>>34310
The top couple sellers might get into the hundreds of thousands, which is still nothing and enough to get a title cancelled when comics were doing well. The dropoff is steep and you see things that "the industry" pretends are big and successful selling a couple thousand. They're trying to stay profitable by jacking up prices and hiring nobodies that will work for less money, but that's a losing long term strategy that is just costing them more and more readers all the time, and the whales are literally dying off, at least the ones that aren't just getting sick of it and walking away.
>>34308
I still go to my local comic shop sometimes, because I used to go weekly. I knew the people who work there, including the owner, and I feel bad that they clearly have fewer people there after people like me and others stopped going because new stuff became so shitty. But I'll go in and buy an old collected edition sometimes. More and more of their store has shifted to Funcopops and statues and things like that, because the comics don't fucking sell. I wish the collected editions were doing better there, because I like many of those, but they've shrunken their shelf space dedicated to that, too.