Bad news, fans that were waiting for the first collection of Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos’ Impulse, due in stores next month:
All orders for the IMPULSE VOL. 1: RUNS IN THE FAMILY TP are cancelled. This item will not be resolicited.
It’s more than likely that low orders are the culprit, but the idea that a collection of early work by current fan favorites Waid and Ramos, on a one-time fan favorite character, couldn’t earn enough pre-orders to be sustainable for DC seems almost unbelievable and just a little worrying; if something like this doesn’t earn enough orders to be worthwhile for DC, what are the chances that even more obscure titles could be collected? And if this isn’t viable in terms of order numbers, how much of that is down to the New 52 making the character obsolete, and therefore meaning that the stories contained within the collection “don’t matter” to the greater continuity? Did DC accidentally flatten its own backlist sales by rebooting the universe…?
January 14th, 2013 at 9:25 am
Impulse actually has been featured on D.C’s Young Justice since June of 2011. In fact he was just in the last episode that just aired on Saturday. So I wouldn’t say he “doesn’t matter.”
January 14th, 2013 at 10:46 am
It’s also possible that the contractual royalty rates for Waid & Ramos make the threshold of profitability on an Impulse collection higher than other properties.
January 15th, 2013 at 7:12 am
collections are usually cancelled due to low pre-orders…
January 15th, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Because this collection has been issued before, the market might already be satisfied.