'The Walking Dead,' Plus Two Big New Hits

BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novels in October 2017 Rank Title Author Publisher 1 THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 28 ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 2 GOING INTO TOWN: A LOVE LETTER TO NEW YORK HC ROZ CHAST BLOOMSBURY UK 3 OVERWATCH: ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT DARK HORSE BOOKS 4 THE WALKING DEAD: HERE'S NEGAN HC ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 5 BATMAN/THE FLASH: THE BUTTON DLX ED HC TOM KING DC COMICS 6 TOKYO GHOUL: RE VOL. 1 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 7 THE WALKING DEAD: HERE'S NEGAN B&N EXC HC ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 8 THE WALKING DEAD BOOK 14 HC ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 9 BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT - MASTER RACE HC FRANK MILLER DC COMICS 10 THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VOL. 2 AKIRA HIMEKAWA VIZ MEDIA 11 EVERYONE'S A ALIEBN WHEN UR A ALIEBN TOO: A BOOK HC JOMNY SUN HARPER PERENNIAL 12 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 13 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 9 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 14 RAT QUEENS VOL. 14 KURTIS WIEBE IMAGE COMICS 15 ONE PUNCH VOL. 12 ONE VIZ MEDIA 16 WILLIAM GIBSON'S ARCHANGEL HC WILLIAM GIBSON IDW PUBLISHING 17 FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC ALISON BECHDEL MARINER BOOKS 18 TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 1 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 19 THE LIFE-CHANGING MANGA OF TIDYING UP: A MAGICAL STORY MARIE KONDO TEN SPEED PRESS 20 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA

The Walking Dead topped the October 2017 Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart provided exclusively to ICv2 by NPD BookScan (as is usually the case in October as the new season kicks off), and also accounted for four slots of the 20. Notably, two of The Walking Dead volumes were not collections of comics from the regular series; they were both editions of Here’s Negan, a hardcover collection of comics from Image+, Image Comics' monthly promotional magazine. The regular edition came in at #4, and the Barnes & Nobel exclusive hardcover was just a few slots lower at #7.Two new titles with the potential to be on the list for a while took the second and third slots in October. The new Roz Chast graphic novel, Going into Town: A Love Letter, took the #2 slot; Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant was on the chart for months a few years back. And Dark Horse’s Overwatch: Anthology Vol. 1 came in at #3, powered by Blizzard Entertainment's hot multiplayer online first-person shooter, which now has over 35 million players.Other 2017 hits were also doing well, with Everybody’s a Aliebn on the chart for the fifth consecutive month, and The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up staying on the chart for its fourth month.

For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the "BookScan Top 20 GN Index."