Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: DC Returns With a Vertigo Sale

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC actually had a (Vertigo) sale.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Look Who’s Back

The DC Vertigo Sale runs through Tuesday, 2/24.

Well, well, well… look who has returned. It’s a DC sale. Vertigo sales in January are not an unusual thing, historically speaking, but this is a bit of a surprise. Particularly, dropping mid-week. And this time it’s running for roughly a month. None of this Black Friday 4-day nonsense.

The inevitable caveat: they’re discounting Volume 1’s, not entire series like they used to.

Still, everybody’s been clamoring for DC (especially since the normal December sale was AWOL), so we’re dropping the broad strokes immediately and when our normal installment arrives at the end of the week, we’ll focus on what makes a little more sense as a solo purchase (i.e. avoiding the dreaded “to be continued”).

The nickel highlight tour of Vertigo titles:

100 Bullets – Classic revenge/crime/spies mashup by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
American Vampire – The comic that first put Scott Snyder on the map as a new breed of Vampire emerges in the West and clashes with what came before. Rafael Albuquerque is the artist and Stephen King lends a hand at launch.
American Carnage – Bryan Edward Hill / Leandro Fernandez; Late stage vertigo crime thriller about an FBI agent infiltrating a white supremacist group
The American Way: Those Above and Those Below – John Ridley / George Jeanty; Just your average superhero alternate history tale written by an Oscar winner. Sequel to the Wildstorm series that isn’t collected/on sale.
Animal Man – Relatively early Grant Morrison with Chas Truog
Black Orchid – Early Neil Gaiman although Dave McKean might be stealing the show in this tale of botanical rebirth
Cinderella: Fables are Forever – Chris Roberson & Shawn McManus in this Fables-universe tale of Cinderella as a spy (Why is the actual first Cinderella series, From Fabletown With Love, not on sale? You’d need to ask whoever at DC makes this lists.)
Clean Room – Gail Simone & Jon Davis-Hunt craft a horror tale
Daytripper – Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba
Dead Boy Detectives – Toby Litt & Mark Buckingham. Young ghosts solve crimes. A Netflix series.
Doom Patrol ’89 – The Grant Morrison / Richard Case run. Legendary and adapted for television. Perhaps one day they’ll adapt the rest of the run.
DMZ – Brian Wood / Riccardo Burcchielli; As the US is in the middle of a civil war, a reporter becomes trapped in the no man’s land that is NYC and navigates of landscape of warlords and political intrigue from both sides. Doesn’t get hype anymore, but a solid series that hasn’t exactly gotten stale.
Ex Machina – Brian K. Vaughan (Saga) / Tony Harris (Starman); Originally Wildstorm, now Vertigo, this political thriller/powers genre bender finds a world’s only superhero being elected mayor of NYC. (Long before Lucas Cage or even Wilson Fisk.)
Fables – Bill Willingham / Mark Buckingham
Fairest – An anthology series about the ladies of Fabletown (Fables)
Flex Mentallo – Grant Morrison / Frank Quitely; A delightfully odd/surreal tale that starts out as parody of the old Charles Atlas ads. And an early Morrison/Quitely pairing. They work well together.
Get Jiro – Anthony Bourdain / Joel Rose / Langdon Foss; Yes, that Anthony Bourdain spinning a tale of a sort of gangland war between chefs
Global Frequency – Warren Ellis applies a science fiction layer to the Mission: Impossible format (or perhaps ’83 TV show Masquerade, if you want a deep cut) with rotating artists
Hellblazer – in some respects, the Vertigo flagship title. It starts out with Jamie Delano and John Ridgeway and it’s good for a very long time
The Invisibles – Grant Morrison and a rotating cast of artists in a tale of a secret society of anarchists battling a conspiracy from the establishment
iZombie – Chris Roberson / Mike Allred; A zombie detective dramedy adapted for television
Jack of Fables – Primarily a Bill Willingham / Lilah Sturges / Tony Akins run, this is a Fables spin-off about that rascal Jack Horner
Jonah Hex: Shadows West – Weird Western adventures with Joe R. Lansdale and Tim Truman, both of whom are acquainted with such things
Lucifer – For some reason, we’re seeing the revival series and not the original Carey / Gross run. No idea why
Preacher – Garth Ennis / Steve Dillion; Another Vertigo TV adaption (you might be noticing a pattern), God has gone missing and Jesse Custer would like to have a word with him. Also, power abhors a vacuum.
Saga of the Swamp Thing – The classic Alan Moore years (he’s good, that one); plus the Mark Millar years.
Sandman Mystery Theater – Matt Wagner / Steven T. Seagle / Guy Davis; The Golden Age Sandman in a pulpy mystery series (but with a bit more character work than your average pulp). Highly recommended.
Sandman – By some chap named Gaiman. You may have heard of it.
Scalped – Jason Aaron / R.M. Guera – An FBI agent goes undercover (as himself) on the reservation he thought he’d escaped to investigate the reservation casino. Aaron starting out in the crime genre we wish he could do more of.
Sheriff of Babylon – Tom King / Mitch Gerads; A political thriller / murder mystery in occupied Baghdad
Strange Adventures – The Tom King / Mitch Gerads / Doc Shaner Black label deconstruction of Adam Strange (darker than you’d ever think they’d go), although we’re not wild about the $9.99 price tag
Sweet Tooth – Jeff Lemire; As seen on Netflix.
Top 10 – Alan Moore / Gene Ha / Zander Cannon – Another Wildstorm (OK, technically America’s Best Comics) series now dubbed “Vertigo,” this is Alan Moore’s delightful excursion into the Hill Street Blues style of police procedural… but with superheroes as the law. Good stuff.
Transmetropolitan – Warren Ellis / Darrick Robertson; A pastiche of Hunter S. Thompson wages a media war against corrupt politicians in the near future
Top 10 – Alan Moore / Gene Ha / Zander Cannon – Another Wildstorm (OK, technically America’s Best Comics) series now dubbed “Vertigo,” this is Alan Moore’s delightful excursion into the Hill Street Blues style of police procedural… but with superheroes as the law. Good stuff. While you don’t see it on the discount page, that slightly higher than we’d like price point is one they’re pushing on some of the sale titles.
Trillium – Probably our favorite Jeff Lemire work. Two people on a journey across time and space to find each other before the universe can end, notable for a particularly effective parallel narrative structure. The single issues were released as flipbooks to heighten that parallel structure.
The Unwritten – Mike (M.R.) Carey and Peter Gross reunite for the tale of a boy one whom a Harry Potter-esque series of books was based discovers he might actually be the literary character made flesh and the lines between fiction and reality are fluid.
- The final two volumes are listed separately. (And you wonder why the retailers want better metadata?) The last volume has a discount. <shrugs>
Y: The Last Man – Brian K. Vaughan (him again) and Pia Guerra in the tale of the last man alive after a mysterious incident kills everyone else on Earth with a Y chromosome. Well, except his monkey. You may have even seen the TV series.