In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel discounts The Hulk and She-Hulk, as well as the (original) Ultimate universe. DC cuts prices on Red Hood. Dark Horse has an unlisted science fiction sale.
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):
- The new releases page is here.
- The “Comics Deals” page is here.
- The Kindle Deals comics page is here.
Now with sale page links!
All-Hulks, All the Time
The Marvel Hulks Sale runs through Monday, 12/12.
And what we have here is basically a Hulk Legacy sale and a She-Hulk Legacy sales married up in the same listing. Holy keeping it in the family, Hulk-Man!
First up, The Hulk (Green / Red / Blue… yet Rainbow writes for She-Hulk… contemplate that for a moment):
- Incredible Hulk (1962 – 1999) The original run and then the long running series that picked up a few years later.
- Tales to Astonish (1964-68) In between the two Hulk solo runs above, Hulk was splitting Tales to Astonish with Ant-Man/Giant Man and then Namor. A lot of the foundational work was really in this run, with Stan Lee/Steve Ditko responsible for a lot of it.
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2007) – Best known for the Bruce Jones / Lee Weeks/ Mike Deodato run towards the beginning and the Greg Pak / multi-artist “Planet Hulk” and “World War Hulk” epics at the end… though World War Hulk is at this different link.
- Hulk (2008-13) This is the Red Hulk run (and the title changes to that after awhile). It starts out with the better known Jeph Loeb/Ed Mc Guiness run and then Jeff Parker takes over with Gabriel Hardman, Dave Eaglesham and Patrick Zircher in the artist rotation.
- Incredible Hulk by Jason Aaron (2011-12) – Lots of artists rotating through here, Marc Silvestri, Steve Dillon and Carlos Pacheco among them
- Indestructible Hulk (2012 – 14) – Mark Waid’s the writer with an artist rotation including Leinil Francis Yu, Matteo Scalera and Walt Simonson draws the Thor team-up.
- Hulk by Waid and Duggan (2014-15) – That would be Mark Waid and Gerry Duggan with Duggan doing the bulk of the run. Mark Bagley is the main artist here.
- The Totally Awesome Hulk (2015-17) – This would be Amadeus Cho’s turn as Hulk, which mean Greg Pak is you primary writer with an artist rotation including Frank Cho, Alan Davis and Luke Ross
- Immortal Hulk (2018-21) – Al Ewing’s masterpiece as the Hulk slides over towards horror and find a green door that leads to Hell.
- Hulk (2021-23) – The Donny Cates / Ryan Ottley run
- Hulk Vs. Thor: Banner of War – The Cates/Martin Coccolo cross-over that’s 100% part of this run, but listed separately.
We don’t think it’s really a sale price on the first volume of the current Johnson/Klein series (but we’re enjoying it).
What’s good, we really like the Tales to Astonish days where Banner was still with the military and trying to keep his identity a secret amidst cold war intrigue. The Hulk Must Die captures that era.
For the main series, you can’t go wrong with the Peter David years and the Bill Mantlo era seems to have gained fans over the years.
And let’s be real – Immortal Hulk is a masterpiece.
She-Hulk:
- The Savage She-Hulk (’80-’82) – mostly by David Anthony Kraft and Mike Vosburg
- Sensational She-Hulk (’89-’94) – John Byrne, then the unlikely team of Steve Gerber & Bryan Hitch
- She-Hulk (’04-’05) – Dan Slott / Juan Bobillo
- She-Hulk (’05 – ’09) – Initially Dan Slott / Juan Bobillo, then Peter David takes over.
- Dan Slott Omnibus #1 (includes the ’04 series).
- Dan Slott Omnibus #2
- She-Hulk (’14-’15) – Charles Soule & Javier Pulido in one omnibus
- She-Hulk (’16-’18) – Mariko Tamaki / Nico Leon
- She-Hulk (’22-’23) – Rainbow Rowell / Roge Antonio / Luca Maresca
If you’re coming into She-Hulk through the TV show, the legal angle for the character really started getting emphasized with the Dan Slott era and then was followed up on by Charles Soule (who just might be a lawyer in his secret identity). Rainbow Rowell’s also picking up a pretty dedicated following with her current runs.
The Ultimate Call-Back
The Marvel Ultimate Universe Sale runs through Monday, 2/12.
- The Ultimates: The Ultimate Collection – The first run with Bryan Hitch
- The Ultimates 2: The Ultimate Collection – The second run with Bryan Hitch
- Ultimate Comics Avengers: The Next Generation – with Carlos Pacheco
- Ultimate Comics Avengers: Crime and Punishment – with Leinil Francis Yu
- Ultimate Comics Avengers: Blade vs. The Avengers – with Steve Dillon
- Ultimate Comics Avengers vs. New Ultimates: Death of Spider-Man – with Leinil Francis Yu and Stephen Segovia
- Ultimate Comics Ultimates by Jonathan Hickman, V. 1 – with Esad Ribic
- Ultimate Comics Ultimates by Jonathan Hickman, V. 2 – with Sam Humphries, Esad Ribic and Luke Ross
- Ultimate Comics Thor – with Carlos Pacheco
- Ultimate Comics Hawkeye – with Rafa Sandoval
- Ultimate Fantastic Four – writers include Bendis, Millar, Ellis and a lot of Mike Carey; artists include Adam Kubert, Pasqual Ferry, Tyler Kirkham and Stuart Immonen
- Ultimate Galactus Trilogy – Warren Ellis / Mark Millar / Brandon Peterson / Tom Raney / Steve McNiven / Steve Epting
There a bit more to the sale, but that’s the bulk of the highlights. What’s good? The Millar/Hitch Ultimates are hugely influential (especially to the film world). Ultimate FF absolutely has it’s moments. Not everybody realizes that the Marvel Zombies debuted in V. 3 (omnibus version) and are not played for laughs. Now, we don’t often issue “avoid” warnings around here, but there are a couple things here that we’ll advise against. The Orson Scott Card Ultimate Iron Man? Don’t bother. It’s awful. Ultimatum? Nope! That very nearly killed the line. There are MUCH better things to read in this imprint than those two.
Black Red Hood
The DC Red Hood Sale runs through Monday, 2/12.
Turns out those Batman titles we were looking at Monday were part of a big Red Hood sale.
Let’s hit the highlights:
- Batman: A Death in the Family – Starlin & Aparo / Wolfman & Perez – starts the ball rolling with the “death” of Jason Todd
- Batman: Under the Red Hood – Judd Winnick / Doug Mahnke – Brings Mr. Todd back in his new identity
- Red Hood – The Lost Days – Judd Winnick / Jeremy Haun; “how he got this way”
- Red Hood and the Outlaws (’11-’15) –Scott Lobdell / Kenneth Rocafort; New 52 relaunch as a bawdy action-comedy team book
- Red Hood and the Outlaws (’16-’20) – Scott Lobdell / Dexter Soy; DCU: Rebirth relaunch
- Task Force Z – Matthew Rosenberg / Eddy Barrows; Red Hood leads a team of zombies
- Batman: Urban Legends – featuring a Chip Zdarksy / Eddy Barrows Red Hood tale.
Spaced Out
The new unannounced / unlisted Dark Horse sale is a Science Fiction sale:
Some of the more interesting things we’ve seen with a discount:
- Black Hammer
- Blue Book
- Dark Horse Presents
- Dept. H
- Finder
- Gantz: G
- Hard Boiled
- Invisible Kingdom
- The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-first Century
- Luther Arkwright
- Nexus
- The Originals
- Resident Alien
- Usagi Yojimbo
Strips
OK, we really aren’t sure how long these discounts are lasting and (odder still), which titles in these series are on sale seems to change a little, but if you go through the list for each series, you’re going to find some $1.99/$2.99 volumes of these high profile comic strips:
- Doonesbury
- Get Fuzzy (and here)
- Mutts (and here)
Still on Sale
- The Marvel Black Panther Sale runs through Monday, 2/26
- The Marvel Miles Morales Sale runs through Monday, 2/26
- The DC Suicide Squad and Justice League Sale runs though Monday, 2/12
- The Kodansha Sweet Treats Sale runs through Monday, 2/12
- The Zenescope OZ Reign of the Witch Queen Sale runs through Sunday, 2/18
- The Titan The Eleventh Doctor Sale runs through Monday, 2/26