Haven't the sales for the new books been low to middling? I remember reading Tarkin didn't sell as expected, at least in comparison to some off the Fate of The Jedi books.
__________________ "Happiness is a lie. Life is horror. The light is always dying all across the universe. The last star will flicker out someday, when it does, all that remains is shadow. And I will be its king!"'-Amahl Farouk
2 Star Wars comics in the top 5, and 3 in the top 10.
Heck even Princess Leia was no.15. The lowest selling is Kanan which was number 28 with 50,000 copies sold, which is still really good for a monthly comic book. When you think these books are selling better than the likes of Batman, Spider-Man and X-Men.
__________________ "Happiness is a lie. Life is horror. The light is always dying all across the universe. The last star will flicker out someday, when it does, all that remains is shadow. And I will be its king!"'-Amahl Farouk
The EU is going to continue selling, I don't think most people give a damn about the movie books.
__________________ There's a man goin' 'round takin' names.
An' he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
It won't survive long if they'll keep focusing on film and animated series characters. The old EU created many original stories and characters. So far we have only tiresome OT characters (I like them, but not so much in comic books).
That's great, and while I was obviously exaggerating, the old EU wasn't the hot stuff the die hards want to pretend it was. It was a bunch of original saga references and OT jump offs.
The old Dark Horse comics often were considered quite solid at 20k, which is not at all a bad number for a non-big-two book (Transformers nowadays does 8k-9k with two books, and that's solid enough for them to decide to give it a third ongoing).
Point is, just based on the comics alone, the new EU is holding very strong, and any talk about it dying is silly at this point.
Of course they might want to give the popular monthly comics breaks/reboots at times, given the characters and time periods they involve atm, there's only so far they can go with them.
But they certainly won't stop due to lack of financial success. Not the way they're selling atm.
Last edited by Darth Thor on Sep 8th, 2015 at 01:54 PM
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