DC Comics Batman & Absolute Power Sales Horrifying

DC Comics can't catch a break. They're losing more and more ground to Marvel and Image may overtake them in market share. Things got even more horrifying with the state of Batman and Absolute Power comic sales. The two pillars that should be keeping DC afloat over summer 2024 are not very popular. Once a top 3 mainstay, Batman is barely still a top 10 comic. Absolute Power debuted outside the top 15. A DC Comics event featuring every hero in their universe written by Mark Waid and illustrated by Dan Mora sold less than Kelly Thompson. Wes explains how DC Comics sales are hitting rock bottom in 2024, fans are even quitting Batman at this point. DC Comics Batman and Absolute POWer sates are horrifying.

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[wesdashman]

Choosing Amanda Waller for the main antagonist was a mistake. No one cares about Waller. Waller is a boring character.

[AL-wsyi]

Does DC even care? It doesn’t seem like it.

[john-zisu]

DC has made Batman totally lame. A task that was virtually impossible, but DC pulled it off somehow.

[ShawnSJames]

Welp, Mark Waid said he wanted to see the comic book industry burn. And this is the event that's leading to DC crashing and burning. Absolute Power had an AWFUL buildup with the Zdarsky Batman run and the Failsafe storyline, the awful Tom King Wonder Woman Run, The Sy Spurrier Flash run and bunch of other terrible DC stories. DC Universe is in a far worse place than the Dan Didio Post Rebirth days. Just terrible storytelling all around. No reason to care.

DC's problem is its editorial. They have no direction for the DC Universe.

[charlesharrison]

Scott Snyder needs to do a talent hunt and bring in actual comic writers. Jim Lee should be ashamed of himself because he allowed this to happen and his lack in leadership is showing.

[snowbunnie]

Batman has been utterly garbage since the Tom King/DC Rebirth days (almost 7 years ago now!)
Superman has fared better, but DC ruined that when they made an aged up Jon take over the mantle and made him a “super-activist”
Wonder Woman has not had a good comic run since the 80’s and DC have fumbled her character in every medium.

[doyscherr]

Vandal Savage is the Gotham City police commissioner !?! HA !!!

[BadNewsYouNeedToKnow]

When DC put me on a Firestorm mini I knew I was done at DC. I didn’t realize it was the beginning of the end for DC. REBIRTH was launching and I guess it didn’t do what DC needed it to do. INCLUSIVITY, DIVERSITY, EDITORIAL FIRINGS, PAGE CUTS MEANING MOST NAME ARTISTS LEFT and DC has been bleeding out since.

[tacotacotacobajablast]

this guy should read some books (like novels) and take a break from comics a bit.

[tommybagley]

Say what you will about Didio, but at least he had a vision for the company. It may have blurred to the point of ridiculousness by the end, but it was never as rudderless as it is now.

[bofawhatsbofa]

There’s a reason why mangas out sale US comics🤷🏽‍♂️ no need for crossovers. No need for buying 20 different comics titles to understand the story. Maybe they should take notes

[itauanguedes]

The real Amanda Waller is from Ostrander's run on Suicide squad not this new version.😪😪😪👏

[MutantGenius]

In what I can only call a tremendous act of unity, the big two have evidently joined forces to ensure that Image Comics becomes the undisputed leader in the comic book industry.
It's puzzling why people think of the Big 2 as just selfish and uncaring puppets of mega-corporations, when in fact they truly are looking out for the little guy.

Good show, Marvel & DC... good show.

[shawnmccann]

Batman was the last DC book I was still picking up and hav finally said enough 2 issues ago. Now my pull list consists of ZERO DC books. Good Job DC.

[InfamyOrDeath-__-]

DC went downhill as soon as Geoff Johns left, every thing Johns ever wrote I loved, I loved his Green Lantern, Justice League, Flash, Watchmen, everything he did at DC I loved.

But the DC we have today is utter trash, I’ve no idea how anyone is still reading this. The only way we’ll get change if all you guys just drop this stuff, all of it, go read manga for the next 2 years.

[EvandroACruz]

If Batman books stop to selling this will be the end of DC. Absolute Power plots sucks and makes no sense to me. The DC heroes are beloved by the citizens, no way Waller could turn the public opinion against them. Heroes being hated is a Marvel thing not a DC thing. I'm skipping this event. I'm so glad that I stopped of buy DC years ago since Rebirth Era.

[danieljackowitz]

DC? Didn't they use to publish comics? I think I remember them. They're like Marvel, both at companies people used to enjoy until they started hating their customers.

[GreekGeek]

You mean people aren't flocking to stores on a weekly basis to fork over $5-6 for crappy comic books??? I'm shocked!!! DC fan base died years ago. They've used up all the goodwill they had after constant reboots and crises and reboots and crises. We are done and simply buy TPB and omnibus. Can't wait for the upcoming Superman triangle omnibus and Exile new printing. That's where collectors funds go. Not to this new garbage.

[mr.dccomics]

Jim Lee is probably on vacation. It use to be that writers has to live life and have experience that could relate to the characters they wrote about in DC. Nowadays you don't even see the characters in DC live a life. It's just event after event.

George Perez had it perfectly in his run on Wonder Woman. He made you get interested in the person and their life so when it was time to become the hero, it was icing on the cake.

The overall brand of DC is done. It's like that because the people in charge of DC don't care. What the point of another universe in DC if the same people are going to run it.

[cyberdragon]

One thing most people haven’t talked about is the quality of physical comic copies. Because of the bad sales, I’m guessing they’ve had to cut down the quality of the pages. It’s so bad that putting one of my copies in a cover sleeve then taking it out literally RUBS the INK OFF