This week’s Comixology sales include the Silver Surfer and Silk from Marvel, Peacemaker from DC and Image celebrates the return of Saga with a “Sci-Fi” sale.
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Surf’s Up
The Marvel Silver Surfer Sale runs through Sunday, 1/23. (Amazon link)
You really can’t go wrong with the original Stan Lee/John Buscema (with Jack Kirby at the end) run of Silver Surfer, which is collected across two Masterworks editions.
We’re also fond of the 80s Silver Surfer run. In classic Marvel fashion, it’s collected in a strange way. That link will take you to the Epic Collections. The first one, “Freedom” is from the Steve Englehart/Marshall Rogers run, which is excellent. Naturally the rest of that period isn’t collected. To get the beginning of the Jim Starlin/Ron Lim period that followed it, you need to jump over to Silver Surfer: The Rebirth of Thanos. Then you can jump back to the “Thanos Quest” Epic Collection, which takes you up to issue 50 and the end of the Starlin era that really laying the groundwork for Infinity Gauntlet. Ron Marz jumps in for the next Epic Collection, “Infinity Gauntlet” and that’s more of a companion series to the mini-series/Event of the same name, so venture forward it you want, but know the next volume is largely a tie-in. Also – the actual Thanos Quest mini-series is reprinted in both Rebirth of Thanos and the “Thanos Quest” volume. Great planning, Marvel collections dept.!
It Bites
The Marvel Silk Sale runs through Sunday, 1/23.
Yes, this would be the adventures of Silk, the other person bitten by the radioactive spider that gave Peter Parker his powers. For this one, we might go for the Spider-Verse collection
Not Dempsey and Makepeace
The DC Peacemaker & Friend Sale runs through Monday, 1/24. (Amazon link)
A small number of random collections and issues here. (Only V.’s 1 and 4 of the Ostrander/McDonnell Suicide Squad? Weird.)
What can we put a good word in for? Suicide Squad: Bad Blood by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo is quality book with more double crosses than you can shake a mallet at. Taylor and Redondo are starting to look like a long term pairing, too.
Vigilante by Marv Wolfman is the beginnings of the Adrian Chase version of the character and gives you an artistic lineup of George Perez/Keith Pollard/Chuck Patton/Ross Andru. (The volume ends before you get some Gil Kane and Trevor Von Eden.)
Saga Returns
The Image Sci-Fi Sale runs through Monday, 2/7. (Amazon link)
But let’s call this what it really, and what they’re leading with: the return of Saga. Yes, everyone’s favorite SF/F title by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staple is FINALLY returning after a ~3.5 year absence. This one falls under the usual Image collection runs – Saga Compendium V. 1 is a fabulous deal. The entire first run (i.e. – all caught up in 1 volume) is $23.99 for 54 issues of material. That’s less than 45 cents/issue and that’s stoopid cheap for what you’re getting. The other omnibuses collecting ~3 “regular” volumes are more expensive than getting what Comixology calls the “Collected Editions,” so go Compendium or go individual volumes.
What else is back? Shockrockets. With Kurt Busiek’s return to Image, comes this collaboration with Stuart Immonen. A good entry in the sub-genre of military coming of age SF with salvaged alien tech being used to fight the invaders. This was part of the short-lived gorilla comics imprint and we didn’t harbor many hopes of it returning. Wrong.
The Manhattan Projects is also a fun ride. This Jonathan Hickman / Nick Pitarra has the Manhattan Project brain trust being brought together not just for the atomic bomb, but for a secret program of Mad Science. Space exploration, parallel dimensions and all manner of strangeness. Sometimes it’s silly and sometimes it borders on horror. All in all, quite a ride. As with Saga, the individual collected editions are slightly less expensive than the “deluxe edition” omnibuses.
Still On Sale
- The Fantagraphics Massive Sale runs through Sunday, 1/30.
- The Dynamite Fantasy Sale runs through Monday, 1/30.
