Sales went up with Byrne and Jurgens, and they've been going down since their work's been invalidated and ignored.
How do you explain the books selling so badly today, when they don't have numbered triangles and Superman's origin changes as often as you sneeze, while when they had triangles and the origin was stable sales went up? [/QB]
What bullshit!
When and how was/is Byrnes work invalidated?
This is the FIRST I've heard of it. The editorial staff at DC literally bends over backwards to AVOID fucking with the BYRNE dogma.
The missing triangles have NOTHING to do with poor sales. The same 30,000 people buy ALL the Superman garbage. The reason sales have gone down on Adventures for example was that people were finally given a choice NOT to read garbage by a creative team they didn’t like in order to follow a story line.
And that is as it should be. I was sick of feeling like a hostage to shit work.
The very thing you defend "THE STATUS QUO" is/what is keeping NEW fans away. The lock step continuity of the triangle books REQUIRED readers to purchase 4 books to read one story and contained so many references to old plots that the books were/are much too dense and too tough to penetrate without stacks of back issues.
If they want sales to go up they are going to have to go after NAMES to do the title. And I'm not talking about Kelly, Casey or Seagel.
