Of course it got cancelled!
It was consistently a great title since it started (except when Gulacy joined)!

Surely if enough people complained about this development we could bring it back, like Manhunter?

Then again, as long as certain back issues remain exorbinantly priced — #8, come on down! — I’ll never have the complete run, so again, I guess this one is sort of safe.

Michael –

Actually, even as we speak I’m trying to track down a complete run of Young Justice, but they go for higher than I’m willing (or, let’s face it, able) to pay. (Changing the subject slightly — shouldn’t someone at DC monitor these sorts of things, see that people are willing to pay in the triple digits for a complete run of a title, & … y’know … at least THINK about bringing it out in TPB?) If I ever do somehow manage to do it, I’m sure DC will mark the occasion by bringing YJ back for one issue, then cancelling it summarily.

Hooking her up with the BoP seems a natural, but one with a lot of built in conflict. And BoP has really faltered since Simone left; she more or less made the series what it was.

“Look, I came here for an argument!”

“Oh, I’m sorry, but this is abuse.”

Under the same scenario, fans of Green Lantern & Black Canary should be very, very afraid. I still lack #2 (& while I could’ve sworn I picked up #6 at the nearest LCS last week, that seems not to have been the case), though, so I guess the title gets to live on for now.

Ah, well — between this & All-New Atom (whose new direction I was finding a bit off-putting anyway), at least DC is doing my job for me & thinning out my (semi-)monthly purchases. Marvel & Image really need to step up to the plate next, I suppose.

Pick up the trade “Catwoman’s Dead” if you really want to know why Greg and I are broken up about the loss of this book.

And yet, Judd Winick manages to write multiple books for DC. There is NO justice I tell ya.

CATWOMAN is up until #82.

So how long until Birds of Prey is canned?

I have to think it’s on the bubble, and so is Brave and Bold. According to the numbers from ICv2 that Heidi posts over on The Beat every so often, they’re doing about the same numbers as the Classified books and Catwoman were doing. The numbers are an interesting, if unnerving, picture of direct-market superhero sales from the Big Two, especially when you remember, as Michael points out, that those are retailer, wholesale ORDERS and not actual retail SALES.

So how long until Birds of Prey is canned?

People in the Internet aren’t only more argumentantive than in RL, it’s also very hard to resist trying to get in the last word. Discussions tend to be long, dragged out affairs. You might admit to an unpopular oppinion a few times, but after a while it gets tiresome, having to fight for your oppinions every damn time. Far easier to just save you the trouble. It isn’t exactly “lying”.

Anyway, the people who post on the Internet in all-purpose comic book sites (as opposed to sites dedicated to a single publisher or a single character) usually are the older, jaded fans. The veterans that have seen too much.

And then there’s the phenomenon of multiple copies for one buyer. At my local store, I observe every week people buying multiple copies (sometimes as many as ten) of the newest “hot” release from Marvel or DC, likely to resell on eBay. You also get a small number of buyers who pick up copies of each variant of a book, again for compulsive completism.

Also important is the difference between Diamond sales and in-store sales. If a book receives 100,000 orders, and half those copies sit on the shelves, the book only had, at most, 50,000 actual readers.

All-New Atom also just bit the dust, which surprised me quite a bit. DC had actually done some hyping of Rick Remender and Pat Oliffe taking over the book (which they just did, what, 2 issues ago?) so I had assumed it was on the safe list like Blue Beetle. Apparently not, unless this is one of those editorially-driven cancellations…

Wow… Really? That seemed like a title that was worth keeping around and letting grow. I guess that isn’t so common anymore.

Really though, it sucks for people who liked it. God knows you’re lucky if you can find one book a month that gives you some enjoyment with the crap that’s out there (You know like most of my pull list).