I'll really miss getting BOTD each month.  I always enjoyed it and thought that it was a GREAT book.  It was well drawn, well written and not confusing.  It didn't pander to the audience or anything like that.

It was a good run, too bad it couldn't have been longer.

Demon, we hardly knew thee.

MPH

As I said, why didn't DC do even a single BotD TPB?

I mean, every single DC series nowadays seems to get at least one (even late, lamented Orion got his), but the JB books that made the cut ever since he returned to DC were just the first two Generations and his Superman run (because pretty much every recent Superman book got TPBed). Not Lab Rats, not Doom Patrol, not BotD...

What happened? Did JB run over the collection editor's dog with the Byrne-mobile or what?

I'm enjoying BotD.

Are there any "third tier" DC character comicbooks doing big numbers?

No, the other third tier DC characters do comparable numbers (even after they get TPBs, which BotD has not).

What I don't understand is that, given the content of the book, why isn't DC using the 'Vertigo model' for it? There must be an intersection in the fanbase of Vertigo readers and Angel/Buffy fans, and BotD is very Angel-esque (obviously, the Demon has been along for far longer, but I'm thinking just in terms of selling books to bodies at this point). So why didn't DC go after that fan?

There is another trend I find disheartening, and that is cancelling a book instead of giving it a shot under a different creative team.  I don't think cancelling and relaunching brings in the people like it used to.  It almost seems like people stay away from low numbered books anymore because it is something that might not last and may not be worth the emotional investment in the characters. 

Take DP as a for instance.  Less than a year prior to JB's run, another DP title ended after 22 issues.  Instead of cancelling and rebooting, what if the switch in creator's had been made and JB picked up where the other title left off?  Many of the previous readers might have stayed on, and many new readers may have joined to see what JB was doing.  And if DC thought JB could have had a greater impact on another title, fine, move him over there and give someone else a shot at DP. 

Just my two cents.

What I don't understand is that, given the content of the book, why isn't DC using the 'Vertigo model' for it?
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I think JB has expressed a disinterest in doing a Vertigo book before.  But, again instead of cancelling, if DC wanted this type of direction they could have moved that way and turned it into a Vertigo book under a different creator rather than cancelling it outright and starting it over.