On February 13th, The Standard #1 was released in select comic stores around the world, globally distributed by Diamond. I realise things have been pretty quiet on the site since the big day, so I figured it was about time I gave you all an update on how things went.
The answer to that is… very well. I began hearing stories of store sell-outs in both the US and the UK from as soon as the first day of release. Even on Comic Book Resources’ review column, “The Buy Pile”, the columnist talked about The Standard #1 selling out before he could get his hands on it. The recurring story seems to be one of retailers underordering the book, not anticipating the level of consumer demand amongst readers. And with the book selling out at Diamond before its release, retailers who then rushed to reorder the book found themselves unable to do so! Diamond sent us the reorder request numbers, and they’re currently standing at over 25% of the original purchase order, which is apparently a very strong ratio.
But if you missed out on getting your copy of The Standard #1… fear not! Good ol’ John and the ComixTribe Gang have got your hookup! We have additional supplies of the comic, sent directly to us via Diamond, that were originally be going to used for the convention circuit, but with the overwhelming demand we’re willing to part with them and distribute them out to interested comic shops. So, if you still want to get your hands on The Standard #1, tell your local comic shop to contact us, and we can ship some copies of the comic over to them. Just have them send a message to this address:
thestandardcomic@gmail.com
Getting my first book out through Diamond was an incredible experience, and a real learning curve… now, we have The Standard #2 to look forward to!
