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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Immortal Hulk; Mighty Avengers; Green Lantern; Dark Horse Art Books

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, The Immortal Hulk and Mighty Avengers get discounts from Marvel. DC slashes Gods and Monsters (and Green Lantern). Plus, Dark Horse Art Books.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Behind the Green Door

Marvel’s Immortal Hulk Sale runs through Monday, 4/17.

It’s been a bit over a year since this run ended, but Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and (mostly) Joe Bennett is right up the with the best Hulk runs and we’d call it the best example of The Hulk as a horror character. Can The Hulk or any of the others mutated by Gamma radiation truly die? What is this mysterious Green Door they keep seeing and who lives on the other side of it? Highly, highly recommended series.

The cheapest way to get the run is the single volumes. V.1-10 collect the 50 issue series. V. 11 collects some one shots and specials, so get that instead of the Carnage collection (that issue is in V. 11).  If you like you can get another collection of spin-off issues in Immortal Hulk: Great Power, but it’s a side trip.

Immortal Hulk

The Mighty

The Marvel Mighty Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 4/17.

Mighty Avengers has been a spin-off Avengers title a few times. Yes, believe it or else, there didn’t used to be 3+ series with “Avengers” in the title each month.

All this started with the ’07 – ’10 Mighty Avengers, which is a Bendis-era title. This is in two larger collections. The first is Bendis and the second written by Dan Slott. LOTS of artists tagging in and out on this one. We do, however, have a preference for the Slott run. It wasn’t really a traditional Avengers lineup, but it definitely had a traditional Avengers feel in an era where that was unusual.

The next two iterations, might as well count as the same book.  the ’13-’14 edition of Mighty Avengers is by Al Ewing and (mostly) Greg Land. This followed by the ’14-’15 Captain America & The Might Avengers. This time Luke Ross joins Ewing as the primary artist. If you’ve been reading Ewing’s work of late, you’ll be interested to know this is early work with The Blue Marvel / Adam Brashear.

The Mighty Avengers by Dan Slott   Mighty Avengers    Captain America and the Mighty Avengers

Ah, a Brendan Fraser Reference!

The  DC Gods & Monsters Sale runs through Monday, 4/17.

Yes, Brendan Fraser did star in the film Gods & Monsters, and he’s a DC actor.  Then again, so did Ian McKellan and he’s Magneto. Were they alluding to the DCU Animated Original? We’ll go with Brendan Fraser.

It’s another eclectic assortment for us to sift through and there’s some good Green Lantern material this time out.

Green Lantern by Geoff Johns is a very good run by Geoff Johns with some Dave Gibbons, Rod Reis, Carlos Pacheco and Patrick Gleason tagging in and out, among others. Especially the Sinestro Corps War sequence in V. 3, which we’d put as the apex of the run.

If you scroll down to the bottom of this link, you’ll find three volumes of Green Lantern: Sector 2814, which starts out as Len Wein and Dave Gibbons, then transitions to the beginning of the Steve Englehart/Joe Staton run that eventually turns into Green Lantern Corps, post-Crisis. Another good run.

And near the bottom of this Brave & the Bold link, you’ll find three volumes of Batman by Neal Adams. A heads up, the first volume is mostly Brave & the Bold with Bob Haney (and we like our Bob Haney). What most people think of when they think of Adams on Batman is the material from Batman and Detective Comics with Denny O’Neil and Frank Robbins.  That’s V.2 & 3.  V. 3 also has the Power Records comics.  Stacked Cards, represent.

Green Lantern by Geoff Johns   Green Lantern   Batman by Neal Adams

Also of potential interest, we think this is the first time Suicide Squad: Get Joker! has been discounted.

Suicide Squad: Get Joker!

The Art Show

The  Dark Horse – Art Books Digital Sale runs through Monday, 5/1.

This is mostly an art book sale, but we did find some actual comics in it.

Kabuki is the series that brought David Mack to prominence and one we’ve enjoyed over the years. It’s a spy/mob/assassins mashup with themes about identity and yes, you could call these art books, because they’re extremely well illustrated. An assassin in the near future tries to sever ties with her agency and things like this always have complications. In this case, layers of complications. Kabuki was supposed to have been picked up as a TV show by Sony, but we haven’t heard anything about that in awhile, so… maybe? It would be a good property to adapt.

And then there’s Inside Moebius. This is a bit on the abstract side. It’s not really a series of graphic novels, more like some avant garde diaries in comics format where Jean (Moebius) Giraud meditates on his creative process and illustrates himself interacting with a few of the characters he created.

Kabuki   Inside Moebius

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Immortal Hulk, X-Men, Captain Marvel and Outcast

This week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales include, the wonder that is Immortal Hulk, X-Men Legacy, Captain Marvel (so many relaunches to keep track of) and a possible late addition to the Image Omnibus sale.

But first, we should probably talk about Amazon’s inability to get their sale prices right on the first iteration of a sale. This seems like it’s mostly a DC thing, but sale prices are dropping TWICE on some comics. The first time when the sale first appears and the second time a day or two after the sales are posted. It’s strange and the best advice we can give is that if the price doesn’t end in .99 or .49, it’s likely there’s an update that hasn’t happened yet.

We can’t tell if this is deliberate or a technical error, and if it’s a technical error, whether the problem is on the Amazon side or the DC side.  Regardless of why, this is really inconvenient. While Amazon (and even Comixology) have always had the odd title that lagged behind the rest of the sale, this has gotten ridiculous.

On a related note, we can’t really tell if all of the Dark Horse titles on the Deals page are really on sale.  You don’t sill the digital list price vs. sale price listed on those, just

Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Price set by seller.

That’s not the most helpful thing in the world.

Now, if you go into the sale listings, *some* of the comics will have the “best price in 30 days” banner. Those are probably one sale. The rest? We’re just not sure.  We like things like Hellboy and Joe Kubert’s Tarzan, but we’re not sure those are great sale prices for everything listed.

Speaking of digital list price vs. sale price, if an individual book is enrolled in Comixology Unlimited, you need to be logged out of Unlimited to be able to see the original list price.  Yes, this is yet another inconvenience after Amazon’s attempted absorption of the Comixology site.

We’re so old, we remember when Amazon actually cared about the customer experience. It’s just not clear how much the care about their comics customers, since we keep having all sorts of new hiccups.

Anyway, back to the Cheap.

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Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

The End of the Immortal

Marvel’s Immortal Hulk Sale runs through Thursday, 3/31.

Easily the sale of the week.

This is Al Ewing’s horror-tinged opus. The Hulk and other gamma-afflicted characters gather. It seems those dosed with gamma might not be able to die and it all seems tied to a mysterious green door that might lead to Hell. And there’s someone behind the door.

Now, there are two parallels sets of reprints here: the “regular” volumes (1-11) and the deluxe volumes (Book 1-4). The deluxe ones reprint 2 of the regular volumes, so you’d be waiting on V. 5. Otherwise, there’s not an appreciable price difference between formats.

Note: V. 11 collects various one-shots and is optional.  V.1-10 gets you the full story.

Other than that, just enjoy one of the best comics of the last decade.

Immortal Hulk

LoX?

Marvel’s X-Men Legacy Sale runs through Sunday, 3/27.

This would be the (largely) Mike Carey era of the X-Men: Legacy comic. You might know him from Lucifer and My Faith in Frankie or in his secret identity as M.R. Carey with The Girl With All the Gifts. Yes, he gets around a little.

It’s the X-Men, so there’s quite a few artists passing through – Scot Eaton, Khoi Pham and Clay Mann all figure prominently.

This picks up after Messiah Complex and runs into Avengers Vs. X-Men with Christos Gage penning the last couple volumes.

(The actual series page might be easier to navigate.)

X-Men Legacy

Not A Big Red Cheese?

The Captain Marvel: Earth’s Mightiest Hero Sale runs through Sunday, 3/27.

Hmmm… was somebody bending over backwards to riff on the original Captain Marvel being “The World’s Mightiest Mortal?” It does seem that way, doesn’t it?

OK… brace yourselves… this one has a ton of relaunches:

We think that’s the overly complicated chronology, anyway. For recommendations, we’re not really Captain Marvel experts, but we’re inclined to say go with the current Thompson run. Kelly Sue DeConnick has a very dedicated fanbase, so maybe browse the sample pages there and see if that catches your fancy, too?

Speaking of Complex Relaunches

The Wonder Woman sale was broken down in the last installment.

A Late Addition

That  Image Omnibus sale running through 3/31?

We’re not sure if this was a late addition to the sale or our eye skipped over it, but there’s an omnibus of the Robert Kirkman / Paul Azaceta series Outcast available. 48 issues for $27 is fractionally a lesser deal than the Spawn Omnibuses, but that’s about $3.38 per “normal” collection/ ~56 cents/issue.

We need to read the last volume, but this story that’s twist and subversion of demonic possession has been holding our interest.

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Comixology Sales: Immortal Hulk, Billionaire Island, Avengers: The Initiative, Pat Mills has a new anthology, Lady Mechanika

The Comixology sales this week include the wonder that is The Immortal Hulk, a stroll through Event tie-ins past with Avengers Academy and a deep dive into the big Small Press Sale.

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All You Need Is Hulk

Probably the best sale currently going on is Marvel’s Immortal Hulk Sale which runs through Thursday (12/17).  Simply put, this comic would be our pick for Marvel’s best comic of the last couple years. Al Ewing writes and Joe Bennett is the primary artist on this horror take on ‘ole Jade Jaws.  Psychological horror, body horror, resurrections and that green doorway to <spoilers>.  It’s a great comic and $2.99/tpb is cheap!
Immortal Hulk

The Marvel Avengers Academy Sale is, at its core, a series of Event spin-offs about teen superheroes.  Avengers: The Initiative spun out of Civil War and continued through Secret Invasion, then morphed into Avengers Academy with the Dark Reign era of Marvel. This will come as no shock to folks who’ve been watching the Marvel documentaries on Disney+, but Avengers: The Initiative started out as a Dan Slott written title that transitioned over to Christos Gage taking it over.  Yes, that trend really does go back to 2008.
Avengers: The Initiative

Sifting Through the Small Press

The “Best of Small Press Sale” is running through 1/7 and comes in two flavors: Graphic Novels and Single Issues.  That’s a lot to plough through, so let’s take a bit of time and take a look at some of the more interesting bits.

Over at The Tower of Cheap, we’ve been suitably impressed with what we’ve seen out of Ahoy, an indie publisher with bent towards satire and fun.  The majority of their material is on sale right now, so as a shortcut, here’s their Publisher Page. The Ahoy single issues are $0.99, so keep in mind you’re going to be saving money if you get those instead of the collected editions.   We will personally vouch for The Wrong Earth and Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror.  Billionaire Island is currently in our reading queue.

The Wrong Earth by Tom Peyer, Jamal Igle and Juan Castro fits the elevator pitch of “what happens when Adam West’s campy TV Batman and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Batman end up in each other’s universe?”  It’s funny _and_ satisfying.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror is a sort of funhouse mirror of a horror anthology. A blind drunk Edgar Allan Poe stands in for the Crypt Keeper: our host guiding us through snarky horror stories.  It’s well worth your time.

Billionaire Island by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh – the sublime team behind The Flintstones at DC a few years ago – has the Billionaires escaping the ravages of climate change to their own artificially made island… a tax-free domicile, naturally…


The Wrong Earth   Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror   Billionaire Island

You remember Pat Mills?  One of the original architects of Judge Dredd. Famed for things like Nemesis the Warlock, Charley’s War (which is excellent and almost totally unknown in the US) and Marshall Law.  It seems he has his own “Millsverse” publishing imprint at Comixology.  Of particular interest may be the Requiem Vampire Knight  series with art by Olivier Ledroit. I’m given to understand this is a particularly dark one, not for kids, and was originally written for the French market.

And then there’s his current project – Spacewarp, which has Mills creating a new 2000 AD-esque science fiction anthology.  Something he’s well qualified to be doing.  From the description:

“Featuring Special Forces One at war with Giant Viruses! Jurassic Punks versus Dinosaurs! Xecutioners: authorized to terminate Aliens! Slayer – one Robot in a Galactic war against a million Space Knights. Hellbreaker escapes from Hell to punish the Living. Fu-tant – a terrifying school for Mutants! Space Cops! Mutant secret agents! Killer robots! Virus armies! Alien invasions! Interacting in a unique Spacewarp Universe! Inventive, action-packed, heartfelt, heroic, humorous, fast-paced and fantastic value for money – as only the Brits know how. Aimed at ordinary readers of all ages. ”

Requiem Vampire Knight   Spacewarp

Speaking of folks doing their own publishing, if you follow the Diamond sales charts for the US Direct Market, very few people are having much luck being their own publisher.  One of the two exceptions that come to mind is Joe Benitez, who steampunk cyborg adventure/SF/F series Lady Mechanika has outsold a lot of comics from larger publishers.
Lady Mechanika

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