Friday, November 09, 2012

Amazon Top 50

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


1 (-). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 7) *
2 (-). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 2
3 (-). The Third Wheel (Kindle) *
4 (-). How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
5 (-). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
6 (-). Totally MAD: 60 Years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity
7 (R). Avengers vs. X-Men *
8 (-1). Building Stories
9 (+1). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)
10 (-1). Dork Diaries 5 (Kindle)
11 (-). Dork Diaries 5: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All
12 (+2). The Walking Dead, vol. 1 (Kindle)
13 (+2). Superman: Earth One Vol. 2
14 (N). Grimmer Tales: A Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories
15 (+4). The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (revised and expanded edition)
16 (+4). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6) (Kindle)
17 (-4). Darth Vader and Son
18 (-6). The Walking Dead, Book 8
19 (+2). Big Nate Makes the Grade (Kindle)
20 (-4). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 5)
21 (N). Adventure Time Vol. 1
22 (+2). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books
23 (-5). Dork Diaries 4 (Kindle)
24 (+9). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4)
25 (-17). Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 (Kindle)
26 (-4). The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear *
27 (N). Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir
28 (+7). Dilbert 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar
29 (-4). Dork Diaries 4: Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess
30 (-7). The Walking Dead, Book 1
31 (+1). The Walking Dead, vol. 2 (Kindle)
32 (+13). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 3
33 (N). The Book of Revelation
34 (-6). A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel
35 (N). Walt Disney's Donald Duck Vol. 2: "A Christmas For Shacktown"
36 (-). The Walking Dead, vol. 3 (Kindle)
37 (+7). The Walking Dead, vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
38 (-21). Sailor Moon 8
39 (+9). Scott Pilgrim Color Hardcover Volume 2: Vs. The World
40 (-3). Batman: The Killing Joke
41 (N). Naruto, vol. 59: Nobody
42 (N). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5) (Kindle)
43 (-12). Amulet #5: Prince of the Elves
44 (-18). Saga Volume 1
45 (+1). Big Nate Makes the Grade
46 (-7). The Walking Dead, Vol. 16: A Larger World
47 (-20). The Walking Dead, Book 2
48 (-14). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
49 (N). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4) (Kindle)
50 (-20). The Walking Dead, Book 3


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:
  • For the second week in a row the new Wimpy Kid is at the top of the overall Amazon books chart, and thus stays at the top of the comics chart as well. It finally comes out this coming Tuesday, so we'll see how the release of the pent-up demand affects it chart standing. I wouldn't be surprised to see it stay at the top of the chart through the holidays, but there's also the anticipated boom in Walking Dead sales when the show ends the first half of its season in mid-December. It could make for an interesting battle. 
  • The top ten stays mostly the same this week, except for the sudden re-appearance of Avengers vs. X-Men on the chart. Amazon is saying that it won't be released until November 21, but they shipped mine today...
  • The top debut this week is Grimmer Tales, a book that was originally released back in 2009. I have no idea as to why it is suddenly popular enough to make it chart this week. Other new items include the first collection of Boom!'s Adventure Time comics; Ellen Forney's memoir Marbles; a graphic adaptation of The Book of Revelation; the second volume of Fantagraphics' Carl Barks' Donald Duck comics; the latest Naruto; and a couple more Kindle editions of Wimpy Kid books.
  • Dead Watch: Twelve WD collections on the chart this week, same as last week...

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