Check out this week’s USA Today best-seller list, for the week ending December 30 (number in parentheses is last week’s rank):
78. Naruto, vol. 27 (135)
89. Naruto, vol. 26 (228)
96. Warriors: Warrior’s Refuge (0)
113. Naruto, vol. 25 (312)
Given that Diary of a Wimpy Kid, all of Stephanie Meyer’s YA novels, and all the Golden Compass books behaved similarly, I think we can safely attribute this to a lot of the younger generation using the gift cards Grandma sent them for Christmas. BTW, I haven’t checked, but this may be the first time that five works of sequential art have made the list at once (since everyone seems to regard Diary of a Wimpy Kid as a comic).