John Jackson Miller 
The box office influenced comics shop reorders last week, with Aquaman by Geoff Johns Omnibus as the top hardcover and 2016’s Spider-Verse collection making it into the top ten. Batman Damned #2 was the top reordered December-shipping comic book. January’s advance reorders were led by the latest Die Die Die, with the usual catch that the … Read more
As reported here on Friday, the momentum in Direct Market stores’ purchases of comics and graphic novels from Diamond Comic Distributors hit a bump in November due, in part, to significantly smaller slates from comics publishers. Click to visit our page for November 2018 comics sales estimates. Already at a disadvantage against November 2017, which had one more … Read more
2018 is going to come down to a photo finish. We already knew that November comics orders would come in behind those of November 2017, due to that month having an extra New Comics Day, bringing the year-to-date figure back into the red and making December the deciding factor. The question was how much December … Read more
Twenty-five years ago Friday, my comic industry career began with my first day editing Comics Retailer magazine, the trade publication for the comics industry through the 1990s and 2000s. (It would later be known as Comics & Games Retailer, after the makeup of the readership changed.) Today, I begin a new article series on the … Read more
Green Lantern and mutants led the last round of reorder reports from Diamond Comic Distributors before the Black Friday weekend. Among comic books, Green Lantern #1 led retail reorders for the last week before Thanksgiving; Uncanny X-Men #1 (which had one less week on the shelves) second. The X-Men Mutant Massacre Omnibus hardcover led the … Read more
As reported last week, comics and graphic novel orders through Diamond Comics Distributors ended October ahead for the year-to-date, thanks to one additional New Comic Book Day during the month. We also know the month benefited from particularly strong sales of middle-tier titles, thanks to Comichron estimates, just posted: click to see the comics sales … Read more