Marc-Oliver Frisch writes:
Looking at the pertinent facts and carefully weighing all the available data, it can be safely concluded that, at DC Comics, April was the month before May. The year-long weekly Countdown to Final Crisis concluded, and so did several other storylines, creative runs and limited series. The book that was probably the publisher’s highest seller for the month, the 50-cent primer DC Universe #0, didn’t show up on the charts, because Diamond Comic Distributors don’t count promotional comics. The most prominent DC Universe launch in April was Judd Winick and Ian Churchill’s new Titans series, joined further down the charts by the intra-company crossover book DC/WildStorm: Dreamwar and the manga take Batman: Death Mask. In other words, few things started, and many kept winding down in preparation for May’s Final Crisis.
At Vertigo, Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor came back for another round, but didn’t get the imprint’s average periodical sales out of the hole between 10 and 11K they’ve been stuck in for the past six months. In fairness, though, May’s House of Mystery and June’s Madame Xanadu probably have a better chance to achieve that. At WildStorm, licensed horror properties Supernatural and Friday the 13th returned for an encore, and The Number of the Beast took its stab at revamping the struggling WildStorm Universe line.
