Friday Night Fights: Batman vs. Solomon Grundy

From Batman: The Long Halloween #2 (1996). Art by Tim Sale. Story by Jeph Loeb. Colors by Gregory Wright. Letters by Richard Starking. (click pics for larger)

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Amazon Top 50

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


1 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth *
2 (+6). Superman: Earth One *
3 (+4). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
4 (-1). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
5 (+1). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
6 (-1). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
7 (-3). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
8 (-6). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
9 (+1). The Walking Dead, Book 6 *
10 (+4). Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale *
11 (-2). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 7: Twilight
12 (-1). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
13 (+11). 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
14 (-1). Odd Is on Our Side
15 (+7). Walking Dead Volume 13 *
16 (+13). Bloom County: The Complete Library Volume 3
17 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books
18 (-2). Big Nate: From the Top
19 (+7). Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
20 (-8). X'ed Out
21 (+13). Y The Last Man Deluxe Edition Book Four
22 (+10). Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts
23 (-3). Walking Dead Volume 12
24 (-5). X-Men: Second Coming
25 (-4). Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl
26 (+1). Dilbert: 2011 Day-to-Day Calendar
27 (+14). The Walking Dead Book 5
28 (-10). Witch & Wizard: Battle for Shadowland
29 (+2). The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
30 (+12). The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
31 (+6). The Adventures of Unemployed Man
32 (N). Luthor
33 (R). The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
34 (-19). Parker: The Outfit
35 (-5). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
36 (R). Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill
37 (-14). The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future
38 (N). Negima! 28
39 (R). Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat
40 (-2). Watchmen
41 (-5). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
42 (+4). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
43 (-6). Kick-Ass
44 (N). xxxHOLiC 16
45 (N). Bad Kitty Gets a Bath
46 (R). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
47 (+2). The Cloud Searchers (Amulet)
48 (R). Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days
49 (-14). The Complete Peanuts Boxed Set 1975-1978 (Vol. 13-14)
50 (-6). Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s *


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:

* No, your eyes do not deceive you Superman: Earth One, the OGN rebooting Superman for the modern era by JMS & Shane Davis, bounces up ahead of Scott Pilgrim to land at #2. Even more impressive, it hits #20 on the overall list, and this in the week before it is available through bookstores. Superman still cannot beat The Wimpy Kid though, which slips a smidge to #4 on the overall list.

* On the eve of the debut of the AMC television series, collections of The Walking Dead take up a full nine of the slots in the top fifty.

* The hardcover of Azzarello & Bermejo's Luthor is the highest debut this week. The other debuts are xxxHOLiC vol. 6, Negima! 28 and Bad Kitty Gets a Bath.

* This is the first time I remember that there hasn't been a Batman book in the top fifty since I started monitoring these rankings in early 2009.

* The bottom of the list this week is #2,556 overall.