Ok, ok–don’t overthink it.
There’s a reason comic book companies don’t release their sales figures*, and it’s because those things are not your concern. Like I said–whether a book is profitable factors in a lot of numbers, NONE of which are for public consumption, so you as a fan are neither expected nor even asked to know them.
The only thing you are responsible for is buying the book. If you want to go above and beyond, then you can encourage others to buy it as well…but that is not your responsibility, it’s ours. That’s just a thing you can do if you want to go the extra mile.
Beyond that, the only other thing a fan can do is hone their craft and get a job at the company putting the book out, and then work to make the book sell from the inside. Because it’s the job of the people making, distributing, and selling the comics to make a comic that people enjoy and want to buy.
*They don’t–the sales charts that are posted online every month are estimates. The actual chart that’s released doesn’t have sales figures, it just ranks the books and says what each title sells relative to what Batman sold that month. Not a joke, that is really what it does.
Though I’m disappointed that A-FORCE is getting the axe, I bought both collections this year and am planning to buy the third. It was a great book with HUGE potential to be Marvel’s BIRDS OF PREY. But I’m not going to blame Marvel for this. You promoted the crap out of it, put amazing creators on it, and introduced characters that a lot of people know and love (namely Captain Marvel). But books have come back before. People forget that UNCANNY X-MEN was cancelled once. And we all know what happened with that book.
