In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, it’s Marvel week and we’ve got discounts on Deadpool, Wolverine, Miles Morales, Alien, Captain Marvel (all the Marvel ones) and even the Eternals. Plus, Critical Role and they fixed the missing discount on One Piece.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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• The new releases page is here.  
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• The Kindle Deals comics page is here.

$20 on the Clone
 

The Marvel Deadpool Sale runs through Monday, 4/27.

Deadpool is… oddly collected. There have been a lot of titles and lot of relaunches. Most of these (except Cable/Deadpool and the Daniel Way era) are absorbed into the Deadpool Classics line of collected editions.  Some, but not all, of the series, have omnibus editions and those are the cheaper way to collect those runs… which means, if you’re a completist and you’re cheap, you’re going to want to be wanting to fill in the Classics volumes around the omnibuses.  And Deadpool Classics V. 1 collects the various miniseries that kicked things off.  In a sense, the easiest way (but perhaps not cheapest – and certainly not the most current) to keep things chronological is to follow the Classics line.

Hey, when was getting Marvel collected editions in the proper order ever easy?

So let’s run down the main titles (Warning – the discounts are more than a little random in some titles):

• Deadpool Classics (’93 – as far as they’ve gotten)
• Deadpool (’97-’02) – Known as the Joe Kelly era (with Priest and Gail Epic Collections expanding the section)
• Cable and Deadpool (’04-’08) – Fabian Nicieza / Mark Brooks / Patrick Zircher (included for completeness – this isn’t on the discount list)
• Deadpool ( ’08-’12) – The Daniel Way Era
• Deadpool Team-Up (’09 – ’11) – all sorts of creators for this Deadpool variant on Marvel Two-In-One (and selectively discounted this time)
• Deadpool Max (’10-’11) – David Lapham / Kyle Baker  (included for completeness – this isn’t on the discount list)
• Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (’12) – Cullen Bunn / Dalibor Talajic
• Deadpool (’12-15) – The Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan Era
• Deadpool (’15-’17) – Gerry Duggan and many, many artists
• Despicable Deadpool (’17-’18) – Duggan/Mike Hawthorne
• Deadpool (’18-’19) – Skottie Young / Nic Klein
• King Deadpool (’19-’21) – Kelly Thompson / Chris Bachalo
• Deadpool (’22-’23) – Alyssa Wong / Martin Coccolo
• Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII (’24) – Joe Kelly / Adam Kubert
• Deadpool (’24 – ’25 ) Cody Ziglar / Rogê Antônio

Pick your preferred creator and go to town.

The Once and Future Ultimate Spidey

The Marvel Miles Morales Sale runs through Monday, 4/27.

Miles, of course, was the second Ultimate Spider-Man, but that world no longer exists and now there’s a new Ultimate Spider-Man and… we wouldn’t want to explain that to somebody walking in off the street.

Start with Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (’11-’13) by Brian Bendis / Sara Pichelli / David Marquez. 

Followed by Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man (’14-’15) by Bendis / Marquez.

Then pop over to the  ’16-18 Bendis /Pichelli Spider-Man run. 

You know what’s good and not talked about as much? Spider-Men: Worlds Collide -Brian Michael Bendis / Sara Pichelli / Mark Bagley. This collections the two Spider-Men mini-series where Miles and Peter team up.

And after that wraps, it’s time for Miles Morales by Saladin Ahmed and Javier Garron.

The most recent series is Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar and Federico Vicentini. 

Also of interest:

The Spectacular Spider-Men – Greg Weisman and Humberto Ramos bring more Miles / Peter team-ups

And since Miles is a player in the most recent incarnation of the Ultimate Universe:

• Ultimate Invasion – Jonathan Hickman / Bryan Hitch
• Ultimate Incursion –  Deniz Camp / Cody Ziglar / Jonas Scharf

The Cheapest at What He Does

The Marvel Wolverine Legacy Sale runs through Monday, 12/16.

You ever see Wolverine shell out for expensive beer? He understands cheap.

This is the sale on the “main” Wolverine titles we said would be coming. Let’s start out by listing the various titles involved. (Relaunches? At Marvel? <faints>) The warning from earlier in the week still applies here: the Epic Collections are not on sale this time out and we’re waiting to see if they turn up on sale at a later date.

• 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
• Wolverine (’10-’12) – Jason Aaron / Renato Guedes / Ron Garney; “Wolverine Goes to Hell” was not a metaphor
• 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.
• Predator Vs. Wolverine – Benjamin Percy / Greg Land / Andrea Di Vito / Ken Lashley; Everything you could possibly want in a Predator vs. Wolverine comic — for real
• Wolverine (’24-present) – Saladin Ahmed / Martin Coccolo
• Wolverine: Revenge – Jonathan Hickman / Greg Capullo
• Ultimate Wolverine – Christopher Condon / Alessandro Cappuccio 

So, what’s actually good that’s discounted this time out?

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.

Wolverine: Old Man Logan [Marvel Premier Collection]– Mark Millar / Steve McNiven; Pardon the silliness of only a specific print format being discounted in digital, but this is pretty darn influential.

The Krakoan era, while it almost merged with X-Force (kind of like the triangle era Superman line), was quite enjoyable.

All-New Wolverine is the Tom Taylor / David Lopez / Juan Cabal / Leonard Kirk run on Laura Kinney as Wolverine while Logan was “dead.” It is delightful.

A Corporate View on Extraterrestrials

The Marvel Alien Sale runs through Monday, 4/27    

Marvel’s been doing Aliens for a few years now and there’s one version we liked a LOT.

The Philip Kennedy Johnson Alien sequence (now conveniently in one volume) with Salvador Larroca, followed by Julius Ohta; is essentially one winding tale of Weyland-Yutani Corporation conspiracies that starts out with hiding a few of those eggs that couldn’t possibly get out of control, moves on to interstellar pioneers and religion, then comes back to the living conditions of rogue androids. Effective slow burn storytelling.

We’ve also heard good things about Aliens vs. Avengers by Jonathan Hickman & Esad Ribic, but haven’t had a chance to read it yet.

Also on the Marvel side:

• Declan Shalvey’s Alien run
  • V.1 w/ Andrea Broccardo
  • V.2 w/Danny Earls
• Alien: Paradiso – Steve Foxe / Edgar Salazar / Peter Nguyen

From the original Dark Horse material:

• • Aliens: The Original Years Epic Collection (We think this is the first time  V.3 has been discounted)

Not A Big Red Cheese?

The Captain Marvel Sale runs through Monday, 9/16.

This one is ALL the Captain Marvels and has a lot of guest appearances, like Avengers collections, on the side. Which means it’s worth a browse. We’re hitting the highlights.

First off, the original Kree Captain Mar-Vell as Captain Marvel:

• Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin: The Complete Collection

Is Starlin’s Mar-Vell, the best Mar-Vell? We’d say so.

There are a couple non-Starlin volumes of the  Captain Marvel Masterworks series, but the other one we’d put at the top of the list is V.5 with the Steve Englehart / Al Milgrom run and that’s not discounted as we type this.

Carol Danvers as Ms./Captain Marvel:

OK… brace yourselves… this one has a ton of relaunches:

• Ms. Marvel (’77-’79) – Not included in the sale for no apparent reason, but this is where it really starts
• Ms. Marvel (’06-’10) – The Brian Reed era with a lot of rotating artists. (sporadically discounted)
• Captain Marvel: The World’s Mightiest Hero (’12-’14; ’16) – The Kelly Sue DeConnick era – and the larger collections of this material. (one volume discounted)
• Captain Marvel (’14-’15) – Kelly Sue DeConnick / David Lopez
• The Mighty Captain Marvel (’16-’17) – Margaret Stohl era
• And the last volume of Mighty Captain Marvel, not on the series page.
• Life of Captain Marvel (’18) – Stohl era continues
• Captain Marvel (’19-’23) – The Kelly Thompson run (now with an omnibus)
• Captain Marvel (’23-’24) – Alyssa Wong / Jan Bazaldua

We think that’s the overly complicated chronology, anyway. For recommendations, we’re not really experts on this set of books, but we’re inclined to say go with the recent Thompson run. Kelly Sue DeConnick has a very dedicated fanbase, so maybe browse the sample pages there and see if that catches your fancy, too?

Then there’s Mar-Vell’s son Genis:

• Captain Marvel (’02-’04) – Peter David / ChrisCross
• Genis-Vell: Captain Marvel (’22) – Peter David / Mike McKone

This one is a Peter David joint, through and through. We did read the ’22 version last year and enjoyed it. It has a little more going on than you might think at first.

Hope Springs Eternal

The Marvel Eternals sale runs through Monday, 4/27.

Always return to the mothership with the Eternals: Eternals by Jack Kirby: The Complete Collection. This series originally got a bad rap as something akin to New Gods-lite. We don’t think that’s really accurate. It’s Kirby doing a science fiction-action series while playing with mythological tropes and creating a mythology of his own. (This is where the Celestials start.) It’s also largely staying in it’s own corner of the Marvel universe.

Thor And The Eternals: The Celestials Saga is largely the Roy Thomas / John Buscema / Keith Pollard follow-up to Kirby’s saga, with Mark Gruenwald and Ralph Machio jumping in as writers at the end.

Eternals: The Dreaming Celestial Saga (’85) was a 12-issue maxi-series revisiting the format, initially by Peter B. Gillis / Sal Buscema and then Walt Simonson / Keith Pollard.

Eternals by Gaiman & Romita Jr. (’06) is the (as you might have guessed) Neil Gaiman and John Romita, Jr. trying their hand at the mythos.

It did well enough for Marvel to commission another series in Eternals: To Defy The Apocalypse by Charles Knauf / Daniel Knauf / Fred Van Lente / Daniel Acuna / Eric Nguyen / Pascal Alixe.

Eternals by Kieron Gillen by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribic was the ’21 comeback series which fed into the A.X.E.: Judgment Day Event

Unannounced Sales

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Critical Role from Dark Horse is currently on sale. That would be the comics based on the campaigns from the popular web series about Dungeons & Dragons campaigns… and this will take a moment to explain.

There’s an omnibus format  and a “regular”  collected edition sale. There are some OGNs/albums filed under the single issue format. (Hey, don’t look at us.)

Dark Horse still has a Witcher sale going on:

• • Single volumes
  • Omnibus editions (the better value)
  • Euro-album length graphic novels mis-filed under single issues
    • Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher: A Grain of Truth
    • Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher: The Lesser Evil
    • Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher: The Edge of the World
  • The Witcher: Ronin (Manga)
  • The World of the Witcher: Video Game Compendium

Also on sale:

• The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist [Print Replica] – Alvin Buenaventura
• Business Cat: Money, Power, Treats (Adventures of Business Cat) – Tom Fonder
• Cat’s Eye Omnibus Volume 1 (Three Volumes in One): (Manga) – Tsukasa Hojo / Andrew Charles Love
• City Hunter Omnibus Volume 1 (Three Volumes in One): (Manga) – Tsukasa Hojo / David Evelyn
• The Hedge Knight (A Game of Thrones) – George R. R. Martin / Ben Avery / Mike S. Miller
• Leviathan Volume 1 – Shiro Kuroi / Montana Kane
• Mom’s Cancer – Brian Fies
• Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead – Bill Griffith
• One Piece – Eiichiro Oda / Sanji Oda Eiichiro; It’s a miracle! V. 58 now has a discount!
• Orisha, Volume 1: With Great Power (Saturday AM TANKS / Orisha) – Huzayfa Umar / Saturday AM
• Saturday Wars: The Manga Multiverse Crossover (Saturday AM / Saturday Wars) – Frederick L. Jones / Eddy Frye / Saturday AM
• Vampire: The Masquerade Vol. 1: Winter’s Teeth – Tim Seeley / Tini Howard / Nathan C. Gooden / Dev Pramanik
• Witchcraft: A Graphic History: Stories of wise women, healers and magic (Graphic MBS)– Lindsay Squire / Lisa Salsi

And have a look at the $5 and under page.

Still on Sale

• The Kodansha Line-Wide Sale runs through Monday, 4/20
  
• The  Dynamite The Boys Season 5 Sale runs through Thursday, 4/30
  
• The Caliber Comics Library 50% off Spring Sale runs through Thursday, 4/30