Are Team 7 And Sword And Sorcery On The Chopping Block Already?

[Rich Johnston]

This is all about reading between the lines. It is not based on an actual source, unlike other recent DC articles.

But we're looking at a couple of Amazon listings. One for Team 7 Vol. 1: Fight Fire With Fire and one for Sword And Sorcery Vol. 1: Amethyst.

Both seem to contain seven or possibly eight issues worth of content which is high for a New 52 trade paperback. They usually contain five or six. Almost as if they were the complete run of the comic. As it was for, say, G.I. Combat Vol. 1: The War That Time Forgot.

That would suggest, purely on the Amazon listings, that Team 7 and Sword And Sorcery may be cancelled already and that we are looking at a new Wave of titles in May or possibly June.

[AnomanderRake]

I wouldn't be surprised...as both have been lackluster so far anyways.

[Cavemold]

both seem kinda meh so your probably right.

[MechanicalClavicles]

Time to face the reality that the market cannot support 52 on-going superhero titles from one publisher. It might have worked out with the big bang relaunch, but we're now 15 months beyond that and basically all of the A-list (and most B-list) titles are out of the bag, save for a JSA revival. You'd have to chow down on some serious cocoa puffs to believe that Team 7 or Sword of Sorcery were primed to make any kind of dent into the sales chart when A-list books like The Flash are already sagging out of the Top 50.

[Cavemold]

Time to face the reality that the market cannot support 52 on-going superhero titles from one publisher. It might have worked out with the big bang relaunch, but we're now 15 months beyond that and basically all of the A-list (and most B-list) titles are out of the bag, save for a JSA revival. You'd have to chow down on some serious cocoa puffs to believe that Team 7 or Sword of Sorcery were primed to make any kind of dent into the sales chart when A-list books like The Flash are already sagging out of the Top 50.

someday the will understand this... They need cut it down 30 books a month.

[Cavemold]

There no need for ravagers book.

[ChrisGa]

There no need for ravagers book.

I suspect that book will be in the next wave or two of cancellations as sales have eroded and, frankly, deservedly so. It's the most poorly-written title of the New 52 out of the 25 to 30 titles I've tried/sampled. And Sword of Sorcery is no big surprise--I think it actually dipped around or below 20k after only the second issue--though I will say that I enjoy the Amethyst feature, which has pretty good writing and great artwork.

[NinjaMic]

I hope you're wrong

SoS is pretty great

[dstritz]

Although I wouldn't be surprised if those titles are cancelled sooner rather than later, I don't think one can base it solely from the Amazon listings. The Flash collected issues 1-8, and Batman: The Dark Knight collected issues 1-9.

[JamesMcEwan]

Sword and Sorcery / Sword of Sorcery is a longer $3.99 book with back up stories. If those are included it would make sense for the book to have a higher page count, similar to the Action Comics trade.