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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: DC’s Very Short Black Friday Sale

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC will only give you four days for Black Friday/Cyber Monday this year, so pay attention.

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: We’re going to leave the unannounced Dark Horse sale up. Our best guess is we won’t see anything from Marvel earlier than Monday evening, but we’d love to be wrong about that.

Tick Tick Tick

Absolute Batman  Absolute Wonder Woman  Justice League Unlimited

The DC Seasonal Savings Sale runs through 12/1.

We’ve noted how recalcitrant DC has seemed about throwing a sale in recent months. Only having 4 days (maybe 3.5 – Amazon is cutting off these sales earlier in the day, so don’t be surprised if it disappears by 7pm or 8pm ET on Monday) of a Black Friday sale seems in character for 2025.

What’s on sale? This one is interesting and unlike their corporate synergy sales since March, it actually has some new material! Absolutely, you might say.

The Absolute Section

Absolute Batman

Absolute Wonder Woman

Absolute Superman

Absolute Martian Manhunter

Absolute Flash

Absolute Green Lantern

The Lead-Ins

There are two books that loosely lead into the Absolute run:

  • Absolute Power – Mark Waid / Dan Mora; This sets up All-In and various things in the main DCU moving forward.
  • All-In Special – Joshua Williamson/ Scott Snyder / Daniel Sampere / Dan Mora / Wes Craig; This one explains how the Absolute universe came into existence and they things are such a *cough* “dark mirror” of the DCU. It’s a useful table setting, so it’s possibly poor planning from DC not to have it included in the sale. We’ll just leave the link here. We didn’t totally need it for the opening collected editions we read, but we DO think it will be key before things get too far along.

What do we recommend? We’ve read the V.1’s of Absolute Batman and Absolute Wonder Woman. If you’re only going to pick up one collected edition? Absolute Wonder Woman. This is one of those happy occasions where there is no hype, only facts. Heavy use of mythology to the point it’s more urban fantasy than superhero and it’s as good as you’ve heard.

We’ve also heard nothing but love for Absolute Martian Manhunter, but we have read V.1 yet. (Next thing in the queue when we’re done with the JLU/World’s Finest crossover.)

Current DC Series / Newly Discounted

We haven’t read everything on the list, but things we’ve read and will vouch for? We’ll put the Spurrier/Campbell Hellblazer up against any other run (and we know what we just said). If you like the Waid/Mora World’s Finest, you’ll like Justice League Unlimited (and if you don’t like World’s Finest, you probably hate having fun). The Ram V / Cagle The New Gods is a really interesting take on what appears to be a post-Darkseid New Gods (although we’re highly suspicious of his demise).

And We’d Be Remiss Not To Mention a New Edition of:

Best Jimmy Olsen ever? Quite possibly. It’s a great book.

Unannounced Sales

Blacksad  Money Shot  Scarlet

As always, we really don’t know how long these will last.

Dark Horse appears to have an unannounced Black Friday sale. They have a LOT of their collected editions on sale, 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.)

Here are some direct links to various series:

Recommendations? Sure.

Scarlet by Bendis and Alex Maleev is a political thriller about a Portland woman rebelling against a corrupt police department/government. Bendis back in his original pre-capes Thriller mode and it might be having a Long Tail moment right now.

Nexus by Mike Baron & Steve Rude – It looks like a superhero comic, but it’s a science fiction epic about a man appointed as the executioner of mass murderers. A job he doesn’t want and can’t escape.

B.P.R.D. (mostly) by Mike Mignola / John Arcudi / Guy Davis is not as widely read as Hellboy, but it’s the real backbone of the Hellboy universe’s story.

Blacksad by by Juan Diaz Canales / Juanjo Guarnido is very good detective series in the Raymond Chandler tradition… except the characters are anthropomorphic. Nothing “kiddie” about it and the art is as good as it gets.

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