Stats Week: Amazon Top 50 for 2011

Here are the top 50 comics from the weekly Amazon Top 50 posts of 2011:

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth 
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4: Dog Days 
3. The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1 
4. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
5. Batman: Year One
6. Dork Diaries 1 (Kindle)
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (revised and expanded) 
9. Dork Diaries 3: Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star 
10. Dork Diaries 2 (Kindle) 
11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever 
12. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History 
13. The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out 
14. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Boxset 
15. Dork Diaries 3 (Kindle) 
16. 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth 
17. Batman: The Killing Joke 
18. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood 
19. V for Vendetta 
20. Watchmen 
21. Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl 
22. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book 
23. Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2 
24. The Walking Dead, Vol. 13 
25. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art 
26. Big Nate Out Loud 
27. Big Nate: From the Top 
28. Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition) 
29. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began 
30. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 8: Last Gleaming 
31. Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale 
32. The Walking Dead, Book 7 
33. Big Nate Boredom Buster 
34. Hark! A Vagrant 
35. Dork Diaries 3 ½: How to Dork Your Diary 
36. Fables Vol. 15: Rose Red 
37. Sailor Moon 1 
38. Habibi 
39. The Walking Dead, Book 1 
40. The Last Council (Amulet, Book 4) 
41. Dilbert: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar 
42. Batman: Hush 
43. The Walking Dead, Vol. 15 
44. The Walking Dead, Vol. 12 
45. Daytripper 
46. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes 
47. Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life 
48. Castle: Richard Castle's Deadly Storm 
49. Batman & Robin, Vol. 3: Batman Must Die! 
50. Batman: Noel

Methodology: I took my weekly (compiled on Friday) lists of Amazon Top 50 Comics & Graphic Novels, and for each week assigned a comic a numerical score equal to 51 minus its ranking; e.g. the #1 book got 50 points, the #2 book got 49 points, the #3 book got 48 points, etc., all the way down to the #50 book getting 1 point. I poured everything into a spreadsheet, and voila. There were a total of 324 different comics that made the Top 50 for at least one week during 2011. You can download a spreadsheet with all of the data here.

I'll be back later this week with more analysis and maybe some (hopefully interesting) charts.