With the holidays upon us it should come as no surprise to anyone that news is flowing extremely slower than usual. I’m talking painfully slow… So I’ve decided to bring you all a bit of news that might make you say ‘Hey, that’s pretty cool.’
You see, The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog has just passed on the news that Robert Kirkman’s popular WALKING DEAD graphic novel series has topped The New York Times Bestseller List! Not to shabby for a comic about zombies, huh? That’s the way to do it society! It seems the comic series holds 3 of the top 4 paperback bestsellers and 3 of the top 9 hardcover bestseller on the latest Times list. Peep Heat Vision’s rundown:
On The Times’ hardcover graphic novel list The Walking Dead owns the first, eighth and ninth spots. The Walking Dead: Book 1, which collects the first twelve issues, holds the top spot followed by Book 2 at no. 8 and the newest volume, Book 7, at ninth. On the paperback list, The Walking Dead Compendium, which collects a whopping 48 issues in a volume that clocks in at 1088 pages, is no. 1; Book 1, collecting just issues #1-6 in a softcover volume, is in the second spot and Book 3 is fourth. In addition, Kirkman’s prose novel The Walking Dead: The Rise of the Governor, charting the back story of the series’ most famous villain, is no. 18 on The Times’ bestseller list for all books.
So there you have it folks, a little dose of WALKING DEAD to help pass the time until the rest of Season 2 shambles on early next year.