By the numbers: At The Pulse, Paul O'Brien works his number-crunching magic on ICv2.com's February sales estimates, tracking losses and gains of Marvel titles of a several-month period. For those of us who irrationally follow the monthly Diamond Top 300 with the intense focus of day-traders, this is an interesting read.

But one Comicon poster thinks this type of analysis can only do harm. Here's "Cray_ws":

"... [T]his doesn't do anything for me, if anything this serves no bigger purpose than to create a greater divide among the readership(fans). It pits a Marvel reader against a DC reader. It creates more arguements than debates. Then there's a question of the correct figures and the non-Diamond sales. So basically this report while very well done is missing a big part.

"Vast majority of comic readers on this site and as well as others are easily influenced by others for whatever reasons and and rarely their own reasons. What the highest grossing movie shouldn't be a factor if i show go see it or not. I would think the same applies to comics or any other form of entertainment."