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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 1st February 2014 – Superior, After All These Years…

Published Sat, 01 Feb 2014 10:00:43 -0600

Last updated Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:07:46 -0600

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics. We salute you, and the keeness you bring to your passion.

Superior Spider-Man still tops the chart – can you believe Marvel will cancel this title in favour of mealy mouthed, wishy washy liberal do gooder Peter Parker? It also beats Marvel's second Part One of the Trial Of Jean Grey, with Saga cementing its place in the comics landscape in second place… also note the launch of the new Serenity comic places on the chart, with East Of West close behind. Four for Marvel, three Image, two for DC, one for Dark Horse.

Superior Spider-Man #26
Saga #18
Guardians of the Galaxy #11
Uncanny Avengers #16
Serenity Leaves on the Wind #1
Damian Son of Batman #4
Batman & Robin Annual #2
Thor God of Thunder #18
East Of West #9
Black Science #3

Thanks to the following retailers:

Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa
Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California
Pittsburgh Comics of McMurray, Pennsylvania
Jetpack Comics of Rochester, New Hampshire
Impulse Creations of Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Fallout Shelter of Highland Park, New Jersey
Graham Crackers Comics with nine stores across Illinois
Eide's Entertainment of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jesse James Comics of Phoenix, Arizona
Earth-2 Comics Northridge, California
Earth-2 Comics Sherman Oaks, California
Librairie Astro of Montreal, Que, Canada

Who had to say…

Nothing really exceptional happening this week, although it is nice to see Previews (of all things) showing up on a top ten list. I think this is a direct result of my telling people that the ahem "creative constipation" that's been a problem with publishers for several months seems to be loosening up. We've gotten several comments from people about how websites are good, but they don't believe a project's really "real" until they see it in Previews.

It seems like people are coming back for Miracleman. A new issue of Saga always brings the customers running, and Black Science is a hit. It also looks like Guardians of the Galaxy got a boost from tying in to Trail of Jean Grey.

Great week of comics for a fifth ship week. Serenity sold better than expected, but not out. Marvel took the top 4 spots on our top ten, DC took the rest. Saga and East Of West from Image should always ship in the same week. It took Eclipse only 6 comics to reprint the black and white Miracleman stories in color. Marvel is padding their reprints with, sketches, articles and black and white reprints from the 50's Marvelman series, so it may take them maybe 8 or 9 issues.

Saga #18 was almost the #1 book of the week for us, which would have been nice. Guess we'll have to wait another 3 months to see if it can do it when it returns..

I enjoyed the comments from customers as to why Guardians of the Galaxy had a big #1 on the cover when it was actually part 2 of the Trial of Jean Grey. DC Annuals performed very well. Miracleman #2 is selling at less than half of #1 so far. I think having the back half black and white reprints again may have killed it. $5 for 22 pages of stuff they actually want to read is too much. They will also pass on the $30 HCs and wait for the eventual TP collecting the whole Moore story.

Saga keeps climbing the sales charts here in the shop. It's now our third most subscribed to book! That's HUGE for an Image book that isn't Walking Dead. Black Science continues to scoop up more readers and was definitely one of the most talked about books in the shop this week. Image all around had customers talking this week, with Invincible, Revival, Thief of Thieves & East of West.

Guardians of the Galaxy from Marvel continues to sell better and better and now with the All-New X-men crossover, it's hit fever pitch. Lots of talk about the movie too.

Been a big week for Deadly Class #1 here. Apparently people are finally reading all the reviews and flooding in here to make sure they get a first print copy.

Thunderbolts sold out already. Thankfully there are more on hand for reorders. Its sales are still increasing issue to issue. Ed Benes doing the art on Superman was a good boost. Good strong sales this week.

Finally got more Deadpool back issues along with Deadpool variant covers on various other titles and with in a week a majority of them are now sold. Older Worlds Finest issues is starting to see some movement. Maybe thanks to the upcoming Superman Batman movie hype?

All about Image Comics this week. Sold out on Saga and Black Science both. However Guardians of the Galaxy was still the king of the mountain with the most overall sold.

Image titles also sold great in the back-issue bins. Witchblade,Gen 13 and Spawn was sought after by a least half dozen people. I think middle age customers are finding their child hood favorites.