New Humble Bundle is up, and it's for:
Humble Comics Bundle Star Trek presented by IDW chock-full of exactly what you'd expect, containing both their newer stuff, and the old reprints from the DC Comics line, from the looks of it. I'm guessing this is a promo for the upcoming movie release, just as there was with the Ghostbusters comics bundle a few weeks ago.
Maybe it's just a webpage description glitch, but right now I'm not seeing adjustable average prices, just a straight $1 minimum, $8 middle tier (more books added next week), $15 top tier, $25 bonus tier with HB-exclusive paperback with a new story by John Byrne.
ISTR there was a previous Star Trek HB, and I've no idea what might or might not be duplicated in this one; perhaps another of our MR members who actually got it might be able to help out. But it seems like good value for money, as you get a lot of TPB collection volumes, and the blurb says they'd normally cost you $351 retail. Spinoff adaptation-wise I've never really been into the Star Trek comics vs. the novels, but I think I'm willing to give it a try, especially since ISTR that Diane Duane, who wrote some of my favourite tie-in novels, also did a few issues of the old DC series.
ETA: there's also some nifty-looking actual DC Comics crossovers in it (Legion of Super-Heroes!) and a graphic novel based on Harlan Ellison's original unaltered script for "The City on the Edge of Forever". And
these blogposts seem to describe what was in the first bundle in the first week, which seems to be a fair amount of overlap, but from the looks of it, the suggested retail cost of the new stuff is high enough that it would cost you the top tier price for just a few of those titles anyway.
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Set phasers to stunning deals on Star Trek comics!
Having Tribble finding something new to read? Well you won’t have to Trek far, because we’ve partnered with IDW to bring you a whole Star Fleet of comics!
Pay $1 or more for Star Trek Classics: Vol 1-3, Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ghosts, Star Trek: The Next Generation - Hive, Star Trek: Vol 1-3, Star Trek: Countdown, Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness, Star Trek: Movie Adaptation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Fools Gold, and Star Trek: Gold Key Archives: Vol 1-2.
Pay $8 or more to get Star Trek Classics Vol. 4: Beginnings, Star Trek Classics: Vol. 5: Who Killed Captain Kirk?, Star Trek: Vol. 4-6, Star Trek Archives: Vol. 1-3, Star Trek: Gold Key Archives: Vol 3-4, Star Trek: New Visions: Vol. 1, Star Trek: Nero, Star Trek: Khan, and Star Trek: Spock Reflections.
Pay $15 to also receive Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive, Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War, Star Trek: Vol. 10-11, Star Trek: Legion of Super-Heroes, Star Trek: Harlan Ellison’s City on the Edge of Forever, Star Trek TNG/Doctor Who: Assimilation Vol. 2, Star Trek: New Visions: Vol. 3, Star Trek: Year Four, Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment, and Star Trek: Assignment Earth.
Pay $25 or more to get all of the above PLUS a Humble Bundle exclusive trade paperback edition of Star Trek New Visions Special: More of the Serpent Than the Dove.
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A reminder that the
Humble Comics Bundle Sonic the Hedgehog and the
Humble Sonic 25th Anniversary Bundle for the games are still on offer for approximately the next week, and you can pick up the freebie Sonic comics sampler issues from the newsletter signup box for either of them.