As a long time fan of Frank Castle, I've been keeping track of the monthly statistics provided by John Jackson Miller at The Comics Chronicles (www.comichron.com) for the Punisher titles since the introduction of  the polarizing Frankencastle. I'ved asked my LCBS owner about the sales and he's said a few people dropped Punisher title after Frankencastle, but about the same number of people picked it up, so the shop's sales have balanced out.
 
Do you think PunisherMAX will continue to out sale Punisher/Frankencastle or was March just a bad month for Frankencastle?
 
What do you think this means for Frank?
 
 

March 2010

MAX is better than the Frankencastle crap. So I think it will outsell it until the series is canceled due to low sales or by public demand.

I think it means Remender needs to fix his error, NOW.

What I think he needs is a kick in the balls...

i think people are too stubborn to give frankencastle a chance, it is not that bad, hell not that bad.... it's not bad at all the art is great the writing is top notch, and most of the people who bash it haven't even read it.
 
and mainstream comics readers tinkle their pants and whine every time some one tries something new and creative.

I don't think that Frankencastle, specifically, is reason for the main title's drop in sales. There wasn't a heavy drop after Frank died and became Frankencastle. Rather, there's just been a steady decrease in sales. The MAX title also has a steady decrease in sales, but it's been less of a change over the last few issues.
 
Since MAX#2 (Dec09), it's dropped about 700 estimated copies. Since Punisher #12 (Dec09), that title has dropped about 2,700 estimated copies. The main title is just having a harder time retaining it's existing readers and/or picking up newer readers than the MAX title. 
 
You can't really count the first issues, since those always get more sales than the following issues. Also, Punisher MAX is hovering around the same figures as the last Punisher MAX ( Frank Castle) series, so maybe 20-23k is about the baseline for a Punisher MAX series.
 
If the main title Punisher (it's getting renamed to Frankencastle soon) drops below 20k, then I believe that's when we'll start to see Marvel do something to bring the title back. I'm thinking that with the rematch versus Daken coming up soon, that'll bring the sales up a notch or two.

"i think people are too stubborn to give frankencastle a chance, it is not that bad, hell not that bad.... it's not bad at all the art is great the writing is top notch, and most of the people who bash it haven't even read it.  and mainstream comics readers tinkle their pants and whine every time some one tries something new and creative. " 

 

"What I think he needs is a kick in the balls... "

FrankenCastle actually isn't that bad of a book.However it's not Punisher.It's not what Punisher fans are used to and that for some reason that automatically makes it lame.