Comics Bestsellers
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-- Publishers Weekly, 5/8/2007
1. Fruits Basket, Volume 16.
Natsuki Takaya
ISBN 978-1598160246
2. Bleach, Volume 18.
Tite Kubo
Viz Media, $7.99 ISBN 978-1421510422
3. Naruto, Volume 13.
Mashashi Kishimoto.
Viz Media, $7.95 ISBN 978-1421510873
4. Millenium Snow, Volume 1.
Bisco Hatori.
Viz Media, $8.99 ISBN 978-1421512020
Millenium Snow debuts on the list. It’s a magical love story between an ailing teenage girl about to die and a young vampire, who hates the bloodsucking business, even though his bite could keep her alive for thousand years. Mangaka Bisco Hatori also created the hit comic manga Ouran High School Host Club.
5. Warriors: The Lost Warrior,Volume 1.
Erin Hunter
Tokyopop, $6.99 ISBN 978-0061240201
Somewhere, either in Tokyo or Los Angeles., Tokyopop CEO Stu Levy is smiling. The Lost Warrior is an original manga and an early success from the copublishing venture between Tokyopop and HarperCollins, which is also releasing a new Warriors prose novel, The Sight, at the same time. The popular prose series is written by Erin Hunter (pen name for the duo that writes the series) and was adapted into manga by writer Dan Jolley and artist James Barry.
6. Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event.
Mark Millar and Steve McNiven.
Marvel Comics, $24.99 ISBN 978-0785121794
Civil War collects the core narrative of the hit series, chronicling a cataclysmic divide in the Marvel Universe. A superhero incident kills hundreds of people, turning the public against them. Congress passes the Superhuman Registration Act, requiring the disclosure of all secret identities. The Marvel heroes line up for and against the act and the conflict escalates from thoughtful public debate to war In the streets.
7. One Piece Volume 14.
Eiichiro Oda
Viz Media, $7.95 ISBN 978-1421510910
8. Hana-Kimi, Volume 17.
Hisaya Nakajo.
Viz Media, $9.99 ISBN 978-1421509921
9. Full Metal Alchemists, Volume 12.
Bisco Hatori
Viz Media, $9.99 ISBN 978-1421508399
10. The Road to Civil War.
Brian M. Bendis, J. Michael Straczynski et al.
Marvel Comics, $14.99 ISBN 978-0785119746
The first paperback collection of Marvel’s media sensation, The Road To Civil War returns to the list for a second month. This book marks the early beginnings of the split in the Marvel Universe—Iron Man on one side; Captain America on the other.
