{"id":4093,"date":"2017-12-28T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:02:07","slug":"kirkmans-oblivion-song-leads-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/28\/kirkmans-oblivion-song-leads-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkman’s Oblivion Song leads advance reorders for March; Comichron pages for December, January added"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Find<\/span>I know from experience that people are frequently looking to see the charts for future months before they’re released; until now, those requests have gone to a redirect page. But\u00a0we’ve seen enough reorders and advance from the past few weeks from Diamond Comic Distributors<\/a><\/b> to be able to collate some information onto pages for December 2017<\/a><\/b> and January 2018<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

The problem with reorders is that they don’t synch up exactly with any given shipping month; they’re placed all the time and reported weekly, whereas comics orders are reported here monthly. Any given list will have a mix of titles from various months. So while the January page links to some of the more recent advance reorders, some of those items are for months beyond January (as is the case with this week’s top advance reorder book, Oblivion Song #1<\/a><\/i><\/b>\u00a0I don’t intend to go any more than a month into the future with these landing pages, so the farthest-out month will simply collate the latest advance reorders.<\/p>\n

Non-advance reorder charts, meanwhile, are going to be more relevant to the current month, since the books being reordered are on the shelves already. So the current month’s report, December, aggregates links to the most recent reorder reports, while also linking to some advance reorder reports from October and November, because the reported reorders relate to December-shipping books.<\/p>\n

It’s not a perfect system, but it’ll do \u2014 and you’ll notice that the Top 25s are not being stored on those monthly pages. That’s because those pages will be replaced by\u00a0the estimated sales charts once they become available. The reorder tables become less important then (especially because they don’t necessarily represent filled orders) so there’s no need to keep them in the permanent archives, though at least for the moment, they will remain visible as blog posts \u2014 like this one.<\/p>\n

And let’s get to it. Here are the\u00a0reorders and advance\u00a0orders <\/b>placed with Diamond Comic Distributors <\/b>between\u00a0December 19-25, 2017.<\/b><\/p>\n

TOP REORDERED ITEMS for December 19-25, 2017 (in dollars)<\/b><\/p>\n

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\"<\/span>These are items that have already shipped, but have been receiving additional orders. In most cases below, the items are in stock and so the orders are being filled; occasionally items are back-ordered, so their reorders will enter into the channel once they become available.<\/p>\n

These are ranked by invoiced dollars, so retailers’ discounts have already applied to the totals before ranking.<\/p>\n

DC<\/b>‘s Dark Nights Metal<\/i>\u00a0#4<\/a><\/b>, which went on sale Dec. 20, is the top reordered comic book.<\/p>\n

In repeats from the previous week, Marvel’<\/b>s Infinity Gauntlet<\/i><\/b> was the top reordered softcover, and DC’s Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus<\/a><\/i><\/b> the top reordered hardcover.<\/p>\n

The links in the table go to the Diamond information pages for each book.<\/p>\n