FREE/BARGAIN - Comics - 2015

[ATDrake]

New Humble Bundle is up, and it's for:

Humble Jim Henson Comics Bundle presented by BOOM! Studios with a mix of comics and novelizations from the beloved muppeteer's (Wikipedia) assorted franchises, including some Dark Crystal and Labyrinth stuff for the Brian Froud fans in the audience.

It's another one of those where the top tier is pay-X-more-than-average (just +$2 this time), and it's a 1-week deal, so no bonus books later.

Contents as follows (current average is around $6):

Name your price for Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: The Novelization, Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths Vol. 1 & 2, Fraggle Rock Classics Vol. 1 & 2, Fraggle Rock Vol. 1 & 2, and Fraggle Rock: Journey To The Everspring #1-4.

If you pay more than the average price, you'll also get Jim Henson's The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow, Jim Henson's The Storyteller Vol. 1, Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Witches #1-4, Jim Henson's The Storyteller: The Novelization, and Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization.

If you pay at least $2 above the average price, you'll receive all of the above plus Jim Henson's Tale of Sand.

TBH, I'm not really acquainted with Henson's work outside of Dinosaurs (Wikipedia), still my favourite posthumous prehistoric anthropomorphic puppet show, but I do have a Blu-Ray double-set of Dark Crystal/Labyrinth that I picked up on sale a while ago and still haven't gotten around to watching, so I think I'll be splurging on these.

[TrevorViking]

Average up to $8.31 already.

I really need to remember to check these on schedule. Humble has a pretty set schedule for all their bundles, right?

[ATDrake]

11 AM Pacific Time is when they rotate stuff, yes.

Tuesday for main-page game bundles, Wednesday for Books/Comics, Thursday for Weekly bundle, Friday for Mobile bundle if available.

The interesting thing about HB is that if you keep a version of the bundle page open where it says it's at a particular price, and check in another browser window later where the price has changed, you can still input your order on the original (presumably lower-priced) page and get all the extra stuff for said lower price even though it should technically be higher*.

It's a trick I learned to deal with the assorted price fluctuations in the first couple of hours of a bundle, when the balance between the people dumping in $50 to get their names on the leaderboard, and the people cheaping out at $1 for the lowest-tier, keeps driving things up and down.

Incidentally, average for the Henson bundle is now at $6.50-ish, so that seems a decent point to jump on if you haven't already, although you may wish to hold on to see if it goes a bit lower (generally I've noticed that once it's into the evening of the first day, the average pretty much stays around there for the rest of the allotted time, except for that Bloom County bundle where it just kept climbing throughout the week).

* You can check to see what you get by deliberately putting in a price somewhat lower than the average/top tier, and a warning message will pop up saying "Add just X to get these additional items".

[TrevorViking]

^ Sneaky!

And thanks!

[TrevorViking]

The awesome submit book Anne Bonnie #1 is free with code ANNEPOD.
https://www.comixology.com/Anne-Bonn...al-comic/83574

Another FCBD book has appeared.
https://www.comixology.com/FCBD-2015...l-comic/227686

[Froide]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

The awesome submit book Anne Bonnie #1 is free with code ANNEPOD.
https://www.comixology.com/Anne-Bonn...al-comic/83574

Another FCBD book has appeared.
https://www.comixology.com/FCBD-2015...l-comic/227686

Thanks! FYI, regarding the ANNEPOD code:

Code valid until: June 17 2015 ET. See promotion terms for additional rules and exclusions.

[TrevorViking]

The weekend Dark Horse sale is on 88 Sci-Fi books at $.99 each. Titles include some Aliens, BattleStar Galactica, Bionic Man, Deep Gravity, Ei8ht, Flash Gordon, John Carter, Predator, and Prometheus. Lots of Dynamite stuff, so be careful that you don't already own it on Comixology or one of the 63 Dynamite bundles.
https://digital.darkhorse.com/genre/222/

Marvel has a one-day sale on some highly rated recent series.
Peter David's All-New X-Factor (2014+) 1-20
Charles Soule's She-Hulk (2014+) 1-12
James Robinson's All-New Invaders (2014+) 1-15
https://www.comixology.com/All-New-M...Sale/page/6994

Some new collections have merged into the Marvel collections sale. Unknown duration, but advertised as limited.
https://www.comixology.com/Marvel-Co...Time/list/7116

From Jet City Comics, Symposium 1-3 are on sale at $.99 each, unknown duration. Anyone read this?
https://www.comixology.com/Symposium-Sale/list/7068

The ever repeating Fathom sale is back, ends 6/14/15, but I wouldn't worry too much about missing it. At least ten of the issues in there are free, fwiw.
https://www.comixology.com/Fathom-Sale/page/6996

[ATDrake]

^

Thanks. While picking up the freebie Fathom #0s, I noticed that over on the regular Free Comics page, there's a bunch of maybe-new/repeat Marvel #1s for:

Spider-Man (1990-1998) #1
Silver Surfer: Requiem #1
Nextwave: Agents of HATE #1 (lots of fun, and highly recommended)
Scarlet Spider #1

in case anyone else didn't already have them.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

The ever repeating Fathom sale is back, ends 6/14/15, but I wouldn't worry too much about missing it. At least ten of the issues in there are free, fwiw.
https://www.comixology.com/Fathom-Sale/page/6996

Thanks! I picked up 12 freebie Fathom titles.

[TrevorViking]

A new freebie at Comixology that'll be perfect for our July Sci-Fi/Fantasy Challenge.
https://www.comixology.com/Titan-Com...l-comic/243029

Marvel Monday is another one day sale on Secret Wars Battleworld tie-ins.
Runaways (2003-2004) 1-18
Guardians of the Galaxy (2013-2014) 1-17
https://www.comixology.com/Secret-Wa...Sale/page/7009

Zenescope is having another sale; 50% off all non new release books (over 700) with code ZENE.
https://www.comixology.com/Zenescope...Sale/page/7029

[TrevorViking]

Another Wasteland sale from Oni Press, this time the series is complete. All 60 singles for $.99 each and 10 collections for $3.99 to $4.99. The collections don't quite finish the series, another one or two are pending; the final single was just released. Sale ends 6/18/15.
https://www.comixology.com/Wasteland-Sale/page/7005

Week Three of the huge DC sale is too big for my wallet, ends 6/22/15.
Batman Eternal 1-52
Forever Evil 1-7
Power Girl 1-27
Earth 2 1-32
Birds of Prey 1-34
Constantine 1-23
Justice League Dark 1-40
Justice League of America 1-14
Martian Manhunter 0, 1-36
Midnighter 1-20
Stormwatch 1-30
Prez 1-4
Superman: Doomed 1-2
Supergirl 34-35
Action Comics 856-857
DC Universe Presents 17
Arsenal 1-4
https://www.comixology.com/DC-Univer...Sale/page/7006

[Andanzas]

Any recommendations from the DC sale? I've been told Forever Evil is pretty good. When I was a kid, I used to leave in a small town and DC comics almost never arrived there. I wonder if this sale is a good opportunity to get to know the DC universe a little bit.

[ATDrake]

^

IIRC, the old Ostrander-written Martian Manhunter series was generally pretty good (I have a chunk of the back issues from a long ago local comic shop discount bin sale). It's probably been completely invalidated by all the reboots since then, but it's got solid storytelling and some thoughtful stuff done with the character and his situation. Maybe try the #0 origin issue and perhaps the first story-arc and see if you like Ostrander's take on things?

I haven't read all that much of the Conner/Palmiotti Power Girl series, but the issues I have in the TPB were cute and funny and nicely entertaining (cartoony art may or may not be to your taste), and this is something I think I would personally buy if I were into buying digital comics from the Big 2 (still prefer TPBs for stuff I consider "keepers", especially when the digital has DRM involved).

Long, long ago, I did at some point read the Devin Grayson-written Arsenal mini-series, and it was an okay piece of mostly character-based storytelling with enough of an action/adventure component which delved into Roy's then-current insecurities while giving him places to go and people to beat up. I don't know whether or not it would hold up all that much on its own these days, but ISTR it being at least mildly fun with some amusing dialogue/situation moments, and it tied into Grayson' Titans run at the time, so if you're interested in the character history (probably also wiped out by reboot) or liked that incarnation of the team, it's probably worth a look.

[Andanzas]

Thank you for your answer! You got me thinking about digital comics and DRM. The Humble Comics Bundle made me realize that it is a pleasure to read comics on my tablet, so I wanted to splurge a little and get some titles from this sale. But I also dislike DRM and I would prefer paperbacks instead, so I guess I'll have to visit a comic store next time I go to Madrid. I wonder if they sell comics in English.

Anyway, this DC sale doesn't look that awesome to me, as they are only discounting single issues and not whole collections. But maybe I am wrong and this kind of DC sale is actually rare?

[TrevorViking]

About 20 new freebies at Dark Horse. They aren't added into your account unless you load them in your browser/app; various freebies disappear often and won't be in your account for free unless you previously loaded them; they aren't ordered by 'freedom' date but all jumbled in; so I don't know of any sure way of getting them all into your account except by clicking on them all. There must be a better way though; anyone know?
https://digital.darkhorse.com/free/?...rt_mode=recent

Two new freebies at Comixology.
https://www.comixology.com/FCBD-2015...l-comic/243227
https://www.comixology.com/Falling-R...l-comic/100447