Void Rivals #1 Rockets to Over 101,000 Orders at FOC

We’ve been telling you that Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici’s new collection Void Rivals from Skybound was going to generate loads of curiosity.

We’ve been telling you since ComicsPRO in February that Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici’s new collection Void Rivals from Skybound was going to generate loads of curiosity, particularly as a result of it was introducing a brand new shared universe. And now we all know how massive that curiosity is, as Bleeding Cool understands comedian outlets ordered over a whopping 101,000 copies earlier than the shut of FOC on Monday evening.

Kirkman’s newest hit entry into the 100k Club was buoyed by Kirkman himself introducing two new sorts of retailer incentives tied to Void Rivals #1within the type of experiences, not variant covers – a customized video message for shops that ordered 100 copies and a particular one-hour digital occasion with Kirkman for shops that ordered 1000 copies.

It’s additionally notable that Skybound introduced these incentives by means of a retailer name on the eleventh of May the place Robert Kirkman, Sean Mackiewicz and Morgan Perry all shared the large secrets and techniques behind the e book, even when I need to have been mistakenly left off the invite listing. Kirkman personally requested retailers to “#KeepTheSecret” they usually have, with nobody leaking it to me regardless of my finest efforts. That contains the large spoiler variant cowl that apparently reveals the key of the shared universe and, at a 1:100 incentive degree, could have lower than 1000 copies accessible in comedian outlets.

Skybound continued to present a recording of the decision to any retailers who e-mailed them earlier than FOC, with the corporate placing the form of belief in retailers that different publishers do not usually do with their massive surprises and driving some large orders over the past week – sorry, Marvel, appears like there was a approach to preserve your massive Amazing Spider-Man loss of life a secret with out angering retailers. Now the countdown begins as to when the large shared universe secret of Void Rivals #1 might be revealed – although nobody has but to inform me that I did not precisely guess it final month, so meaning an “I told you so” is coming. And with Skybound demonstrating that retailers might be trusted to, properly, #PreserveTheSecret it will be fascinating to see if different comedian e book publishers observe swimsuit, or if Kirkman’s experiential incentives turn into extra frequent in gentle of the Void Rivals success.

Void Rivals #1 is on-sale Wednesday, the 14th of June at your native comedian store…that’s, in the event that they ordered sufficient copies.

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SERIES PREMIERE The blockbuster OBLIVION SONG group of ROBERT KIRKMAN & LORENZO DE FELICI debut the most important new comedian e book collection of 2023 with the launch of AN ALL-NEW SHARED UNIVERSE and a SURPRISE you will not see coming! War rages across the Sacred Ring, the place the final remnants of two worlds have collapsed round a black gap in a unending battle. However, when pilot Darak and his rival Solila each crash on a desolate planet, these two enemies should discover a approach to escape collectively. But are they alone on this unusual planet? And what darkish forces await that threaten the whole universe? In Shops: Jun 14, 2023 SRP: $3.99