Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29908830-20171205020932/@comment-16461120-20171212015651

In terms of the first question, I feel that a trimming the publication line from 106 books in August to just 81 in October is definitely a move in the right direction, but I feel there's still room to better streamline and improve upon what's being published.

To answer your second question: So that's a ~6.18% average increase in Marvel sales led by Marvel Legacy and a simultaneous ~7.86% average increase in DC sales led by Dark Nights: Metal.
 * August 2017 Share of Overall Dollars: Marvel's 35.01% vs. DC's 28.18%
 * September 2017 Share of Overall Dollars: Marvel's 37.97% vs. DC 30.21%
 * October 2017 Share of Overall Dollars: Marvel's 36.38% vs. DC's 30.58%

As for your third question, Chester discovered and recruited names like Phil Noto, Skottie Young, Steve McNiven, Adi Granov, Sara Pichelli, David Lafuente, Matteo Scalera, Rob Guillory, Paul Azacata, Sana Takeda, etc. to the company, so he's very popular with the talent and has been self-described as character and storyline obsessed for more than forty years, so there's a very strong chance that he understands how to balance nostalgia with modernization in a way that Axel never cared to.