In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, lots of Hulk. The Spider-Verse and the Venomverse. Plus Fangs, Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner and Grant Morrison’s New X-Men.

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):

DC Housekeeping

Halfway through May and no new DC sales. One “not quite sale” at the end of April. That’s all there’s been since March. All appearances are that DC has changed their digital strategy and do not wish to offer proper discounts. It doesn’t look like the handful of seemingly random items in the Under $5 Page have been updated… not that we were expecting an update. We’d love to be wrong, but this looks like it’s anything but a short term absence. Perhaps in a couple months if they don’t like their monthly totals, otherwise the question will be whether they return for the holidays the way Image does in the early Fall?

Hulk Is Cheapest There Is

Planet Hulk  Immortal Hulk  Incredible Hulk

The Marvel Hulk Sale runs through Monday, 5/26.

And what we have here is basically a Hulk Legacy sale, although this is another of those Marvel sales that omits both the Masterworks and the Epic Collections, which really takes a lot of the first series off the discount table.

Let’s run down the various titles.

  • Incredible Hulk (1962 – 1999) The original run and then the long running series that picked up a few years later.
  • Tales to Astonish (1964-68) In between the two Hulk solo runs above, Hulk was splitting Tales to Astonish with Ant-Man/Giant Man and then Namor. A lot of the foundational work was really in this run, with Stan Lee/Steve Ditko responsible for a lot of it. Included for the sake of completeness, for you shall find no discounts here
  • Incredible Hulk (1999-2007) – Best known for the Bruce Jones / Lee Weeks/ Mike Deodato run towards the beginning and the Greg Pak / multi-artist “Planet Hulk” and “World War Hulk” epics at the end… though World War Hulk is at this different link.
  • Hulk (2008-13) This is the Red Hulk run (and the title changes to that after awhile). It starts out with the better known Jeph Loeb/Ed Mc Guiness run and then Jeff Parker takes over with Gabriel Hardman, Dave Eaglesham and Patrick Zircher in the artist rotation.
  • Incredible Hulk by Jason Aaron (2011-12) – Lots of artists rotating through here, Marc Silvestri, Steve Dillon and Carlos Pacheco among them
  • Indestructible Hulk (2012 – 14) – Mark Waid’s the writer with an artist rotation including Leinil Francis Yu, Matteo Scalera and Walt Simonson draws the Thor team-up.
  • Hulk by Waid and Duggan (2014-15) – That would be Mark Waid and Gerry Duggan with Duggan doing the bulk of the run. Mark Bagley is the main artist here.
  • Immortal Hulk (2018-21) – Al Ewing’s masterpiece as the Hulk slides over towards horror and find a green door that leads to Hell.
  • Hulk (2021-23) – The Donny Cates / Ryan Ottley run
  • The Incredible Hulk (2023 – present) – Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Nic Klein

For the main series, you can’t go wrong with the Peter David years and the Bill Mantlo era seems to have gained fans over the years.

The sequence from Planet Hulk to World War Hulk is highly enjoyable.

Let’s be real – Immortal Hulk is a masterpiece. Highly recommended with an approach almost like Gerber’s Man-Thing or Moore’s Swamp Thing.

We’re really enjoying the current run, too. It’s a return to horror, like the Immortal Hulk run, but it feels a bit more like the Bruce Jones run. Banner is on the run, but this time the conspiracy pursuing him is supernatural in nature. Nic Klein is doing ridiculously good work on this title, too.

Two Verses

Spider-Verse  Spider-Man Vol. 1: End Of The Spider-Verse  Venomverse

The Marvel Spider-Verse/Venom-Verse Sale runs through Monday, 5/19.

Spider-Verse is basically a celebration of the Spider-Man cast expanding with a lot of Spidey-related characters and then throwing in some Spidey-equivalents from different dimensions. Miles Morales being the most important one, important enough to be ported into the main “616” universe when the Ultimate line was shuttered.

Spider-Verse was the original Spider-Man family event in the comics that formalized much of this. You’re best off getting the omnibus edition that has the entire thing and all the crossovers, else it gets complicated figuring out reading order between the various series-specific collections.  There are a ton of creators working on this, as you might expect, but this is effectively a Dan Slott as show-runner affair. (Which means, yes, Christos Gage is not far behind.)

Edge of the Spider-Verse sets up the eventual sequel.

Spider-Man Vol. 1: End Of The Spider-Verse – Dan Slott / Mark Bagley; is the sequel which claims to end everything as Morlun returns.

And much like you can’t get a child a gift and not expect their sibling to demand one, Venom has his own spin on this:

  • Venomverse – Cullen Bunn / Iban Coello; Enter the venomized heroes
  • Death Of The Venomverse – Cullen Bunn / Gerardo Sandoval; The Carnage symbiote travels the multiverse to kill all Venoms
  • Venomverse Reborn – Anthology of various Venoms across the multiverse

Unannounced Sales

New X-Men  Fangs  Nat Turner

As usual, we’re not 100% sure how long this discounts will stick around.

Additionally, it looks like most of the Star Wars and Thor 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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