In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC drops a Top 100 sale. Marvel offers discounts on Miles Morales, Nova and House of M. Dark Horse cuts prices on Groo, along with several unannounced offerings.
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.
So Much For Top 10
The DC Top 100 Sale runs through Monday, 9/9.
Top 100 what? We have no idea what the criterion would be, here. It’s a mix of recent and evergreen titles. Not a bad mix, either. A few things standing out:
- Batman: The Long Halloween – Jeph Loebs / Tim Sale; Batman tracks a holiday-themed killer
- Batman: Dark Victory – Loebs/Sale; The sequel
- Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths – Josh Williamson / Daniel Sampere
- Green Lantern ’05-11; Geoff Johns / Ivan Reis / Carlos Pacheco; Where Geoff Johns broke out. Sinestro Corps War is a very nice, contained Event, too
- Green Lantern ’23 – Jeremy Adams / Xermanico
- Justice Society of America ’22 – Geoff Johns / Mikel Janin
- Kingdom Come – Mark Waid / Alex Ross; Highly influential critique of the grim ‘n’ gritty era… that a lot of imitators missed the point of
- Superman ’23 – Josh Williamson / Jamal Campbell; best “classic” Superman title in several years
- Superman: Up in the Sky – Tom King/Andy Kubert (originally hidden away in a Walmart release)
- Watchmen – Alan Moore / Dave Gibbons; The classic
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
The Marvel Miles Morales: Spider-Man Sale runs through Monday, 9/16.
Miles, of course, was the second Ultimate Spider-Man, but that world no longer exists and now there’s a new Ultimate Spider-Man and… we wouldn’t want to explain that to somebody walking in off the street.
For the first Brian Bendis/David Marquez/Sara Pichelli run, you’re probably best off with the Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection set.
Then jump to the Spider-Man for the ’16 Bendis/Pichelli/Nico Leaon run. (Yes, constant relaunching and it’s confusing to follow.)
Before we’re done with Bendis, there’s the very good Spider-Men series of mini-series where the “traditional” Peter Parker crosses paths with Miles. Get them both in one volume with Spider-Men: Worlds Collide by Bendis & Pichelli.
And after that wraps, it’s time for Miles Morales by Saladin Ahmed and Javier Garron.
And then, Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar and Federico Vicentini.
No More Mutants
Marvel’s House of M and Decimation Sale runs through Monday, 9/9.
This would be the Event Miniseries where Wanda snaps and rewrites reality… forming the basis for the WandaVision TV series. Brian Bendis and Olivier Coipel are your creators. This is the sort of Event where we recommend getting the main series and then dipping your toe into the supporting collections in the sale at your own discretion. A good chunk of the Marvel line shifted their storylines to participate in the Event, buy how relevant they were to the main storyline varied widely and a lot of it would firmly be considered side stories. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not always presented as such.
The “Decimation” part of the sale refers to the aftermath in the X-Men line after Wanda proclaims “no more mutants” and decimates the population. X-Men: Reload By Chris Claremont Vol. 2: House Of M by Claremont/ Chris Bachalo / Billy Tan covers House of M and Decimation in Uncanny X-Men. X-Men: Decimation – The Day After by Peter Milligan / Salvador Larocca / Roger Cruz covers Decimation in X-Men.
Corpsman
The Marvel Nova Sale runs through Monday, 9/9.
Let’s run down the contents here:
- Nova (1976-78) – The original Marv Wolfman/John Buscema/Sal Buscema/Carmine Infantino run
- Nova (2007-10) – The Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning/Paul Pelletier/Kev Walker/Andrea di Vito era – the Complete Collection is the better deal.
- Nova (2013-15) – Gerry Duggan / Paco Medina was probably the longest tenured creative team of this volume.
- Nova: Resurrection (2015) – Jeff Loveness / Ramon Perez
- Nova: The Human Rocket (2015-16) – Sean Ryan / Cory Smith / John Timms
What’s good here? We’d go with the original run or the DnA run (complete with a space station carved out of a Celestial’s head – yes, the concept predates Avengers Mountain).
Theft
The Image Summer Crime Sale runs through Sunday, 9/15.
Crime? Maybe crime, horror and science fiction? The sale’s title might be a bit reductive.
What we’d put at the top of it:
- Criminal – Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips; While this was their second series (after the lesser known Sleeper), their mid-00s revival of crime comics locked in Brubaker & Phillips as a long term team… and Image would soon lure them away from Marvel
- Fell – Warren Ellis / Ben Templesmith; A creepy, surrealist detective feature and we seem to recall the plots often resembling actual “News of the Weird” newspaper columns.
- Gideon Falls – Jeff Lemire / Andrea Sorrentino; A wild SF/horror/time travel tale of a mysterious barn that appears and disappears, always leaving a trail of bodies
- Stray Bullets – David Lapham; This was Criminal, long before Criminal came to be. Along with AKA Goldfish and Jinx by Bendis, this was the main crime comic of the late ’90s.
The Marvel “Maybe” Sales
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
- X-Men by Gerry Duggan Vol. 6 – Gerry Duggan / Phil Noto; $8.99
Pre-Order for Next Week
- Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman Vol. 1: Married With Children – Hickman / Marco Checchetto; $10.99 (We’ve been enjoying this series.)
Robbin’
The Zenescope Character Spotlight Sale – Robyn Hood Sale runs through Sunday, 9/22.
This sale is in three flavors with three links:
- An omnibus with the first three collected editions
- Collected editions
- Single issues
Looks like the Omnibus is cheaper than the collected editions and the collected editions are cheaper than the single issues, but you can double check that on individual collections. 99-cent single issues make that easy.
And yes, those really are Chuck Dixon and Howard Mackie on runs towards the bottom of the listings.
Possible Oni Sales
OK… you might remember this drill from the distant past. Oni’s had two sales listed for a couple of days. They don’t look like sale prices to us. Maybe that gets fixed at some point, but that’s what we’re seeing at the moment.
- The Oni Press Singles Sizzlers Sale runs through Monday, 9/30
- The Oni Press Back to School Sale runs through Monday, 9/30
Unannounced Sales
Over at Dark Horse, everyone’s favorite stupid barbarian is on sale. Yes, that’s right… it’s Groo by Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier!
And taking a wider view:
- Barbaric – Michael Moreci / Nathan C. Gooden
- Barbaric V. 3 (no idea why it’s not listed with the rest of the series)
- The Crow: Special Edition – James O’Barr
- Door to Door, Night by Night – Cullen Bunn / Sally Cantirino
- The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For – Alison Bechdel
- Mom’s Cancer – Brian Fies
- Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater – Ted Fox / James Otis Smith
- Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History – Joel Christian Gill
- Witchblood: The Hounds of Love – Matthew Erman / Lisa Sterle
Still on Sale
- Marvel Agatha, Marvel Witches, and The Darkhold Sale runs through Monday, 9/30
- The Marvel Doctor Doom Sale runs through Monday, 9/9
- The Kodansha Quality Savings in Another World Sale runs through Monday, 9/9