Friday 25 December 2009

Christmas Covers - December 25


Baby Jesus lies in a manger while wise men & shepherds visit on the cover of Topix vol. 9 #12 (1950).

We hope you've enjoyed twenty-five days of Christmas-themed covers this year. Stay tuned as we finish out December with more appropriately-themed comics covers...

(2008: Junior Partners #5)
(2007: Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact #194)
(2006: Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact #35)
(2005: Dell Four Color #1274)
(2004: Treasure Chest vol. 2 #9)

(Polite Dissent's 2009 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(2009 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2009)
(Jon K's Christmas Comics Countdown)

Amazon Top 50

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


1 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
3 (+2). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
4 (-1). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
5 (-1). Diary of a Wimpy Kid
6 (-). Dilbert: 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar
7 (-). Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
8 (-). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
9 (+2). Watchmen
10 (-). Asterios Polyp
11 (-2). The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
12 (-). Marvel Encyclopedia
13 (R). Tumor Chapter 1
14 (+18). The Complete Persepolis
15 (R). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters *
16 (+10). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
17 (+1). Stitches: A Memoir
18 (-3). Simon's Cat
19 (+5). V for Vendetta
20 (-6). Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1
21 (+15). Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition)
22 (-6). The Complete Peanuts 1971-1974 (Box Set) (Vol. 11-12)
23 (-6). Wolverine: Old Man Logan
24 (+19). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
25 (-12). Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years
26 (N). Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel
27 (+3). The Complete Far Side 1980-1994
28 (-). Batman: The Killing Joke
29 (N). Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft
30 (-9). KISS Kompendium
31 (+11). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
32 (+3). Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 5)
33 (R). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
34 (-12). The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
35 (R). Batman: Battle for the Cowl
36 (+1). Batman: Year One
37 (-6). Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert
38 (-9). Masterpiece Comics
39 (N). The Rocketeer: The Complete Deluxe Edition
40 (R). Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
41 (R). Dilbert: 2010 Wall Calendar
42 (N). The Gashlycrumb Tinies
43 (R). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
44 (R). Pride and Prejudice (Graphic Novel)
45 (N). Star Wars: Legacy Volume 7 - Storms
46 (R). Blankets
47 (R). R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, & Country
48 (-21). The Arrival
49 (N). The Boys Volume 5: Herogasm



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:

* It's Christmas morning as we're looking at the charts, so take them with a large grain of salt than usual.

* Crumb's Genesis inches up to surpass a couple of the Wimpy Kid volumes (it's at #39 on the overall chart).

* The highest debut is a new volume of The Walking Dead at #15, while Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza shows up at #27. The Deluxe edition of The Rocketeer hops on as well, sporting a hefty discount off its $75 price tag.

* A new college semester starts soon, so we're starting to see items like Maus, Persepolis and Blankets move back up the list.