Watchmen sales

[alexxkay]

Alan Moore fans know that he has given up on "Hollywood money" -- he now requests that any payments he is legally due from such movies be sent to the appropriate artists, instead. But I think he's getting a pretty significant bump in income from the Watchmen movie, indirectly. My local comics store owner says he used to sell a small but steady stream of Watchmen GNs, quite respectable for a book over 20 years old... but in the month since the trailer came out, his sales of that book went up by roughly a factor of *thirty*! DC has gone back to press, for a new printing of 900,000 copies.

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[umbran.livejournal.com]

*nod*. Part of that stream myself. The copy I had read originally moved out some years ago with a roommate, and I wanted to reread the original before the movie came out.