Month: August 2025

Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Shang-Chi, Red Sonja, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has discounts on Shang-Chi. Dynamite sliced prices on Red Sonja. Plus, the Secret to Superhuman Strength.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

Master of Cheap Fu

Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang  Deadly Hands of Kung Fu

Marvel Shang-Chi Sale runs through Monday, 8/31.

Shang-Chi got reconfigured after the film version came out and became more of a fantasy figure than an espionage one with the introduction of the Ten Rings. Gene Yang was writing most of this. (As you may have heard, Yang is a Genius with a MacArthur Foundation grant to prove it, plus some Eisner and Harvey Awards.)

All of his work is collected in Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang with Dike Ruan and Marcus To on art.

If you wanted something a little closer to the flavor of the original series, there’s Deadly Hands of Kung Fu: Out Of The Past by Mike Benson / Tan Eng Huat is what you’re looking at in this sale. It also has some material from the 70s Deadly Hands of Kung Fu magazine.

Simply Red

Red Sonja: She-Devil With a Sword  Red Sonja Vol. 1: Queen of Plagues  Red Sonja

Dynamite Red Sonja Sale runs through Monday 9/8.

Let’s run through the highlights first.

  • Red Sonja: She-Devil With a Sword (’05 – ’13) – Mike Carey / Michael Avon Oeming / Eric Trautman / Mel Rubi / Walter Geovani
  • Queen Sonja (’09-’13) – Joshua Ortega / Arvid Nelson / Luke Lieberman / Mel Rubi / Jack Herbert
  • Red Sonja (’13-’15) – Gail Simone / Walter Geovani
  • Red Sonja (’17-’19) – Amy Chu / Erik Burnham / Carlos Gomez
  • Red Sonja (’19-’21) – Mark Russell / Bob Quinn
  • Immortal Red Sonja Vol. 1 – Dan Abnett / Alessandro Miracolo
    • Vol. 2 here (listed w/ the single issues for unknown reasons)

What’s good here? Dynamite’s time with Red Sonja started out strong with Oeming/Carey/Rubi. Gail’s run definitely has it’s fans. We’re also very big fans of the Mark Russell/Bob Quinn run which manages to be a high adventure comic AND a satire of fantasy politics and tropes at the same time. It’s really quite impressive.

Unannounced Sales

ack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics  Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio  The Secret to Superhuman Strength

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

Additionally, it looks like most of the Wolverine and Deadpool material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Black Panther, Thor, Apocalypse/X-Men

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has discounts on Black Panther, Thor and the mutant misdeeds of Apocalypse.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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T’Challa Forever

Black Panther Masterworks  Black Panther by Priest  Black Panther

The Marvel Black Panther Sale runs through Sunday, 8/31.

Please note the unusual Sunday end date on this one before we break this one down.

That first McGregor / Graham run really is the foundational work for everything that comes and should be read first. As a major bonus, it’s great work and ahead of its time.

Priest’s extended run lives up to it’s reputation for excellence, so that’s your second must-read for exploring the Panther.

We like Hudlin’s run, too.

For something a little off the beaten path, Range Wars is something you get for the titular arc that’s the last two issues of the collection. John Ridley and German Peralta offer a particularly savage satire of colonialism.

There’s a bit more to sale, but the above is the core.

Sturm und Hammer?

Thor - The Wrath of Odin  Thor by Walt Simonson  Thor Road to War of the Realms

Marvel’s Thor Sale runs  through Monday, 8/25.

Pretty much the full Thor line and this time both the Masterworks and Epic Collections are on sale. (We don’t get to say that as often as we’d like to.)

As per our custom, here’s the breakdown by series/volume:

  • Journey Into Mystery ’52-’66 – The earliest Thor stories from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
  • The Mighty Thor  ’66-’96 – From Lee & Kirby until the relaunches started
  • The Mighty Thor ’96-’04 – The Heroes return Dan Jurgens era, initially with John Romita, Jr.
  • Thor ’07-’11 – Starts with J. Michael Straczynski & Olivier Coipel, ends with Matt Fraction & Pasqual Ferry. Gillen in the middle.
  • The Mighty Thor ’11-’12 – Fraction gets a relaunch with Coipel, Ferry and early Pepe Larraz
  • The Jason Aaron era ’12-’19 – It’s a LOT easer to look at the omnibuses across all the relaunches here
  • Thor ’20 to ’23 – The Donny Cates run with Nic Klein as the primary artist; Torunn GrØnbekk tags in towards the end while Cates was recovering from his accident (and filled in well, we might add).
  • Immortal Thor (’23 -’25) – Al Ewing / Martin Coccolo;

If your point of reference for Thor is the last film, you want the Jason Aaron era. The God Butcher is the first arc. If you go with that set of omnibuses, Jane Foster picks up the hammer in V.2. We don’t think that starting with the first Jane Foster issues (and slimmer volumes) is a great jumping on point. It’s a saga and you’ll get a lot more out of it if you start at the beginning of Aaron’s run.

Past that, we’re all about the Walt Simonson Thor. It’s probably the most influential run since early days and it’s great. You’ll want the Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson set that starts here. (The Thor by Walter Simonson version of the reprints seems to be missing the final volume, or at least the last few issues. *sigh* These things happen.)

We also like to go back to the original Lee/Kirby. Not too early. We’d say stay closer to where it changed from Journey Into Mystery to Thor. The first year of JIM was a little rough. The Wrath of Odin  Epic Collection is a good chunk of prime Lee/Kirby Thor and also features the first time Jane Foster was elevated to godhood, since it turns out to now be foreshadowing.

Something under the radar? Ignore this being marketed as a kid’s comic – Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee had a short run on Thor: The Mighty Avenger that was just a good Thor comic, full stop. And you might expect that from those two.

If you want to move in the opposite direction, Thor: Vikings is a seriously violent Marvel MAX title from Garth Ennis and Glenn Fabry that has Viking zombies invading Manhattan. (No, not Fleet Week. That’s different.)

We also have naught but love for the current Immortal Thor run. It’s smart and has an endgame in mind.

Apocalypse Now?

House of X / Powers of X  X-Force  X of Swords

The Marvel Apocalypse Sale runs through Monday, 8/25.

It’s a villain sale, which means the listings are a bit all over the map. Let’s hit some highlights:

What’s good? Not the first thing you’d think of when you hear “Apocalypse,” necessarily, but the Remender Uncanny X-Force run is dark run with a distinctive personality and quite the artist rotation. We think it had emerged from under the radar by the end of the series but it isn’t always discussed today.

The Hickman era rotation – House Of X/Powers Of X, X of Swords, X-Men: Reign Of X By Jonathan Hickman, Immortal X-Men–  is all first rate.

Unannounced Sales

Elfquest  The Giver  Will You Still Love Me if I Wet the Bed?

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

Additionally, it looks like most of the Wolverine and Deadpool material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Venom, Young Avengers, The Superman Sale Returns

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has discounts on Venom and Young Avengers while DC’s Superman sale returns.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

No, Not Bane’s Juice

Venom by Remender   Venom by Cates   Venom

The Marvel Venom Sale runs through Monday, 8/18.

This is a fairly scattered sale, with multiple formats and a lot of random early miniseries floating around. Browse for a better accounting of the listings.

For the early stuff, the better values are the somewhat scattered Epic Collections.

The early (mostly) Spider-Man appearances can be found in Venom Epic Collection: Symbiosis. That’s largely the David Michelinie / Todd McFarlane / Erik Larsen material.  That’s followed by Venom Epic Collection: Lethal Protector which has a few more villainous appearances and the original Lethal Protector mini. And then Venom Epic Collection: Carnage Unleashed continues the 90s appearances.

Eventually Venom gets his own series:

  • Venom  (2003-4) – The Daniel Way era
  • Venom  (2011-3) – Rick Remender/Tony Moore, then Cullen Bunn/Declan Shalvey
  • Venom (2016-8) – Mike Costa / Tradd Moore / Mark Bagley
  • Venom (2018-21) – Donny Cates / Ryan Stegman
  • Venom (2021-24) – Al Ewing / Ram V / Bryan Hitch
  • Venom War (2024) – Al Ewing / Iban Coello

Let’s talk about the last 12 years or so. The ’11-’13 series is more interesting than you might think. That’s when Flash Thompson has the symbiote and uses it (among other things) to replace the legs his lost in the war. There are some interesting pathos floating around, particularly in the Remender/Moore run.

The Cates/Stegman run is probably the most famous right now. That’s where Venom gets Cosmic and leads into the King In Black Event.

The current Ewing / V / Hitch run, is an evolution and big leap forward from the groundwork laid by Cates. Al Ewing drives the Cosmic elements, which are the most interesting part. Eddie Brock is dead. But he isn’t. He’s separated from his body and he’s bouncing around in time as his son becomes Venom in the present. It’s a much, much stranger take on Venom than most others and really dives into the King in Black mythos and timeline, eventually culminating in Venom War.

Did Anybody Card These Heroes?

Young Avengers  Young Avengers  Avengers: The Children's Crusade

The Marvel Young Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 8/18.

We can sum this sale up succinctly. You’re looking at three volumes:

The creator names are even in the title(s)!

Seriously, though: the Heinberg/Cheung original series was a buzz book that seem to come out of nowhere when it dropped. Hulking and Wiccan have gone on to get pretty fully integrated into the Marvel Universe.

A couple notable spin-offs also in the sale:

  • Hawkeye (’16-’18) – Kelly Thompson / Leonardo Romero; Note: this is the Kate Bishop Hawkeye
  • Empyre – Al Ewing / Dan Slott / Valerio Schitti; Wiccan and Hulkling are right at the center of this Event

Superman Returns?

Superman: The Golden Age  Superman: Up in the Sky  Superman Smashes The Klan

The DC Summer of Superman 2025 Sale runs through Sunday 8/31.

“Wait,” you’re asking yourself, “didn’t this sale run last month?” It did! Mostly. This isn’t an exact clone of last month and as we’re eyeballing it, it appears to us that some of the pricing has improved. To the tune of some scattered $2.99 volumes.

Here are the base links:

And a bit of space for the supporting cast of the upcoming film:

What’s good?

We’re huge fans of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? – a masterpiece of humor and a good mystery, too.

One of the somewhat rare ’80s reprints that we’ve enjoyed is Superman: The Phantom Zone by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan. This is a very odd, horror-flavored Superman tale as he confronts something unnatural that’s been living in the Phantom Zone… but you weren’t expecting Gerber & Colan to give you the ’50s TV version, were you? Waid also references this series in World’s Finest.

Emperor Joker is a 2000 storyline from Jeph Loeb / Ed McGuinness / Joe Kelly / Doug Mahnke that finds the Joker acquiring godlike powers and remaking the world in his image. Not an Elseworlds, but entertainingly over the top.

Superman Smashes the Klan has Gene Yang and Gurihiru revisiting and revising the original Superman radio show arc, “Clan of the Fiery Cross.” It’s on the YA side of Superman, but has picked up a LOT of good reviews.

Superman: Man of Tomorrow is an very witty collection of tales by Robert Venditti and Paul Pelletier that went under most radars because it was originally serialized digitally.

Superman, the current series by Josh Williamson and Jamal Campbell is also on sale and it’s a good one.

And for something under the radar, the Warworld saga from a couple years back is worth a look. Phillip Kennedy Johnson wrote Action Comics for a spell and there was very little discussion on it. We’ve since had it recommended a couple times and just finished reading it. Severely under-rated and we’d go so far as to call the first two volumes great. The set up is there’s a new Mongul running Warworld. Mongul has been subjugating a lost tribe from Krypton and uses them to lure Superman to Warworld (with The Authority in tow). A trap is sprung and Superman has to lead a rebellion.

Now, you might be saying “haven’t we seen this before on Apokolips?  And the answer is, not exactly. Kennedy Johnson takes a full arc to set this up with signs of portent and excels at creating an atmosphere of foreboding leading into the final act. The characterization is strong and there’s an interesting thread about the problem of leading a revolution when the underclass has never known freedom. (And a bit of political skullduggery in the background.) Several artists tag in and out, but the more prominent ones are Daniel Sampere, Riccardo Federici and Will Conrad.

This storyline is collected across three volumes:

The optional fourth volume to the arc, which takes place in the background during Warlord Rising, is Superman and The Authority by Grant Morrison and Mikel Janin. This is where Superman recruits The Authority for his mission to Warworld… and trust us, this series works better in the greater context of the Warworld arc than it does as a standalone.

“Normal” Unannounced Sales

Daredevil: Fall From Grace  Dramacon  Over My Dead Body

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

Additionally, it looks like most of the Wolverine and Deadpool material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Phoenix, Black Cat, Blade

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel’s offering up discounts on Phoenix, Black Cat and Blade. If you look closely, you might also find some unannounced Daredevil and Elektra on sale, too…

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Going Down in Flames as a Form of Progression

X-Men: The Fate of the Phoenix  Phoenix Rising  Phoenix

The Marvel Phoenix Sale runs through Monday, 8/18.

Jean Grey, if you prefer.

For many, the character is defined by “The Dark Phoenix Saga,” arguably the high point of an already great run by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. Pick up X-Men Epic Collection: The Fate Of The Phoenix and get “Days of Future Past” in the same package.

Then Jean/Phoenix was dead for several years. Phoenix Rising is slightly mislabeled as being an X-Men book. The resurrection of Jean Grey is the birth of X-Factor, which crosses over with Fantastic Four and Avengers for the tale. Which means you get John Byrne, Roger Stern, John Buscema, Bob Layton and Butch Guice all contributing to the tale.

New X-Men is the Grant Morrison run with a fairly sick rotating cast of artists including Frank Quitely, Leinil Francis Yu, Igor Kordey, John Paul Leon, Phil Jimenez, Chris Bachalo and Marc Silvestri. As you’ve doubtless heard, it’s a very good run.

The current Phoenix series is by Stephanie Phillips / Alessandro Miracolo and is more of a cosmic adventures series.

Some other sale highlights:

Scratch

Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Nine Lives Has The Black Cat  Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do  Black Cat

The Marvel Black Cat Sale runs through Monday, 8/11.

And that would be Spidey’s occasional girlfriend / frenemy (depending on the author/era).

Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Nine Lives Has The Black Cat is mostly a Marv Wolfman / Keith Pollard run and features the debut of a certain Felicia Hardy.

Fast forward to 2002 and Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do by Kevin Smith & Terry Dodson begins. It didn’t actually finish up until early ’06, but it was vaguely the next act for the character.

Jump to ’04, which was the middle of the “pause” on Spidey/Black Cat and you’ll find that the first year of Marvel Knights Spider-Man by Mark Millar and the aforementioned Terry Dodson featured Black Cat in a prominent role.

Black Cat next turns up on the Heroes for Hire team by Jimmy Palmiotti/Justin Gray/Billy Tucci, with Zeb Wells/Al Rio/Clay Mann later in the run.

She pops back into Petey’s life in ’09’s Spider-Man: Return of the Black Cat, with that arc being a Joe Kelly / Mike McKone production.

Jed MacKay starts his Black Cat run in ’19. Lots of artists tagging in and out, with Travel Foreman and CF Villa being prominent on the list. This also is one of those single issue relaunches that they ignore when numbering the collected editions. Since Amazon sorts by single issue series, V.1-3 are here and V.4-6 are here.

Iron Cat is an ’02 follow-up by MacKay and Pere Perez.

Did You Say “Stake?”

Blade: Black and White  Blade  Blood Hunt

The Marvel Blade Sale runs through Monday, 8/11.

Now there’s a character that’s changed a little bit since his introduction.

Blade: Undead By Daylight is a collection of some of the original Tomb of Dracula appearances by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan.

Blade: Black and White is built around Blade’s appearances in Marvel’s black and white magazines of the 70s, Marv Wolfman/Chris Claremont/Tony DeZuniga being the primary creators here.

Flash forward not quite 20 years and you get the material in Blade Epic Collection: Nightstalkers, which is (primarily) the ’91 Tomb of Dracula revival by Wolfman & Colan, plus the first six issues of Nightstalkers by DG Chichester and Ron Garney, which was part of the Midnight Sons line.

Jump ahead to ’06 and you get a Blade run (pun intended) by Marc Guggenheim and Howard Chaykin.

The more recent Blade saga comes in a sort of cluster.

First, Jason Aaron’s Avengers run. Then there’s the Blade series by Bryan Edward Hill / Elena Casagrande / Valentina Pinti, where Blade becomes the sheriff of Vampire Nation. All of the above leads in the the Blood Hunt Event by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz. (There are a couple tie-ins available in the sale, but the Avengers one strangely isn’t included.)

“Normal” Unannounced Sales

The Curse   Daredevil & Elektra  Daredevil The Man Without Fear

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

Additionally, it looks like most of the Wolverine and Deadpool material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.

And if you’re REALLY cheap, the first Powers collection seems to be free at the moment. Great series that sort of fell in the background when Bendis was kicking out all those Events at Marvel. (Seriously, it seems like he was doing 10 comics/month and his creator owned material got put on the backburner.) Powers is the real deal.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Unannounced Sales on Wolverine, Dark Horse and a few DC titles, too

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, unannounced sales on Wolverine, Dark Horse and a few DC titles, too.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

Housekeeping note: With the exception of the Kodansha sale that’s going on, all of the usual suspects have unannounced sales this week. If you hadn’t heard, there were some irregularities with the Amazon/Comixology New Releases page this week. We suspect this is a “formal” Wolverine sale and the sale page never got linked to the deals page in the ensuing chaos. If so, this sale probably runs through Monday or a week from Monday. Which is to say, we REALLY don’t know when any of these sales are ending! (And yes, we did turn up some randomly better-priced DC volumes.)

Invisible Killer

Wolverine: Spore  Wolverine: Enemy of the State  

As we type this early on Friday morning, there’s no link yet… but we can see the lowered prices. If an overall sale link becomes available, we’ll update the page.

This is the sale on the “main” Wolverine titles. Let’s start out by listing the various titles involved. This time out, the Epic Collections are on sale, but Wolverine Classic does not. These days, you never know about the Epics and Masterworks from sale to sale… except there aren’t any Wolverine Masterworks. And pay attention, because not every volume in a given series is discounted. (Yes, it’s been that kind of week.)

  • Wolverine (’82) – Chris Claremont / Frank Miller / Paul Smith; The miniseries that kicked off the solo stories and an X-Men 2-parter that’s a sort of follow-up
  • Wolverine (’88-’03) – The original ongoing solo title. Yes, it took six years after the mini… it was a different time
  • Wolverine (’03-’09) – Greg Rucka / Darick Robertson; Mark Millar / John Romita, Jr.; Jason Aaron/Ron Garney… among others (mostly Millar getting discounts)
  • Wolverine: Origin (’06-’10) – Daniel Way / Steve Dillon
  • Wolverine: Weapon X (’09) – Jason Aaron / Ron Garney
  • Wolverine (’10-’12) – Jason Aaron / Renato Guedes / Ron Garney; “Wolverine Goes to Hell” was not a metaphor
  • Wolverine (’13-’14) – Paul Cornell / Alan Davis
  • Wolverine: Savage Land (’14) – Frank Cho
  • Old Man Logan (’16-’18) – Jeff Lemire / Andrea Sorrentino; While Logan is “dead,” his future dystopian self journeys to the present day. (And it’s actually pretty good, despite the wonky premise.)
  • Return of Wolverine (’18-’19) – Charles Soule / Steve McNiven; “They always come back”
  • Wolverine (’20-’24) – Ben Percy / Adam Kubert; The Krakoan era Logan. The first link is the “omnibus” page, here’s the individual collections page, which are discounted a little further into the series.

So, what’s actually good?

The  original miniseries is generally regarded as a classic.

With the original series, you’re pretty good from the beginning through the end of the Larry Hama run (a bit after #100), though towards the end of that, the X-Events get annoying. We’re particularly fond of the Archie Goodwin / John Byrne arc from #17-23.

Mark Millar did two great runs:

  • Enemy of the State w/ John Romita, JR introduces Gorgan and has Wolverine up against an unholy alliance of the Hand and Hydra
  • Old Man Logan w/ Steve McNiven has an aging Logan trying to keep to himself in a dystopian future when trouble comes looking. Yes, this should sound an awful lot like one of the films!

The Krakoan era, while it almost merged with X-Force (kind of like the triangle era Superman line), was quite enjoyable.

“Normal” Unannounced Sales

Hellboy  Martha Washington  Minor Threats

It’s last call for Dark Horse’s “Comic-Con @Home digital sale” and has most of their collected editions discounted, but not the newest material and not the single issues.  Here’s a link that will *eventually* get you through their catalog in a very laborious way and with the single issues mixed in. (It’s not perfect, but we’re trying.) Figure this will be around 50% off, but it might vary a little from book to book. Our understanding is that this will run through August 4th.

Here are some direct links to various series:

Dark Nights: Metal  Titans  Wonder Woman

Also on sale, and we’re not clear on when these will stop being discounted:

Additionally, it looks like most of the Captain America and Deadpool material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.

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