Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this morning. All the previous caveats apply.


1 (-). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
2 (-). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)
3 (+1). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise Part 1
4 (+20). Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama *
5 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 7 *
6 (N). Darth Vader and Son
7 (+4). The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (revised and expanded edition)
8 (+21). The Walking Dead, Book 1
9 (-1). The Walking Dead, Book 5
10 (-4). The Walking Dead, Book 7
11 (+2). Big Nate and Friends (Kindle)
12 (-3). The Walking Dead, Book 6
13 (+20). The Walking Dead, Book 2
14 (+5). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 5)
15 (+20). Watchmen
16 (-4). The Walking Dead, Vol. 16 *
17 (-1). Dork Diaries 3 (Kindle)
18 (N). Big Nate: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? *
19 (-12). The Walking Dead, Vol. 15: We Find Ourselves
20 (+8). The Walking Dead, Book 4
21 (+17). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
22 (N). Leviathan
23 (+25). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4)
24 (N). Scott Pilgrim Color Hardcover Volume 1: Precious Little Life *
25 (N). The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus - Volume 2 *
26 (-6). The Walking Dead, Book 3
27 (+5). Dork Diaries 4 (Kindle) *
28 (-2). Dork Diaries 1 (Kindle)
29 (+12). Big Nate: From the Top (Kindle)
30 (+6). Batman: The Killing Joke
31 (-10). The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
32 (N). Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52) *
33 (-16). The Walking Dead, Vol. 12: Life Among Them
34 (-16). The Walking Dead, Vol. 13: Too Far Gone
35 (-8). A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One
36 (+10). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 2 *
37 (-). Big Nate Out Loud (Kindle)
38 (N). Chew Volume 5: Major League Chew *
39 (-14). The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
40 (-37). Avengers vs. X-Men *
41 (-11). The Walking Dead, Vol. 11: Fear the Hunters
42 (-3). The Adventures of Tintin 1
43 (-29). The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out
44 (R). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
45 (-23). Batman Incorporated, Vol. 1
46 (R). Dork Diaries 3½: How to Dork Your Diary
47 (R). Batman: Year One
48 (-6). Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
49 (-2). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
50 (R). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books (1-5)


Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.

N = New listing appearing on list for first time
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks


Commentary:

* The Walking Dead Compendium slips down to #94 on the overall chart, but that's still good enough to keep it atop the comics chart.

* Dead Watch: Only sixteen Walking Dead collections on the chart this week as six more shamble out of the top fifty. Which simple means that the glow of the end of season 2 of the television series is wearing off and we are returning towards normal WD levels.

* There are a lot of debuts this week, let by Jeffery Brown's Darth Vader & Son (proving that Star Wars + indie creater = sales!) Also debuting this week are the latest Big Nate comic compilation; Ian Edginton & D'Israeli's Leviathan; the first volume of the new colorized Scott Pilgrim; a big ol' omnibus of classic Spider-Man (Amazon shoppers love getting 50% off giant hardcovers!); Batman: The Court of Owls (the first of DC's New 52 collections to appear on the Amazon charts); and the latest Chew collection.

* There's a lot of volatility on the chart this week, with several titles posting swings of twenty places of more.

* One of those getting a huge swing is Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?, the follow-up to her award-winning best-seller Fun Home. It releases next week, and if it gets the kind of press attention her last book did look for it to be the comic that finally unseats The Walking Dead form the top of the chart.