In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Black Friday sales are early this year. In Part 2, DC offers up its “Black Friday Sale” with plenty of Batman. Dark Horse plays along with theme by extending The Black Hammer 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):

Important Black Friday Administrative Notes:

This week, the Black Friday sales are out a week before Black Friday. (Everyone’s doing it!) There were some problems with the sale prices that were posted the morning of Tuesday, 11/19. If you bought something off the Deals page On Tuesday, double check and make sure the price isn’t a little lower right now. All the new sales were removed from the deals page Tuesday evening and reposted a few hours later. The new prices should be correct.

We also covered all of this year’s new entries in the Marvel Omnibus Sale in the previous post.

I See a Red Friday and I Want It Painted Black

Batman '89  Green Lantern War Journal  World's Finest

The DC Black Friday Sale runs through Monday, 11/25.

“But… if the Black Friday Sale is this week, what’s happening next week?” You ask.

We’ll all find out together.

As for this week, there’s no real theme (and the Deals page display is as jumbled as it gets), so here are a few things that caught our eye:

  • Batman Vol. 1: Failsafe – Chip Zdarsky / Jorge Jiménez; The start of the Zdarksy run for $2.99
  • Batman ’89 – Sam Hamm / Joe Quinones; The writer of the Tim Burton Batman films returns with what he had planned for Harvey Dent
  • Batman: The Adventures Continue – Alan Burnett / Paul Dini / Ty Templeton; A continuation of the ’90s animated series by people qualified to do so. Good stuff
  • Batman: Killing Time – Tom King / David Marquez; A noir caper as The Penguin, Riddler and Catwoman try to double cross each other while Batman keeps getting closer
  • Batman: Reptilian – Garth Ennis / Liam Sharp; Guess who’s running amok in the Gotham sewers? $1.99
  • Birds of Prey – Kelly Thompson / Leonardo Romero; The new series has Black Canary recruiting some heavy hitters for a raid on Paradise Island; Alternates between suspense and quirky
  • Crisis on Multiple Earths Book 3 – There’s more Justice League on sale, but this one gets you three of the better Justice Society team-ups, featuring the influential return of Darkseid, a Secret Society of Supervillains encounter and the All-Star Squadron team-up
  • Detective Comics Vol. 1: Gotham Nocturne: Overture – Ram V / Rafael Albuquerque; We’re enjoying this slow burn, gothic horror take on Batman a lot
  • Danger Street – Tom King / Jorge Fornés; Decidedly odd series tying together all the characters from the ’70s First Issue Special series. You already know if this is for you or not, based on that and the creators
  • Death: The High Cost of Living – Neil Gaiman / Chris Bachalo; Dream’s sister gets a spin-off miniseries
  • Gotham City: Year One – Tom King / Phil Hestor; A superior and dark noir private eye tale leading up to Gotham’s decline as Slam Bradley searches for a kidnapped baby with the last name of Wayne
  • Green Arrow (’23) – Josh Williamson /  Sean Izaakse; The current series, emphasizing a “Green Arrow Family,” similar to the “Flash Family” of recent years
  • Green Lantern: War Journal – Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Montos; John Stewart finds himself the target of a particularly horrific extra-dimensional incursion
  • World’s Finest – Mark Waid / Dan Mora; The early adventures of the Batman/Superman pairing; Lots of fun (with occasional patches of darkness) and a must-read if you enjoy Silver Age mythos

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Amazing Spider-Man  Deadpool  X-Men '97

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

Pre-Order for Next Week

Unannounced Sales

Black Hammer Omnibus  The Art of Daniel Clowes  Dramacon

Dark Horse still has the world of Black Hammer on sale this week.

This would be — we think it’s OK to call it a superhero universe at this point — the indie superhero saga by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston and friends. There are a couple branches to how this saga unfurls.

The main Black Hammer series is here and that’s where you should start the journey. But, as with many long running titles, there are a few different editions to it and this is what we think the cheapest (if messy to sort) way to read the series is.

There are currently 7 volumes under the main series + a collection of specials + 2 volumes of “Visions” with guest creators playing in the Black Hammer standbox.

So what you want to do to cheap out is go to the omnibus page first.

Black Hammer Omnibus V.1 is basically the same thing as the first Library edition. That gets you the first two “regular” volumes (issues 1-13) + the Annual.

Black Hammer Library Edition V. 2 gets you the equivalent of “regular” volumes 3 &4 (“Age of Doom”) plus the Streets of Spiral material not in the Ominbus.

Then you can pick up again with V.5 of the regular editions.

Then you’ve got the World of Black Hammer collections, which are solo tales about the various heroes and villains like Barbalien and Sherlock Frankenstein.

And finally, there’s Black Hammer / Justice League: Hammer of Justice, the Lemire / Michael Walsh team up between… well, that’s in the title, isn’t it? This one offers savings in the single issue format.

Also on sale, Dark Horse’s comics adaptations of BioWare’s Dragon Age line of video games:

Also on sale (and branded as “Black Friday” sales, though we’re not sure if that’s out of mere convenience or not):

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