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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Brian Bendis / Jinxworld

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, it’s Brian Bendis / Jinxworld getting the discounts.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Unannounced Sales

Scarlet Goldfish Fortune and Glory

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

Dark Horse has a big block of Brian Bendis titles on sale. Jinxworld, if you prefer. Let’s hit the numbers first:

We encourage you to give the crime/thriller work of Bendis a look. Scarlet has gotten more relevant since it came out and Goldfish is really what got him started. Yes, he got famous doing capes, but he’s a Mamet guy at the end of the day.

Yes, it’s still going strong, AND it’s still on sale: Groo by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier. Also included:

Also on sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Batman; Marvel Omnibuses and Epic Collections; Groo

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC has a Batman sale. Marvel adds some random Omnibuses and Epic Collections to the discount pile. Plus, Groo.

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Holy Mixed Bag Batman!

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns  Batman: Knightfall  Tales of the Batman: Archie Goodwin

The Lego Batman Sale runs through Monday, 6/1.

It’s a DC sale, so you might expect it to be a corporate synergy event. And it would appear you’re right as the Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight video game launches.

Not all of these prices are great. We would also hasten to remind you that DC typical drops the recent digital collections to $9.99 after a few months… or to mimic the stylings of Frank Gorshin: “Riddle me this: when is a sale, not a sale?” We’re also not fond of some of the prices on the Tales of the Batman volumes, but will concede some of those $9.99 prices could be the best we’re getting (as we curse the phenomenon of HC pricing for digital). The rest of them… well, judge for yourself.

That being said, here are a few things where we were OK with the prices:

Epics and Omnibi and Marvel, Oh My!

Invincible Iron Man Omnibus  Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus  Power Man and Iron Fist

Marvel has an unnamed sale with no dates attached to it. We’re double-not-sure how long it’s going to last, but there are a few worthwhile things we would draw your attention to:

What’s good?

Invincible Iron Man Omnibus V. 2 will get you the bulk of the Archie Goodwin run, which is where Iron Man really takes off, as far as we’re concerned.

Rom is not always on sale and these licensed books sometimes disappear, so if it’s your jam, consider getting it while available at a better price.

The full run isn’t discounted, but Miracleman Vol. 1: A Dream Of Flying is the beginning of a classic run.

There’s a bit more to the sale than the above, should you care to browse.

Unannounced Sales

Groo Meets Tarzan Groo These Savage Shores

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

Yes, it’s still going strong, AND it’s on sale: Groo by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier. Also included:

Dark Horse is still having a sale on their Mark Millar line of comics, AKA Millarworld, including:

For our money, Starlight is way under appreciated. The Hollywood elevator pitch would be along the lines of “Flash Gordon’s retirement isn’t going well.”

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Millarworld

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales,  Dark Horse slashes prices on the Millarworld line of comics.

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Unannounced Sales

Reborn Library Edition Star Light Vatican City

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

Dark Horse is having a sale on their Mark Millar line of comics, AKA Millarworld, including:

For our money, Starlight is way under appreciated. The Hollywood elevator pitch would be along the lines of “Flash Gordon’s retirement isn’t going well.”

Dark Horse is also still having a sale on their Avatar: The Last Airbender line of comics

Also on sale, The Legend of Korra

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Hulk, Fantastic Four, Venom

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel drops a fistful of sales (including Hulk, Fantastic Four and Venom). Plus, Avatar the Last Airbender.

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Hulk Is Cheapest There Is

Planet Hulk  Immortal Hulk  Incredible Hulk The Marvel Hulk Sale runs through Monday, 5/25. And what we have here is basically a Hulk Legacy sale. 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. (For some reason, the Epic Collections have a separate listing.)
  • 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 -25) – Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Nic Klein
For the main series, you can’t go wrong with the Peter David years (now complete in Epic format) 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. (OK, there was a relaunch. As far as we’re concerned it’s the same book with different numbering and a title tweak.) 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.
Also included in this sale: the original Defenders series (which could use more Gerber discounts than are provided).

Four Play

Fantastic Four - The Coming of Galactus    Fantastic Four by Waid   Fantastic Four by Hickman Marvel’s Fantastic Four Sale runs through Monday, 5/25. Marvel would like to remind you this was a film. First let’s break down the various FF titles/volumes on sale:
  • Fantastic Four ’61-’96 – The original run (In a truly bizarre turn, the Epic Collections are tied to the original series and all the Masterworks are floating in the system untethered to ANY series.)
  • Fantastic Four ’98-’12 – Heroes Return era through Hickman
  • Fantastic Four ’12-’14 – The Matt Fraction / Mark Bagley era
  • Fantastic Four ’14-’15 – The James Robinson/Leonard Kirk run
  • Fantastic Four: Fate of the Four (Marvel Two-in-One) ’17-’18 – Chip Zdarsky / Jim Cheung; Zdarsky’s MTIO run has been rebranded as FF… which is probably fair – not in this sale, but included for the sake of completeness
  • Fantastic Four ’18-’22 – The Dan Slott run with a rotating cast of artists
  • Fantastic Four ’22-’25 – Ryan North / Iban Coello / Carlos Gomez
Yes, Fantastic Four has been relaunched less than other Marvel titles.  As to what’s good, the gold standard has always been the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby run. (And yes, we do think you can draw a straight line from Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown at DC to Fantastic Four.) We’d say they start to hit their stride a few issues before Galactus shows up – V.3 of the Epic Collections (“The Coming of Galactus“) or V.4/5 of the Masterworks editions and you can ride a very fun train from there to the end of Lee/Kirby. And at this point, we should talk about the “pick your poison” of Epic vs. Masterworks.  The Masterworks are built out straight into the Byrne era. We think the $6.99 Epic Collections are the best value here, though some of the newer ones are priced higher. The discounted Epics are now into the Byrne run and then skip ahead to Englehart. Pick the format that works for you and has the issues you’re looking for. Speaking of Byrne’s run, that’s the next highpoint that everyone agrees on.  How to read Byrne? Well, there are 7 volumes of Masterworks on sale (V. 21-27) or you can hop on to Fantastic Four Visionaires: John Byrne. These comics really ought to be in an Epic Collections, and that’s started, but Marvel doesn’t seem in any hurry to roll the Visionaires up into a more economical package. (Or should we say, economical when it’s on sale?) Move ahead a bit and Walt Simonson had a stint that may be a little more notable for being an early appearance of the Time Variance Authority (which actually debuted in his Thor run). This is most easily grabbed across Epic Collections V.20 and V.21. Fast forward a bit to the Heroes Reborn era and there is a LOT to love about the Mark Waid / Mike Wieringo run. They brought back the “explorer” vibe from Lee/Kirby era that isn’t always there and upped the sense of wonder. You’d want the four Ultimate Collection volumes that start here. The “regular” collections don’t go all the way to the end. Dwayne McDuffie and Paul Pelletier jumped in for an arc with Black Panther and Storm briefly joining the team. And then, of course, there’s the the Hickman era. A long storyline that laid the groundwork for his Avengers run and you can certainly argue that his Secret Wars endcap to that is a Fantastic Four / Doctor Doom story. The omnibus editions we highlighted above include his FF spin-off comic that frequently crossed over with Fantastic Four, much like the Avengers titles flowed together. That packaging will be a better experience. But that’s not all we have in a fairly expansive sale:

Ultimate Fantastic Four

The original Ultimate Fantastic Four had Brian Bendis, Warren Ellis, Mark Millar and Mike Carey (yes, The Girl With All the Gifts M.R. Carey) tagging off on writer duties. The artist rotation includes Adam Kubert, Stuart Immonen, Jae Lee, Greg Land, Pasqual Ferry, Mark Brooks and Tyler Kirkham.  And a bit of trivia for you: Marvel Zombies?  It’s an Ultimate Fantastic Four spin-off.  Check out V.3 of the omnibuses. That’s where it all begins.

Doctor Doom

A little bit from the arch foe:

Silver Surfer

Skull the Slayer

That’s right. Skull the Slayer.

No, Not Bane’s Juice

Venom by Remender   Venom by Cates   Venom

The Marvel Venom Sale runs through Monday, 5/25. This is a fairly scattered sale, with multiple formats and a lot of random early miniseries floating around. Browse for a better accounting of the listings. For the early stuff, the better values are the somewhat scattered Epic Collections. The early (mostly) Spider-Man appearances can be found in Venom Epic Collection: Symbiosis. That’s largely the David Michelinie / Todd McFarlane / Erik Larsen material.  That’s followed by Venom Epic Collection: Lethal Protector which has a few more villainous appearances and the original Lethal Protector mini. And then Venom Epic Collection: Carnage Unleashed continues the 90s appearances. Eventually Venom gets his own series:
  • Venom  (2003-4) – The Daniel Way era
  • Venom  (2011-3) – Rick Remender/Tony Moore, then Cullen Bunn/Declan Shalvey
  • Venom (2016-8) – Mike Costa / Tradd Moore / Mark Bagley
  • Venom (2018-21) – Donny Cates / Ryan Stegman
  • Venom (2021-24) – Al Ewing / Ram V / Bryan Hitch
  • Venom War (2024) – Al Ewing / Iban Coello
  • All-New Venom(’04-’05) – Al Ewing / Carlos Gomez
Let’s talk about the last 12 years or so. The ’11-’13 series is more interesting than you might think. That’s when Flash Thompson has the symbiote and uses it (among other things) to replace the legs his lost in the war. There are some interesting pathos floating around, particularly in the Remender/Moore run. The Cates/Stegman run is probably the most famous right now. That’s where Venom gets Cosmic and leads into the King In Black Event. The Ewing / V / Hitch run, is an evolution and big leap forward from the groundwork laid by Cates. Al Ewing drives the Cosmic elements, which are the most interesting part. Eddie Brock is dead. But he isn’t. He’s separated from his body and he’s bouncing around in time as his son becomes Venom in the present. It’s a much, much stranger take on Venom than most others and really dives into the King in Black mythos and timeline, eventually culminating in Venom War. Ewing’s basically picked up the ball and ran with it, creating his own saga.

Carnage

Yes, the other symbiote Bobbsey Twin is also included in the sale (at least part of the catalog) This is an odd set compared with something like Fantastic Four, since Carnage has been a guest villain or mini-series dweller for part of the time, so here’s the highlights and short tour. For early Carnage, your best best is probably Carnage Epic Collection: Born in Blood. That gets you the first Carnage tale from Amazing Spider-Man _and_ the Maximum Carnage arc. For more of those early villain and mini-series appearances, there are two more Epic Collections with their own series page. Carnage then relaunched in ’22 by Ram V and Francesco Manna. This one weaves in and out of serial killer thriller / fantasy (with a trip to Asgard) / and capes. The next series of Carnage follows that up with the team of Torunn GrØnbekk & Pere Perez. Also in the mix:

52 Pick Up

Gambit: The Complete Collection  Gambit Classic  Mr. and Mrs. X The Marvel Gambit sale runs through Monday, 5/25. Lots and lots of misc. X-titles in the one. In terms of Gambit (and his Mrs.), you’re looking at: If you’d rather have some X-Men books, there’s plenty to browse, though these two spots might float near the top of the list:

Seeing Ghosts

Spider-Gwen  Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse  Spider-Gwen The Ghost-Spider The Marvel Ghost Spider Sale runs through Monday, 5/25. Ah, the always amusing struggle to balance a character’s movie name with their comics name. Yes, this is really a Spider-Gwen sale.

Not A Big Red Cheese?

Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin Captain Marvel Captain Marvel The Captain Marvel Sale runs through Monday, 5/25. It’s back and now it has the Masterworks. First off, the original Kree Captain Mar-Vell as Captain Marvel: Is Starlin’s Mar-Vell, the best Mar-Vell? We’d say so. You can also look at the  Captain Marvel Masterworks series, but the other one we’d put at the top of the list is V.4 with the Steve Englehart / Al Milgrom run. Carol Danvers as Ms./Captain Marvel: OK… brace yourselves… this one has a ton of relaunches: 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: 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.

Unannounced Sales

Avatar: The Last Airbender Star Wars A Vader Family Sithmas

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end. Dark Horse is having a sale on their Avatar: The Last Airbender line of comics Also on sale, The Legend of Korra Dark Horse still has discounts on their Star Wars line of comics: Also on sale: And have a look at the $5 and under page.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Star Wars, These Savage Shores, Money Shot

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse rolls slashes prices on their Star Wars line, plus These Savage Shores and Money Shot.

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Unannounced Sales

Star Wars: Tales from the Rancor Pit Money Shot These Savage Shores

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end. Dark Horse has applied discounts to their Star Wars line of comics: Dark Horse still has a Minor Threats sale going on, which comes in a couple of flavors: Also still on sale: Powers by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. This is an old school classic that’s still coming out after relaunches and… we think Dark Horse is it’s fourth publisher? Bendis first started transitioning to super heroes from crime stories with Powers which concerns the police who investigate super powered crimes. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but to explain would involve spoilers and some of the early reveals are memorable. Also on sale: We would bring your attention to These Savage Shores, which we haven’t seen on sale for a bit. This was where Ram V got his initial reputation. It’s a very odd mix of vampires and colonialism that’s particularly well done and worth your time if you like subtext with your horror. And have a look at the $5 and under page.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Minor Threats, Powers

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse rolls out discounts on Minor Threats and Powers.

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Unannounced Sales

Minor Threats Powers Clock Striker, Volume 2: The Sharing Society 

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

Always popular around here, Dark Horse has a Minor Threats sale going on, which comes in a couple of flavors:

Also on sale: Powers by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. This is an old school classic that’s still coming out after relaunches and… we think Dark Horse is it’s fourth publisher? Bendis first started transitioning to super heroes from crime stories with Powers which concerns the police who investigate super powered crimes. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but to explain would involve spoilers and some of the early reveals are memorable. 

Dark Horse still has their EC Archives on sale. Tales From the Crypt, Weird Science, Two-Fisted Tales and that whole family of famous titles.

Resident Alien is a comic by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhose about a stranded alien posing as a doctor and solving murders. It got a little more famous when a TV adaptation hit and a lot more famous when the TV show moved over to Netflix.  We read the first omnibus and if your point of reference is the TV show, the comic is a little more mystery-oriented. It’s available in

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Superman, Resident Alien, EC Archives

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC shows their face with a Superman sale. Plus, Resident Alien and the EC Archives.

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Superman Returns… To Having Discounts

Superman Love and Mercy  Superman: Phantom Zone  Lobo

The DC Superman Day Sale runs through Monday, 4/28. This is a little different than DC’s last (Vertigo) sale, which generated a few complaints. This is by no means what we used to seeing, but it’s a step in the right direction. Lots of $4.99 books. The number of books in a run that are _properly_ discounted is all over the place (more so for Action, kind of like Detective was super spotty during the last Batman sale and you’re not sure if the person setting the discounts is totally aware which title came first). That said, there’s a whole lot more on sale this time and not just the first volume in a series. And yes, feel free to ignore the things that are only discounted ~20%.

Superman

Supergirl

Something about a film…

Lobo

Something about that same film.

  • Lobo (’90) – Alan Grant / Keith Giffen / Simon Bisley

One of the somewhat rare ’80s reprints that we’ve enjoyed is Superman: The Phantom Zone by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan. This is a very odd, horror-flavored Superman tale as he confronts something unnatural that’s been living in the Phantom Zone… but you weren’t expecting Gerber & Colan to give you the ’50s TV version, were you?

Superman Smashes the Klan has Gene Yang and Gurihiru revisiting and revising the original Superman radio show arc, “Clan of the Fiery Cross.” It’s on the YA side of Superman, but has picked up a LOT of good reviews.

Superman, the current series by Josh Williamson and Jamal Campbell is also on sale and it’s a good one.

While the discount could be higher, Lobo by Giffen/Grant/Bisley is really good stuff… as long as you have a dark sense of humor and aren’t easily offended.

Unannounced Sales

 

  Tales From the Crypt  Resident Alien  Let Me in Your Window

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

Dark Horse has their EC Archives on sale. Tales From the Crypt, Weird Science, Two-Fisted Tales and that whole family of famous titles.

Resident Alien is a comic by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhose about a stranded alien posing as a doctor and solving murders. It got a little more famous when a TV adaptation hit and a lot more famous when the TV show moved over to Netflix. (And will now be moving over to the USA cable network.) We read the first omnibus and if your point of reference is the TV show, the comic is a little more mystery-oriented. It’s available in

Critical Role from Dark Horse is still 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.) Also on sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Deadpool, Wolverine, Miles Morales and more

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.

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$20 on the Clone
Deadpool Classics Deadpool by Posehn and Duggan Deadpool by Joe Kelly

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

  Miles Morales: Spider-Man  Miles Morales

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:

The Cheapest at What He Does

Wolverine  Predator versus Wolverine  All-New Wolverine    

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

Alien: Galaxy of Nightmares  Aliens Epic Collection  Aliens vs. Avengers

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:

Not A Big Red Cheese?

Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin Captain Marvel Captain Marvel

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:

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:

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:

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

Eternals by Jack Kirby  Eternals  

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

Critical Role  One Piece  Witchcraft: A Graphic History: Stories of wise women, healers and magic

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:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: The Boys, The Witcher, City Hunter

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dynamite’s The Boys gets a discount. Plus, the Witcher, Caliber and City Hunter.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Boys Will Be Boys

The Boys  The Boys: Dear Becky  The Boys Script Book Volume One

The  Dynamite The Boys Season 5 Sale runs through Thursday, 4/30.

Is The Boys old enough to be a classic? The original series spins in a slightly different direction than the TV version, but we’ve completely enjoyed both. It’s a very dark, comical (and blue) tale of a ragtag group chasing vengeance against a corrupt corporation that’s made an industry out of superheroes. Garth Ennis is your writer here with Darick Robertson as your primary artist with Russ Braun and John McCrea tagging in.

How About a Nice 9mm?
Deadworld   The Realm    Jazz Age Chronicles

The Caliber Comics Library 50% off Spring Sale runs through Thursday, 4/30. There are a few titles here that were notable in the ’80s indie boom. There are also another 11 books in a second link.

And plenty of Don Lomax war comics.

Unannounced Sales

Witcher Omnibus  Witcher  The Hedge Knight

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

Dark Horse has dropped a Witcher sale:

The Dark Horse manga sale is still in full swing. Some titles for your convenience:

  Also on sale: 

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Daredevil and Thor Lead the Way w/ 7 New Marvel Sales

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel drops seven sale with Daredevil and Thor leading the pack. Plus… Barbaric.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Hornhead

Daredevil  Daredevil Epic Collection  Daredevil by Zdarsky

The Marvel Daredevil Sale runs through Monday, 3/30.

Let’s break this down by series. Like X-Men, Daredevil has had fewer relaunches than some titles.

  • Daredevil ’64-’98 – The original run.
  • Daredevil: The Man Without Fear ’93-4 – Frank Miller and John Romita, Jr. retelling Hornhead’s origin
  • Daredevil ’98-11 – The Marvel Knights relaunch. Kevin Smith / Brian Bendis / Ed Brubaker
    • For the Bendis and Brubaker runs, you want the Omnibus section and scroll down for their respective “Ultimate Collections” or the “Marvel Knights Collections” (which haven’t gotten as far)
  • Daredevil ’11-15 – This was really two volumes with an arbitrary relaunch in the middle, but the excellent run by Mark Waid / Chris Samnee / Paolo Rivera / Javier Rodriguez is a better buy in this 5 volume set that collects both volumes and treats it like the single run it was.
  • Daredevil ’15-’18 – The Charles Soule era with Ron Garney as the main artist.
  • Daredevil ’19-’21 – Chip Zdarsky’s breakout title as a writer. Marco Checcetto is the primary artist.
  • Daredevil: Woman Without Fear ’22 – Zdarsky / Rafael de Latorre; Sort of a bridge title during the Devil’s Reign event, but part of the ongoing plot. Note: this is included in the final DD omnibus for the ’19-’21 run.
  • Daredevil ’22-’23 – Also known as Daredevil & Elektra. The final act to the Zdarsky/Checcetto era; This doesn’t look like it’s actually on sale, which would be silly — it’s the ending to the story.
  • Daredevil ‘23- ’25 – Saladin Ahmed / Aaron Kuder; Picking up after the Zdarsky finale is effectively a “born again” scenario… bit more literally than with Miller.

What’s good here? Honestly, with the exception of the “Shadowlands” Event at the end of the Marvel Knights run, DD has been consistently good to great since Frank Miller showed up. You don’t hear us saying that about every title! We will say that Gene Colan’s return to DD (with Joe Kelly writing) seems to be under the radar these days.  But starting with Miller, just pick a run (Miller / O’Neil / Nocenti / Chichester / Kessel / Kelly / Smith / Bendis / Brubaker / Waid / Soule / Zdarsky / Ahmed) and dig in. Also, you should probably count Bendis and Brubaker as one long run, which is worth it.

Sturm und Hammer?

Thor - The Wrath of Odin  Thor by Walt Simonson  Thor Road to War of the Realms

Marvel’s Thor Sale runs  through Monday, 3/30.

Pretty much the full Thor line.

As per our custom, here’s the breakdown by series/volume:

  • Journey Into Mystery ’52-’66 – The earliest Thor stories from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
  • The Mighty Thor ’66-’96 – From Lee & Kirby until the relaunches started
  • The Mighty Thor ’96-’04 – The Heroes return Dan Jurgens era, initially with John Romita, Jr.
  • Thor ’07-’11 – Starts with J. Michael Straczynski & Olivier Coipel, ends with Matt Fraction & Pasqual Ferry. Gillen in the middle.
  • The Mighty Thor ’11-’12 – Fraction gets a relaunch with Coipel, Ferry and early Pepe Larraz
  • The Jason Aaron era ’12-’19 – It’s a LOT easer to look at the omnibuses across all the relaunches here
  • Thor ’20 to ’23 – The Donny Cates run with Nic Klein as the primary artist; Torunn GrØnbekk tags in towards the end while Cates was recovering from his accident (and filled in well, we might add).
  • Immortal Thor (’23 – ’25) – Al Ewing / Martin Coccolo;

If your point of reference for Thor is the last film, you want the Jason Aaron era. The God Butcher is the first arc. If you go with that set of omnibuses, Jane Foster picks up the hammer in V.2. We don’t think that starting with the first Jane Foster issues (and slimmer volumes) is a great jumping on point. It’s a saga and you’ll get a lot more out of it if you start at the beginning of Aaron’s run.

Past that, we’re all about the Walt Simonson Thor. It’s probably the most influential run since early days and it’s great. You’ll want the Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson set that starts here. (The Thor by Walter Simonson version of the reprints seems to be missing the final volume, or at least the last few issues. *sigh* These things happen. The Epic Collections have just entered the Simonson years, but the first one isn’t discounted yet.)

We also like to go back to the original Lee/Kirby. Not too early. We’d say stay closer to where it changed from Journey Into Mystery to Thor. The first year of JIM was a little rough. The Wrath of Odin  Epic Collection is a good chunk of prime Lee/Kirby Thor and also features the first time Jane Foster was elevated to godhood, since it turns out to now be foreshadowing.

Something under the radar? Ignore this being marketed as a kid’s comic – Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee had a short run on Thor: The Mighty Avenger that was just a good Thor comic, full stop. And you might expect that from those two.

If you want to move in the opposite direction, Thor: Vikings is a seriously violent Marvel MAX title from Garth Ennis and Glenn Fabry that has Viking zombies invading Manhattan. (No, not Fleet Week. That’s different.)

We also have naught but love for the just wrapped Immortal Thor run.

Fresh Mutations

New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga  New Mutants

The Marvel New Mutants Sale runs through Monday, 3/30

Let’s break this one down by the series highlights first:

  • New Mutants (’83 – ’91) – The original run
  • New Mutants (’09 – ’11) – Zeb Wells / Diogenes Neves; DnA / Leandro Fernandez & David Lopez
  • New Mutants (’03 – ’04) – Nunzio DeFilippis / Christina Weir / Keron Grant / Khary Randolph
  • New Mutants Forever (’10) – Chris Claremont / Al Rio
  • New Mutants: Dead Souls (’18) – Matthew Rosenberg / Adam Gorham
  • New Mutants (’19-’22) – The HoX/PoX (Hickman) era with rotating creators

What’s the best run of New Mutants? That’s a question that runs to personal preference more than most series. We’d say, #18-31 is the core with Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz that stands above the rest. Demon Bear. The introduction of Warlock. A good Legion arc. And it’s conveniently packaged in an Epic Collection. It’s still an interesting run after Sienkiewicz moves on, but he’s so good at setting mood and tone.

Another thing we’d throw out as particularly interesting is specifically the Jonathan Hickman installments of the most recent series. These are also conveniently collected in a single volume… and his issues didn’t always run sequentially.

Past that, this is one where you browse and see if something strikes your fancy.

You Said You Had a Jones?

Alias  The Pulse  Jessica Jones

The Marvel Jessica Jones Sale runs through Monday,  3/30.

Hmm… Daredevil, Punisher and Jessica Jones sales at the same time? Might there be a pattern?

Here’s what we’re looking at:

  • Alias ’01 – ’03-Brian Bendis / Michael Gaydos
  • The Pulse ’04 – ’05 – Brian Bendis / Michael Gaydos / Mark Bagley; Jessica gets a job at the Daily Bugle
  • Jessica Jones ’16 – ’17 – Brian Bendis / Michael Gaydos; Netflix = series revival by the original creators
  • The Defenders ’17 – ’18 – Brian Bendis / David Marquez; Daredevil, Iron First, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones… Netflix influences reach far
  • Jessica Jones ’18 – Kelly Thompson / Mattia de Iulis; Collections of the digital original comics

Alias is the original and very dark. The Pulse is a more mainstream superhero title, if a little quirky. Jessica Jones is back to basics. Yes, Bendis was in charge of the character when he was at Marvel. Does that mean he’s going to be in charge of her again? Hmm…

Scratch

Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Nine Lives Has The Black Cat  Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do  Black Cat

The Marvel Black Cat Sale runs through Monday, 3/30.

And that would be Spidey’s occasional girlfriend / frenemy (depending on the author/era).

Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Nine Lives Has The Black Cat is mostly a Marv Wolfman / Keith Pollard run and features the debut of a certain Felicia Hardy.

Fast forward to 2002 and Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do by Kevin Smith & Terry Dodson begins. It didn’t actually finish up until early ’06, but it was vaguely the next act for the character.

Jed MacKay starts his Black Cat run in ’19. Lots of artists tagging in and out, with Travel Foreman and CF Villa being prominent on the list. This also is one of those single issue relaunches that they ignore when numbering the collected editions. Since Amazon sorts by single issue series, V.1-3 are here and V.4-6 are here.

Iron Cat is an ’22 follow-up by MacKay and Pere Perez.

Jackpot & Black Cat is a ’24 follow-up by Celeste Bronfman / Emilio Laiso / Giada Belviso

Perhaps He Should Be Renamed “Streaming?”

Cable   Cable & Deadpool   Cable

The Marvel Cable Sale runs through Monday, 3/30.

There really have been a lot of Cable titles over the years.

New Mutants Epic Collection: Cable by (mostly) Louise Simonson & Rob Liefeld contains the original appearances of Cable as he stalks the Mutant Liberation Front.

New Mutants turned into the Cable-centric X-Force and the original run is on sale, too.

The original Cable series was the longest-lived. It starts out as Cable Classic with the original mini’s, but we might lean a little further down the page – Ladronn art and early stories by Joe Casey and James Robinson.

The other long-running title was Cable & Deadpool. Fabian Nicieza was the writer, with Patrick Zircher and Reilly Brown as the primary artists.

The HoX/PoX era Cable ongoing series was by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto which finds Cable much younger, but still up to his neck in time paradoxes.

Also in the sale:

  • Cable: Soldier X  ’02-’03 – David Tischman / Igor Kordey / Darko Macan
  • Cable ’08-’10 – by Duane Swierczynski / Ariel Olivetti / Ken Lashley / Paul Galacy
  • Cable ’17-’18 – James Robinson / Ed Brisson / Zac Thompson / Lonnie Nadler / Carlos Pacheco / Clayton Crain / German Peralta
  • Cable: Love and Chrome ’25 – David Pepose / Ian Churchill / Mike Henderson

Who Watches the… Oops, Wrong Publisher

The Sentry  The Sentry Reborn

The Marvel Sentry Sale runs through Monday, 3/30.

We’d stick to the original Paul Jenkins / Jae Lee series and the Paul Jenkins / John Romita, Jr. sequel.

Unannounced Sales

Baltimore Omnibus 1  Barbaric  Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës

Dark Horse has a selection of Ben Stenbeck titles on sale.

Stenbeck is a mainstay of the Mignolaverse. Were we to prioritize something on a very respectable list, we might lead with Baltimore.

Still on sale from Dark Horse: The Barb Wire Omnibus, Kill All Immortals by Zack Kaplan / Fico Ossio / Thiago Rocha, and The Midnight: Shadows by Zack Kaplan / Stephen Thompson / Jahnoy Lindsay.

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