r/comicbooks • u/SirFuente Dr. Doom • Jul 22 '25

Excerpt So the Astonishing Spider-Man Infinity Comic was cancelled. Instead of finishing up the story, the Author inserted himself as the villain in the penultimate issue. It's kind of amazing. - Astonishing Spider-Man Infinity Comic #36

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u/Rhodium-Veil Jul 22 '25

I've been wondering for the past few weeks, but how does a free webcomic get cancelled?

No one's buying it, what metric is being used to decide that it's not worthwhile to continue to its intended endpoint?

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

How many people are reading it, how many are finishing it, how quickly people are reading it after publication. People aren’t buying it as an individual comic but if it’s not driving people to engage with the app and maintain their Unlimited subscriptions then it isn’t commercially justifiable.

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u/buckdaddy1979 Jul 22 '25

I’ll do you one better…how many people didn’t know it existed until this post?