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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Marvel’s Halloween Sale, The Vision, Young Avengers, Flight

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel rolls out their Halloween sale. Marvel also discounts, Young Avengers, Vision, Nova and “Event” comics. Plus, Flight and XCom.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Trick or Cheap

Immortal Hulk  Tomb of Dracula  Ghost Rider

The Marvel Halloween Sale  runs through Monday 10/26.

When we make fun of Marvel’s sale schedule as being on autopilot and braindead, a Halloween sale that runs through the 26th only is right up there. Real Works of Genius territory. Also, Gerber’s Man-Thing is curiously absent from the Halloween Sale. We hope the intern wasn’t in charge?

This is, to an extent, a sale of sales:

Hulk

Yes, The Hulk has been a horror character in recent years and they’ve also been at or near the top of the various Hulk runs.

  • Immortal Hulk – Al Ewing / Joe Bennett; A stone cold classic
  • Incredible Hulk – Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Nic Klein; The recent return to horror

Tomb of Dracula / Blade

It’s not clear you can call Tomb of Dracula an under-the-radar 70s classic anymore, since it’s gotten a fair amount of exposure since the Essentials line (finally) collected it ~20 years ago, but now it’s in color reprints. One note, though – you need to give the series six or seven issues to get moving. There were some false starts until Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan were paired up… but after they’ve got a couple issues under their belt, this one really takes off.

Blade: Black & White is a collection of… that’s right, the black & white adventures over the years and is built around some magazine appearances in Vampire Tales and Marvel Preview. Wolfman and Chris Claremont are the primary writers for that period. Colan and Tony DeZuniga are the primary artists.

If you’re looking for something has resembles the film franchise a bit more, there’s Blade: The Complete Collection by Marc Guggenheim (with Howard Chaykin as artist).

For something completely out of left field, J.M. DeMatteis, Steve Leialoha and Mark Badger present Greenberg the Vampire. He tries to avoid drinking blood, loves his Mama and occasionally has writer’s block. No Dracula or Blade, but we’ll indulge.

Ghost Rider

Marvel Monsters

Spider-Woman

  • Spider-Woman – Mark Gruenwald / Michael Fleisher / Chris Claremont / Carmen Infantino / Steve Leialoha; Probably in here for the Werewolf appearances, nonetheless, 70s/80s Spider-Woman was a deeply strange book.

There’s quite a bit more in the sale, just not runs. Werewolf by Night shows up in a lot of Moon Knight titles. Dracula shows up all over the place, too.

What isn’t an Event These Days?

One World Under Doom  Imperial  Civil War [Marvel Premier Collection]

The Select Marvel Universe Events Sale runs through Monday, 10/26.

There is a LOT more to this sale with Event tie-in books, so we’re going to hit the Event highlights and maybe a more relevant tie-in book or two. (Not all tie-ins are created equal.)

You’d Think There Was a TV Show…

Vision and the Scarlet Witch   Avengers West Coast  The Vision

The Marvel Vision Sale runs through Monday, 10/26.

Quite a bit here.

The value buy here is Vision & The Scarlet Witch: The Saga of Wanda and Vision. It’s a sort of faux-Epic Edition, clocking in at 467 pages and including the wedding of Wanda and Vision from Giant-Size Avengers #4, the ’82 Bill Mantlo/Rick Leonardi mini-series and the ’85 Steve Englehart/Richard Howell 12-parter.

Vision: The Complete Series – Tom King / Gabriel Hernandez Walta. After his split with Wanda, The Vision moves to the suburbs with a synthezoid wife and two synthezoid kids in tow? What could go wrong? Plenty, as his new world slowly unravels. Probably the best early King book.

Avengers Epic Collection: Behold… The Vision – starts out with the classic two-part debut of The Vision (ending in “Evan an Android Can Cry). This volume is essentially the middle third of the Roy Thomas run. John Buscema / Barry Windsor Smith / Gene Colan / Sal Buscema era. Plenty of Ultron and the debuts of the Squadron Sinister and Invaders towards the end.

Avengers: Absolute Vision – Book One and Book Two – Roger Stern / Al Milgrom / Bob Hall; contain a long arc (that mostly executes in the second volume) where the Vision goes slightly mad and tries to take over the world’s computers.

Avengers West Coast Epic Collection: Vision Quest has Wanda’s original heel-turn in John Byrne’s run that was an influence on the earlier TV show. (It also has the end of the Englehart run and that counts for something, too.)

Which is also to say there are a lot of the original Avengers and West Coast Avengers volumes on sale.

Avengers Inc.: Action, Mystery, Adventure by Al Ewing / Leonard Kirk is absolutely wonderful and the endcap to a trilogy along with Ant-Man: Ant-Iversary and Wasp: Small Worlds (which is not on sale).

Did Anybody Card These Heroes?

Young Avengers  Young Avengers  Avengers: The Children's Crusade

The Marvel Young Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 10/26.

We can sum this sale up succinctly. You’re looking at three volumes:

The creator names are even in the title(s)!

Seriously, though: the Heinberg/Cheung original series was a buzz book that seemed to come out of nowhere when it dropped. Hulking and Wiccan have gone on to get pretty fully integrated into the Marvel Universe.

A few related titles also in the sale:

Pee Wee? Is That You?

Nova  Champions  Champions Classic: The Complete Collection

The Marvel Nova (Sam Alexander) Sale runs through Monday 10/26.

This would be the kid version of Nova that debuted a few years back, for which we have:

The solo titles

  • Nova (’13-’15) – Jeph Loeb / Zeb Wells / Gerry Duggan / Ed McGuinness / Paco Medina / Carlo Barberi / David Baldeon / Federico Santagati / John Timms
  • Nova (’15-’16) – Sean Ryan / Cory Smith / John Timms
  • Nova (’16-’17) -Jeff Loveness / Ramon Perez

The Team Book

  • Champions (’16-’18) – Mark Waid / Jeremy Whitley / Jim Zub / Humberto Ramos / Jesús Saiz / Javier Piña / Paco Diaz / Sean Izaakse / Kevin Libranda

The 70s team with the same name

Unannounced Sales

Critical Role Fangs Flight

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 that’s a little better value 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 discounts to 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: Venom, Young Avengers, The Superman Sale Returns

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has discounts on Venom and Young Avengers while DC’s Superman sale returns.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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No, Not Bane’s Juice

Venom by Remender   Venom by Cates   Venom

The Marvel Venom Sale runs through Monday, 8/18.

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

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 current 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.

Did Anybody Card These Heroes?

Young Avengers  Young Avengers  Avengers: The Children's Crusade

The Marvel Young Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 8/18.

We can sum this sale up succinctly. You’re looking at three volumes:

The creator names are even in the title(s)!

Seriously, though: the Heinberg/Cheung original series was a buzz book that seem to come out of nowhere when it dropped. Hulking and Wiccan have gone on to get pretty fully integrated into the Marvel Universe.

A couple notable spin-offs also in the sale:

  • Hawkeye (’16-’18) – Kelly Thompson / Leonardo Romero; Note: this is the Kate Bishop Hawkeye
  • Empyre – Al Ewing / Dan Slott / Valerio Schitti; Wiccan and Hulkling are right at the center of this Event

Superman Returns?

Superman: The Golden Age  Superman: Up in the Sky  Superman Smashes The Klan

The DC Summer of Superman 2025 Sale runs through Sunday 8/31.

“Wait,” you’re asking yourself, “didn’t this sale run last month?” It did! Mostly. This isn’t an exact clone of last month and as we’re eyeballing it, it appears to us that some of the pricing has improved. To the tune of some scattered $2.99 volumes.

Here are the base links:

And a bit of space for the supporting cast of the upcoming film:

What’s good?

We’re huge fans of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? – a masterpiece of humor and a good mystery, too.

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? Waid also references this series in World’s Finest.

Emperor Joker is a 2000 storyline from Jeph Loeb / Ed McGuinness / Joe Kelly / Doug Mahnke that finds the Joker acquiring godlike powers and remaking the world in his image. Not an Elseworlds, but entertainingly over the top.

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: Man of Tomorrow is an very witty collection of tales by Robert Venditti and Paul Pelletier that went under most radars because it was originally serialized digitally.

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

And for something under the radar, the Warworld saga from a couple years back is worth a look. Phillip Kennedy Johnson wrote Action Comics for a spell and there was very little discussion on it. We’ve since had it recommended a couple times and just finished reading it. Severely under-rated and we’d go so far as to call the first two volumes great. The set up is there’s a new Mongul running Warworld. Mongul has been subjugating a lost tribe from Krypton and uses them to lure Superman to Warworld (with The Authority in tow). A trap is sprung and Superman has to lead a rebellion.

Now, you might be saying “haven’t we seen this before on Apokolips?  And the answer is, not exactly. Kennedy Johnson takes a full arc to set this up with signs of portent and excels at creating an atmosphere of foreboding leading into the final act. The characterization is strong and there’s an interesting thread about the problem of leading a revolution when the underclass has never known freedom. (And a bit of political skullduggery in the background.) Several artists tag in and out, but the more prominent ones are Daniel Sampere, Riccardo Federici and Will Conrad.

This storyline is collected across three volumes:

The optional fourth volume to the arc, which takes place in the background during Warlord Rising, is Superman and The Authority by Grant Morrison and Mikel Janin. This is where Superman recruits The Authority for his mission to Warworld… and trust us, this series works better in the greater context of the Warworld arc than it does as a standalone.

“Normal” Unannounced Sales

Daredevil: Fall From Grace  Dramacon  Over My Dead Body

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

Additionally, it looks like most of the Wolverine and Deadpool 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.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Han Solo/Star Wars; Young Avengers; Batman: Hush; Kodansha Linewide Manga Sale

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has discounts on Han Solo/Star Wars. DC slashes prices on “essential” titles like New Frontier, Watchmen and a whole bunch of Batman. Kodansha has a linewide sale and… is that Dune?

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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No Oils Are Included With This Sale

The DC Essentials Sale runs through Monday, 3/3.

There’s an inherent self-back-pat to such lists, but there’s a lot of quality in this sale and plenty of $1.99/$2.99 price points, too.

A few things we found particularly interesting:

  • Batman (’11-’16) – yes, this would be the Scott Snyder/Greg Capullo run for $1.99/volume
  • Batman (’16 – present)  – The Tom King run through the Josh Williamson run, mostly $1.99/volume
  • Batman: The Complete Hush – Jeph Loeb / Jim Lee; If you need a refresher before the sequel…
  • Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller; Miller’s post-modern, dystopian take on an aging Batman ushered in the grim ‘n’ gritty era
  • Batman: Year One – Frank Miller / David Mazzucchelli; Miller’s take on Bruce Wayne’s transition to the cowl
  • Detective Comics (’16 – present) – Call us crazy, but we preferred James Tynion IV’s earlier Detective run to his Batman run, especially when it’s $1.99/volume
  • DC: The New Frontier – Darwyn Cooke’s love letter to the dawn of the Silver Age as the paths of heroes converge to form the Justice League; 500 pages for $2.99 is a good deal, too
  • Final Crisis – Grant Morrison / J.G. Jones / Doug Mahnke / Carlos Pacheco; Includes the necessary tie-ins (to think that Superman Beyond was undersold as part of the main story when it came out…)
  • Kingdom Come – Mark Waid / Alex Ross; A commentary on the grim ‘n’ gritty era (right in the middle of it) as a new generation of heroes lose their way
  • Saga of the Swamp Thing – Alan Moore / Stephen Bissette / John Totleben / Stan Woch; Alan Moore announces his US presence with a classic horror run you could argue is the beginnings of Vertigo
  • Watchmen – Alan Moore / Dave Gibbon; The classic Hugo winner – $2.99
  • Wonder Woman: Dead Earth – Daniel Warren Johnson with a more recent “essential” tome. A Black Label tale finds Wonder Woman awakened in a dystopian hellscape and trying to figure out what happened. It’s Metal.

Han Shot First

Han Solo at Stars' End  Star Wars  Star Wars

The Marvel Han Solo Sale runs through Monday, 3/3.

This sales leans heavily (but not exclusively) on the original Marvel run and the collections that originated at Dark Horse.

The original Marvel run and some of the DH Rebellion collections are near the bottom of this link. Let’s break out the original Marvel volumes:

You’ll find the titular Dark Horse Star Wars here, along with the newspaper strip. Speaking of the strip, prior to Al Williamson tagging in as artist, Archie Goodwin and Alfredo Alcala adapted Han Solo at Stars’ End, which seems appropriate this week.

Did Anybody Card These Heroes?

Young Avengers  Young Avengers  Avengers: The Children's Crusade

The Marvel Young Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 3/3.

We can sum this sale up succinctly. You’re looking at two inclusive volumes:

The creator names are even in the title(s)!

Seriously, though: the Heinberg/Cheung original series was a buzz book that seem to come out of nowhere when it dropped. Hulking and Wiccan have gone on to get pretty fully integrated into the Marvel Universe.

Something that’s not in the sale, but would be of interest if you want to go down the Young Avengers rabbit hole: Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, which we would consider V.2 for Heinberg/Cheung and more fully addresses the Wiccan/Scarlet Witch relationship.

Kodansha Unlimited?

Attack on Titan  That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime Witch Hat Atelier

The Kodansha Linewide Sale runs through Monday, 3/10.

If you like manga, you probably want to browse this 4000+ item monster of a sale.

A few titles we see mentioned a bit:

Our favorite of the line is still Attack on Titan. That series opens up into a much deeper story than you’d ever suspect in the first volume. Horror? Political thriller? Yes.

Unannounced Sales

Dune  Legend of Korra

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Incredible Hulk  Venom  The Spectacular Spider-Men

The trend continues. New releases at lower than expected price points and discounted pre-orders. Is this the new normal? We’re not sure, but let’s run them down.

Dropping This Week

Dropping Next Week

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: DC’s Superman / Batman / Wonder Woman Pre-Holiday Sale; X-Men; Runaways; Young Avengers; Elfquest

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC starts the holiday sale season with a Batman / Superman / Wonder Woman “Trinity” sale, Marvel discounts all things “Hellfire” (as in X-Men) and “Young Heroes” (like Young Avengers), plus… Elfquest, but not on a shelf.

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First, a little housekeeping. If you normally use the Comixology app, you’ve probably heard that Amazon is shuttering it on 12/4. If you haven’t heard that, open the app and it’ll notify you. Comics reading is moving over to the Kindle app.

We have a couple tips/warnings for you about that.

  1. You can force a sync by pressing the “MORE” button at the lower right hand corner of the screen of the Kindle App and selecting “Sync.” Be warned, this is a SLOW process and you might need to press the button several time before a sync really starts. We had had 4 or 5 attempts break before one finally took. A little bit of system overload? That should not surprise anyone. It took us maybe 3 hours before the “real” sync concluded.
  2. In the Kindle App’s library display screen, there is a “FILTER” button in the upper left corner. This is where you can change your view to comics-only, book-only, unread items-only, etc., etc. This is mentioned in Amazon’s update announcement, but we didn’t think they made it quite clear enough. Play with the filter and it will make things a little easier, particularly if you read both books and comics on Kindle. You really want to be able to view those separately.

We have not yet done a two-screen audit to compare what’s in the Kindle with what’s in the Comixology app, but we’re looking to carve out some time for that before the 4th. At first glance it looks OK, but we’ve heard people saying not everything came over (make sure Read/Unread are both off in the filters) and others saying it took multiple syncs, so we’re looking to err on the side of caution.

If you’re already using the Kindle App, this is a non-issue. And, let’s face it, we all knew this would eventually happen from the moment that Amazon acquired Comixology. Honestly, we’re a little surprised they’re still calling the comics section “Comixology” and not something like Amazon Comics.

The Holidays Start Early?

The DC Trinity Sale runs through Monday, 6/20.

Trinity means Superman / Batman / Wonder Woman, over at DC. But that’s not what we noticed.

What we noticed was all the $2.99/$3.99 collected editions, so we’re treating this like the first shot fired on Holiday Sales. (A pre-Black Friday sale? Maybe.) Will there be cheaper prices from DC in the next couple months? Maybe, but they don’t get lower than $2.99 very often, so it would a (pleasant) surprise.

If you’re looking for a “Trinity” title… basically since New 52 dropped, it’s going to be cheap. This sale is worth taking some time to browse.

Here are some mostly less recent things we saw and liked the prices:

Superman

Batman

  • Batman (1940-’11) -We especially like $3.99 “Caped Crusader” (the ’80s run) and $2.99 Ed Brubaker volumes if you scroll down.
  • Detective Comics (1937-’11) – We especially like $3.99 “Dark Knight Detective” (the ’80s run) and “New Gotham” volumes.
  • Batman: Damned – Brian Azzarello / Lee Bermejo; It will go down as infamous for the “bat pole” and the behind the scenes political upheaval it caused.
  • Batman: Death and the Maidens – A Ra’s Al Ghul tale by Greg Rucka / Klaus Janson
  • Batman: Gates of Gotham – Scott Snyder / Kyle Higgins / Trevor McCarthy – early Snyder Batman
  • Batman Universe – Brian Bendis channeling pure fun? Believe it! This is the Bendis/Nick Derington tale that was hidden away in the Walmart comics and we want another volume!

Wonder Woman

  • Wonder Woman: The Golden Age – Early Wonder Woman is strange. Lots of bondage and domination themes. Seriously. ~400 pages for $3.99. Worth getting one cheap to see how off the wall these are.
  • Wonder Woman (1987 series) – Don’t ask us why, but you need to click here and here to get everything. We don’t know why the listings are split like that. Anyway, you can’t go wrong with the George Perez run or the first Greg Rucka run at the end of this series. And be away that V.6 of the Perez run and the War of the Gods collection that isn’t numbered contain the same comics.
  • Wonder Woman (2011 series) – The first six issues by Brian Azzarello / Cliff Chiang / Goran Sudzuka are a top notch story. A little sacrilegious to the character? Probably. Consider it an Elseworlds take, but it’s good.
  • Wonder Woman (2016 series) – You want the first two “Rebirth Deluxe Editions” as Greg Rucka / Nicola Scott / Liam Sharp reset Wonder Woman, post-Azzarello
  • Wonder Woman: True Amazon – Jill Thompson’s Eisner Award winner

Adventures of Superman   Batman Universe   Wonder Woman - True Amazon

Arthur Brown’s Favorite Event

The Marvel Hellfire Sale runs through Monday, 11/20.

Is this a Hellfire Gala sale or a Hellfire Club sale?  Perhaps it’s both?

You have a couple options for the first Hellfire Gala, depending on how many tie-ins you want. You’ve got the ’22 Hellfire Gala.

We definitely enjoyed the Krakoa-era Marauders by Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli & Stefano Caselli. That had Captain Kate Pryde and her merry band of mutants patrolling the seas on behalf of the “Hellfire Trading Company” and breaking up the plotting of the original Club’s Black King.

For something something under the radar, Cable: The Hellfire Hunt by a pre-Starman James Robinson and Jose Ladronn putting Cable up against a scheme involving the Hellfire Club and Apocalypse.

Hellfire Gala   Hellfire Gala - Immortal   Maruaders

Somebody Card These Heroes

The Marvel Young Heroes Sale runs through Monday, 11/20.

Technically the “young heroes” title trend at Marvel goes back to Young Allies in the 1940s, but that’s not on sale here.

What is in the sale?

Runaways by  Bryan K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona might be the best title. When six friends discover their parents are super villains, they make a run for it. Vaughan was already writing Y- The Last Man when this came out, but his fame hadn’t reached a critical mass yet and this one isn’t always remembered.

Young Avengers by Allen Heinberg and Jim Cheung is a close second. Notable for introducing Hulking and Wiccan, also with Kate Bishop and Cassie Lang, this is a fun one. Doesn’t hurt that you can get the whole thing in one volume, either.

Another one that’s available in a single volume is the Kieron Gillen / Jamie McKelvie Young Avengers from  ’13. Gillen & McKelvie? You already know if you’ll like it. (They add Kid Loki to the team,  incidentally.)

Runaways   Young Avengers   Young Avengers

Elves Off the Shelves

The Dark Horse 2023 Elfquest Digital Sale runs through Monday, 12/4.

This is elf season, right? These are a different sort of elves. This would be Wendy and Richard Pini’s long running epic fantasy series about a tribe of elves driven from their land by a fire and humans.

The Complete Elfquest is the omnibus series that will take you all the way from the beginning through The Final Quest. It’s a very good value. Don’t look elsewhere unless you’re only missing a couple issues of The Final Quest.

Elfquest: Stargazer’s Hunt came out after The Final Quest and isn’t in the Complete series of omnibuses. Your purchase options here require a little explanation.

The first half of the story is available as  single issues (#1-4) and they’re a little cheaper to purchase this way.  The second half is only available as a graphic novel (V.2 of the series).

Elfquest   Elfquest: Stargazer's Hunt

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Comixology Sales: The Joker, Transformers, War of the Realms, Vintage Jim Starlin, Young Avengers and Image gets Romantic(ish)

This week’s Comixology Sales highlights start with a celebration of the Joker. Then Marvel highlights the Young Avengers and Ware of the Realms. Valentine’s Day is over, but we look at what’s notable in Image’s romance sale anyway. Plus, Transformers galore and that the glory that is Dreadstar.

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The Joke’s on who?

DC’s The Joker’s Greatest Jokes Sale runs through Monday (3/1).

If you’re going to get one “Best of” Joker collection, you’re going to want The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years. Being a thicker collection makes it more complete, but moreover, we don’t think you can have a “Best of” that doesn’t include the Englehart/Rogers “Laughing Fish” storyline.

For something that doesn’t necessarily come immediately to mind, there’s the Joker arc of Gotham Central, the classic GPD series by Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka with Michael Lark as the artist for this arc.

There’s a lot more Bat-family material in this one, though we weren’t sure the Joker is integral to (or even appearing in) all the titles in this sale.

Joker: Celebration of 75 Years   Gotham Central

No love for the Old Avengers

The Marvel Young Avengers Sales runs through Sunday 2/28.

Young Avengers by Allen Heinberg and Jim Cheung: The Complete Collection is the original, formative run. And for as short as it actually was, this is a fairly influential comic with everything from the recent Empyre Event to WandaVision on streaming having echoes of it.  Oh, there’s more Young Avengers material on sale, but this is one of the times to start at the beginning.  And yes, Young Avengers: Children’s Crusade is conspicuous by its absence.

Young Avengers

Why can’t The Realms just get along?

Marvel’s  War of the Realms Sale runs through Thursday (3/4).

This was a Thor-centric Jason Aarons event. As a Marvel Event, there were a ton of spin-off mini-series that tied in. Explore those at your leisure, but this War of the Realms is the tentpole series around which the Event revolved.

War of the Realms 

More off-kilter romance

The Image Romance Sale runs through Monday (3/8).

No, Image really isn’t a bastion of traditional romance, but they do have a few things that fall vaguely into that territory.

Twisted Romance is an anthology of, well… twisted romantic tales built around a set of Alex de Campi stories with some prose and shorter comics filling in around them. Notably, there’s some intergalactic space pirate romance with Carla Speed McNeil on the art.

My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies might not be the most romantic title in the sale, but it’s good book. A entry in Ed Brubaker / Sean Phillips crime catalog (as consistent a catalog as you’ll find these days), this one concerns murder and mayhem at a high end rehab clinic.  As always, recommended if you have an itch for crime comics.

Sex Criminals is the recently completed Matt Fraction / Chip Zdarsky off-color comedy about a couple who can freeze time when they have sex and use their ability to rob banks.  OK, there’s a bit more to it, but that’s the tried and true tagline.  All but the still-new final volume are on sale.

Twisterd Romance   My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies   Sex Criminals

All Hail Megatron has transformed into an omnibus

The IDW Transformers Sale runs through Thursday (3/4).

IDW has effectively treated the Transformers line as a saga. The original run of that is The Transformers: The IDW Collection series of omnibuses and is probably a good place to start here.

Fans of a certain age might also be interested in Transformers: Classics, which is the original Marvel Comics run.

Transformers: The IDW Collection   Transformers: Classics

Thicker editions

The Dynamite Select Omnibus Sale runs through Sunday (2/28).

Dreadstar Omnibus is the first 12 issues (and story arc) of Jim Starlin’s Dreadstar. Dreadstar was Starlin’s major work between wrapping up the original Captain Marvel / Warlock / Thanos saga and returning to Marvel (proper) for Silver Surfer and Infinity Gauntlet. (Sure, he did some Batman before returning, but Dreadstar is just on another level.) It’s the tale of the last survivor of the Milky Way taking on the corrupt Church of the Instrumentality as a rebel insurgency of sorts. An absolute classic of the first wave of creator owned comics in the ’80s.

The Shadow: Year One – Omnibus is an origin tale for The Shadow and Margo Lane, written by Matt Wagner (who’s done a lot with ’30s era heroes over the years) with art by Wilfredo Torres.

There’s a lot of Red Sonja and Vampirella on sale, too, if that floats your boat.

Dreadstar   The Shadow: Year One

Still on Sale

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