In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC highlights their villains (with discounts). Marvel cuts prices on the Red Hulk. Image promotes arguments.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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They’re Not Bad, They’re Just Drawn That Way

Batman: Tales of the Demon  Deathstroke  Lobo

The DC Darkest Villains Sale runs through Monday, 11/4.

Let’s try something a little different and organize some of the highlights by the Villain(s) in question:

The Court of Owls

Deathstroke

Hush

The Joker

Lobo

  • Lobo – Keith Giffen / Alan Grant / Simon Bisley; Our preferred Lobo in the outrageous and offensive original solo incarnation; perhaps more anti-hero than villain, but that might be pedantic

Mongul

  • Superman Vs. Mongul – Len Wein / Jim Starlin; Paul Levitz / Curt Swan; Alan Moore / Dave Gibbons; The original DC Comics Presents tales, plus the immortal “For the Man Who Has Everything”

Ra’s al Ghul

  • Batman: Tales of the Demon – Denny O’Neil / Neal Adams / Irv Novick / Don Newton; The original ’70s al Ghul saga, including the later follow-up in Detective
  • Batman: The Demon Trilogy – Mike W. Barr / Denny O’Neil / Jerry Bingham / Tom Grindberg / Norm Breyfogle; The graphic novel trilogy of Son of the Demon, Bride of the Demon and Birth of the Demon

Red Hood

Secret Six

  • Secret Six V.1 – Gail Simone / Dale Eaglesham; A team of villains is assembled to tangle with Luthor’s “Society” of villains
  • Secret Six ’08-’11 – Gail Simone / Nicola Scott; The ongoing series begins

The Secret Society of Supervillains

  • The Secret Society of Supervillains – Gerry Conway / David Anthony Kraft / Bob Rozakis / Rich Buckler / Pablo Marcos; For completists, the ’70s villain team as Captain Comet pursues them

Suicide Squad

  • Suicide Squad – John Ostrander / Luke McDonnell / Geoff Isherwood; The original series and best take on villains pressed into government service

What are the real highlights? Priest’s Deathstroke has never gotten it’s due. Very smart comic and makes no bones about his status as a villain.

The original Suicide Squad run should be read for the more nuanced portrayal of Amanda Waller and her motivations.

Red Light Series

Red Hulk Scorched Earth  Fall of the Hulks - Red Hulk  U.S.Avengers

The Marvel Red Hulk sale runs through Monday 11/4.

Only three titles in this sale. The main one by far is the ’08 – ’13 Hulk series. 16 years after the series launched, we’ll risk the spoiler of the opening arc and say this is where Thunderbolt Ross becomes the Red Hulk.

You can save a little money on the Jeph Loeb / Ed McGuinness run by getting the omnibus editions. And if you’re doing that, you might want to add Fall of the Hulks: Red Hulk and read it before you get to issue #18. It’s part of the larger “Fall of the Hulks” event that’s not totally collected in the Hulk series. This is by Jeff Parker and Carlos Rodrigues.

After Loeb leaves, Jeff Parker takes over writing and we actually prefer the Parker take on the character. The artists move around a little (it’s that era of Marvel) but Gabriel Hardman / Patrick Zircher / Dale Eaglesham is a pretty good rotation. (And you should have a look at Zircher’s Solomon Kane over in the recent Savage Sword of Conan.)

The other series in the sale is U.S.Avengers by  Al Ewing and Paco Medina, wherein Red Hulk joins up with Squirrel Girl and Sunspot.

The Other Kind of Fighting

Newburn  Pulp 

The Image Fall-icious Argument Sale runs through Friday, 11/15.

The title might be a stretch, but there’s some good books in here. A few things we’ve enjoyed over the years and can happily vouch for:

  • Moonshine – Brian Azzarello / Eduardo Risso; The 100 Bullets team brings you a horror / gangster / historical mashup as a prohibition era gangster heads to Appalachia looking for a hooch supply and finds a werewolf.
  • Newburn – Chip Zdarsky / Jacob Phillips; Thriller about an ex-cop who polices internal conflicts between mob factions. Spoiler: One doesn’t make many friends doing that.
  • Nita Hawes’ Nightmare Blog – Rodney Barnes / Jason Shawn Alexander; A paranormal investigator/blogger with a family interest in the occult runs afoul of demons. It runs parallel to Killadelphia.
  • Pulp – Ed Brubaker / Sean Phillips; A writer of Western pulp novels with a little personal knowledge of the subject rubs up against Nazis in ’30s NYC. Despite the name, this is one of the deeper Brubaker & Phillips works as it meditates on aging.
  • Reckless – Ed Brubaker / Sean Phillips; The excellent opening installment of the OGN series about an off the books fixer in ’80s LA.

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Incredible Hulk  Miles Morales: Spider-Man Ms. Marvel

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

Halo: Legacy Collection  Halo: Rise of Atriax  Hellboy

Dark Horse has a sale on the adaptions of the Halo video game:

We also *think* the Dark Horse horror titles should be on sale through Monday or Tuesday.

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