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The Casual Comic Buyer or The Exterminators was canceled?!

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More then likely this is has been discussed to death here and in other forums but I'm the comic buyer that usually waits for the trade paperback. A few times a year I make an effort to try and go for the single issues but it never amounts to much.

Anyway I'm at a comic book store earlier today looking for the last two issues of Scud: The Disposable Assassin and I end up grabbing a back issue of The Exterminators. Now I really like the series but I've been pretty lax about picking it up so once again I make the vow to go for the single issues. I hit the Vertigo website a few minutes ago and to my surprise The Exterminators has been canceled at issue 30. I really hate the fact that this great title has been canceled but i know that I was a big part of the problem. I do the same thing with Criminal and Fables. Seriously I have/had 3 titles that I was reading regularly and I just didn't keep up. Anyone else here guilty of this?
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I have been known to buy a series that I want to support, even if I don't keep up with the reading. I'll read them, eventually. A couple months back, I read about 4 or 5 issues of REX MUNDI that I'd had sitting around for a while (great series, by the way), and now I'm waiting for newness.

In the case of CRIMINAL, I think they're doing alright for sales, but you're missing out on the extra content in the back if you only buy the TPBs. They like to offer the monthly buyers a little bonus, and I gladly accept it.
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A lot of the Vertigo series are supported purely by the TPB sales....they'd never make it as individual issues...but when Books a Million...buys...well, a million TPB's....that keeps the series going...my guess is the Exterminators Trades weren't selling well anymore...or it could just be a victim of a slow economy cutback...DC axed MINX and CMX so they're cutting back big time!
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Thats disappointing. I've been picking up Exterminators in trade form, but have been out of work for a while so haven't been picking anything up lately. Can't say I didn't recommend it to people.
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