In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel drops sales with Deadpool, Wolverine and Ultimate X-Men / The Ultimates, plus some more of these oddly discounted new releases. DC discounts Teen Titans, plus mysterious price reductions on Superman and Wonder Woman.  And then, Resident Alien and Neil Gaiman sales from Dark Horse.

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.

Oh, look… the Marvel sales came back.

Ghosts of Ultimates Past

 

The Marvel Ultimate X-Men and Ultimates Sale runs through Monday, 7/1.

This is effectively two sales in one: the highly influential original Ultimate Universe rebootings of X-Men and Avengers.

Over on the mutant side of the street, the spread looks like this:

• Ultimate X-Men – the original run
• Ultimate Comics X-Men – the second run

The original Ultimate X-Men run has a very interesting writer rotation. Mark Millar begins and ends it. In between are runs by Brian K. Vaughan (Saga / Y – The Last Man) and Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead). The artist rotation includes Adam Kubert, Andy Kubert, Chris Bachalo, David Finch, Brandon Peterson, Stuart Immonen, Tom Raney and Salvador Larocca… among others.

Ultimate Comics X-Men was written first by Nick Spencer and later Brian Wood. Artists included Paco Medina, Carlo Barberi, Mahmud Asrar and Alvaro Martinez.

The Ultimates is a little harder to explain because of how it was rolled out. They treated it as miniseries “seasons.” Suffice it to say, you saw a lot of it’s influence on the Avengers films.

The core material here is the Mike Millar-penned Ultimates material.  His run is:

• The Ultimates: The Ultimate Collection – The first run with Bryan Hitch
• The Ultimates 2: The Ultimate Collection – The second run with Bryan Hitch
• Ultimate Comics Avengers: The Next Generation – with Carlos Pacheco
• Ultimate Comics Avengers: Crime and Punishment – with Leinil Francis Yu
• Ultimate Comics Avengers: Blade vs. The Avengers – with Steve Dillon
• Ultimate Comics Avengers vs. New Ultimates: Death of Spider-Man – with Leinil Francis Yu and Stephen Segovia

Ultimates 3 is in the sale, but here at the Tower of Cheap, we like to pretend Jeph Loeb never got involved in the Ultimate universe.

But when the Ultimate Comics relaunch started, Jonathan Hickman turned up to work on The Ultimates and isn’t he a bigger name these days?

• Ultimate Comics Ultimates by Jonathan Hickman, V. 1 – with Esad Ribic
• Ultimate Comics Ultimates by Jonathan Hickman, V. 2 – with Sam Humphries, Esad Ribic and Luke Ross

SNIKT

   

The Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men Sale runs through Monday, 7/8.

This is a fairly unusual mix of various characters using the “Wolverine” code name and some X-Men titles, too. There’s a bit more to the sale, but here’s rundown of the highlights.

• All-New Wolverine – Tom Taylor / David Lopez / Juan Cabal; A top notch series feature X-23/Lauren Kinney taking on the costume while Logan is “dead.” The best thing to come out of The Death of Wolverine by a wide margin.
• Marvel Comics Presents – Ever notice they rarely show anything from MCP aside from the Wolverine serials? The first one from Chris Claremont / John Buscema is a lead-in to the original ongoing solo series.
• Uncanny X-Men – scroll down a bit and you’ll find 16 volumes at $5.99@. From the birth of the new team roughly through Inferno.
• Wolverine & The X-Men – Jason Aaron / Chris Bachalo / Nick Bradshaw; Logan takes his turn as headmaster
• Wolverine Legends – Collections of some mini’s and story arcs. V.2 is the excellent “Meltdown” series from Walt Simonson/Louise Simonson/Jon J. Muth/Kent Williams

AARP Titans

   

The DC Teen Titans 60th Anniversary Sale runs through Monday, 7/1.

Hmmm… perhaps 60 is the new 16?  What’s here? Quite a variety of things, really. Let’s hit some highlights.

“Original” Teen Titans

• Teen Titans (’66-’78) – Bob Haney / Nick Cardy

“New” Teen Titans

• New Teen Titans (’80-’88) – Marv Wolfman / George Perez / Jose Luis Garcia Lopez / Eduardo Baretto
• New Titans (’84-’96) – Wolfman / Tom Grummett

“Post-Wolfman” Teen Titans

• Teen Titans  (’03-’11) – Geoff Johns / Mike McKone
• Teen Titans (’11-’14) – Scott Lobell / Brett Booth / Eddy Barrows
• Teen Titans (’14-’16) – Will Pfeifer / Kenneth Rocafort
• Teen Titans (’16-’21) – Ben Percy / Adam Glass / Jonboy Meyers / Bernard Chang
• Titans (’16-’19) – Dan Abnett / Brett Booth
• Teen Titans: Earth One – Jeff Lemire / Terry & Rachel Dodson

“Kids” Teen Titans

• Tiny Titans (’08-’12) – Art Baltazar / Franco
• Teen Titans Go (’13-’19) – Sholly Fisch / Lea Hernandez

What’s good? The Wolfman / Perez run is still the gold standard (and it’s hard to understate its importance to DC at the time). With the original series, the question is whether you like Bob Haney’s brand of quirk, although Nick Cardy is consistently great.  For something later in the feature, maybe give a look to the Geoff Johns / Mike McKone run. This is one of the things Johns was working on just before he really blew up with Green Lantern.

$20 on Hugh Jackman’s Dignity

   

The Marvel Deadpool Vs. the Marvel Universe Sale runs through Monday, 8/5.

Deadpool has always had a lot of fairly short run titles swapping around at any given time, this is a large and wide collection of those secondary titles. You’ll want to browse yourself, but here are some of the more prominent titles being featured.

The longest running of the set is Deadpool & Cable, Fabian Nicieza and Patrick Zircher being the team most associated with it. Amusingly, the monthly comic was called Cable & Deadpool, but the character popularity has flipped since then.

Spider-Man / Deadpool also ran 50 issues. Joe Kelly / Ed McGuinness was the early creative team with Robbie Thompson / Chris Bachalo tagging in later.

Deadpool Corps maybe of heightened interest with Rob Liefeld joining writing Victor Gischler for it and for… reasons rumored to be in the new film, we suppose…

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

   

The trend we noticed last week is still moving forward. 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.

Released this week

• New X-Men Modern Era Epic Collection: E Is For Extinction – Grant Morrison / Frank Quitely / Leinil Francis Yu; $6.99 is definitely a sale price for Epic Collections and we’re astonished the price is still active on it’s debut week.
• Captain Marvel by Margaret Stohl – Stohl / Ramon Rosanas; Listed 484 pages, this is essentially an Epic Collection. $44.99 list price for print. $24.99 digital list price. As we type this, the “Kindle price” is $10.99.  Not quite as low one of the Deal Page sales, but plenty cheap for the page count on the debut week.

Pre-Order for Next Week

• Hawkeye Modern Era Epic Collection: The Reunion – Jim McCann / Duane Swierczynski / David Lopez / Manuel Garcia / Paco Diaz; Digital list price = $24.99; Pre-order price= $10.99. Just like the Stohl Captain Marvel.
• Avengers by Jed Mackay Vol. 2: Twilight Dreaming – MacKay / C.F. Villa; At this new $8.99 digital list price we’re starting to see. (Vol. 1’s digital list price is still $14.99).

We’re not quite sure what’s going on with these prices, but we’ll give you a heads up if it looks like it’s cheaper than it would normally be.

Unannounced DC Sales?

   

We’re a little puzzled by this one. It might be next week’s sale loaded early. It might be remnants of an old sale. We’re not sure, but we’ll give you some links to browse through if you’re curious.

• Action Comics (’38 – ’11)
• Superman (’39-’11)
• Superman: Up in the Sky – Tom King / Andy Kubert
• Wonder Woman (’87 – ’06)
• Wonder Woman (’06 – ’11)
• Wonder Woman (’11 – ’16)
• Wonder Woman (’16 – present)

We also saw some Batman prices that looked like what you get when the sale prices are broken, so MAYBE they’re starting to load the sale prices in for a Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman “Trinity” sale next week? Or it could be something else.

Unannounced Resident Alien and Neil Gaiman sales.

 

Over at Dark Horse, we found two sales.

Resident Alien is a comic by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse about a stranded alien posing as a doctor and solving murders. It got a little more famous when a TV adaptation hit and a lot more famous when the TV show moved over to Netflix. (And will now be moving over to the USA cable network.) We read the first omnibus a few months back and if your point of reference is the TV show, the comic is a little more mystery-oriented. It’s available in

• “Regular” Collected Editions
• Omnibus

Note: the 7th series is only available as a collected edition at this time.

Over on the Gaiman side of things, there are a couple flavors – New comics material by Gaiman and adaptions of his prose work. P. Craig Russell is involved with much of the adapted work and check to see if a series is in the Neil Gaiman Library collections, because several are.

For original material,

• Signal to Noise – Gaiman / Dave McKean
• Mister X: The Archives – An explanation is order. This is a very good SF/noir series by Dean Motter / Los Bros. Hernandez / Ty Templeton (among others), but there’s also a Gaiman / Dave McKean story in it

Adaptions of prose work…

First not in the Gaiman Library editions

• The Complete American Gods – Gaiman / P. Craig Russell / Scott Hampton
• Creatures of the Night – Gaiman / Michael Zulli
• Neil Gaiman’s Chivalry – Gaiman / Colleen Doran
• Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories – Gaiman / Mark Buckingham
• Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples – Gaiman / Colleen Doran
• Norse Mythology – Gaiman / P. Craig Russell / all sorts of artists
• Only the End of the World Again– Gaiman / P. Craig Russell / Troy Nixey
• The Problem of Susan and Other Stories – Gaiman / P. Craig Russell / Paul Chadwick / Scott Hampton

Then the Library and the individual titles collected within

• Neil Gaiman Library
• The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch – Gaiman / Michael Zulli
• Harlequin Valentine – Gaiman / John Bolton
• Murder Mysteries – Gaiman / P. Craig Russell
• Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald – Gaiman / Rafael Albuquerque
• Neil Gaiman’s Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire – Gaiman / Shane Oakley
• Neil Gaiman’s How To Talk To Girls At Parties – Gaiman / Fabio Moon / Gabriel Ba
• Neil Gaiman’s Troll Bridge – Gaiman / Colleen Doran

Still on Sale

• The Kodansha Manga Masters: Ema Toyama Sale runs through Monday, 7/1
  
• The Zenescope Wonderland $5 Graphic Novel Sale run through Sunday, 7/21