The retailers react

Newsarama has a nice overview of retailer reaction to Spider-Man’s “One More Day.” Not surprisingly, retailers are hearing from a lot of customers unhappy about the turn of events in Spider-Man’s life. The question is whether how many carry out their threats to drop Spidey. Aside from the controversy, all the retailers agree that dropping the two other monthly Spider-Man titles and boosting “Amazing” to three times a month should help sales. There also seems to be agreement that the new Spider-Man status quo is intended to draw in new readers, at the risk of driving away some of us aging fanboys. A reasonable goal, I guess, though you still have to get those newbies into comic-book shops.