Commentary and what passes for analysis will follow this post, maybe before 8am but I’m already crashing so check back this afternoon.

Consolidated Online Sales Rankings
for *all* Graphic Novels
for the Ides of November, 2007
“Statistics means never having to say you’re certain.”

Sources:
Amazon, B&N, BAMM, Buy.com, DeepDiscount.com, Overstock.com, Powell’s, Virgin

Sales from the Borders beta site would have been included, but (true to the beta appellation) their site is currently down for tweaking & updates.

Top 100 graphic novels
rank. (last wks months rank) Title + Vol# (score)

1. ( ↔ 1) Stephen King’s Dark Tower 1 (476)
2. ( ↑ 4) 30 Days of Night (419)
3. ( ↑ 52) Heroes Graphic Novel 1 (411)
4. ( ↑ 66) The Arrival — Tan (367)
5. ( ↓ 2) Absolute Sandman 2 (348)
6. ( ↑ 95) Fruits Basket 18 (304)
7. ( ↓ 6) Watchmen (268)
8. ( ↑ 40) Marvel Encyclopedia (258)
9. ( ↑ 76) Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, vol 1 (251)
10. ( ↑ 11) Persepolis 1 (227)
11. ( ↑ 89) Naruto 24 (219)
12. ( ↑ 19) Complete Peanuts, ‘63-66 box set (216)
13. ( ↑ 92) Naruto 23 (213)
14. ( ↑ 95) Naruto 22 (195)
15. ( ↑ 37) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier (189)
16. ( ↑ 21) Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures 1 (182)
17. ( ↔ 17) Fruits Basket 17 (176)
18. ( ↓ 14) Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (170)
19. ( ↑ 25) Naruto 16 (163)
20. ( ↑ 47) Shortcomings — Tomine (161)
21. ( ↓ 16) The Walking Dead 7 (154)
22. ( ↓ 5) Vampire Knight 3 (150)
23. ( ↑ 174) Loveless 7 (146)
24. ( ↓ 3) Dark Hunger — Feehan (144)
25. ( ↓ 7) Artemis Fowl: the Graphic Novel (hardcover) (135)
26. ( ↔ 26) The Perry Bible Fellowship (134)
27. ( ↓ 19) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (132)
28. ( ↓ 9) 300 (131)
28. ( ↑ 35) Naruto 15 (131)
30. ( ↑ 132) V for Vendetta (130)
31. ( ↓ 24) Complete Calvin and Hobbes (129)
31. ( ↓ 13) Justice 3 (129)
33. ( ↓ 27) Complete Peanuts, ‘65-66 (128)
33. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX 1 (128)
35. Absolute Sandman 1 (125)
36. Naruto bx (124)
36. ( ↓ 23) Warriors 1 (124)
38. ( ↓ 30) Naruto 17 (123)
39. ( ↓ 21) Artemis Fowl: the Graphic Novel (paperback) (114)
40. ( ↑ 132) Complete Far Side (113)
41. Death Note 1 (107)
41. ( ↑ 51) Stardust — Gaiman, Vess (107)
43. ( ↓ 29) Naruto 14 (104)
44. Scott Pilgrim 4 (101)
45. Let’s Find Pokemon! Special Edition (99)
46. ( ↓ 41) Maus 1 (97)
47. ( ↓ 28) Naruto 18 (96)
48. ( ↓ 33) I’m Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection (94)
48. Naruto 1 (94)
50. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (93)
51. ( ↓ 32) Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness (91)
52. ( ↓ 50) Bone 1 (87)
53. ( ↓ 8 ) Naruto 19 (86)
54. ( ↓ 10) Naruto 20 (84)
55. ( ↑ 146) Bone One Volume Edition (82)
56. ( ↑ 95) Bleach 19 (81)
57. ( ↓ 12) Naruto 21 (78)
58. Beowulf Graphic Novel (76)
58. Bone 6 (76)
60. 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow (75)
61. ( ↑ 78) Mad’s Greatest Artists: The Completely Mad Don Martin (74)
62. ( ↓ 49) Bleach 20 (73)
62. ( ↑ 154) Bone 2 (73)
64. ( ↓ 38) Vampire Knight 2 (71)
65. ( ↓ 47) Naruto 13 (70)
66. Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga (63)
67. ( ↑ 83) Naruto 25 (62)
68. Fruits Basket 12 (61)
68. ( ↑ 86) Naruto 27 (61)
70. Naruto 26 (59)
71. ( ↓ 66) Death Note 12 (55)
72. ( ↓ 39) 30 Days of Night: Dark Days (53)
73. ( ↓ 18) Civil War (52)
74. ( ↓ 34) Batman: the Dark Knight Returns (50)
74. ( ↓ 31) The Sopratos: a Pearls Before Swine Collection (50)
76. Gorillaz: Rise of the Ogre (49)
77. Innocent Bird 3 (48)
77. Wonder Woman: Love & Murder (Jodi Picoult) (48)
79. Love Mode 7 (47)
79. Shooting War (47)
81. Acme Novelty Datebook (46)
81. Ex Machina 6 (46)
81. Fables 9 (46)
81. Fables 8 (46)
81. ( ↑ 89) Loveless 6 (46)
81. ( ↓ 59) Positive Attitude: a Dilbert Collection (46)
81. ( ↑ 123) The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker (46)
88. Acme Novelty Library (45)
88. Crossroad 7 (45)
88. ( ↑ 123) The Simpsons Masterpiece Gallery: A Big Book of Posters (45)
91. Kashimashi 4 (44)
91. Lost and Found New York — Stevenson (44)
91. ( ↑ 163) Naruto 2 (44)
94. ( ↓ 79) Bone 5 (43)
94. ( ↓ 36) Fruits Basket 16 (43)
94. Fun Home — Bechdel (43)
94. Iron Wok Jan 26 (43)
94. Love Pistols 3 (43)
99. Loserpalooza: A Get Fuzzy Treasury (42)
100. Death Note 2 (41)
100. The Death of Captain America — Brubaker (41)
100. Welcome to the NHK 5 (41)

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The end-note-bit:

For these rankings I looked at 12 different Top 50 Bestseller lists, from 8 different online sales sites

Amazon and B&N were checked 8am Tuesday, 9pm Tuesday, and 3am (yes, gods-forsaken 3AM EST) Wednesday. And then we ran the numbers and posted them to go with your Wednesday Morning Oatmeal. You can thank my insomnia, and you’re welcome. (All other sites were checked once, Tuesday Evening)

For the list found each time, titles scored 1 point, and an additional point for each rank above 50. (#1 = 50 points; if a title was #1 for the entire time period at Amazon, for example, it would have scored a total of 150 points.)

It’s that time of year: I dearly love the Far Side calendars, too, but no matter how nice — a calendar isn’t a graphic novel. I just skipped ‘em and moved on to the next real book; Amazon had the most but a couple of other sources also list calendars.

–The quote this week is either so old that it is credited to ‘anonymous,’ was passed around usenet (back in the day) so much that original attribution is no longer possible, or most likely, such an obvious joke (to statisticians) that it was independently derived by multiple people. The quotes are a handy way for me to not take this stuff so seriously — I give credit where I can but I won’t waste a lot of time on it.