This week in Comixology sales, Marvel drops a discount on War of the Realms and West Coast Avengers, DC offers up samplers of the “Rebirth” era, Dark Horse spotlights Critical Role… and don’t forget that Saga sale is still in effect.
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A little heads up here – as you may have heard, Comixology has been saying that their website will be absorbed into the Amazon website since… September? The date of the switchover has been pushed back. A lot. But we’ve been hearing around the water cooler that it should be any day now and we’re honestly not sure whether or not it’s going to flip over between now and February 1st. Maybe it will and maybe the changeover will get pushed back again. If you get redirected to Amazon, that’s why we’ve been putting the Amazon links for the sales in.
This Means War
The Marvel War of the Realms Sale runs through Sunday, 1/30 (Amazon link)
Yes, the Thor Event. What you get depends on how you want to read it.
For deep background, the Thor of the Realms anthology will give a selection of stories from Lee/Kirby, Walt Simonson and other. This falls under “classic material.”
Thor V.2: Road to War of the Realms by Jason Aaron and Mike Del Mundo is the lead-in to the actual event, so starting there would also be appropriate.
And then there’s finally War of the Realms, the actual Jason Aaron/Russell Dauterman Event mini-series wherein Malekith invades Midgard after conquering the rest of the ten realms.
You get through that and want more, there are plenty of spin-offs available.
Turn Left (Coast)
The Marvel West Cost Avengers Sale runs through Sunday, 1/30. (Amazon link)
We can sum this one up very easily. Much more easily than most sales. Get the Epic Collections. “How the West Was Won” has the original Roger Stern/Bob Hall limited series and then jumps into the Steve Englehart/Al Milgrim ongoing series. The Epic’s take you through the beginning of the John Byrne run, so when you get to “Vision Quest,” get that and stop. (Unless you don’t like Byrne, in which case stop before that.) The next Epic Collection, “Darker Than Scarlet,” has been released, but is too recent to be on sale. If we have learned one thing, it’s that it _will_ be on sale, so exercise a little patience there.
X’d Out
The Marvel X-Force Legacy Sale runs through Thursday, 2/3. (Amazon link)
We have a clear favorite run of X-Force: The Rick Remender era. A dark era, to be sure, but the X-Force concept was supposed to be a little dark. The best way to pick that run up is to scroll down to the Omnibuses section and grab the two “X-Force by Rick Remender” volumes.
If you want something a LOT different, you can opt for the much loved (a little too popular to be “cult”) Peter Milligan/Mike Allred version, which is farcical take on the team.
When One Birth is Not Enough
The DC Rebirth eBook Sale runs through Monday, 1/31. (Amazon link)
This would be the deluxe editions of the Rebirth era DC titles, which contain the first two “normal” volumes of those titles.
The creative star of Rebirth, as far as we’re concerned was the relaunch of Wonder Woman under Greg Rucka, Liam Sharp and Nicola Scott. A repositioning of Diana’s origins after the New 52 version (an excellent story, but perhaps better suited to the Elseworlds line), this one has Diana probing her origins and why Paradise Island has disappeared.
While the Tom King Batman was the sales star of Rebirth (and it’s here), we honestly like the James Tynion IV / Eddy Barrows Detective Comics run better. It’s really a sort of Batman Family title as Batman taps Batwoman to assemble Gotham’s vigilantes into more of a cohesive unit in the face of a mysterious force targeting the younger heroes.
We also thought the Dan Jurgens / Patrick Zircher / Tyler Kirkham Action Comics run was a lot more fun than it got credit for. Let’s be brutally honest: DC hasn’t really been able to find a take on Superman to stick with since New 52 dropped. This one was a throwback to the tone of late 80s through mid-90s Superman and worked well for what it was… until that ridiculous Jor-El plot got inserted into it towards the end of the run.
Game Night
The Dark Horse Critical Role & Vox Machina Sale runs through Monday, 2/7. (Amazon Link)
This would be the *cough* D&D-like comics exploring the backgrounds of the characters from the extremely popular podcast. Does that make it the story within the story? Um, maybe?
Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins combines the previous two volumes into a single edition.
Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins — Jester Lavorre chronicles the early years of Jester Lavorre… as if you couldn’t guess by the title…
Still on Sale
- The Image Sci-Fi Sale (and by that, they mean Saga) runs through Monday, 2/7 (Amazon link) – And that Saga Compendium is still an excellent value!
- The Fantagraphics Massive Sale Runs through Sunday, 1/30 (Amazon link)
- The Dynamite Fantasy Sale runs through Monday, 1/31 (Amazon link)
