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brianwood
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 Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: Numbers (Again) |
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I like to do this from time to time. Call it a sickness.
CBR says that in November, DMZ Vol. 1 picked up 423 re-orders for a "total reported estimated" (an amusing title) sales to-date of 8702.,
DMZ Vol. 1's total English-language sales, accurate as of three months ago, is 36165. That doesn't include the French, German, Italian, and Portuguese-language sales.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19243
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ok maybe Im a retard...but I dont get...they rank books estimated sales and not what was actually reported...Im confused
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brianwood
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Alan Alda is a gangsta wrote: | | ok maybe Im a retard...but I dont get...they rank books estimated sales and not what was actually reported...Im confused |
Yeah, join the club.
What they do is take the U.S-only initial pre-orders that comic shops make in the first month a book is released. Then, if re-orders happen to be high enough make the charts, they'll add that number to the mix. What you are left with is a partial number of sales to a certain type of bookstore during a very short window of time.
It's especially bad on collected editions since they go on to sell for years and even decades to come, as indicated by my accurate number (which in itself is still just a partial). As well as being sold in bookstores and to the U.K. and other countries.
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| I was reading on rickveitch.com that Diamond are cutting back on their 'offered again' section in Previews (due to the recession of course). Looking at your reorder figure below I'd say your DC work is safe, but will it affect your work for smaller indie publishers such as Oni and IDW? |
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brianwood
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Reuben wrote: | | I was reading on rickveitch.com that Diamond are cutting back on their 'offered again' section in Previews (due to the recession of course). Looking at your reorder figure below I'd say your DC work is safe, but will it affect your work for smaller indie publishers such as Oni and IDW? |
I don't know. I don't know if this is confirmed or what Diamond's criteria would be for deciding what gets listed or not. If anything, it would be AIT at the most risk, before Oni or IDW.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| brianwood wrote: |
I don't know. I don't know if this is confirmed or what Diamond's criteria would be for deciding what gets listed or not. If anything, it would be AIT at the most risk, before Oni or IDW.
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Good thing I went to Kepri and completed my Brian Wood Collection for Christmas. |
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brianwood
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| lwc_2001 wrote: |
Good thing I went to Kepri and completed my Brian Wood Collection for Christmas. |
Everytime someone tells me they own all my books, I mention my Witchblade/Vampirella crossover and watch their eyes go blank.
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For a few seconds, I thought it was about the NBC show.
Anyway, I hate those numbers. Plus, I hate that month by month crap with that dude's two cents bullshit.
I stopped looking at those month by month years ago. |
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| brianwood wrote: | | lwc_2001 wrote: |
Good thing I went to Kepri and completed my Brian Wood Collection for Christmas. |
Everytime someone tells me they own all my books, I mention my Witchblade/Vampirella crossover and watch their eyes go blank.
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You signed mine (both covers actually) when you were in Columbus. I recently found the trade of Astronauts in Trouble and the Transmet 1-Shot "I hate it here"
I still can't find No Justice/No Piece #2 and Lost Heroes #4 then it will be complete (wow, that reads really sad...) |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| brianwood wrote: | Everytime someone tells me they own all my books, I mention my Witchblade/Vampirella crossover and watch their eyes go blank.
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I totally have that book!
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brianwood
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| lwc_2001 wrote: |
You signed mine (both covers actually) when you were in Columbus. I recently found the trade of Astronauts in Trouble and the Transmet 1-Shot "I hate it here"
I still can't find No Justice/No Piece #2 and Lost Heroes #4 then it will be complete (wow, that reads really sad...) |
I don't know what Lost Heroes is...
There was also a fairly inconsequential short Vampirella story I did with Dean Haspiel for one of the Vampirella Magazines. And, of course, Gen X. The truly hardcore would have my self-published Junk Food City's and the self-pubbed anthology PURE, that contained the original 14-page Channel Zero story (reprinted in Public Domain).
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[quote="brianwood"] | lwc_2001 wrote: |
I don't know what Lost Heroes is...
There was also a fairly inconsequential short Vampirella story I did with Dean Haspiel for one of the Vampirella Magazines. And, of course, Gen X. The truly hardcore would have my self-published Junk Food City's and the self-pubbed anthology PURE, that contained the original 14-page Channel Zero story (reprinted in Public Domain).
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ARGH! I see your challenge Mr. Wood!
Does NJ/NP#2 exist? I've never been able to find it... at cons or the web...
Comicbook Database said you were an Inker for Lost Heroes #4. |
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brianwood
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| lwc_2001 wrote: |
Does NJ/NP#2 exist? I've never been able to find it... at cons or the web...
Comicbook Database said you were an Inker for Lost Heroes #4. |
I actually really like the story I drew for NJNP. My girlfriend at the time wrote it, and it was sort of a CZ-esque thing that dealt with war crimes. And I just looked up Lost Heroes on eBay, and can say with certainty that I had nothing to do with it! 
I know I have 2 or 3 copies of NJNP. I should scan it, next time I am digging through the storage space.
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UPDATE: DMZ Vol. 1 pushed up to over 40,000 copies in this last quarter, up almost 4,000 from post #1 in this thread.
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| brianwood wrote: | | UPDATE: DMZ Vol. 1 pushed up to over 40,000 copies in this last quarter, up almost 4,000 from post #1 in this thread. |
Count me in for one of those copies. I got Vol. 1 for my dad for Christmas. He blasted through it in a day and loved it. Gonna have to pick up Vol. 2 on the next trip to the comic shop.
Glad to hear it's going so well, it's a great book.
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