Kevin, if you’re so eager to respond to everyone’s opinions with your own, why not just include them in the original post rather than pretend you’re objectively opening up a topic for discussion?

If my talking to people in my blog about a post I made bothers you so much, why don’t you find another place to hang out? I’m sure there’s a need for “Father Bear” elsewhere in this big ol’ World Wide Web.

Why is it even a point of debate/discussion/etc and why is there even any sort “competition” in the minds of readers?

Because readers are petty and want to feel better than those that are different from them?

It’s not so much the $15,000, it’s the unknown but higher number that they probably expected, and how important it was for DC’s bottom line that Final Crisis hit that number.

Nobody that knows about these things is going to talk about that number, probably for good reason, yet the chatter goes on and on and on. Why is it even a point of debate/discussion/etc and why is there even any sort “competition” in the minds of readers? Toyota and Honda compete - a customer usually only buys one car ever few years; DC and Marvel share a marketplace - a customer is able to pick up titles from each company.

The key point, actually, is how much DC *expected* FC #1 to bring in, and how much they had riding on that revenue.

It’s not so much the $15,000, it’s the unknown but higher number that they probably expected, and how important it was for DC’s bottom line that Final Crisis hit that number.

Honestly it’s just a bunch of fanboys who hate Dan Didio and want him gone, and are looking for reasons why this might happen. It’s rather depressing that this has become as big of a thing as it has.

I’m not trying to be a dick here

Yes, Pedro, you are. You always are.