Comix Experience Subscription orders for April

I haven’t done a lot of charts here, mostly because the response is always so muted. I know only a small number of people have the Numbers Wonk gene, but if you’re one of those people, here’s a peek behind the curtain of Comix Experience, so you can see how things work. That’s because it’s paperwork day here at Casa Hibbs, and one of the things I’m working on is the April subscription orders. Unlike a lot of stores, we ask subs to order month-by-month. You don’t say you want “Batman” – you say you want “Batman #665” followed by “Batman #666” and so on.

The following list is our top 40 sub orders for the month of April 2007. The deadline to turn this in was February 14th, so most of our customers made their decisions 6-8 weeks ago – this especially means on books that are on #2 or #3, sub counts tend to be lower as customers haven’t SEEN #1 with their own eyes yet. People tend to be willing to “take a flyer” on a new #1, much less so on the #2 and #3. Once you hit #4+, these numbers get increasingly accurate.

The first column is the numeric rank, the second column is the percentage of our total subscribers who ordered the book, and the third column is (obviously) the title. That is to say: our #1 preordered book for April (Astonishing #22) was preordered by 41% of our subscription customers.

Hopefully this will format OK as I transfer it from Excel to Word to Blogger. If not? Deal!

1 41% Astonishing X-Men #22 2 36% 52 Weeks 48-52 3 34% JLA #8 4 31% JSA #5 5 29% Batman #665 6 27% Justice #11 27% The Spirit #5 8 26% Daredevil #96 9 23% Brave & Bold #3 23% Fables #60 11 22% Hellboy: Darkness Calls #1 22% Buffy Season 8 #2 13 20% New Avengers #29 14 19% Detective #831 19% Shazam: Monster Society #3 19% Runaways #25 19% Ultimate Spidey #108 19% Uncanny X-Men #485 19% Thunderbolts #113 20 18% World War II #1-4 18% Midnighter #6 18% Iron Fist #5 18% Punisher Max #46 18% Ultimate Power #5 25 17% Teen Titans #46 17% Y, The Last Man #56 17% Ex Machina #27 17% Stephen King's Dark Tower #3 17% Ultimate FF #41 30 16% Green Lantern #19 16% Jack of Fables #10 16% The Boys #10 16% Mighty Avengers #2 16% X-Factor #18 35 15% BPRD Garden of Souls #2 15% Dr. Fate #1 15% Ultimate X-Men #81 38 14% Supergirl & LSH #15 14% Optic Nerve #11 14% Love & Rockets #19 14% Fantastic Four #545

Anything interesting pop out to you? (this isn’t a test or anything)

-B