John Jackson Miller

Comichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry for more than 25 years, including a decade editing the industry’s retail trade magazine; he is the author of several guides to comics, as well as more than a hundred comic books for various franchises. He is the author of novels including Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War, and his upcoming release, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The High Country. Read more about them at his fiction site. Be sure to follow Comichron on Twitter and Facebook, and check out our Youtube channel. You can also support us on Patreon!

Dark Nights Metal #5 top reorder last week; Sienkiewicz Walking Dead covers lead advance reorders for March, April

We’re hearing about more reorders and advance reorders that comics shops placed in February with Diamond Comic Distributors. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future: TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Feb. 5-Feb. 11, 2018 (in invoiced dollars) These are items that have already shipped, but have … Read more

Job cuts hit Barnes & Noble

Earlier this year we passed along that, according to Bookscan, the adult graphic novel category was off 5% in 2017, with the kids’ graphic novel category up 1.9%. Both those figures were an improvement over the 10% loss for the year suffered by the comic book specialty shop market, which remains the largest channel for … Read more

January estimates find Doomsday Clock steady, Hawkman soaring; Comichron adds on-sale dates to comics charts

Normally, ongoing titles see a drop from December to January — and a much more sizable one between second and third issues. But Doomsday Clock #3 saw its orders from December decline by less than a thousand copies, shipping nearly 158,000 copies to comic shops in January. That’s according to our estimates for sales of comic … Read more

End of an era: The last DC newsstand issues

A moment in comics history passed without any fanfare at all in the summer of 2017. It went unnoticed for several weeks — and while it’s been discussed online in the months since, I was evidently the first person to ask the publisher directly about it, more than five months later. And now the confirmation … Read more

Fifth week helps January comics sales arrest slide; Doomsday Clock #3 leads big month for DC

A fifth shipping week in January helped reduce the year-to-year drop in Direct Market sales to the smallest dropoff we’ve seen since last spring, just under 2%, according to information released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. We’ve been reporting reorders and advance reorders for January comics at Comichron for weeks now; now, we finally have a … Read more

Action 1000 hardcover, Thanos lead comic shop advance reorders as February begins

We’re starting to get word on some reorders and advance reorders that comics shops placed in February with Diamond Comic Distributors. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future: TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Jan. 29-Feb. 4, 2018 (in dollars) These are items that have already shipped, … Read more