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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Black Friday Arrives. DC’s Cyber Monday Sale; The Best of Marvel Omnibuses; Dark Horse Line-Wide Sale

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, the actual Black Friday is upon us. DC drops a Cyber Monday sale. We look at the best of Marvel’s omnibus discounts. Dark Horse cuts prices line-wide.

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 Best of the Marvel Omnibus Sale

Avengers Omnibus  Captain Britain Omnibus  Miracleman Omnibus

The Marvel Omnibus Sale runs through Monday, 12/2.

Last week, we looked at what’s new in this year’s Omnibus Sale. This time, we’re going to look at the best volumes available. After all, not all omnibuses are created equal and this is about great runs and low duds.

  • The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 1 – Stan Lee / Steve Ditko; Amazing Spider-Man was a rock solid title for a very long time, so it’s hard to go wrong with the available omnibuses, but V.1 is the complete Lee/Ditko run and that’s a really nice package.
  • Avengers Omnibus Vol. 5 – Steve Englehart / Sal Buscema / George Perez / George Tuska; Arguably the best run of the original Avengers is here, with the Giant-Size issues that were integral. The Celestial Madonna Saga. Kang. Ultron. The Squadron Sinister/Supreme. The Serpent Crown. There are other great runs, but this is at or near the top for most people.
  • Avengers by Busiek & Perez – Kurt Busiek & George Perez, with a little Roy Thomas / Roger Stern / Carlos Pacheco / Alan Davis / Jerry Ordway; Another one of the top runs is when Busiek & Perez took over after the Heroes Reborn experiment ended. The 2-volume set also includes Avengers Forever, The Ultron Imperative and Maximum Security
  • Black Panther by Christopher Priest – Christopher Priest / Mark Texeira/Sal Velluto; You’ll want both volumes for Priest’s brilliant run. Smaller volumes (this _almost_ could have been compressed into a single volume), but one of the best of the late 90s/early 00s.
  • Captain America Omnibus Vol. 3 – Steve Englehart / Sal Buscema / Frank Robbins; A few issues into this volume and Englehart’s legendary run begins. Contender for best Cap run overall (along with Waid/Garney and Brubaker/Epting/Lark). The return of the 50s Cap. The Viper. The Secret Empire. The Red Skull. Good stuff.
  • Captain Britain Omnibus – You’re looking at this for the back half with Alan Moore / Alan Davis and Jamie Delano / Alan Davis; This has all the UK material, but once Moore shows up, it turns into something special and also debuts the designation “616” for the Marvel Universe. Which is to say, a highly influential run that ended up absorbed into the X-books and is very infrequently reprinted.
  • Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson Omnibus – Roger McKenzie / Frank Miller / Klaus Janson; The full original Miller run in one volume. (Folks often forget McKenzie wrote the first portion of the run.) Legendary for a reason.
    • Daredevil by Frank Miller Omnibus Companion – Frank Miller / John Romita, Jr./ David Mazzucchelli / Bill Sienkiewicz; More Miller tales, including Born Again (possibly his finest DD moment), The Man Without Fear and Love and War.
  • Defenders Omnibus V. 2 – (Mostly) Steve Gerber / Sal Buscema. This is a smaller page count that most omnibuses, but it’s a very strategic selection: all of the Steve Gerber run. Which is to say, Nebulon, The Guardians of the Galaxy and The Headmen all turn up. Classic run that’s over the top strange as only Gerber could do it.
  • Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 2 – Stan Lee / Jack Kirby; Look, you can’t really go wrong with V.1-4 (Lee/Kirby wraps up ~1/3 of the way into V.4), but V.2 is roughly where things kick into second gear. The Frightful Four lead into The Inhumans, which leads into Galactus, then Black Panther debuts, followed by more Inhumans and Victor Von Doom. Great slice of Lee/Kirby.
  • Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 – John Byrne; Generally considered the next classic take on the FF, Bryne’s run (plus crossover issues and related items like The Last Galactus Story) is collected across two volumes.
  • Immortal Hulk Omnibus – (Mostly) Al Ewing / Joe Bennet; The modern classic complete in one volume. Listed as 1480 pages of this horror take on Hulk and the secret of the Green Door. Excellent series.
  • The Incredible Hulk by Peter David: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4 and Vol. 5 – Peter David / Todd McFarlane / Jeff Purves / Dale Keown / Sam Keith / Gary Frank / Liam Sharp / Angel Medina / Mike Deodato, Jr ; Yes, when you’re on a title for as many years as PAD was, you end up working with a lot of artists and he had a better roster than most! It’s also a high quality run that’s a pain to collect in the “normal” volumes. 1-4 collect the actual Hulk run. V. 5 collects some side titles and PAD’s brief return to the main title.
  • Miracleman Omnibus – Alan Moore / Garry Leach / Alan Davis / John Totleben / Rick Veitch; One of the key post-modern revivals of the early 80s as Moore and company revive a 50s UK knock-off of Captain Marvel (as in Shazam!) and remake it into something special as a middle-aged man discovers his past has been hidden from him and superheroics take on horrific aspects. Highly influential work that was out of print for years, due to court battles
  • Thor by Walt Simonson Omnibus – Walt Simonson / Sal Buscema; An awful lot of folks (most?) consider this the best Thor run for a reason: it’s pretty great. All in a single tome
  • Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol. 2 – Chris Claremont / John Byrne / Dave Cockrum; The Phoenix Saga is probably the high point of the “New” X-Men. This also gives you the introduction of Kitty Pryde, Days of Future Past, and an encounter with Doctor Doom. Honestly, we think that once Claremont has a couple issues to settle in, starting with issue #97 or so, it’s consistent excellence and a big story arc that comes to a natural breaking point with #200 (which is maybe 2/3 of the way through V.5), so Omnibus 1-5 are all a big thumbs up from us.

Temporal Displacement Sale
The Flash Kamandi  Wonder Woman

The DC Cyber Monday Sale runs through Monday, 12/2.

Which day is Cyber Monday this year? If the Black Friday Sale ran last week, wouldn’t that mean this past Monday was Cyber Monday, even though this sale didn’t appear until Tuesday morning? Well, if this coming Monday is Cyber Monday be warned that these sales can come down mid-evening if you’re on the West Coast. Timey-wimey, indeed!

Let’s run through this sale, which has some recent items and not so recent items. If you’re looking at a series page, keep an eye on the prices, which are a little all over the place this week. Yes, even within the same series.

That said, here are some things we found interesting:

  • Action Comics – The Warworld sequence in Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 – Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Daniel Sampere / Riccardo Federici; Mongul baits a trap for an ailing Superman in a darker than usual tale that has a little Spartacus in it; Under most radars, but quite good
  • The Flash Vol. 1: Strange Attractor – Si Spurrier / Mike Deodato, Jr.; Flash is recast as a cosmic horror book as Grodd tries to pierce the veil between dimensions and all is NOT well in the Speed Force; (Also maybe read Beast World first, as there’s an interlude that’s VERY confusing otherwise and also not part of the main story)
  • The Human Target – Tom King / Greg Smallwood; A noir mystery with the bwa ha ha Justice League as suspects… that’s still noir while servicing the bwa ha ha ha elements? Yes, it is. And Smallwood gets special praise, too
  • Justice League: Last Ride – Chip Zdarsky / Miguel Mendonca; $1.99 – cheap
  • Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth – Jack Kirby; Kirby’s riff on Planet of the Apes yielded a more fully realized world of animal men, is a ton of fun, and was his most successful DC work in the ’70s. Sure, Darkseid is bigger now, but not in the 70s.
  • Nightwing – The series page has the excellent Tom Taylor / Bruno Redondo series buried at the end, so let’s simplify it. The ones on sale are  Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4
  • One-Star Squadron – Mark Russell / Steve Lieber; A biting satire of the gig economy as Red Tornado tries run a hero-on-demand app. (Hey, Luke Cage is busy being mayor, so somebody had to step up.) Recommended
  • Prez: Setting a Dangerous President – Mark Russell / Ben Caldwell; When the vagaries of the Electoral College place the subject of a viral social media video in the White House, all hell breaks loose. Yes, this is from ’15. No, it hasn’t gotten less relevant since then. Also… the line about how one should select a VP is killer
  • Sandman – Neil Gaiman and a rotating cast of artists; You’ve probably heard of this one
  • Shazam! Vol. 1: Meet the Captain! – Mark Waid / Dan Mora; In another of their Justice League warm-ups (collect them all), Waid & Mora do us all a favor and start steering Captain Marvel/Shazam back towards the original tone and concepts of the feature; Emphasis on pure fun
  • Shazam and the Monster Society of Evil – Jeff Smith; That’s right, the man behind Bone updates the classic 1940s Monster Society serial from Captain Marvel Adventures. It’s Jeff Smith, so you should have a decent idea what it’ll be like
  • Superman – Josh Williamson / Jamal Campbell; The current Superman series is a much needed and well executed return to the classic Superman format that was missing for a few years
  • Superman: Camelot Falls – Kurt Busiek / Carlos Pacheco; Superman encounters a prophecy fingering him as the agent of the apocalypse
  • Swamp Thing – Ram V. / Mike Perkins; The origin of the new, current incarnation of Swampy… and his family problems
  • Swamp Thing by Rick Veitch Book One: Wild Things – Rick Veitch / Alfredo Alcala; The entire series is on sale, but Veitch’s “restored” run is a more recent collection
  • Titans Vol. 1: Out of the Shadows – Tom Taylor / Nicola Scott
  • Titans: Beast World – Tom Taylor / Ivan Reis / Travis Moore; The recent Event was definitely a Titans story and you kinda have to love a character named “Dr. Hate” who resembles Dr. Fate. For all practical purposes, you should treat this as Titans V.2.
  • Wonder Woman  Vol. 1: Outlaw – Tom King / Daniel Sampere; An Amazon is fingered for murder and the situation spirals out of control amidst a possible coverup. As Wonder Woman is declared an enemy of the state, Amanda Waller and Sarge Steel lie in wait
  • World’s Finest: Teen Titans – Mark Waid / Emanuela Lupacchino; Much like “regular” World’s Finest, this is an early tale of the Silver Age original Teen Titans and traffics in fun

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

X-Men '97  Avengers  Immortal Thor

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

Hellboy  Martha Washington  Minor Threats

It appears that Dark Horse has most of their collected editions on sale, but not the newest material and not the single issues.  Here’s a link that will *eventually* get you through their catalog in a very laborious way and with the single issues mixed in. (It’s not perfect, but we’re trying.)

Here are some direct links to various series:

Under the radar alert: you don’t hear about this much anymore, butThe Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century is a Frank Miller / Dave Gibbons collaboration with a different tone than Miller’s commonly associated these days. It’s a lot closer to Halo Jones than it is to Sin City or the later Dark Knight volumes.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Black Friday / Cyber Monday Part 2 – More DC $1.99 Books (w/ More Batman), Plus Dark Horse

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, it’s the second half of DC’s $1.99 Black Friday/Cyber Monday blowout… now with more Batman. Plus, Dark Horse has a Black Friday 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):

DC’s Cyber Monday… AKA Black Friday Part 2 – Happy Holidays

The DC Cyber Savings Sale runs through Monday, 12/4.

Let’s call this what it is, the second half of the CRAZY sale that started last week.  This installment is Justice League through Zero Hour.  Lots of $1.99 collected editions and a few more expensive volumes that finally have a reasonable price. We’re going with annotation format again to cover more ground, but we’ll try and organize it a little better than Amazon does. As you can tell by the unusual length, we’re impressed with the deals and there’s a lot of good stuff here. And yes… we’re shocked something as recent as The Human Target is $1.99.

Batman

Tales of the Batman: Steve Englehart  Tales of the Batman: Archie Goodwin  Legends of the Dark Knight Norm Breyfogle 2

Yes, there’s a little more Batman this week and it’s those “Legends of” and “Tales of” volumes that usually have lousy discounts. We hate to say “this week only,” but these aren’t usually at friendly prices and there are some particularly choice bits.

Justice League

Justice League of America  Justice League Quarterly  Justice League by Priest

Everything’s there except the Grant Morrison run, but here are our highlights.

  • Justice League of America (1960 – 87) – The biggest highlight here is the set of $1.99 Silver Age collections of the earliest stories. The JSA/JLA team-ups are also deep discounted. This series hasn’t really been collected often.
  • Justice League of America (1987 – 96) – This is the Justice League International era, as started by Keith Giffen/J.M. DeMatteis/Kevin Maguire. Bwa ha ha. And that’s the best place to start.
  • Justice League of America (2006 – 11) – The gems here are the 4 volumes written by Dwayne McDuffie (from the animated series): V1 / V2 / V3 / V4
  • Justice League (2016 -18) – The gem here is the Priest / Pete Woods arc.
  • The Nail – Alan Davis weaves a masterpiece in this pair of Elseworlds about a world where the Kents don’t find baby Kal-El in his spaceship and Superman does not emerge. A+

Legion of Super-Heroes

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes   Legion of Super Heroes The Great Darkness Saga  Legion of Superheroes: The Curse

Not as much of the Legion run is in digital or currently in print as you might think. Of what is, here are some highlights and recommendations.

  • Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age – The earliest appearances, through the first 10 issues of their Adventure Comics feature.
  • Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes – These two volumes pick up roughly where Paul Levitz starts writing and takes you through where Superboy leaves the Legion (which is the Gerry Conway run). Artists include Mike Grell, James Sherman, Joe Staton and a bit of Jim Starlin. Included are the wedding of Lightning Lad & Saturn Girl and the Earthwar sequence.
  • Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-85) – What you’re really looking at here are the last two volumes where Paul Levitz returns and starts to hit his stride, which Keith Giffen joining him fairly quickly.
    • The Great Darkness Saga  – Levitz/Giffen with their all-time classic arc in the middle of it. 414 pages for $1.99? A steal.
    • The Curse – Levitz/Giffen continue to deal with the fallout from The Great Darkness. 544 pages for $1.99? Very hard to beat for value.
  • Legion of Super-Heroes (1985-89) – Only one volume available and they really need to get on the stick about collecting the rest of the Levitz run.
  • Legion Lost – The entertaining (if controversial) Dan Abnett / Andy Lanning / Oliver Copiel run. The setup and then the actual Legion Lost.
  • Legion of Super-Heroes (2005-09) – Starts out with the now familiar team of Mark Waid and Barry Kitson. Ends with a flawed, but interesting run by Jim Shooter, returning to the feature he started out on.
  • Legion of Super-Heroes (2010-11) – Paul Levitz returns.
  • Legion of Super-Heroes (2011 – 13) – The Levitz run is relaunch for New 52… and Keith Giffen returns for the final volume in the set.

Jack Kirby

New Gods by Jack Kirby  Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby  Kamandi

Most of his DC material is included (in the back half of the alphabet)

Fourth World:

Non-Fourth World DC work:

“At-Large” gems:

Kingdom Come  Manhunter  Mister Miracle

  • Kingdom Come – Mark Waid and Alex Ross paint a dystopian future (and comment on the 90s grim ‘n’ gritty trend) – $1.99
  • Lobo by Keith Giffen and Alan Grant – With art by Simon Bisley, until the editors realized what he was sneaking into the cover. The rude, crude humor version that screams “Jason Momoa” to everyone. Much fun, but not for puritans.
  • Manhunter – Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson did an absolute classic as a backup in Detective. Spies, ninjas, a secret society and Batman crosses over in the end. Highest recommendation.
  • Marshal Law– Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill do a satire of superheroes as a Judge Dredd like vehicle. If you like The Boys, this is worth a look for $3.99. Darker and more violent, not for kids.
  • Mister Miracle by Steve Englehart & Steve Gerber – A few years after Kirby left, DC revived Mister Miracle, only to have it fall in the “DC Implosion.” That’s actually Englehart/Marshall Rogers and Gerber/Michael Golden/Russ Heath. Yes, Heath inking Golden and it’s GREAT. The Gerber/Golden/Heath run is the star and you’ll be mad it was cancelled. Totally under the radar for years.
  • Mister Miracle (2017-19) – The Tom King / Mitch Gerads Eisner-Winning revival. $1.99?!?
  • Night Force – Marv Wolfman & Gene Colan (as in Tomb of Dracula) reunite at DC for horror/time travel series that flew under too many radars.
  • Nightwing – Tom Taylor / Bruno Redondo – the series that could be the current center of the DCU. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, $1.99@. (We think it hits its stride in V.2)
  • The Omega Men: The End – Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda turn the Omega Men into a study of fanaticism and terrorism. Also a Green Lantern take as Kyle Rayner is abducted. Near the top of the King cannon.  Yes, $1.99.
  • One-Star Squadron – The “wait… why haven’t they collaborated before?” team of Mark Russell and Steve Leiber pit Red Tornado and Power Girl against the gig economy! Yes, it’s a pitch black satire.
  • Orion by Walt Simonson – Walt at the top of his game exploring the Kirby mythos. We’d put it up with his Thor, but DC didn’t market it very well and hardly anyone remembers it. Recommended.
  • Planetary – Warren Ellis & John Cassaday. Yes, you can get the whole deconstruction of pulp heroes in 2 volumes for ~$4, all-in.
  • Plastic Man: Rubber Banded – Very few people have really done Plastic Man right since Jack Cole shuffled off the mortal coil. Kyle Baker is one of them. Hilarious and silly book.
    Road to Perdition  Sandman Mystery Theater  Sheriff of Babylon
  • Prez: Corndog-in-Chief – Mark Russell & Ben Caldwell. We wish this book wasn’t so darn relevant. An accurate satire of election law and political horse trading finds a teen becoming president after a video of her mishap with a corn dog deep fryer goes viral. It’s a winner, especially as we approach an election year.
  • Promethea – Alan Moore & J.H. Williams explore mythology and symbolism as a college student becomes the latest incarnation of the avatar of imagination… and tries to head off a looming apocalypse. Smart and beautifully illustrated book.
  • The Road to Perdition – Max Allan Collins & Richard Piers Rayner – this is where the film came from.
  • Sandman Mystery Theater – Matt Wagner / Steven T. Seagle / Guy Davis (main artist) – A wonderful pulp detective series from Vertigo with the Golden Age Sandman (pre-teen sidekick). Pulp with more introspection. 300+ page installments for $1.99. Great series.
  • Scalped – Jason Aaron & R.M. Guéra – A Vertigo crime series. An FBI agent goes undercover at the casino on the reservation he grew up in and thought he’d escape. Nobody does rural noir like Aaron.
  • Secret Society of Super Villains – For the completists, at a better price.
  • Seven Soldiers of Victory – Grant Morrison’s self-contained series of mini-series/Event in two volumes for ~$4 total.
  • Shade, The Changing Man – Peter Milligan and Chris Bachalo reimagine the Ditko character for Vertigo.
  • The Sheriff of Babylon – Tom King & Mitch Gerads explore murder and crime in Baghdad’s Green Zone. The full series for $1.99
  • Starman – James Robinson & Tony Harris reinvent the legacy superhero (and legacy villain) with one of the best things to come out of DC in the 90s. DC really needs to finish collecting this one.
  • Stormwatch – The original Warren Ellis / Tom Raney / Brian Hitch run
  • Strange Adventures – Tom King & Mitch Gerads with a political/deconstructionist take on Adam Strange
  • Suicide Squad – John Ostrander / Luke McDonnell – the original ’80s Dirty Dozen riff that spawned the current franchise. Some genius forgot to discount V. 1, but that will be on sale again at some point. The rest are $1.99
  • Suicide Squad: Get Joker – Brian Azzarello & Alex Maleev did a Black Label version
    Jimmy Olsen  Green Lantern  The Human Target
  • Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? – Matt Fraction & Steve Leiber drop a joke bomb disguised as a murder mystery. HILARIOUS. Highly recommended.
  • Tales of the Green Lantern Corps, V.3  – Bizarrely mislabeled, this is the first six issues of the Steve Englehart/Joe Staton Green Lantern Corps
  • The Authority – Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch revamp Stormwatch, then Mark Millar & Frank Quitely tag in.
  • The Brave & The Bold – Liam Sharp teams Batman and Wonder Woman against Celtic gods.
  • The Flash by Mark Waid – The volumes that weren’t on sale last week are on sale this week. No, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to us either, but there it is.
  • More Flash – Also from the original Wally West run – the Mike Baron and Grant Morrison runs.
  • The Green Lantern by Grant Morrison & Liam Sharp – One of the more imaginative Lantern stories in a while, especially as illustrated, this is really one long story in four volumes, broken up as Season One  and Season Two (even though the first series was never referred to as a season… that or DC is actively trying to confuse you, which is not beyond the realm of possibility).
  • The Hawk and the Dove: The Silver Age – Steve Ditko’s original run for $1.99
  • The Human Target – One of the most recent releases listed, Tom King & Greg Smallwood craft a noir mystery about Christopher Chance investigating who poisoned him and it looks like one of the BWA HA HA era Justice League did the deed. Noir and slapstick intermingling? YES. Very well done and especially great art. Both volumes for ~$4, total.
  • The Huntress: Origins – Paul Levitz and (mostly) Joe Staton with The Huntress’s adventures from Batman Family and Wonder Woman.
  • The Invisibles – Grant Morrison / Jill Thompson / Phil Jimenez – The one with the letter column request. If you know, you know.
    Multiversity  Nice House on the Lake  
  • Multiversity – Grant Morrison’s tale of parallel worlds. One volume/$1.99.
  • The Nice House on the Lake – James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno spin a horror table in what was a pretty big hit.
  • The Spectre – John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake’s under the radar classic about a man who isn’t alive and the force of destruction he’s bound to.
  • The Unwritten – Mike (M.R.) Carey and Peter Gross in a tale of fiction shaping reality (with a mild Harry Potter satirical element in the premise).
  • The Wild Storm – Warren Ellis and John Davis-Hunt reimagine the Wildstorm universe.
    • The Wild Storm: Michael Cray – Bryan Hill / N. Stephen Harris companion book where an assassin goes after funhouse mirror versions of the DC heroes.
  • Top 10 – Alan Moore / Gene Ha / Zander Cannon – What if Alan Moore wrote Hill Street Blues, but the police were superheroes? That’s essentially what this is and it’s wonderful.
  • Transmetropolitan – Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson present the absurdist adventures of a Hunter S. Thompson-esque journalist in a dystopian future, butting heads against a corrupt president. The interesting thing is how many different presidents/prime ministers/etc. have been compared to “The Smiler.”
  • Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. We figure you’ve heard of it by now. $1.99. We do find it a little offensive this is listed as “Media Tie-in / Adaptation,” though…

You’ll want to browse this one yourself. Last week’s first half of the sale was good, but this week’s back half is even better.

Black/Cyber/Holiday Horsefeathers Sale

The Dark Horse 2023 Black Friday Digital Sale runs through Monday, 12/4.

And it’s pretty much the entire Dark Horse catalog, as near as week can tell, so this is another one you might want to browse between now and Monday night.  Yes, Hellboy and BPRD are in there, but we’ll look a bit more off the beaten path for our overview.

Air by G. Willow Wilson and M.R. Perker. Berger Books is re-issuing Wilson’s pre-Ms. Marvel Vertigo series. It’s a good one, though a bit hard to describe. A flight attendant finds herself caught up in a far-ranging conspiracy that involves jihadists, dimension-hopping and… Amelia Earhart? This one came out around the time DC started micromanaging Vertigo and got wrapped up before it connected with it’s audience (or Wilson’s name became a selling point). We liked it quite a bit and would love a continuation.

Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido is something fairly unique. Private detective stories in the vein of Philip Marlowe, except the cast is anthropomorphic animals. No, absolutely not funny animals and not a bit of camp to it. Hardboiled detective stories. Good ones and some of the best art in comics. Manga is not the only import.

The Eltingville Club by Evan Dorkin is a parody of obnoxious fanboys run amok. Or is it actually a parody? We’re not sure how far fetched it is and it might be on the pointed side, but that’s why everyone loves Dorkin.

Air   Blacksad  Eltingville Club

Finder by Carla Speed McNeil is one of the smarter science fiction comics out there and it’s been popping up since the ’90s. Sometimes referred to as “aboriginal science fiction,” Finder spends more time building worlds and, more importantly, cultures than most comics. The nominal lead, Jaeger, is a “Finder” – an uncanny tracker with mysterious abilities related to healing and travel. He’s also a Sin Eater, which causes him no end of trouble. This one has never really popped above the radar like it should.

Grandville by Bryan Talbot is a different flavor of anthropomorphic comic – steampunk. In a world where Britain fell to Napoleon and France is the center of Europe, a badger named Detective-Inspector LeBrock, based out of Scotland Yard, pursues scoundrels. Unlike Blacksad, Grandville does have a sense of humor.

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan: The Complete Joe Kubert Years – Joe Kubert is generally acknowledged as one of the masters of the artform. Tarzan was always a favorite for him and when DC was able to get the Tarzan license, a passion project ensued. This just might be Kubert’s finest art.

Finder  Grandville  Joe Kubert's Tarzan

Plenty of things still on sale, and then a big turnover on Tuesday.

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Comixology Sales: The Big Black Friday/Cyber Monday Roundup – DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, Viz, Dynamite and much more

The Black Friday Comixology sales are locked in and most of them are running through Cyber Monday.  And there are a lot of them. We’re going to be running through them a little more quickly than usual, though you can go back to the previous two columns for more depth on select sales.

Since we’ve gotten requests for it, there are now links to the Amazon versions of these sales. Amazon and Comixology are in the same ecosphere, after all.

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DC’s ~2,400 Graphic Novels Sale

DC’s Black Friday deal is in three parts and the whole thing has it’s own page. (Amazon version)  Last time we talked about some titles from the $4.99 section of the sale, since DC doesn’t go under $5.99 with great regularity unlike other publishers. Today let’s take a quick look at the rest of the sale.

22 out of 23 volumes of the Vertigo version of John Constantine, Hellblazer are on sale for $5.99/$6.99.  Those haven’t all been on sale at once in a while and there’s a reason the series ran so long.

Batman Universe by Brian Bendis and Nick Derington really didn’t make a splash when it it came out, which is a shame.  This is a FUN Batman title (yes, that’s possible) as the caped crusader finds himself chasing<spoilers> through time and space.  There’s a little old school The Brave and the Bold in it with lots of guest stars and the banter/bickering with Alfred is well done. Lucky you, it’s 59% off.

For an old school option, Jack Kirby’s New Gods is a classic and one of DC’s better values with 424 pages for your $6.99.  2,400-ish graphic novels for you to browse before Cyber Monday ends, so get to it.

Hellblazer   Batman Universe   New Gods by Jack Kirby

The Marvel Deals

The Dawn of X Sale (Amazon Version) – We had plenty to sayabout the Dawn of X collections on Monday.  Short version – the anthology reading format is interesting and has merit.

House of X / Powers of X

The Marvel Earth Shattering Events Sale (Amazon Version), modestly named as it, runs until Thursday 12/3. We spoke a little more about it last Monday, too.  Short version: if you go old school like Kree/Skrull War, Armor Wars or Asgardian Wars, the plots are a little more contained.

X-Men: Asgardian Wars

Dark Horse, Part 2

Last time out, we talked about some of the goodies in Part 1 of the Dark Horse Graphic Novel Sale.  This time, we’ll look at Part 2, as promised.  (Amazon has all the Dark Horse material in one link.)

Possibly the greatest samurai manga of all time Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima is a great value.  Most of these volumes are around 300 pages for the sale price of $2.99.  A disgraced executioner bides his time as an assassin while seeking revenge on those who framed him, all while caring for his 3 year old son.  (Be aware, there are very graphic sword fights in this.  It’s not a YA title.)

Kabuki is David Mack’s critically acclaimed saga of a Japanese government assassin caught in a struggle between her agency and the yakuza.  At 360+ pages for $4.99, these are also good buys.

Light Brigade is Peter Tomasi’s and Peter Snejbjerg’s tale of WWII U.S. soldiers who find themselves charged with recovering the Sword of God before the Nazis and Fallen Angels get their hands on it. An excellent comic that’s largely flown under the radar.

Lone Wolf and Cub x Kabuki x Light Brigade

The Big Comixology Sale Roundup

The Image Black Friday Sale (Amazon version) we discussed last time. It feels like their full digital library is on sale from the recent Brubaker/Phillips Pulp to years of Spawn and Savage Dragon.  The best bang for your buck might be the massive Walking Dead and Invincible Compendiums.

Paper Girls

The Dynamite Black Friday Sale (Amazon version) is 605 items deep. Interesting items include the sly Watchmen commentary in Kieron Gillen’s Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt and classics like Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! and Jim Starlin’s Dreadstar.

Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt

The Comixology Originals Sale (Amazon version) is Comixology’s eclectic line of commissioned comics and manga imports.  We’ve spoken a bit about Elephantmen in the past, which moved over from Image. We also like Delver by Spike Trottman and MK Reed, a fantasy comics that might fall into the LitRPG literary genre, but also gets into the economics repercussions of adventurers showing up when the entrance to a mystical dungeon materializes in a remote farming community.

Delver

The Viz Black Friday Sale (Amazon version) isn’t the best deal you’re going to find today at only 43% off, but there’s a ton of Blue Exorcist, One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh! at a $3.99 price point.

One Piece

The Kodansha Black Friday Sale  (Amazon Version) has the first volumes in various series like Attack on Titan, Beck and Ghost in the Shell for $0.99 each – i.e., cheap.

Attack on Titan

The Best of Archie Sale (Amazon version) has classic Archie, modern Archie and some Riverdale thrown in for good measure. Some of the V. 1’s are $0.99, too.

Riverdale

The  Best of IDW Sale  (Amazon version) strangely does not have Ragnarok in it… but it does have some flagship titles like Locke & Key, G.I. Joe and My Little Pony.

Locke & Key

The Best of BOOM! Sale (Amazon version) is a small one.  You’ll find Giant Days, Irredeemable, Angel (as in Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Lumberjanes and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. We loved Irredeemable, a Mark Waid/Peter Krause superhero tale (universe, really) where the elevator pitch might be “What if Superman had a psychotic break?” – NOTE: the Comixology version of this has some $0.99 first volumes.  Amazon does have the same pricing, but not on the sale page.  You’ll need to go to the series page on Amazon for that.

Irredeemable

The Best of Humanoids Sale (Amazon Version) is mostly $0.99 books on Comixology (be warned – these are $4.99 on Amazon). The Incal sequence by Jodorowsky and Moebius is the publisher’s flagship, along with its many spinoffs. If you’d like something a little more interesting Kabul Disco is an amusing account of ex-pat life in Afghanistan where the laughs come with a chill.

The Black Incal

The Best of Valiant Sale (Amazon version) runs through 12/03. We’ve covered this one before, but it’s hard to beat $0.99 Volume 1’s and Archer & Armstrong is a scream.

Archer & Armstrong

The Best of Oni Sale (currently no Amazon master link for the sale, but here’s V.1 of Letter 44.) also runs through 12/3. While The Sixth Gun is a glaring omission from a “Best of” list, you’ve probably already heard of Scott Pilgrim and Letter 44 by Charles Soule and Alberto Alburquerque, about political intrigue surrounding a first contact incident, is a real page turner.

Letter 44

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