Amazon Top 50 - April 12, 2019

Here are the Top 50 Comics & Graphic Novels on Amazon Friday afternoon. See About the Amazon Top 50 Lists for more information on how this list is compiled.  (Note: All Kindle Unlimited, FreeTime Unlimited, comiXology Unlimited, & Prime Reading books are removed from the chart.) 

1 (N). Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby *
2 (N). Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration *
3 (-2). The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite
4 (-2). My Hero Academia, Vol. 18
5 (-1). Marvel Encyclopedia, New Edition
6 (+5). Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel
7 (-4). The Umbrella Academy Vol. 2: Dallas
8 (-3). The Walking Dead Volume 31: The Rotten Core
9 (+1). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
10 (+15). My Hero Academia, Vol. 1
11 (R). I'm NOT just a Scribble...
12 (-5). The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
13 (+10). The Odd 1s Out
14 (+30). Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection *
15 (+1). Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons
16 (R). Giraffes on Horseback Salad
17 (+15). My Hero Academia, Vol. 2
18 (+19). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (paperback)
19 (-4). My Hero Academia, Vol. 17
20 (+29). Attack on Titan 27
21 (-4). Infinity Gauntlet
22 (-10). Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman
23 (-9). The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited! *
24 (R). Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
25 (N). My Hero Academia, Vol. 21 *
26 (+22). My Hero Academia, Vol. 3
27 (-9). Berserk Deluxe Volume 1
28 (+17). Hilo Book 5: Then Everything Went Wrong
29 (-7). Mob Psycho 100 Volume 2
30 (R). The Umbrella Academy Volume 3: Hotel Oblivion *
31 (-3). Uzumaki (3-in-1, Deluxe Edition)
32 (+2). The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins
33 (-7). The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up
34 (-28). Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition
35 (R). The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
36 (R). How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
37 (R). Awkward
38 (R). Brave
39 (+7). My Hero Academia, Vol. 16
40 (-19). My Hero Academia, Vol. 19 *
41 (R). Shazam! Vol. 1 (The New 52)
42 (R). Berserk Deluxe Volume 2 *
43 (R). To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel
44 (-20). Detective Comics #1000: The Deluxe Edition *
45 (R). Goodnight Darth Vader
46 (R). Calvin and Hobbes
47 (N). Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition
48 (+2). My Hero Academia, Vol. 15 49 (-20). My Hero Academia, Vol. 20 *
50 (-37). My Hero Academia, Vol. 18 (Kindle)

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

Items with dollar signs ($) were part of a deeply discounted Kindle sale this week
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:

• This week's comics chart is topped by not one, but two new titles (in pre-order): Matthew Inman's new Oatmeal book, Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby (due out in June); and Bryan Caplan & Zach Weinersmith's Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration (due out in October)
• The other new titles this week are both manga: the one-volume collection of Junji Ito's Tomie; and the pre-order for yet another volume of My Hero Academia.
• Of note for those who are of a mind that movies have no effect on comic sales: collection of both Hellboy and Shazam! return to the chart this week.
• This chart isn't being published until Tuesday the 16th, even though the ranking were collected on the morning of Friday April 12 as per usual.