Amazon Top 50 of 2009

I've finished tabulating all of the data, and here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels sold on Amazon in 2009:

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
2. Watchmen (paperback)
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules
5. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
6. Batman: The Killing Joke
7. V for Vendetta
8. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
9. Mercy Thompson Homecoming
10. Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition)
11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
12. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
13. Batman: Year One
14. Time of Your Life (Buffy season 8, vol. 4)
15. The Complete Persepolis
16. The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
17. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
18. Asterios Polyp
19. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
20. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
21. Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days
22. Wolves at the Gate (Buffy season 8 vol. 3)
23. The Joker
24. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
25. Dark Tower: Treachery
26. Batman: R.I.P.
27. Star Trek: Countdown TPB
28. Predators and Prey (Buffy season 8 vol. 5)
29. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
30. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
31. The Complete Peanuts 1971-1974 Box Set
32. Bone: One Volume Edition
33. Final Crisis
34. Stitches: A Memoir
35. Dilbert: 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar
36. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1
37. Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Deluxe
38. The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
39. Blueberry Girl
40. Watchmen (hardcover)
41. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
42. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 3: Century #1
43. The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
44. Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages
45. The Long Way Home (Buffy season 8, vol. 1)
46. The Arrival
47. Watchmen (absolute edition)
48. Parker: The Hunter
49. The Marvel Encyclopedia
50. Tumor Chapter 1 (kindle)

I'll have a much larger post in a few days that includes the much longer list and describes my methodology; and at some point I'm going to play with some graphs as well.

Warm and Wet

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When this cartoon published I got the following email from a reader:

"There IS NO significant man made global warming. C’mon, get with the program. The waders are for all the nonsense and outright fabrications about this topic."

I get this sort of thing fairly regularly from climate change deniers, creationists, people of all sorts who ignore science in favor of beliefs that are more comforting than the truth.

In truth, I hope this guy is right and the data is wrong. It will make for a much more pleasant future. As it looks now, however, I may live long enough to see wide scale famine in North America and my own neighborhood underwater. Drag.

One other thing that the climate change deniers ignore: the overwhelming majority of scientists in the world corroborate the phenomenon and have little or nothing to gain by doing so (other than a handful of grant money to study it), while the very few scientists and politicians who deny it are attached to multi-billion-dollar corporations who make their living polluting the planet.

Does it really take Einstein to figure out who has a bigger motivation to lie?