200,000 Copies of Watchmen Ordered By DC

[David]

From ICv2.com:

ICv2 has learned that, based on the overwhelming response to the Watchmen movie trailer accompanying The Dark Knight, DC Comics has ordered a huge new printing of 200,000 copies of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel.  A DC spokesperson told ICv2 that after the movie trailer hit DC was receiving huge orders for the Watchmen graphic novel from every channel.

Even before the Watchmen movie trailer hit the Watchmen graphic novel was already the top-selling American graphic novel in the bookstore market thus far in 2008.  In the wake of the launch of the movie trailer Watchmen trade shot up to #5 on Amazon.

[VinceB]

That's a hell of a lot of paper.

I hope all of 'em sell through. 

[Alec B.]

Let's help sell them by getting the word out there to our non-comic reading friends! 

Sorry.....

Just trying to be inspirational. 

I'm glad for the success of the trailer and the interest for the book spiraling out of it.

Respect the source material. 

[Mike Smith]

 It looks like I will be buying one of those copies.  I loaned my copy of the Watchmen out to a friend who then loaned it to one of his friends.  The friend of the friend has moved away taking my copy of the Watchmen with him.

 

[Colonel2Sheds]

Let's help sell them by getting the word out there to our non-comic reading friends!  Yes

Way to rally the troops! We'll be like DCs real life Newsboy Legion!

[Alec B.]

Way to rally the troops! We'll be like DCs real life Newsboy Legion!

And take trips to Kadmus. 

[Equinox]

On a related note to the "motion comics" thread elsewhere, Alan Moore's name doesn't appear anywhere on the iTunes Watchmen comic.  Must be nice to make enough money that you can refuse making more money later on down the road... 

[Alec B.]

On a related note to the "motion comics" thread elsewhere, Alan Moore's name doesn't appear anywhere on the iTunes Watchmen comic.  Must be nice to make enough money that you can refuse making more money later on down the road... 

I don't think he wishes to have anything to do with it anymore....at least....as the new ways they are promoting the story in different forms.

I think Alan Moore doesn't want to sell out. He wants to stay strictly in comics.

Alec

[Equinox]

I don't think he wishes to have anything to do with it anymore....at least....as the new ways they are promoting the story in different forms.

I think Alan Moore doesn't want to sell out. He wants to stay strictly in comics.

Alec

Entertainment Weekly, of all places, had a nice recent interview with him; check it out at http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20213004,00.html

[Alec B.]

Entertainment Weekly, of all places, had a nice recent interview with him; check it out at http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20213004,00.html

He does have a point. Even if the 3-hour movie is awesome for the mainplot, the extras are going to be on a separate DVD. So, he did do something with Watchmen that can only be done with comics.

You won't be able to have the comic within a comic with a movie. How would you do the mirrored imagery of issue #5?

Nice find, Equinox. Karma to you!

[Chad (Grilled Cheese Sandwich)]

If the movie doesn't go over and these books start piling up, unsold, do you think that they will treat them like the t-shirts and hats that get printed up for the eventual losing team at the superbowl? Those are sent to Africa or India as aid items...do you think in three years time, children in the Sudan will be trying to cipher out who the hell Rorschach is, or using the pages as toilet paper?

[Jay Tomio]

Does anybody think if that Watchmen is at all successful and with the apparent success of Dark Knight that DC in matter of less than a year changes their (I don't think they have with mainstream audiences but comic fans do) and really takes a substantial move into the 'now' or would that be too big a statement and giving too much credence to the impact on movies to comics (for the record I consider them all as 'everything as everything' - not connected at all but just the same thing). Does it set up the next project as a huge gauge of what step DC is going to go forward on?

I haven't seen Dark knight yet - did people walk out of it with the thought that this is again ' a 'now' movie.

[WetRats]

On a related note to the "motion comics" thread elsewhere, Alan Moore's name doesn't appear anywhere on the iTunes Watchmen comic.  Must be nice to make enough money that you can refuse making more money later on down the road... 

I imagine he was pleased with the royalty cheque for the 200,000 new copies of the graphic novel.

[VinceB]

300,000!

[DGoodhart]

Does anybody think if that Watchmen is at all successful and with the apparent success of Dark Knight that DC in matter of less than a year changes their (I don't think they have with mainstream audiences but comic fans do) and really takes a substantial move into the 'now' or would that be too big a statement and giving too much credence to the impact on movies to comics (for the record I consider them all as 'everything as everything' - not connected at all but just the same thing). Does it set up the next project as a huge gauge of what step DC is going to go forward on?

I haven't seen Dark knight yet - did people walk out of it with the thought that this is again ' a 'now' movie.

Huh?  Sorry, this one's a little unclear to me...

[zack kruse]

It looks like I will be buying one of those copies.  I loaned my copy of the Watchmen out to a friend who then loaned it to one of his friends.  The friend of the friend has moved away taking my copy of the Watchmen with him.

 

Ah, the dreaded double-third-party-loan. I feel your pain.

[Equinox]

I ordered a new copy from DCBS this month... 

[Brian G]

I saw three people reading it on the subway in the last four days. I think it's great that the hype of the movie leads to more interest in the source material.

[Alec B.]

I saw three people reading it on the subway in the last four days. I think it's great that the hype of the movie leads to more interest in the source material.

I agree! 

[Mike Smith]

Ah, the dreaded double-third-party-loan. I feel your pain.

 When I got to work today I was surprised to find my copy of the Watchmen.  I guess it was mailed back to the coworker I loaned it to originally and then returned to me.