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 (-). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
3 (+2). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
4 (-1). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
5 (+6). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
6 (-2). Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Boxset
7 (-1). Odd Is on Our Side (Kindle edition)
8 (+1). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
9 (-1). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
10 (+3). Dork Diaries (Kindle edition)
11 (+12). Watchmen
12 (-5). Walking Dead Volume 13
13 (+11). American Born Chinese
14 (+8). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
15 (-3). Dork Diaries 2 (Kindle edition)
16 (R). 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
17 (+10). Big Nate: From the Top
18 (+8). V for Vendetta
19 (+25). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 8: Last Gleaming *
20 (+9). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books
21 (-7). Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale
22 (-1). Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe
23 (-7). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
24 (-6). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
25 (+7). Batman: The Killing Joke
26 (-16). Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
27 (R). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
28 (N). Axe Cop Volume One
29 (+6). Walking Dead Volume 12
30 (-11). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
31 (+5). The Arrival
32 (+2). Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl
33 (-). Fables Vol. 14: Witches
34 (-6). The Walking Dead, Book 6
35 (R). Batman and Robin, Vol. 2: Batman vs. Robin
36 (+14). Batman: Year One
37 (N). New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis, Vol. 1
38 (R). Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 5)
39 (-2). The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
40 (-1). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
41 (-11). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
42 (-22). Superman: Earth One
43 (-5). The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
44 (-1). Batman: Hush
45 (-14). Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Vol. 1 - The Journey Begins *
46 (-1). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 7: Twilight
47 (N). Secret Avengers, Vol. 1: Mission to Mars
48 (-). The Walking Dead Book 2
49 (-). Blackest Night
50 (-35). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World


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:

* The Wimpy Kid stays on the top once again, and slips a bit more to #56 on the overall chart.

* The bi-annual college course assault on the chart continues; Understanding Comics moves into the top 10, Watchmen & American Born Chinese move up, but Fun Home takes a bit of a tumble.

* The Scott Pilgrim Box Set remains strong, but individual volumes separate and fall; vol. 2 all the way down to #50 (#2,830 overall), and vol. 3 off of the chart all together.

* Dead Watch: Just seven Walking Dead collections in the top 50 this week, down one from last week.

* Axe Cop is the highest debut this week, and two of Marvel's Avengers hardcovers show up as well.

Thoughts

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I've been remiss in my posting this week so here's a batch of cartoons to catch us up. Do we have to discuss them all in detail? I'm not convinced we do.

The fly cartoon that kicks off today's show was very popular with readers according to emails and comments I've received. What can we deduce from this? That my readers are into poop jokes. It makes a cartoonist proud.

Here's a very weird and slightly disturbing cartoon about a pregnant woman. What does it mean? Why does her uterus have a voice mail system? I'd be happy to tell you if I knew.






As a result of many emails from various folks, I do know that this cartoon about a seeing-eye dog for the colorblind is funny albeit totally impossible. Dogs don't see color the way humans do so they would be pretty useless at this task. That's just one of the many reasons this is a cartoon and not an illustration in a medical textbook. Don't take these things so seriously, kids.

Static electricity is always funny, especially when it has to do with embarrassing undergarments. Enough said.









Years ago I had an obese doctor who smoked in the office between seeing patients. You could see him down the hall in his office puffing away. I always thought it was funny. You don't have to actually practice good advice to give it. That's the lesson I hope you take away from this cartoon.

Not that my cartoons are about teaching, they're not. In fact, don't follow any advice I give in a cartoon, I don't want to be responsible for your life. If you can read a cartoon, you have a brain. Learn to use it responsibly and things will go better for you. Most of my readers are already independent thinkers so I realize I'm preaching to the choir. I'm just talking to that one guy somewhere who is taping my cartoons to his walls every day, studying them, trying to spot patterns and messages, devising a path by which to live his life, running a piece of red yarn from one pushpin to another creating a giant mess that will later mystify detectives when they are investigating his gruesome crimes. Yes, you know who you are. Stop it.
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Conway

A classic comedy sketch from a true genius, Tim Conway.