Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil #3 goes on sale May 2!
Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil #3 will be in comic book stores May 2. There is a preview of the first six pages on Newsarama.
Behind the scenes, I found a couple of interesting sales charts that aren’t usually seen by the public; they come from a newsletter called Diamond Dialog that Diamond Comic Distributors sends out. These reorder numbers are not counted in the initial sales charts where comics are ranked. These charts represent new sales once store owners actually have the book in their shop. They look good!
Re-orders: Normally comic shops have to place their orders on a comic like Shazam! MSoE #1 sight unseen. Sometimes a store may not order enough and find they need to reorder more copies. I never had an issue of Bone place in the top tier of reorders, much less the top 3!
Advanced re-orders: Based on the strong reaction to #1, retailers upped their orders for #2 before it even shipped!
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I cannot WAIT for this one!
Congrats on the success of the comic, Jeff!
Honestly, this should be more than a mini-series…
Comment by Nick — April 24, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
Pretty impressive numbers on Shazam, Jeff, but no surprise really. Looking forward to Shazam #3.
Comment by Steve Weiner — April 25, 2007 @ 8:48 am
Seriously, it’s tied for my favorite book that’s publishing now. Please Jeff I hope you’ll take it as a compliment when I tell you the other two in the three way tie are Astonishing X-Men and Buffy Season 8. I agree with Nick, feel free to do more Shazam! I give you permission. LOL. Know what’d be great? Turn some of this art into coloring books for kids and us kids at heart.
Comment by michael — April 25, 2007 @ 3:17 pm
Woohoo! That’s great news!!!
Comment by Kazu — April 27, 2007 @ 3:18 am
Very cool. I love this series.
Comment by david — May 14, 2007 @ 10:17 am
Mr. Smith I can count the number of good series that went on for a long time with the original author on one hand. The few that come to mind are The Savage Dragon, Untold Tales of Spiderman, Cerebus, and Bone. I am really glad I read the Dragonslayer and got started on another good series.
Being that I would like to be a writer myself. What are some tips to keeping things lively in otherwise dark situations? I think you did it very well towards the end where it gets pretty heavy, people are dying, Bone and Thorn get beaten up . I think Lucius sacrificing himself had a better impact from the way you treated it. From reading comics over the years I am very sick of characters dying. It has been done so often that it has lost the impact it once had (Infinite Crisis).
I also enjoyed Stupid Stupid Rat Tails and Rose. I enjoyed seeing Stan Sakai’s take on the rat creatures. The art on Rose makes me want to buy a Charles Vess’ artbook.
Thank you very much for your time
Jeffrey P. Davis
Comment by Jeffrey P. Davis — May 16, 2007 @ 7:01 pm