Comix Experience orders for April by pieces

Here’s a list of the “top 40” comics “expected to arrive in April 2007”, and how I ordered them. These are my gut-reaction orders from about 8 weeks ago when I did my first pass through the catalog. These numbers may have switched around a bit at FOC time, but there’s usually not a TON of adjusting going on. Like above, we’ve got three columns. Again, rank, followed by a let’s-use-Diamond’s-percentage-of-BATMAN-metric, followed by title.

(note: some of this WON'T ACTUALLY SHIP IN APRIL 2007!)

1 231% Buffy Season 8 #2 2 169% Astonishing X-Men #22 3 138% JLA #8 4 131% 52 Week #52 131% Stephen King's Dark Tower #3 6 123% 52 Week #50 123% 52 Week #51 123% Hellboy: Darkness Calls #1 9 115% 52 Week #48 115% 52 Week #49 115% JSA #5 12 108% Brave & Bold #3 108% Justice #11 14 100% Batman #665 100% Runaways #25 16 92% Mighty Avengers #2 92% Optic Nerve #11 92% World War II #1 92% World War II #2 92% World War II #3 92% World War II #4 22 86% Ultimate Power #5 23 77% Madman Atomic Comics #1 77% New Avengers #29 77% Shazam: Monster Society #3 77% The Boys #10 77% Wonder Woman #7 77% Wonder Woman #8 29 71% The Spirit #5 30 69% Daredevil #96 69% Uncanny X-Men #485 69% X-Men #198 33 66% Thunderbolts #113 34 62% Army @ Love #2 62% Avengers: The Initiative #1 62% BPRD Garden of Souls #2 62% Detective #831 62% Fables #60 62% Iron Fist #5 62% Love & Rockets #19 62% Marvel Zombies/Army of Darkness #2 62% newuniversal #4

As you can probably see, I’m a lot bolder than my preorders in some places – especially “civilian friendly” material and new books. And there’s some places I’m decidedly more timid.

-B