Remember that story about Rocket Raccoon‘s first issue totaling like 300,000 in orders? Well it turns out that a solid 100,000+ of them are from Loot Crate. That “Monthly Box of Dope Swag for Geeks” service that I’ve been fighting the urge to get into for a couple of months. So while that puts a different spin on the number of issues being ordered for Rocket, it also means that a whole lot of people are getting to be getting a look at the Rabid Prick. Which is neat. Yes, yes. Seed the Geek Earth with Guardians fans. Let them become acolytes. Plus! 200,000 issues ordered is still really fucking impressive.

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