Here’s our weekly snapshot of the best-selling digital comics on four platforms—taken Sunday evening.
1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #34
2. Forever Evil #1
3. X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1
4. Infinity #2
5. All New X-Men #16
6. Batman #23.1: Featuring Joker
7. Superior Spider-Man #17
8. Justice League #23.1: Featuring Darkseid
9. Invincible #105
10. X-Treme X-Men, vol. 2 #1
We’re seeing DC’s Villains Month at comiXology, with the first issue of Forever Evil and two of their villain-focused comics, Batman #23.1 and Justice League #23.1, making the chart. Nothing beats Injustice: Gods Among Us, though. Marvel has the edge in market share, with five comics in the top ten, compared to four from DC and one from Image.
1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #34
2. Fables, vol. 1: Legends in Exile
3. Injustice: Gods Among Us #33
4. Injustice: Gods Among Us #32
5. The Walking Dead, vol. 1
6. Injustice: Gods Among Us #1
7. Injustice: Gods Among Us #31
8. Forever Evil #1
9. Injustice: Gods Among Us #30
10. Wool: The Graphic Novel
What’s that at number 10? It sounds like a book for knitters, but Wool is actually a graphic-novel adaptation of Hugh Howey’s dystopian novel. It’s published by Amazon’s own comics imprint, Jet City, and it’s serialized in an interesting way: You pay $4.99 for the entire thing, with each new episode being automatically added to your Kindle for free. Making this even more interesting is the fact that the first episode doesn’t come out until October; this book charted on pre-orders alone. We’ll see if it’s still there next week.
1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #32
2. Injustice: Gods Among Us #34
3. It’s a Dog’s Life, Snoopy!
4. The World According to Lucy…
5. Snoopy at the Bat
6. Sandman #1
7. The Walking Dead, vol. 1
8. Injustice: Gods Among Us #1
9. The Walking Dead, vol. 2
10. The Walking Dead, vol. 3
The folks at Barnes and Noble must be terribly grateful to the odd couple of Charles Schulz and Robert Kirkman, because without them they would have almost no comics sales on the Nook. OK, there are two issues of Injustice, but just like last week, there are more free than paid books on the Nook list. In fact, there are 25 free books that did better than that third volume of The Walking Dead.
iBooks
1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #34
2. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #10
3. Injustice: Gods Among Us #35
4. Injustice: Gods Among Us #33
5. Injustice: Gods Among Us #1
6. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #9
7. Batman Beyond 2.0 #3
8. The Walking Dead, vol. 1
9. My Little Pony: Micro Series #7 – Cutie Mark Crusaders
10. Injustice: Gods Among Us #2
As usual, iBooks users show a lot of enthusiasm for Injustice and My Little Pony; it’s interesting that this is the only chart to show the latest issue of Batman Beyond 2.0, which came out on Saturday.
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