Comix Experience Best Sellers 2014: Comics

The second half of my look at what's going on at Comix Experience's stores in 2014, below the cut.  This one has the major major differences!

Really, go back and read the previous post for some "big picture" figures for the two Comix Experience stores-- the "Mothership", and Outpost.

The Mothership is primarily a book store, but it's top-selling comic sold just over 2x what the best-selling book at Outpost sold.  The #100 best-seller sold like 120% of Outpost's.  Here's what the main store's best-selling comics looked like:

1 SANDMAN OVERTURE #2 (OF 6)
2 SANDMAN OVERTURE #3 (OF 6)
3 SAGA #19
4 LOW #1
5 SAGA #20
6 SAGA #23
7 SAGA #22
8 DEADLY CLASS #1
9 SAGA #21
10 WICKED & DIVINE #1
11 SAGA #24
12 SAGA #18
13 OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #1
14 WICKED & DIVINE #2
15 SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1
16 LOW #2
17 SANDMAN OVERTURE #1 (OF 6)
18 FADE OUT #1
19 MS MARVEL #1 ANMN
20 TREES #1
21 DEADLY CLASS #2
22 SANDMAN OVERTURE #4 (OF 6)
23 LOW #3
24 STRAY BULLETS THE KILLERS #1
WYTCHES #1
26 WICKED & DIVINE #3
27 BLACK SCIENCE #3
28 MULTIVERSITY #1
29 BATMAN #29
30 FADE OUT #2
SEX CRIMINALS #7
32 DEADLY CLASS #3
33 MOON KNIGHT #1
34 DEADLY CLASS #4
LOW #4
36 BATGIRL #35
SEX CRIMINALS #4
WALKING DEAD #127
39 SEX CRIMINALS #6
BATMAN #27
DEADLY CLASS #6
42 SOUTHERN BASTARDS #2
43 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1
SEX CRIMINALS #8
THOR #1
TREES #2
47 BITCH PLANET #1
BLACK SCIENCE #5
DEADLY CLASS #5
MS MARVEL #2
51 BATMAN #28
BATMAN ETERNAL #1
SEX CRIMINALS #5
54 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 (OF 4)
WALKING DEAD #120
WALKING DEAD #121
57 TREES #3
58 OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #2
WALKING DEAD #129
60 TOOTH & CLAW #1
61 BATMAN #30
BATMAN #31
BATMAN #32
BATMAN ETERNAL #3
BLACK SCIENCE #4
DEADLY CLASS #7
MOON KNIGHT #2
WALKING DEAD #123
WALKING DEAD #124
WICKED & DIVINE #5
71 BLACK SCIENCE #6
WALKING DEAD #125
WALKING DEAD #128
74 ORIGINAL SIN #1 (OF 8)
ROCKET RACCOON #1 ANMN
SUPREME BLUE ROSE #1
77 BATMAN ETERNAL #2
FADE OUT #3
JUPITERS LEGACY #4
SOUTHERN BASTARDS #3
TREES #4
WALKING DEAD #119
WALKING DEAD #122
WALKING DEAD #126
85 BATMAN #33
DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 (OF 4)
ILLEGITIMATES #2 (OF 6)
MS MARVEL #4
OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #3
WALKING DEAD #132
91 EAST OF WEST #10
EAST OF WEST #9
MOON KNIGHT #3
MS MARVEL #3
WALKING DEAD #130
96 MULTIVERSITY THE SOCIETY OF SUPER-HEROES #1
ORIGINAL SIN #2 (OF 8)
SEX CRIMINALS #9
VELVET #3
100 EAST OF WEST #11
EAST OF WEST #14
VELVET #4

As you can see, I remembered to adjust SANDMAN: OVERTURE's multiple covers into a single line item(s) this year, and, whoosh, they score the top two spots pretty handily.  But you also know why?  BECAUSE I CAN REORDER THEM.  I'm reordering copies every other month or so... which I would have done for some of those Image comics as well but Image is Inventory Adverse on comics and so we sold less copies of their periodicals, I would say, across the board, than I would have if they had generous overprint policies. It's a drag because (despite Image being the #1 publisher at the Mothership), they're absolutely below where they COULD be if I could reorder comics any time after week #1 on sale (if then)

My big Flops of the year: AXIS, which, fuck, didn't even CHART over here, and MULTIVERSITY, which I'll be trying to flog single copies of until the end of the decade, most likely.

 

Meanwhile, Outpost is the big big comic store, and, even more so, the big big big Marvel store, so their Top 100 looks pretty radically different:

1 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1
2 BATMAN ETERNAL #1
3 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4
BATMAN #31
5 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 ANMN
6 BATMAN #27
THOR #1
8 BATMAN #28
BATMAN #29
BATMAN #30
11 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #3 ANMN
SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #5
13 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #5
BATMAN ETERNAL #2
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #11.NOW ANMN
16 ALL NEW X-MEN #23 ANMN
17 SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #6
18 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #14
19 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #6
BATMAN #33
BATMAN #34
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #13 ANMN
LOW #1
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #30 ANMN
25 ALL NEW X-MEN #22.NOW ANMN
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #7 EOSV
BATMAN #32
BATMAN #35
BATMAN #36
ROCKET RACCOON #1 ANMN
31 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 (OF 4)
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #12 ANMN
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #31 ANMN
34 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #9 SV
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #29 ANMN
36 ALL NEW X-MEN #24 ANMN
BATMAN ETERNAL #4
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #10 INF
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #27.NOW ANMN
40 BATMAN ETERNAL #3
41 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #8 EOSV
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #25
43 ALL NEW X-MEN #21
DEATH OF WOLVERINE #4 (OF 4)
FOREVER EVIL #5 (OF 7)
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #32
47 ALL NEW X-MEN #25
THOR #2
49 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #10 SV
BATMAN ETERNAL #5
MS MARVEL #1
ORIGINAL SIN #1 (OF 8)
ORIGINAL SIN #3 (OF 8)
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #26
UNCANNY X-MEN #17
UNCANNY X-MEN #23 SIN
57 ORIGINAL SIN #2 (OF 8)
UNCANNY X-MEN #18
59 BATMAN ETERNAL #6
FOREVER EVIL #6 (OF 7)
HARLEY QUINN #2
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #28 ANMN
UNCANNY X-MEN #16
64 BATMAN SUPERMAN #7
DAREDEVIL #1 ANMN
DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 (OF 4)
FOREVER EVIL #7 (OF 7)
SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #7
UNCANNY X-MEN #19.NOW ANMN
70 ALL NEW X-MEN #26
LUMBERJANES #1 (OF 8)
UNCANNY X-MEN #20 ANMN
73 ALL NEW X-MEN #28
BATMAN ETERNAL #7
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #15
MS MARVEL #2
UNCANNY X-MEN #22
78 ALL NEW X-MEN #29
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #11 SV
BATMAN ETERNAL #8
UNCANNY X-MEN #24 SIN
UNCANNY X-MEN #26
X-MEN #9 XFV
84 ALL NEW X-MEN #27
BATMAN SUPERMAN ANNUAL #1
DAREDEVIL #2 ANMN
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #33
WYTCHES #1
89 FADE OUT #1
MULTIVERSITY #1
ORIGINAL SIN #0
SAGA #18
UNCANNY X-MEN #21
94 BATGIRL #35
NIGHT OF LIVING DEADPOOL #1 (OF 4)
OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #1
ROBIN RISES OMEGA #1
SAGA #19
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #2
UNCANNY X-MEN #25 SIN

Yeah, way way more super-heroes, right?  Totally not even close to similar sales charts!

But remember: The mothership sells about 180% the sales of Outpost.

If you were to combine the two stores, it would look something like this company-wide (though I did this by hand, so admit there could be some mistakes line by line) -- the balanced view:

1 SANDMAN OVERTURE #2 (OF 6)
2 SAGA #19
3 SANDMAN OVERTURE #3 (OF 6)
4 LOW #1
5 SAGA #20
6 SAGA #22
7 SAGA #23
8 DEADLY CLASS #1
SAGA #18
10 SAGA #21
11 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1
SAGA #24
WICKED & DIVINE #1
14 OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #1
15 MS MARVEL #1
16 BATMAN #29
17 WICKED & DIVINE #2
18 FADE OUT #1
19 BATMAN #27
20 BATMAN ETERNAL #1
21 THOR #1
22 BATMAN #28
23 BATMAN #31
24 BATMAN #30
25 LOW #2
SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1
27 WYTCHES #1
28 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 (OF 4)
29 BATMAN ETERNAL #2
30 BATMAN #32
MULTIVERSITY #1
32 DEADLY CLASS #2
TREES #1
34 ROCKET RACCOON #1 ANMN
35 BATMAN #33
36 SANDMAN OVERTURE #1 (OF 6)
37 BATMAN ETERNAL #3
38 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 ANMN
39 BATGIRL #35
MOON KNIGHT #1
MS MARVEL #2
42 ALL NEW X-MEN #23 ANMN
ORIGINAL SIN #1 (OF 8)
44 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4
45 BATMAN #35
WALKING DEAD #127
WICKED & DIVINE #3
48 BATMAN #34
FADE OUT #2
LOW #3
51 ALL NEW X-MEN #22.NOW ANMN
52 BATMAN ETERNAL #4
DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 (OF 4)
54 BLACK SCIENCE #3
55 BATMAN #36
56 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #3 ANMN
DEADLY CLASS #3
ORIGINAL SIN #2 (OF 8)
THOR #2
60 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #11.NOW ANMN
LUMBERJANES #1 (OF 8)
ORIGINAL SIN #3 (OF 8)
SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #5
64 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #5
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #13 ANMN
MS MARVEL #1 ANMN
67 BATMAN ETERNAL #5
DEATH OF WOLVERINE #4 (OF 4)
MOON KNIGHT #2
SANDMAN OVERTURE #4 (OF 6)
71 ALL NEW X-MEN #29
DAREDEVIL #1 ANMN
DEADLY CLASS #4
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #14
75 BITCH PLANET #1
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #12 ANMN
UNCANNY X-MEN #16
78 ALL NEW X-MEN #24 ANMN
BATMAN ETERNAL #6
80 ALL NEW X-MEN #21
ALL NEW X-MEN #25
82 BATMAN #37
BATMAN ETERNAL #7
LOW #4
SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #6
86 SEX CRIMINALS #5
TOOTH & CLAW #1
TREES #2
UNCANNY X-MEN #17
UNCANNY X-MEN #23 SIN
WALKING DEAD #120
WALKING DEAD #121
WALKING DEAD #129
94 BATMAN ETERNAL #8
DETECTIVE COMICS #27
SEX CRIMINALS #6
UNCANNY X-MEN #18
98 MS MARVEL #4
99 SEX CRIMINALS #4
100 WALKING DEAD #123
WALKING DEAD #125
WALKING DEAD #126

So, yeah, that's 2014 for me, what do you have to say?

-B