Godzilla Legends #2 Rankings

For the first issue of this new Godzilla Legends series, it had debuted strong at 177th place with 10,330 issues sold.

If you recall it had dealt with Anguirus battling Destroyah, the ultimate underdog issue.

So how has issue #2 fared thus far?

Unfortunately it dropped tremendously in sales, coming in at 192nd place with 8,465 issues sold.

That's nearly 2,000 issues less than its initial debut, down almost 1/5 of what was sold before!

Ouch that hurts.

 Such a drop indicates that comic book buyers didn't come out in droves to obtain the first issue, so comic book retailers ordered less thereafter in order to hedge their bets.

I will go ahead and make a prediction that sales will probably flatten out from here on out.  There will probably be a loss of a thousand or so issues along the way too.

But still this is quite a drop, I'm sure far more than what IDW had in mind.

I think the mistake here was debuting the series with a lesser known kaiju like Anguirus.

If the series' intent was to dedicate each story to a monster, they should have debuted with either MechaGodzilla or King Ghidorah.  Those are names every sci-fi fan knows.

Anguirus has his fans, but definitely not enough to make general comic book fans interested in picking up the series.