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):
- The new releases page is here.
- The “Comics Deals” page is here.
- The Kindle Deals comics page is here.
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
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
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:
- 300
- Abe Sapien
- Air
- Aleister & Adolf
- All Eight Eyes
- The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects
- American Gods –
- Apache Delivery Service
- Appleseed
- Astro Boy
- Baltimore – Mike Mignola / Christopher Golden / Ben Stenbeck
- Beasts of Burden – Evan Dorkin / Jill Thompson / Ben Dewey
- Berserk – Kentaro Miura
- Big Man Plans
- Black Hammer
- Black Hammer / Justice League: Hammer of Justice
- Black Magic
- Blade of the Immortal
- Blood Blockade Battlefront
- B.P.R.D.
- Brilliant
- Cat + Gamer
- Cover
- Count Crowley
- Creepy Archives
- Creepy Presents
- Crying Freeman
- Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
- The E.C. Archives
- Eerie Archives
- Elfen Lied
- Elfquest
- Finder
- Fortune & Glory
- Four Gathered on Christmas Eve
- Frank Miller’s Sin City
- Ghost
- Goldfish
- The Goon
- Grandville
- Grendel
- Groo
- Gunsmith Cats
- Halo: Legacy Collection
- Halo: Fall of Reach
- Halo Initiation
- Halo Escalation
- Halo: Collateral Damage
- Halo: Rise of Atriox
- Halo: Lone Wolf
- Hard Boiled
- Harrow County
- The Hellboy Omnibuses
- Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.
- Hillbilly
- Jinx
- Joy Operations
- Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
- The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century
- Lone Wolf and Cub
- Minor Threats
- Mob Psycho 100
- Murder, Inc.
- for unknown reasons, you need to go here for V. 2
- Nexus
- The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos
- Oh My Goddess!
- Old Boy
- The Ones
- Path of the Assassin
- Pearl
- Powers
- Pros and (Comic) Cons
- Resident Alien
- Scarlet
- Spook House
- Stranger Things
- Takio
- Tarzan
- Torso
- Umbrella Academy
- Usagi Yojimbo Saga
- Wandering Island
- Witchfinder
- World of Black Hammer
Also on sale, and we’re not clear on when these will stop being discounted:
- Batman and Robin Vol. 1: Father and Son (’23) – Joshua Williamson (Author), Simone Di Meo
- Dark Nights: Metal – Scott Snyder / Greg Capullo
- Dark Nights: Death Metal – Scott Snyder / Greg Capullo
- Festival of Shadows: A Japanese Ghost Story – Atelier Sento / Cecile Brun / Oliver Pichard
- Justice League: The Darkseid War: (DC Essential Edition) – Geoff Johns / Jason Fabok / Francis Manapul
- Radiant Black Vol. 1 – Kyle Higgins / Marcelo Costa
- Secret Six Vol. 1: Villains United (’06)- Gail Simone / Dale Eaglesham / Brad Walker
- The Strange Case of Harley And Harleen – Melissa Marr / Jennifer St-Onge
- Titans Vol. 1: Out of the Shadows (’23) – Tom Taylor / Nicola Scott
- Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Outlaw (’23) – Tom King / Daniel Sampere
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.
Still on Sale
- Kodansha Sirius Magazine Spotlight Sale runs through Monday, 8/11