June 2012 Comic sales.

BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN #1 107,517
BEFORE WATCHMEN: COMEDIAN #1 104,142
BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE #1 102,955
BEFORE WATCHMEN: NITE OWL #1 101,297

Only books that sold more last month? Avengers vs. X Men, Batman and Justice League.

Mike

Each copy sold was for a review on the internet.

If this thing actually finishes... and I'm assuming it will... I wonder how they'll collect it. Each mini separately, the whole thing in one magilla or some other configuration. If they do the whole thing as one volume, it will dwarf the original in sheer size.

From here on out, DC will only sell the original Watchmen as part of a single hardcover volume that includes all of the Before Watchmen comics.

Atomic Robo, Roger Langridge's Snarked, and Usagi Yojimbo.

Huh, oh sorry, guess I was asleep and dreaming for a minute there!

Bear in mind those numbers reflect what the retailers bought from Diamond, not what readers bought from the retailers. My guess is the final issues in December-February will be only half those amounts. Which is still sadly better than most comics these days.

I'd also guess that they will be reprinted both as stand-alone volumes and probably in an "ABOLUTE BEFORE WATCHMEN" slipcase edition for people with money to burn.

My guess is a third or less.

On the reprints, I'm thinking they'll do it like Morisson's Seven Soldiers, in two volumes.

Yeah two volumes, which is why they'll do a slipcase.

Nah, they are mostly six part series, designed for a prolonged series of monthly releases, they will most certainly collect each series individually first, then collect them together in a two part trade, then a slip cover edition of the part trade, then a huge omnibus, and then sell a special hard cover slip case edition, directors cut with added materials, interviews and sketches. And then a big slip case edition hardcover collecting the whole BW series with the original Watchmen. And that's when they announce "After Watchmen."

Minutemen #2 and Ozymandias #1 look very good.

Minutemen #2 seems to have a lot going on, and is starting to feel like what I imagined the Alan Moore prequel would have been like.

Ozymandias #1 has gorgeous art and I like Len Wein's wordy style for the script.

Both seem to have a lot of story going on and not decompressed. I'm still not going to buy them though, but I really want to now.