Here’s our weekly look at the digital comics best-sellers on four different platforms. The lists are constantly changing; this is a snapshot of what they were on Sunday evening.
1. The Walking Dead #113
2. Saga #13
3. Injustice: Gods Among Us #31
4. Infinity #1
5. Batman #23
6. Justice League of America #7
7. Uncanny X-Men, vol. 3 #10
8. Kick-Ass #1
9. Kick-Ass #2
10. Kick-Ass #3
This week’s ComiXology chart demonstrates the power of the 99-cent sale, as that’s what Kick-Ass was going for this weekend. Slots 11-15 on the best-seller list are also taken up with issues of Kick-Ass, and I think that’s all there is. The fact that I do these charts on Sunday evening should maximize the impact of those 99-cent sales, but many weeks the featured comics don’t show up at all. Of course, this was also the weekend that the movie Kick-Ass 2 opened, and maybe people were buying the comics instead of going to the movie.
1. Batman: The Killing Joke
2. Injustice: Gods Among Us #1
3. The Walking Dead, vol. 1
4. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
5. Injustice: Gods Among Us #2
6. Deadpool, vol. 1: Secret Invasion
7. V for Vendetta (new edition)
8. The Sandman, vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
9. Injustice: Gods Among Us #4
10. Injustice: Gods Among Us #3
We wrote earlier about Batman: The Dark Knight Returns surging on the news that it will be the basis for the next Superman/Batman movie; it has been on the charts pretty steadily since July. Batman has been hot lately, and maybe folks were picking up copies of Batman: The Killing Joke because of the commentary in Kevin Smith’s recent interview with Grant Morrison. Or maybe lots of folks just felt like a good summer read.
1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #23
2. Injustice: Gods Among Us #25
3. Injustice: Gods Among Us #29
4. Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who Assimilation #1
5. Injustice: Gods Among Us #28
6. Injustice: Gods Among Us #31
7. Injustice: Gods Among Us #26
8. It’s a Dog’s Life, Snoopy…
9. The Walking Dead, vol. 1
10. The World According to Lucy…
The usual suspects are dominating this week, but it’s interesting that those Peanuts e-books, which first popped up on the Nook chart last week, have a bit of staying power.
iBooks
1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #31
2. The Walking Dead #113
3. Injustice: Gods Among Us #30
4. Injustice: Gods Among Us #1
5. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #10
6. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #9
7. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #1
8. Batman Beyond 2.0 #2
9. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
10. Injustice: Gods Among Us #29
It’s interesting that the only platform on which people aren’t keeping current with Injustice: Gods Among Us is the Kindle; on all the others, the most recent issues are on the charts, but on Kindle it’s just issue #1. We’re also seeing Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, as noted above, and plenty of My Little Pony comics, which is typical for iBooks. For some reason, that’s where people buy them. It’s also interesting to see that comiXology and iBooks are the two places readers go to get their monthly The Walking Dead fix.
A former book editor and newspaper reporter, Brigid Alverson started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters¹ reading habits and now covers comics and graphic novels for Comic Book Resources , School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Robot 6, and MTV Geek. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Brigid was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards. Send her an email to wordballoons@gmail.com