Comments on: Even more WATCHMEN trades available

by: A-

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:57:25 +0000

The good news is that those books are selling to non comic book readers but movie enthusiasts. I applaud DC for keeping the trades in print when they can and the prices reasonable. Bravo DC. From NY

by: Alan Coil

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:33:05 +0000

To be exactly precise, Watchmen is not a graphic novel. It is a 12-issue comic book series that has been collected in a trade.

However, whatever it takes to sell it to the LCD is fine by me. The more money any comic book company makes, the better for all of us. If calling it a “graphic novel” gets Charlie Knuckledragger to buy it, then it is indeed okay to call it a “graphic novel”.

by: Craig I

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:36:45 +0000

I think it’s important to note that unlike almost all major comic book adaptions before it, WATCHMEN is actually based on a single GN and not a character with a large backstory — thus making it MUCH easier for the movie hype to turn into sales at bookstores. Spider-man, Iron Man, Batman, and Hellboy, as good as most of those movies were, did not directly translate into GN sales because there wasn’t a specific one you could directly point an audience towards. The recent exceptions that come to mind are 300 and to a lesser extent SIN CITY — the GNs actually had a big sales pop. The closest I can compare this to is when John Grisham’s THE FIRM was being made into a movie, while the book was popular in its own right, suddenly the paperback was everywhere.

by: Torsten Adair

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:11:50 +0000

Other bestselling GNs (hitting the hourly Top 100 at BN.com) since Dark Knight: the deluxe edition of Comic Book Tattoo (!), Anita Blake v2, Killing Joke, Dark Knight Returns, In Odd We Trust. Quite a few GNs in the Top 1000.

Oh… and the movie novelization of The Dark Knight, by some guy name O’Neill, has hit the New York Times Mass Market bestseller list.