In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel discounts the MAX version of The Punisher and Superior Spider-Man. DC has a Memorial Day Sale on recent items. Dark Horse cuts prices on fantasy titles.
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):
- The new releases page is here.
- The “Comics Deals” page is here.
- The Kindle Deals comics page is here.
Momento Mori
The DC Memorial Day Sale runs through Monday, 5/27.
This is an extra eclectic mix of books and there seem to be a fair amount that are new to being discounted or recently started being discounted. A few things we found notable:
- DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock vs. The Army of the Dead – Bruce Campbell (yes, that Bruce Campbell) / Eduardo Risso (yes, that Eduardo Risso) – always punch Nazi zombies
- Dead Boy Detectives – if you were watching the Netflix show, here are a couple versions:
- Dead Boy Detectives by Toby Litt & Mark Buckingham (’13)
- The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives (’18) – Pornsak Pichetshote / Jeff Stokely
- The Detective Chimp Casebook – Yes, the Silver Age stories of Detective Chimp
- Detective Comics, V. 2: Gotham Nocturne: Act 1 – Ram V / Ivan Reis; We’ve been catching up on this and it’s good! Slow burn conspiracies, sorcery and some of the best backups we’ve seen, in terms of adding background to the main story. Note: this is really part two of a multi-volume story.
- The Flash – The Jeremy Adams run is discounted:
- Justice Society of America (’22) – The first collection of the Geoff Johns / Mikel Janin version
- The Nice House on the Lake – James Tynion IV / Alvaro Martinez Bueno; on sale ahead of the next installment of the series in July.
- Knight Terrors – The main series isn’t on sale right now, but three volumes collecting the tie-ins are:
- Peacemaker Tries Hard! – Kyle Starks / Steve Pugh; Red Bee fans have been waiting for this one!
- Suicide Squad: Blaze – Si Spurrier/Aaron Campbell; The Hellblazer team has created one of the darkest DC tales we’ve ever read. Maximortal kinds of darkness.
- World’s Finest – Mark Waid & Dan Mora with their delightful tales of Batman and Superman teaming up. And a bit of Doom Patrol, too.
Warner Must Find Punisher MAX Confusing…
The Marvel Punisher MAX Sale runs through Monday, 5/27.
Yes, Marvel’s been using the MAX label for mature reader comics longer than Warner’s been using it for streaming. One of those quirks of branding, we suppose.
This sale really breaks down into two titles:
Punisher Max: The Complete Collection is the ’04-’09 run that’s most associated with Garth Ennis returning to the character (with art by Darick Robertson, Leandro Fernendez, Doug Braithwaite and Goran Parlov, among others). This is Ennis doing the serious Punisher, as opposed to the hilarity of Welcome Back, Frank. Mike Benson, Victor Gischler and Jason Aaron pop up at the end of the run.
Then you’ve got PunisherMax, the ’09-’12 relaunch by Jason Aaron/Steve Dillon, where Frank mixes it up with The Kingpin and Bullseye.
Superiority Complex
The Marvel Superior Spider-Man Sale runs through Monday, 10/16.
Yes, that would be the run when Doctor Octopus took over Peter Parker’s body. One of the greatest moments of “wait… this is actually good” in recent history. (Everyone we knew winced at the high concept, but the execution was on the money!)
The primary Superior Spider-Man series by Dan Slott and Ryan Stegman is best packaged in the 2-volume Complete collection, that also includes the “Dying Wish” arc that sets up the run.
Superior Spider-Man Companion gets you the first 12 issues of Superior Spider-Man Team-Up and some tie-in issues.
Superior Spider-Man (’18-’19) is the Christos Gage / Mike Hawthorne revival that returns Otto Octavious to his Spidey persona.
And for something a little different? The absolutely hilarious Superior Foes of Spider-Man by Nick Spencer & Steve Lieber. Boomerang tries to organize a gang of Spidey’s b-list foes and make a big score. Things… do not go as intended. Think an even more absurd Dortmunder novel with super villains and you won’t be far off.
Unlisted Sale
Dark Horse has a number of fantasy series on sale this week, including:
- Adventures Into the Unknown Archives – Late ’40s / early ’50s horror
- Air – G. Willow Wilson / M.K. Perker – Dimension hopping, terrorists and conspiracies. Originally a Vertigo title.
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman / P. Craig Russell / Scott Hampton
- Beasts of Burden – Evan Dorkin / Ben Dewey / Jill Thompson; The neighborhood dogs battle the occult
- Creepy Archives – The classic Warren horror magazine
- Critical Role – Adapting the web series
- Eerie Archives – Collecting another classic Warren horror magazine
- Elfquest by Wendy Pini / Richard Pini
- Final Fantasy Lost Stranger – Hazuki Minase / Itsuki Kameya
- Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser – Howard Chaykin / Mike Mignola – Fritz Lieber’s sword & sorcery series
- Finder – Carla Speed McNeil’s award winning and long-running science fiction series
- The Flying Ship by Jem Milton
- Hillbilly – Eric Powell; featuring The Devil’s Cleaver
- The Horror of Collier County – Rich Tommaso
- Mazebook – Jeff Lemire
- The Ring of Nibelung – P. Craig Russell adapts the opera cycle
- She Could Fly – Christoper Cantwell / Martin Morazzo
- Super Spy – Matt Kindt
We’re going to stump a little for Air. This series was way under the radar at Vertigo and prior to G. Willow Wilson being a name author. It’s out there (in a good way) enough to be a little hard to describe, but it’s a strong book and it looks like the reissue is now complete.
Still on Sale
- The Kodansha Like This? Try That! The Fable Sale runs through Monday, 05/27
- The Titan The Doctor Who Comic Sale runs through Monday, 6/24
- The Marvel Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 5/27
- The Marvel Iron Man Legacy Sale runs through Monday, 5/27
- The Zenescope The Jungle Book Sale runs through Friday, 6/7
- The Titan Gun Honey Sale runs through Monday, 6/3
