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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• The new releases page is here.  
• The “Comics Deals” page is here.
• The Kindle Deals comics page is here.

Hornhead

   

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.
  • Omnibus formats
• 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?

   

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

Pretty much the full Thor line, with the caveat that the Marvel Masterworks volumes are not on sale, which is to say, Epic Collections are your friend.

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

 

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
  • Bigger volumes of the DnA run
• 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?

   

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

   

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?”

     

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 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

   

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

• Baltimore
• Frankenstein Underground
• Hellboy: The Silver Lantern Club
• Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952-1954
• Koshchei the Deathless
• Koshchei in Hell
• Lobster Johnson Omnibus Volume 2
• The Serpent in the Garden: Ed Grey and the Last Battle for England
• Witchfinder

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.

Also on sale:

• Barbaric Vol. 1: Murderable Offenses – Michael Moreci / Nathan C. Gooden
• Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës – Isabel Greenberg
• RX – Rachel Lindsay
• The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America – David Hajdu

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

Still on Sale

• The Kodansha Sports Manga Madness Sale runs through Monday, 3/16