With Cyber Monday over, it’s time to see what Comixology sales are percolating in between the start of buying season and the start of unwrapping season. A bit of Batman, the source material for a Marvel / Disney+ show, Dark Horse’s noir offerings and we dig through the small press sale for you.
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Batman / Catwoman
DC leads off our post-Cyber Monday parade with the “Batman Catwoman Sale.” (Hint: there’s a whole lot more Batman than Catwoman in this sale.)
If you’re looking for actual Batman/Catwoman comics, we can recommend Prey, which collects two Doug Moench/Paul Gulacy (yes, the Master of Kung Fu creative team) arcs from Legends of the Dark Knight. These are Hugo Strange arcs, but Catwoman figures prominently in them.
If you’re looking for solo Batman, here’s something off the beaten path: Batman: Haunted Knight collects the Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale Batman Halloween specials that led to The Long Halloween being commissioned. These came completely out of nowhere when they dropped, but are now less famous than the follow up series.
If you’re looking for solo Catwoman, you could a lot worse than the Ed Brubaker run, which starts out with Darwyn Cooke providing the art.
This sale runs until Monday (12/7).
Vision and the Scarlet Witch
Marvel follows up Black Friday with a Vison and the Scarlet Witch Sale, which runs through Sunday, 12/13.
This might have the single best comic on sale this week in it: the Tom King / Gabriel Hernandez Walta Vision series. If it’s not the best thing Tom King’s written, then it’s #2. It’s a masterclass in descent into madness as The Vision builds a family and moves to the suburbs, only to have his perfect Norman Rockwell life slowly fall to pieces. Get both volumes and bunker down for a ride.
Vision and the Scarlet Witch by Steve Englehart and Richard Howell was launched in parallel with Englehart’s West Coast Avengers run and starts with a crossover. This is the series where Wanda conjures herself into a pregnancy, which has so many repercussions down the road.
AKA Comixology Submit’s Hidden Gems
Running through Thursday (12/3) is the Small Press Mystery and Suspense Sale. This is a fairly large sale that’s not particularly organized, so we’ll give it the once over for you!
Watson & Holmes: A Study in Black by Karl Bollers, Rick Leonardi and Larry Stroman might be more popular in libraries than the Direct Market, where it never got its footing. Which is too bad, as this reimagining of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in present day Harlem is a solid comic and worth your discounted $4.49.
John Allison’s pre-Giant Days series Scary Go Round: The Continuing Adventures clocks in at 99 cents/volumes. Also, both issues of Scary Go Round: Expecting to Fly are $0.99.
We have mentioned before that Kyle Baker is a genius. Two of his works on in this sale and both of them even won an Eisner. What more do you really want from the man? You Are Here also one a Harvey Award. I Die at Midnight was merely on the 2000 Eisner slate.
Dark Horse Crime Comics
The Dark Horse Noir Sale runs through Monday (12/7).
Frank Miller is sort of the grandfather of Dark Horse Noir with Sin City. It’s a hugely influential series beyond the films, winning multiple Eisners and Harveys.
Grandville by Bryan Talbot is an anthropomorphic steampunk detective thriller. Yes, it checks an awful lot of boxes and the third installment has a Hugo nomination to it’s credit. And yes, that’s the same Talbot from Alice in Sunderland and Luther Arkwright. Highly recommended.
It’s also hard to go wrong with EC’s Crime SuspenStories.
Still on Sale
- Marvel World Shattering Events (Amazon link) through Thursday, 12/3
- The Best of Valiant Sale (Amazon link) through Thursday, 12/3
- The Best of Oni Sale through Saturday, 12/5