In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel discounts Sam Wilson’s adventure as Captain America (and as The Falcon), Ghost Rider and the Midnight Sons get a price drop, as does Siege. DC puts the discount spotlight on family; Dark Horse cuts prices on Grendel, Masters of the Universe, and Lone Wolf & Cub.

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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.

Oh, Captain, My Captain

   

The Marvel Captain America: Sam Wilson Sale runs through Monday, 5/13

This would be Sam Wilson, the former Falcon, in the role as Cap. And really there are two halves to this sale. The Sam-as-Captain America side includes:

• Captain America: Sam Wilson – The Complete Collection is the two omnibus set collecting the Rick Remender and Nick Spencer runs from ’14-’17 and now you don’t have to worry about keeping straight which series comes in which order. Better value, too.
• Captain America: Symbol of Truth – Tochi Onyebuchi / R. B. Silva; This is the more recent Sam Wilson series. We LOVED this one out of the gate, but it gets dragged into the “Cold War” crossover w/ the Steve Rogers book, so after the first volume, you kinda need Captain America: Cold War and then the plots resolve in Captain America: Cold War Aftermath

Then you’ve got the original series where Sam is merely the Falcon. We’d put the highlights of these offerings as:

• Captain America: Secret Empire and Captain America: Nomad – These are the classic Steve Englehart / Sal Buscema arcs that most people have near or at the top of the Captain America cannon. You hear a bit of shouting about how this was one of the original “political” comics. It’s true – the subtext of Secret Empire is all about Nixon and Watergate, but filtered through more of a Hydra-type lens. Nomad can be read as Steve Rogers reacting to Watergate, but through the Marvel filter, which involves a certain Skull…
• Captain America: Madbomb is the first big arc from Jack Kirby’s return to Captain America in the ’70s. Steve and Sam face down a conspiracy of billionaires trying to destabilize the country through bombs that makes people explode with rage and riot. Plus… “Killderby.” Another adventure with subtext that seems to remain relevant.
• Captain America & The Falcon by Christopher Priest – The Complete Collection – Priest / Bart Sears / Joe Bennett; This is an under the radar run that has Steve and Sam chasing nested conspiracies involving a drug cartel, an “anti-Cap” who might be working for the Navy and MODOK.

Family Ties

   

The DC Families Sale runs through Monday, 5/13.

Families? Think Superman Family and Batman Family and you’ll be close to the spirit of this sale.  A few things we noticed:

• Batwoman by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams – Their Detective Comics run is still the gold standard for the character.
• Green Lantern Corps (’86) – The Steve Englehart / Joe Staton run
• Nightwing – See the Tom Taylor / Bruno Redondo volumes at the bottom of the page. We think this is the first time V. 4 has been discounted?
• Poison Ivy – G. Willow Wilson / Marcio Takara; We think this is the first time V. 2 has been discounted?
• The Power of Shazam – Jerry Ordway / Peter Krause; Ordway’s updating of the original Captain Marvel and the Fawcett heroes paid a little more attention to the source material than several of the revivals.
• Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby – This is effectively Kirby’s Superman title and part of the Fourth World line. Plus… Don Rickles! (No, really.) More influential than you might realize.
• Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? – Matt Fraction & Steve Lieber’s hilarious ode to Silver Age Jimmy Olsen, that’s also a legit mystery story and tour of the DCU. Jimmy wakes up hungover and married in Gorilla City and that’s before things start getting strange. We crave a sequel, but the stars would need to align. Highest possible recommendation if you want something fun that also has a plot.

After Midnight

The Marvel Midnight Sons Sale runs through Monday, 5/13.

Midnight Sons was a supernatural team that ran through some of Marvel’s mid-90s titles like Ghost Rider, Morbius, and, later on, a few issues of Doctor Strange.

Spirits of Vengeance: Rise of the Midnight Sons collects the opening sequence across the various titles.

Midnight Suns is the Ethan Sacks / Luigi Zagaria revival from a couple years back.

Past those volumes, this is largely a Ghost Rider / Morbius sale.

Ghost Rider

• Ghost Rider ’73-’83 – The original (Continuing the “no Masterworks on sale” trend)
• Ghost Rider ’90-’98 – Howard Mackie / Mark Texeira /Javier Saltares
• Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation ’05 – Garth Ennis / Clayton Crain
• Ghost Rider ’06-’09 – Daniel Way / Javier Saltares; then Jason Aaron / Tan Eng Haut/ Tony Moore
• Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears ’07 – Garth Ennis / Clayton Crain
• Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch ’08 – Si Spurrier / Javier Saltares
• Ghost Rider: Heaven’s on Fire ’09 – Jason Aaron / Roland Boschi
• All-New Ghost Rider ’14-’15 – Felipe Smith / Tradd Moore
• Ghost Rider ’19-20 – Ed Brisson / Aaron Kuder
• Ghost Rider ’22 – Ben Percy / Cory Smith; Current series
  • Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons Of Vengeance – Percy / Geoff Shaw; current series crosses over with Wolverine to hunt a serial killing demon
• Danny Ketch – Ghost Rider: Blood & Vengence ’23 – Howard Mackie / Daniel Picciotto; Mackie revisits his late 80s version of Ghost Rider

As a bonus, the absurdity of Cosmic Ghost Rider:

• Cosmic Ghost Rider by Donny Cates – Donny Cates / Geoff Shaw / Chris Bachalo
• Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History – Paul Scheer / Nick Giovannetti
• Revenge of the Cosmic Ghost Rider – Dennis Hopeless / Scott Hepburn
• Cosmic Ghost Rider: Duel Identity – Stephanie Phillips / Juann Cabal

You can find the first few years of Morbius in Epic format.

Exiting the Dark

   

The Marvel Siege Sale runs through Monday, 5/13.

The Siege in question is the final act of Marvel Dark Reign era.  Dark Reign was an attempt to have an Event without a miniseries running through the middle of it. In the aftermath of Secret Invasion, Norman Osborne consolidates power, replaces the Avengers with an original Thunderbolts-like “Dark Avengers” reporting to him and generally tries to take over the world… and he’s making progress.  Siege has him pushing his luck and attempting to take over Asgard.

The core would be:

• Siege: Prelude – the run-up, collecting issues across the Marvel landscape
• Siege – the main story by Brian Bendis / Olivier Coipel

From here, you can plug in other titles as you’re interested. Bendis, the architect here, also penned:

• Siege: Dark Avengers
• Siege: New Avengers

The Unlisted Directory

  

Multiple Dark Horse sales dropped this week.

Remember Matt Wagner’s Grendel, one of the longest lived indie series out there?

• The Grendel Omnibus line.
• Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey – w/art by Brennan Wagner

Lone Wolf and Cub – Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima produced one of, possibly THE, best samurai tales… with a twist. Itto Ogami has been framed, along with his infant son, he bides his time working as an assassin while he awaits the opportunity for revenge. Classic series.

Masters of the Universe (otherwise known as He-Man)

• The original comics
• The current comics (keyed towards the Netflix incarnation)

Still on Sale

• The Marvel Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 5/27
  
• The Kodansha Like This? Try That! WIND BREAKER Sale runs through Monday, 5/13
  
• The Titan Gun Honey Sale runs through Monday, 6/3
  
• The Titan The Thirteenth Doctor Sale runs through Monday, 5/20
  

  

• Zenescope Grimm Fairy Tales Proper Sale runs through Wednesday, 5/15