ICV2 has the May 2014 BookScan Top 20.
ATTACK ON TITAN dominates, with the top two spots for the latest and first books, and four other books down the charts. And that's prior to the English language release of the cartoon adaptation this week. Prediction, June's chart will have even more AoT, maybe a full half of the chart.
DC returns to the chart for the first time since January, with the release of the latest hardcover and paperback volumes of the current BATMAN series. Previous volumes have usually been good for three or four chart appearances, so expect to see them again, if they aren't crushed by a Titan.
From Image, WALKING DEAD and SAGA continue to do well, with three entries each. The $60 COMPENDIUM volumes seem to be taking over as the format of choice for the early issues of WALKING DEAD. SEX CRIMINALS also shows up with its first volume, a bit surprisingly, the first time there's been an Image book on the chart that wasn't SAGA or WALKING DEAD since WANTED back when the movie came out in 2008.
Other than those, we had another we had a pair of licensed reference books on Marvel characters, which seems to be how the mass market likes its Marvel books, not in the form of actual comics. And no MIRACLEMAN, oddly enough (though it only had a few days of availability in May, we'll see if it shows up in June). A few Japanese comics not named ATTACK ON TITAN continue to sell well, and a slim volume of GODZILLA tying in to the movie probably sold a lot of copies the first week it was out by people not realizing the Arthur Adams cover promised more than the interiors could deliver. Y'know, sort of like a really good movie trailer for a disappointing movie dropping off after the opening weekend. Is my analogy too subtle...?
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