Amazon Kicks Off Best of ‘05 Mania

On-line retailer Amazon.com has released their Best of 2005 lists including those concerning comics, one imagines in order to encourage their use in holiday shopping. They're sort of interesting as lists, albeit broad to the point they sort of feel like seating arrangements at a diplomatic dinner sponsored by some weird comics U.N.

The customers list strikes me as additionally bizarre in that there are no superheroes and no manga books on it at all, and there are multiple strip collections. I've never heard the on-line customer characterized the way the bookstore and the DM customer has been, but my guess is that if this is any indication they're skewing slightly older than the other major customer bases. That breakdown may be obvious according to general Internet shopping patterns, but I know I bought a lot of comics through the mail as a kid, so I sort figured today's kids did the same. Maybe not.

What's also strange is how few of these books might conceivably make a comparable list of my own, which seems to indicate a severe lack of consensus about what's good, even less so than the old "two camps" days.

Editors' picks:
Black Hole
Pyongyang
Ex Machina
Marvel 1602
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
The ACME Novelty Library
Sin City: The Hard Goodbye
Conan Volume 1
Identity Crisis
Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 1

Customers' favorites:
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
The Complete Peanuts 1955-56
Star Wars Episode III
Say Cheesy (Get Fuzzy)
The R. Crumb Handbook
Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything (Fox Trot)
The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head (Dilbert)
The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
Nighthogs: A Pearls Before Swine Collection
Embroideries

thank you, Kevin Melrose

Update: John DiBello unpacks this further in much smarter fashion than I have.
 
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