts. You would think this might frighten other companies, but Image Comics' co-owner/CCO Robert Kirkman couldn’t be more pleased.>Kirkman, who you also might know as the writer behind The Walking Dead, Invincible, and the current Transformers run, readily admits that the rarified air that Absolute Batman has achieved in terms of sales and fan interest is helping not just Absolute Batman, Absolute DC, and DC Comics... but he's seeing it over at Image as well. >“Everybody’s talking about how many new people Absolute Batman is bringing into the comic book stores, but those people go into the comic book stores and they buy a copy of Absolute Batman, and they walk out with five Image Comics as well," Robert Kirkman says during a recent appearance on Robservations with Rob Liefeld.https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-absolute-batman-helping-image-comics-sales-robert-kirkman>Per PopVerse, DC Comics' Absolute Batman by writer Scott Snyder and artist Nick Dragotta has surpassed yet another major milestone, this time by beating out one of the hottest chapters in the history of the publisher. Reportedly, Snyder's New 52 run on Batman has been beaten by a wide margin in terms of sales, even though Batman #1 sold just over 225,000 copies in September 2011, and the series as a whole never dropped below 100,000 units sold for any single issue.https://www.cbr.com/dc-comics-absolute-batman-dominating-new-52-sales/I feel like they're jinxing it
>>153435907I liked this until the bat axe. It's so fucktarded.
>>153435907Why do they jerk off Batman so much, when Absolute Woner Woman and Martian Manhunter are so much better?
>>153436832They really aren't.
>>153436832>deniz camp>goodKek
>>153436832Because people only care about Batman
>>153436814>so fucktardedMillennials growing old and out of touch is fucking rough, it's like having mental progeria.
>>153436889Time don't stop, nigga. People think its cruel, but without it, people live forever
>>153435907> I think a lot of us would just rather see the industry burn down than ‘get together’ with the alt-right. I know I would.> —Mark Waid, 2023.Give him what he asked for.
>>153435907Lol Kirkman is just foaming at the mouth for money. Only God knows what the future holds, but for all intents and purposes it looks like the United States of America's comic book and cartoon industry is on a death spiral with everything on hold until at least April 2028 at the earliest. They wanted to burn it down, and they did.
>>153437205>it looks like the United States of America's comic book and cartoon industry is on a death spiralI thought that event was already over.
>>153437205>Kirkman says people are buying Image books because people are buying Absolute Batman>"This is proof of the comic book industry on a death spiral guys!!!"Sounds to me like the "Comics Are Dying" grifters are on a faster death spiral than the comics industry
>>153437205>America's comic book and cartoon industry is on a death spiral with everything on hold until at least April 2028 at the earliest.Zootopia 2 made over a billion and Absolute Batman has already approached sales number comparable to the late 80s, just drop the grift nobody is buying it
>>153436814>fucktardedle cringe
>>153435907>and they walk out with five Image Comics as wellDo they really Rob? What is Image putting out that anyone cares about? Transformers?
