However, it gets worse for DC Comics, as he writes, “DC had a pretty bad year, with their lowest sales since 2004 – down 25% from 2022 in the bookstore market – even with their highest ever number of titles in the total list. In 2023 they had only 14 titles in the Top 750; in 2013, ten years ago, they had 130. That is a huge and troubling drop – but maybe laying off nearly your entire sales and marketing team is not a great strategy for growth? If someone had been been making a concerted effort to dismantle DC Comics, they couldn’t have been more surgical – luckily, DC still has talented execs like Marie Javins, Jim Lee, Annie de Pies and the rest of the staff who have thwarted those plans. And from what we’re hearing, 2024 will see some more moves to reverse this concerning trend.”
I wouldn't hold my breath.
They did put Catwoman back to the GOAT tier 90s purple costume for her latest arc. It's not the worse Catwoman comic I read, just her pulling capers for good while dying from time to time and losing one of her 9 lives given to her by some cat god.
I didn't read all the text but it didn't smack me with woke so there's that. If other comics are on the right track that's great, glad to hear it, but I'm done buying comics, Marvel and DC got me off the habit and my wallet thanks them.