Archive for January, 2008
The Character of Sources, part II
[a follow-up in spirit to this post]
An aside: Hiatus
You might have noticed, the heretofore-weekly manga bestsellers are late. (really late)
I didn’t post the online bestsellers yesterday — and I’m not posting anything today either, in keeping with my new year’s resolution to post nothing to the blog.
…but I’ve got a lot to say […]
Posted: January 28th, 2008 under 5by8, rankings, snark, commentary.
Add this link: PiQ Magazine
I’m sure 15 other geeks will have beat me to this, but on the off chance no one else was curious enough to type http://www.piqmagazine.com into their browser I’ll offer this link.
http://www.piqmag.com
[piqmagazine.com redirects to the site above]
There’s not much there, yet. In fact I could blockquote the whole thing and it’d take up about […]
Posted: January 25th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
5by8, #27: Creatively Bankrupt
This blog, in recent months, has become something of a one-trick pony. Granted, the manga charts are a pretty good trick, but there is much more to comics than obsessing over a top 10 list. Due to the time I invest in the online charts, though — time I had to borrow from […]
Posted: January 13th, 2008 under 5by8, columns, snark.
Top 100 Manga, 6 January
Let me see if I can sneak this in before the USA Today numbers post — and for the ComiPress folks to add this to their weekly sales chart round-up. Assuming they check the site…
Top 150 Manga
Consolidated online sales rankings
for the week ending 6 January 2008.
Originally posted to www.comicsnob.com/category/rankings.
Sources: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, […]
Posted: January 10th, 2008 under manga, rankings.
Top 25 Manga Series, 30 December 2007
In the past, since I typically posted this info simultaneously with the Top 150 Manga (I’ve even included the two lists in the same post on occasion) you might not have realized that the Series rankings are the first serious bit of analysis I perform on the manga list each week. To determine the […]
Posted: January 1st, 2008 under manga, rankings.
Top 150 Manga, 30 December 2007
New Year, old format.
- with a few add-ons.
No experiment is truly a failure, for one can always carry away the lessons learned blah blah blah. Since the post is nominally late, again, (but only by two days this time) I’ll keep my chatter to a minimum and present the facts:
- plain text, no more […]






