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In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel slaps a discount on Ghost Rider, Ultron and the Skottie Young catalog. Plus, The Magic Order and Manor Black.

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):

Shouldn’t He Be “In the Sky?”

The Marvel Ghost Rider Sale runs through Monday, 6/30.

That’s right, it’s Craig Ferguson’s favorite superhero.

Ghost Rider ’73-’83 – The original (and no Masterworks on sale this time)
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
Ghost Rider ’11-’12 – Rob Williams / Matthew Clark
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

The Other AI

The Marvel Ultron Sale runs through Monday, 6/30.

Oh, sure… you’ve got Chat GPT and you’ve got Google Gemini and you’ve got Microsoft Co-Pilot… but Marvel has Ultron, the AI that Microsoft and Google probably would rather you didn’t have in the front of your mind while thinking about such things. Which probably means it’s a good time for the sale.

Let’s hit some highlights:

The first Ultron arc, which culminates in the debut of The Vision, is a highlight of the original Roy Thomas / John Buscema Avengers run and is actually split across two Epic Collections: Masters of Evil has Ultron debuting near the end and Behold… The Vision finishes off his first arc and contains his second arc several issues later.

The Bride of Ultron is largely by Jim Shooter, with George Perez and John Byrne tagging in and out for most of it. The runup to the titular Ultron tale is the re-introduction of Wonder Man, which plays into the whole Vision/Simon Williams/Ultron triangle of intrigue.

Avengers: West Coast Avengers – Family Ties – Steve Englehart / Al Milgrom / Richard Howell; Ultron returns with some allies for the opening arc of West Coast Avengers.

Avengers: Rage of Ultron – by Rick Remender / Jerome Opena / Pepe Larraz; An OGN that… shall we say, reset the dynamic between Hank Pym and Ultron?

Ultron Forever is primarily by Al Ewing and Alan Davis, with a few older issues included for background. Avengers of various eras are plucked out of the timestream and brought to the future to face down a triumphant Ultron. (If you think this sounds like Ewing’s Ant-Man sequence, there are similarities.)

The title Marvel would probably like you to purchase here is Age of Ultron, with the core by Brian Bendis, Bryan Hitch, Brandon Peterson and Carlos Pacheco. We’d put this one towards the bottom of the Ultron pile, but that’s just us.

The Young Ones

The Marvel Skottie Young Sale runs through Monday, 6/30.

We’re just going to let you guess who the subject of this sale is.

Highlights:

Deadpool (’18-’19) – Skottie Young / Nic Klein
Giant-Size Little Marvel: AvX – Skottie Young
Human Torch: Burn – Karl Kesel / Skottie Young
The Marvel Art Of Skottie Young
Oz: The Complete Collection – Eric Shanower / Skottie Young; Adapting the original Oz novels… which are a little bit different from the film
Rocket Raccoon – Skottie Young / Filipe Andrade / Jake Parker
- Rocket Raccoon and Groot Vol. 1: Tricks of the Trade – Skottie Young / Filipe Andrade / Aaron Conley / Jay Fosgitt
Strange Academy (’20-’23) – Skottie Young / Humberto Ramos; Doctor Strange establishes a magical academy (definitely not Hogwarts, should the lawyers be asking) with Doctor Voodoo, Damien Hellstrom and the Scarlet Witch amongst the instructors

Unannounced Sales

As always, we see discounts, but we don’t know how long they’ll last.

Ice Cream & Sadness: More Comics from Cyanide & Happiness – Kris Wilson / Matt Melvin / Rob Denbleyker / Dave McElfatric
If You Find This, I’m Already Dead – Matt Kindt / Dan McDaid
Kill Them All – Kyle Starks
The Magic Order – Mark Millar / Olivier Coipel / Stuart Immonen / Gigi Cavenago / Dike Ruan
Manor Black – Cullen Bunn / Brian Hurtt / Tyler Crook
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos – James Tynion IV / Tate Brombal / Isaac Goodhart
One More Year (Megahex) – Simon Hanselmann
Skybourne – Frank Cho
William of Newbury – Michael Avon Oeming

Additionally, it looks like most of the Iron Man, Black Widow and Old Man Logan material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.

Still on Sale

The Kodansha Shonen Magazine Sale runs through Monday, 7/7
The Zenescope Year20 Belle & Friends 99 cent Sale runs through Wednesday, 7/2

Like Moose & Squirrel… but with Tree

We’d say the Rocket Raccoon & Groot Complete Collection (Comixology says Ultimate Collection, but we’re going with what’s on the cover) is the place to start for the original appearances and some Annihilation-related material. Then it’s time for that rascal Skottie Young’s Rocket Raccoon run.

Suicide Sale

DC didn’t exactly make it easy on the recommendations here. Our favorite runs are the original John Ostrander/Luke McDonnell and the recent Tom Taylor/Bruno Redondo runs. The Taylor/Redondo run is too recent to be on sale and DC just reissued V.1 of the Ostrander run, so this is an imperfect sale.

So here’s the Ostrander/McDonnell work around: go to the series page for their Suicide Squad run, get the $0.99 single issues for #1-8 and then proceed to the collected editions. As we said, imperfect sale. Good comics, though. (We’ll ignore the comedy of putting the movie cast on the new cover for V.1 for the moment. Might not be consistent with the contents.)

Groo is Getting OLD

The title is a bit of a pun, since the object of the sale is Groo the Wander. How long have Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier been telling tales of the none-too-swift barbarian? It’ll be 40 years in 2022! (And we have that issue of Destroyer Duck around here someplace.) This sale is for the Dark Horse material. Groo is pretty darn portable, but if you want to start at the beginning of the Dark Horse run, then go with Sergio Aragones’ Groo: The Most Intelligent Man in the World. That’s where the Dark Horse era begins. The bottom line here: it’s Sergio and if you don’t love Sergio, we can’t help you.

Oni Opens the Vault

There’s a lot of territory to cover here and we’re going to assume you already know what a Scott Pilgrim is. And we’ll go a little deeper here because the full monty seems to be on sale.

The Rucka Trilogy

Greg Rucka’s had a good run with Oni over the years. It starts with Whiteout with Steve Lieber, a outright classic about a murder at Antarctica. Yes, there was a film, but we don’t talk about that. The next title was a sidestep towards espionage with the long-running Queen & Country. Possibly the best spy comic of them all, this one rotates artists with each arc and you see everyone from Chris Samnee to Jason Shawn Alexander to Carla Speed McNeil. Q&C channels a cult UK spy show called The Sandbaggers, which is also worth your time. More recently, Rucka teamed with Matthew Southland and later Justin Greenwood for Stumptown, a Rockford Files-esque PI show set in Portland that has a TV adaptation. (We might like V.4’s stolen exotic coffee beans plot the best.)

Normally, we’d be pushing The Sixth Guy, but Oni’s being a jerk about it with this sale. The “Deluxe” editions are on sale — as in hardcover pricing for digital. The regular collected editions mostly aren’t on sale — and they’re still cheaper than the Deluxe sales price. Great series, but this sale is not the one.

There’s a similar situation with Kaijumax by Zander Cannon. In this case, the regular collected editions are on sale, so avoid the Deluxe version in the Omnibus window and their HC pricing and stick with the normal ones. So what is Kaijumax? A criminally overlooked delight. Oh, yes… it looks like a funny animal book, but it’s a DARK tale about an island that’s a supermax prison for giant monsters. Think Godzilla goes to jail and you’re not far off. Prison gangs, contraband and breakout attempts. Cannon plays this one straight and the contrast between the art style and the subject matter is part of the fun. Seriously, your jaw will drop as you get used to the format.

And for something in a different direction, there’s Petrograd, Phillip Gelatt’s and Tyler Crook’s tale of a British spy sent to arrange Rasputin’s demise.