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Anonymous asked:

Geez, another Carol Danvers relaunch. How many months from now until it fails miserably and it is relaunched for the millionth time all the while you pretend that it "sells" well?

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brevoortformspring:

You’ve clearly got your agenda and your axe to grind, whatever it may be. But let me ask you: what would be the point in doing what you’re accusing us of? It literally doesn’t make sense–marvel is in business to tell stories and make money. We’re pretty straightforward about the market forces that guide many of our decisions. There is no such thing as “pretending that it sells well”–a book either sells well enough to support itself, or it does not and it goes away. We don’t do charity and we don’t carry titles that can’t carry their weight.

You make the classic mistake of not having anything resembling accurate data and then getting upset because something you liked didn’t sell well enough to continue but something else did. And I’m sorry that whatever you liked went away, but that’s the marketplace at work–you and your fellow comic fans voted with your wallets and your feet, and that was the result. But it’s not like your favorite title’s place was usurped by another book–that is also not the way things work. 

We’ve regularly had a Carol Danvers series going all the way back to HOUSE OF M, so she’s been a successful solo character for a decade now. That’s not pretend, that’s not imagination, that’s fact, that’s track record. And so, based on that, we’ll continue with her series.

Oh Captain

Jun. 25 2015
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