Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Comics & Graphic Novels on Amazon Friday morning. See About the Amazon Top 50 Lists for more information on how this list is compiled.


1 (R). Dork Diaries 6 (Kindle)
2 (N). Injustice: Gods Among Us #24 (Kindle)
3 (+3). Saga Volume 2 *
4 (-2). The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After
5 (-1). Vader's Little Princess
6 (-1). Dork Diaries 6: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker
7 (-). Darth Vader and Son
8 (-7). Superman (2011- ) #1 (Kindle)
9 (-1). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7) (Kindle)
10 (+18). Saga Volume 1
11 (-1). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7)
12 (-9). Injustice: Gods Among Us #23 (Kindle)
13 (+13). The Walking Dead, Vol. 18 (Kindle)
14 (-2). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 2
15 (-4). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
16 (+2). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6) (Kindle)
17 (-3). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8 (Kindle) *
18 (-3). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
19 (+6). Dork Diaries 4 (Kindle)
20 (+2). How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
21 (-2). Dork Diaries 5 (Kindle)
22 (-5). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8 *
23 (+24). Dork Diaries 1 (Kindle)
24 (-4). Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2) (Kindle)
25 (+11). The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3) (Kindle)
26 (-9). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)
27 (R). Big Nate: Game On!
28 (+3). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4) (Kindle)
29 (-5). Big Nate: I Smell a Pop Quiz! (Kindle)
30 (-7). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
31 (-22). Injustice: Gods Among Us #22 (Kindle)
32 (R). Superman: Red Son
33 (-4). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
34 (R). Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 2)
35 (-3). The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (revised and expanded edition)
36 (R). The Complete Persepolis
37 (+1). Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition
38 (+3). Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon
39 (+3). Batman: Year One
40 (R). Dork Diaries 2 (Kindle)
41 (N). Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Vol. 2: Garma
42 (R). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (paperback)
43 (-10). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5) (Kindle)
44 (+4). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Part 2 *
45 (R). Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1
46 (R). Dork Diaries 3 (Kindle)
47 (-8). Big Nate: Genius Mode
48 (R). The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 3)
49 (N). Deadpool, Vol. 1: Dead Presidents
50 (R). Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52)


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:

• Topping the chart this week is the Kindle edition of the sixth Dork Diaries installment. It had previously bounced around the chart at the beginning of the year when it was a pre-order.
• The top new item is the twenty-fourth issue of Injustice: Gods Among Us in the #2 position. The only other debuts are down near the bottom of the chart: the second volume of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin and the first collection of the Marvel NOW Deadpool.
• Saga collections continue to do very well. The pre-order for the second volume is at #3, and the first volume moves up into the top ten.
• Injustice Watch: While the newest issue has a very high debut, only three issues make the chart this week, down two from last week.
• Dead Watch: Four Walking Dead collections are on the chart this week, down one from last week. The new collection just doesn't seem to have the ummph to move up into the top slot.
• Diary Watch: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries franchises between them take up twenty-one of the slots on the chart this week, up five from last week. They are buoyed by the reappearance on the chart of several early volumes of Wimpy Kid hardcovers.
• Kindle Watch: Eighteen of the chart positions this week are taken up by Kindle editions, the same as last week. 

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Sky Ape has an atomic brain on the cover of Sky Ape #1 (1997) by Richard Jenkins.

(Standard disclaimer about atomic-brained apes not really being monkeys applies.)

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

New Location for Library's Comics

This week as part of our summer-long stacks shifting project the comics and graphic novels were moved to a new location on the second floor (just a few yards away form the old location):

Previously cramped, there is now a ton of growth space! (Hopefully several years worth...)

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Comics & Graphic Novels on Amazon Friday morning. See About the Amazon Top 50 Lists for more information on how this list is compiled.


1 (+2). Superman (2011- ) #1 (Kindle)
2 (+2). The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After
3 (N). Injustice: Gods Among Us #23 (Kindle)
4 (-3). Vader's Little Princess
5 (-). Dork Diaries 6: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker
6 (+14). Saga Volume 2 *
7 (-5). Darth Vader and Son
8 (-1). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7) (Kindle)
9 (-3). Injustice: Gods Among Us #22 (Kindle)
10 (+1). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7)
11 (-3). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
12 (-2). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 2
13 (R). Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero
14 (-2). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8 (Kindle) *
15 (+8). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
16 (-7). Injustice: Gods Among Us #21 (Kindle)
17 (+8). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)
18 (-4). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6) (Kindle)
19 (R). Dork Diaries 5 (Kindle)
20 (+1). Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2) (Kindle)
21 (-5). Injustice: Gods Among Us #1 (Kindle)
22 (-8). How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
23 (+7). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
24 (N). Big Nate: I Smell a Pop Quiz! (Kindle)
25 (+3). Dork Diaries 4 (Kindle)
26 (N). The Walking Dead, Vol. 18 (Kindle)
27 (-12). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8 *
28 (-6). Saga Volume 1
29 (+9). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
30 (+2). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5)
31 (+2). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4) (Kindle)
32 (-14). The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (revised and expanded edition)
33 (-9). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5) (Kindle)
34 (+1). Injustice: Gods Among Us #20 (Kindle)
35 (+13). Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls (The New 52)
36 (-10). The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3) (Kindle)
37 (+13). The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1)
38 (R). Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition
39 (-12). Big Nate: Genius Mode
40 (+7). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4)
41 (+8). Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon
42 (+2). Batman: Year One
43 (R). The Walking Dead, Vol. 1 (Kindle)
44 (R). Totally MAD: 60 Years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity
45 (-4). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Part 1
46 (-17). The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear
47 (-13). Dork Diaries 1 (Kindle)
48 (R). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Part 2 *
49 (-13). Marvel Encyclopedia
50 (R). Drama


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:

• As was expected, the passing of the Father's Day holiday resulted in Jeffrey Brown's Vader's Little Princess dropping out of the top spot. Not as expected is that is isn't the new Walking Dead trade in the #1 position, but rather the first issue of the New 52 Superman comic on the Kindle, no doubt buoyed by the newsletter sign-up promotion. 
• Also surprising is the fact that in the wake of Man of Steel's blockbuster opening weekend at the cineplex, Superman #1 is the only Superman title in the top 50. To be fair, earlier in the week there was some bubbling up of various Superman titles (Superman: Red Son, All-Star Superman, and Superman: Birthright) in the bottom portion of the list, but now it is just one week out from the opening and interest has already waned. That has to be disappointing to the folks at DCE's comics division. Batman, whose movie came out last year, does better this week than Superman.
• No surprise however is that the latest issue of Injustice is once again the top debut of the week. Also debuting area new Big Nate collection on the Kindle, and the Kindle edition of the new Walking Dead collection.
• Marvel's Pacific Rim OGN tie-in, which debuted high two weeks ago bu tthen fell off the chart last week, is back at a very respectable #13 position three weeks away from the movie's release. If interest holds up, this is primed to be Marvel's best foray into the bookstore market in quite a while.
• Injustice Watch: Five issues make the chart this week, the same as last week.
• Dead Watch: Five Walking Dead collections on the chart this week, up one from last week, though the two Compendia drop out of the top 10.
• Diary Watch: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries franchises between them take up sixteen of the slots on the chart this week, down one from last week. 
• Kindle Watch: Eighteen of the chart positions this week are taken up by Kindle editions, up two from last week. 

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas hang out with some of their subjects on the cover of Primates (2013) by Maris Wicks.

(Standard disclaimer about marching gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

Click on the image for a larger version.

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Comics & Graphic Novels on Amazon Friday morning. See About the Amazon Top 50 Lists for more information on how this list is compiled.


1 (-). Vader's Little Princess
2 (-). Darth Vader and Son
3 (N). Superman (2011- ) #1 (Kindle)
4 (-1). The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After *
5 (-1). Dork Diaries 6: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker
6 (N). Injustice: Gods Among Us #22 (Kindle)
7 (-1). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7) (Kindle)
8 (-1). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
9 (-4). Injustice: Gods Among Us #21 (Kindle)
10 (-1). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 2
11 (-3). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 7)
12 (-2). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8 (Kindle) *
13 (-1). How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
14 (+1). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6) (Kindle)
15 (+2). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8 *
16 (+3). Injustice: Gods Among Us #1 (Kindle)
17 (N). A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume Two
18 (+8). The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (revised and expanded edition)
19 (+18). Big Nate Makes the Grade
20 (R). Saga Volume 2
21 (-). Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2) (Kindle)
22 (+13). Saga Volume 1
23 (+4). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
24 (-6). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5) (Kindle)
25 (-11). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)
26 (-1). The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3) (Kindle)
27 (+4). Big Nate: Genius Mode
28 (-4). Dork Diaries 4 (Kindle)
29 (+4). The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear
30 (+4). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
31 (-3). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (paperback)
32 (+4). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5)
33 (-3). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4) (Kindle)
34 (+6). Dork Diaries 1 (Kindle)
35 (-24). Injustice: Gods Among Us #20 (Kindle)
36 (+9). Marvel Encyclopedia
37 (-14). Big Nate Makes the Grade (Kindle)
38 (-). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
39 (+5). Superman: Red Son
40 (+7). The Complete Persepolis
41 (-9). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Part 1
42 (R). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
43 (R). Injustice: Gods Among Us #2 (Kindle)
44 (+6). Batman: Year One
45 (R). Dork Diaries 5: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All
46 (-17). Stephen King's N.
47 (-27). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4)
48 (R). Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls (The New 52)
49 (R). Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon
50 (N). The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1)


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:

• Jeffrey Brown continues to have the top two slots this week with his Star Wars-themed Darth Vader-as-a-parent books. Father's Day is this weekend, and the drop off in gift buying may open the door to the new Walking Dead collection when it is released next week...
• You may be wondering what the first issue of the New 52 version of Superman is doing on the chart in the #3 position. It turns out that Amazon is offering this as a free incentive for people who sign up for their Amazon Delivers Comics Newsletter. But since that promotion is via an emailed code, the comic itself still lists as 99¢ and thus shows up on the sales chart...
• The only other Superman-related comic on the chart remains Superman: Red Son. With the Man of Steel movie releasing today, it would seem that so far there isn't much interest bleeding over into Kal-El's comic adventures. At least so far—last year there was a brief interest in Thanos-related comics after the release of the Avengers, but that was an anomaly; usually interest in related comics goes down after a super-hero movie's release.
• Injustice Watch: The latest digital issue of Injustice: Gods Among Us debuts in the #5 position this week. Five issues make the chart this week, the same as last week.
• The other debuts this week are two comic adaptations of novels: the second Game of Thrones volume (at #17), and the first Percy Jackson book, The Lightning Thief (at #50). 
• All of last week's non-Injustice debuts drop off the chart entirely this week...
• Dead Watch: Only four Walking Dead collections on the chart this week, the same as last week, though three of those are in the top 10.
• Diary Watch: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries franchises between them take up seventeen of the slots on the chart this week, same as last week. 
• Kindle Watch: Sixteen of the chart positions this week are taken up by Kindle editions, down two from last week. 

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Comics & Graphic Novels on Amazon Friday morning. See About the Amazon Top 50 Lists for more information on how this list is compiled.


1 (-). Vader's Little Princess
2 (-). Darth Vader and Son
3 (+9). The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After *
4 (-). Dork Diaries 6: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker
5 (N). Injustice: Gods Among Us #21 (Kindle)
6 (-1). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7) (Kindle)
7 (+1). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
8 (-1). The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 7)
9 (-3). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 2
10 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8 (Kindle) *
11 (-8). Injustice: Gods Among Us #20 (Kindle)
12 (+5). How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
13 (N). Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero *
14 (+1). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)
15 (-4). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6) (Kindle)
16 (-3). Dork Diaries 5 (Kindle)
17 (+14). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8 *
18 (+11). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5) (Kindle)
19 (+1). Injustice: Gods Among Us #1 (Kindle)
20 (+8). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4)
21 (-5). Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2) (Kindle)
22 (N). Borderlands: Origins (Kindle)
23 (+2). Big Nate Makes the Grade (Kindle)
24 (-1). Dork Diaries 4 (Kindle)
25 (-3). The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3) (Kindle)
26 (-8). The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (revised and expanded edition)
27 (+8). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
28 (+14). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (paperback)
29 (R). Stephen King's N.
30 (-9). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4) (Kindle)
31 (-1). Big Nate: Genius Mode
32 (-6). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Part 1
33 (+16). The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear
34 (+14). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
35 (-2). Saga Volume 1
36 (-2). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5)
37 (R). Big Nate Makes the Grade
38 (+5). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
39 (-15). Big Nate: Genius Mode (Kindle)
40 (-8). Dork Diaries 1 (Kindle)
41 (N). Attack on Titan 5
42 (-33). Injustice: Gods Among Us #19 (Kindle)
43 (-24). Injustice: Gods Among Us #18 (Kindle)
44 (R). Superman: Red Son
45 (-4). Marvel Encyclopedia
46 (R). Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Part 2
47 (R). The Complete Persepolis
48 (-2). Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52)
49 (-13). Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition
50 (R). Batman: Year One


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:

• Jeffrey Brown continues to have the top two slots this week with his Star Wars-themed Darth Vader-as-a-parent books. Father's Day is just one week away, andit remains to be seen if next week lovable Darth Vader will be able to withstand the release of the new Walking Dead collection...
• Injustice Watch: Once again the latest digital issue of Injustice: Gods Among Us is the top debut of the week. Five issues make the chart this week, down two from last week.
• Also debuting this week, and rather high on the chart (#13), is the prologue OGN to the upcoming film Pacific Rim. Oddly it's produced by Marvel; they seem to do better selling comics based on other people's movies than their own. The only other Marvel comic on the chart is Stephen King's N.—also based on someone else's property. (The Marvel Encyclopedia is produced by DK, not Marvel...)
• Other debuts are the Kindle version of Borderland: Origins (a prologue to the video game); and the fifth volume of the manga Attack on Titan.
• Just a week out from the release of Man of Steel, and the only Superman book on the chart is the non-related Elseworlds Superman: Red Son.
• Dead Watch: Only four Walking Dead collections on the chart this week, the same as last week.
• Diary Watch: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries franchises between them take up seventeen of the slots on the chart this week, same as last week. 
• Kindle Watch: Eighteen of the chart positions this week are taken up by Kindle editions, down three from last week.