Digital Comics Best-Sellers for January 5, 2014

So, what’s everybody reading in this first week of 2014? ComiXology 1. X-Men: Days of Future Past 2. Age of Ultron #1 3. Fear Itself 4. Superman Unchained #5 5. Age of Ultron #2 6. Infinity Gauntlet 7. Age of Ultron #3 8. Age of Ultron #4 9. Age of Ultron #5 10. Age of Ultron #10 See a pattern here? This is a pretty interesting week. For one thing, there is only one new release in the top ten, and it’s also the only DC comic, Superman Unchained #5. ComiXology is currently running a pretty good sale on Marvel graphic novels, which is why the X-Men and Fear Itself books are on the list. As for Age of Ultron, there was a 99-cent sale, but it ended on January 2. I’m guessing that the regular price of $3.99 for 20 pages of story made for a lot of pent-up demand, because it’s interesting that three days after the sale ended, Age of Ultron is still dominating the chart—all the more so because comiXology’s sales don’t usually affect their top ten list. Kindle 1. Hyperbole and a Half 2. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes 3. The Walking Dead, vol. 1 4. X-Men: Days of Future Past 5. Batman: Year One 6. Stephen King’s N 7. Infinity Gauntlet 8. Big Nate: I Smell a Pop Quiz! 9. Batman: The Complete Hush 10. Batman: The Killing Joke Amazon has the same sale on Marvel graphic novels right now, and that is also affecting their top ten, but Kindle users are an eclectic bunch and they aren’t going to march in lockstep just because one publisher has a sale. No, their top ten is all over the place. And since the DC graphic novel sale is still going on, it’s Battle of the Marked-Down Graphic Novels over there. Nook 1. Smallville, Season 11 #1 2. It’s a Dog’s Life, Snoopy 3. Sandman #1 4. The World According to Lucy… 5. Snoopy at the Bat 6. The Walking Dead, vol. 1 7. Adventures of Superman #1 8. The Walking Dead, vol. 2 9. Batman ’66 #1 10. Batman Beyond 2.0 #1 After weeks and weeks of the same books in the same order, the Nook top ten finally shakes up a bit, probably because of all those Christmas gift cards. There’s a change you can’t see in this chart, however, which is that the top three most downloaded comics are free—the first paid book is in the fourth slot on the overall chart. Of course, that may be true of the other charts as well—only Barnes and Noble intermingles free and paid downloads. iBooks 1. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #12 2. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #3 3. The Walking Dead, vol. 1 4. My Little Pony: Micro-Series #10 – Luna 5. The Walking Dead, vol. 2 6. The Walking Dead, vol. 19 7. The Walking Dead #119 8. The Walking Dead: Compendium One 9. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #14 10. Real Maid 16 As usual, iBooks is dominated by My Little Pony and The Walking Dead, two franchises that make odd bedfellows, to say the least. There’s an oddball title in the number ten spot, though: Chapter 16 of a digital-first manga about a boy and his robot maid that came out last July. Manga hardly ever makes the top iBooks top ten, and this particular manga is pretty obscure; even stranger, none of the other chapters makes the charts. Digital Comics Best-Sellers for January 5, 2014 is a post from: E-Reader News

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