A couple weeks back, I blogged about how Buffy To Vampires: Die! was crossing over to comics for an 8th season. In that post, I speculated that the sales numbers should be huge, in contemporary comic terms, since most Buffy fans, of which there were enough to keep a TV show alive for seven seasons, would probably want to 'see' the additional season, even if it came in comic book form. My guess was that it would sell in excess of 100,000 copies, and possibly even as many as several hundred thousand copies, by the time it had come out in serial form and then been collected.
Well, issue # 1 came out this past Wednesday, and there was news the next day of it selling out the initial 100,000 print-run and that a 2nd printing was going to be done and available in a couple weeks. For those who don't follow comics, it's not that unusual to get a 2nd printing, but selling out that large a print run immediately is. Civil War had much bigger upfront numbers, but the vast majority of comic titles sell under 100,000 these days, even weeks after the comic debuted. (Captain America # 25 would obviously be another exception to that statement.) So this bodes well for the series, and possibly to the notion of doing canonical followups via the comic industry.
Haven't read the issue in question yet, but maybe this weekend. Tammy (unsurprisingly) enjoyed it a lot.
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