Amazon Top 50

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


1 (+2). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 2
2 (-). Dork Diaries 4 (Kindle)
3 (-2). The Walking Dead, Vol. 16: A Larger World
4 (-). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise Part 1
5 (-). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 7) *
6 (+1). Dork Diaries 4: Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess
7 (+4). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 3 *
8 (-). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)
9 (-3). Darth Vader and Son
10 (N). Get Jiro! *
11 (+14). Batman: Earth One *
12 (R). Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
13 (-3). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
14 (-2). Batman: The Killing Joke
15 (+8). Watchmen
16 (N). The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century #3 2009 *
17 (R). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
18 (-5). Dork Diaries 1 (Kindle)
19 (-7). Big Nate and Friends (Kindle)
20 (-6). The Walking Dead, Vol. 15: We Find Ourselves
21 (-5). Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 1
22 (-3). The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (revised and expanded edition)
23 (-14). Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52)
24 (+11). Kick-Ass 2
25 (-1). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 5)
26 (-8). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
27 (R). Big Nate: From the Top
28 (-7). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4)
29 (-). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Adventures
30 (+1). Dork Diaries 2 (Kindle)
31 (-9). Dork Diaries 3 (Kindle)
32 (+8). Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 2 - Knightquest
33 (-16). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Kindle edition)
34 (-19). Big Nate: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
35 (-7). Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
36 (+11). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
37 (N). King City
38 (-1). The Walking Dead, Book 7
39 (-2). The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out
40 (+8). Big Nate Fun Blaster *
41 (-14). The Walking Dead, Book 5
42 (-22). Batman: Year One
43 (R). The Walking Dead, Vol. 11: Fear The Hunters
44 (R). Watchmen (Kindle edition)
45 (N). Harvey Pekar's Cleveland
46 (N). Fatale Volume 1: Death Chases Me *
47 (-2). Batman: The Black Mirror
48 (R). Batman: Hush
49 (-8). The Complete Persepolis
50 (R). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art


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 second volume of Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise, ends the month the same way it began: at the top of the Amazon comics chart. It swapped places with last weeks #1, the latest Walking Dead collection, while the fourth Dork Diaries volume remains sandwiched between them.
• There are a lot of new entries on the chart this week,  led by a surprising top ten debut of Vertigo's Get Jiro!, no doubt due to the involvement of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. Other debuts include the third and final volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century; Brandon Graham's King City collection; Harvey Pekar's Cleveland; and the first collection of Brubaker & Phillips' Lovecraftian noir comic Fatale.
• Dead Watch: Just seven Walking Dead collections on the chart this week, down three from last week.
• Bat Watch: Ten Batman titles on the chart this week, same as last. Batman: Earth One climbs up the chart but not quite enough to reach the top ten. It comes out in a couple of weeks, right before the release of the movie, so I expect that convergence will push it up closer to the top...