FREE/BARGAIN - Comics - 2015

[TrevorViking]

Three new sales of all great stuff at Comixology. Grand total if you bought each and every single is almost $500.

Image New Hits sale ends 7/6/15.
8 collections
Intersect vol 1 $5.99
ODY-C vol 1 $4.99
Spread vol 1 $4.99
The Fade Out vol 1 $4.99
Copperhead vol 1 $4.99
C.O.W.L. vol 1 $4.99
Dark Engine vol 1 $3.99
Reyn vol 1 $4.99

118 singles
Wytches 1-5
Descender 1-3
Bitch Planet 1-4
Trees 1-8
ODY-C 1-5
The Fade Out 1-6
Wayward 1-7
Big Man Plans 1-2
Copperhead 1-5
C.O.W.L. 1-5
Chrononauts 1
Dark Engine 1-4
Injection 1-6
Invisible Republic 1-2
IXth Generation 1-3
Jupiter's Circle 1-2
Kaptara 1
Material 1
Mythic 1
Nameless 1-3
No Mercy 1-2
Pisces 1
Postal 1-3
Roche Limit: Clandestine 1
Red One 1-2
Reyn 1-5
Rumble 1-5
Runlovekill 1-2
Savior 1
Secret Identities 1-3
Sons of the Devil 1
Southern Cross 1-3
Spread 1-6
The Surface 1-2
The Tithe 1
They're Not Like Us 1-5
Valhalla Mad 1
https://www.comixology.com/Image-New...Sale/page/7226

A Harbinger sale with bundle options from Valiant, ends 7/2/15.
https://www.comixology.com/Harbinger-Sale/page/7239

Harbinger (2012+) 0, 1-25
Imperium (2015) 1-5
Harbinger Wars (2013) 1-4
Armor Hunters: Harbinger (2014) 1-3
Harbinger: Onegas (2014) 1-3
Harbinger: Bleeding Monk (2012) 0
Harbinger: Faith (2014) 0
Harbinger Wars Sketchbook (2013) free
Harbinger (1992-1995) 0, 1-41
Harbinger Files (1994-1995) 1-2
Harbinger: Acts of God (1998) 1

Harbinger Classic Bundle has 0, 1-41; 42 issues for $34.99.
https://www.comixology.com/Harbinger-Classic/bundle/986

New Harbinger Bundle has 0, 1-25, Wars 1-4, Bleeding Monk 0, Onegas 1-3; 35 issues for $24.99.
https://www.comixology.com/Harbinger/bundle/985

DC has a huge Eisner Award Winners sale, ending 7/6/15.
https://www.comixology.com/DC-Eisner...Sale/page/7227

All-Star Superman 1-12
Kingdom Come 1-4
Watchmen 1-12
Sandman 1-75
American Vampire 1-34
Batman Year 100 1-4
Daytripper 1-10
DC: The New Frontier 1-6
Ex Machina 1-50 (issue 1 is free)
Ex Machina Special 1-4
The Wake 1-10
Y: The Last Man 1-60
The Batman Adventures Holiday Special 1

[ATDrake]

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

Humble Gamer Comics Bundle presented by Dark Horse, and chock-full of comics based upon video games (+2 artbooks), including one co-written by Rhianna Pratchett, daughter of Terry and apparently a noted game storywriter in her own right.

It's another one of those $-more-than-average for the top-tier (+$5 this time around), with additional titles added next week.

There's also a couple of direct-download freebies of Dark Horse's FCBD and other promo titles.

Right now, the price is fluctuating all over the place (~$8 is what I'm seeing right now for the average), so the best strategy is to keep a few tabs open to the page and occasionally reload the most expensive one to see if it drops and if it doesn't, buy it from the cheapest (HB does this thing where it considers whatever price was the "average" at the time you loaded the page to be what you have to beat to get the bonuses, even if it goes up or down later).

Anyway, titles as follows:

Name your price for Fallout: New Vegas - All Roads, Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon, EVE: True Stories, Tomb Raider: The Beginning, and The Art of Remember Me.

If you pay more than the average price, you'll also get The Guild Volume 1, Halo: Initiation, The Art of Bioshock Infinite, and Valve Presents Vol. 1: The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories.

If you pay $5 or more above the average price, you'll receive all of the above plus Mass Effect: Foundation Volume 1 and Dragon Age Volume 1: The Silent Grove.

I don't really game, but I'm a sucker for deluxe behind-the-scenes making-of-concept artbooks, so I think I'll be picking this up for those, and for the Rhianna Pratchett story.

[TrevorViking]

Six new freebies.
https://www.comixology.com/Epic-Cycl...l-comic/243251
https://www.comixology.com/Adr1ft-1/...l-comic/250209
https://www.comixology.com/Marvels-T...l-comic/172347
https://www.comixology.com/Avengers-...tal-comic/1539
https://www.comixology.com/Ant-Man-1...al-comic/86550
https://www.comixology.com/All-New-A...l-comic/246461

New Humble Bundle of Dark Horse Gamer Comics.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books

New sale at Dark Horse, megabundle of Terminator books.
https://digital.darkhorse.com/profil...-megabundle-1/

[TrevorViking]

Fresh off the airwaves podcast freebie; FRESHPOD for the $5 book Fresh Romance #1 for free.
https://www.comixology.com/redeem

And then, enter code DOCFRANK for 50% off each of the four issues of the Wachowskis' series Doc Frankenstein. Issue #1 was free in the past, so you may own that one already.
https://www.comixology.com/redeem
https://www.comixology.com/Doc-Frank...s-series/22474

[TrevorViking]

Some new foreign language sales on the main sale page.
https://www.comixology.com/comics-sale

A new freebie sneaked into the current Image sale page.
https://www.comixology.com/Jupiters-...l-comic/214671

A new Dynamite sale, ending 7/6/15, this time on their revamped Gold Key books. None of these have been bundled I believe; but you might own them on Dark Horse.
5. Collections at $3.99 each and the following singles at $.99 each.
Doktor Spektor 1-4
Magnus: Robot Fighter 0, 1-12
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter 1-12
Solar: Man of the Atom 1-12
https://www.comixology.com/Dynamite-...Sale/page/7285

Marvel sale on Spider Island ending 7/5/15 has 29 books at $.99 each.
https://www.comixology.com/Amazing-S...Sale/page/7278

A Sons of Anarchy sale from Boom ends 7/5/15 and features the first two collections at $4.99 and $3.99, and issues 1-20 at $.99 each.
https://www.comixology.com/Sons-of-A...Sale/page/7269

The weekend Dark Horse sale might be up soon, unless it's that Terminator Megabundle and they just started it early.
http://www.darkhorse.com

[TrevorViking]

Marvel Monday is once again on X-Men: Age of Apocalypse; 51 singles at $.99 each.
https://www.comixology.com/X-Men-Age...Sale/page/7299

Archie celebration sale ends 7/13/15, 50% off six collections and 183 singles with code ARCHIE.
https://www.comixology.com/Archie-Ce...Sale/page/7298

Several new foreign language sales.
https://www.comixology.com/comics-sale

New freebie.
https://www.comixology.com/Image-Exp...l-comic/250389

[TrevorViking]

Free audiobook of Locke&Key.
http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/FR...lisher-summary

[TrevorViking]

The San Diego Comic Con sales have begun! This time of year typically ends up having lots of Twitter and podcast freebies, so keep your eyes and ears open.

From Skybound, ending 7/12/15, comes this huge lineup of $.99 singles and heavily discounted collections:
25 free first issues
165 The Walking Dead items
142 Invincible items
130 other Skybound items
https://www.comixology.com/Skybound-Sale/page/7296

A collection sale from DC, ending 7/13/15, 26 collections at up to 80% off.
https://www.comixology.com/DC-Events-Sale/page/7312

Dark Horse also having a SDCC sale ending 7/13/15, 23 books at roughly 62% off.
https://www.comixology.com/Dark-Horse-SDCC-Sale

Newish set of bundles from Viz on sale; the Dragonball bundles include a book that is exclusive to the bundles (curse you Viz!).
https://www.comixology.com/Viz-Bundl...Sale/list/7327

[Andanzas]

A little help?

I splurged (only a little bit, because of the sorry state of my wallet) on the recent Eisner sale. I didn't even get the comics I wanted the most (the Sandman), but I purchased several series and I thought: OK, this is it for me this summer. No more comics for a while.

A couple days later, I have 4 or 5 titles in my cart. Oh well.

This current DC sale looks like an awesome way to get to know the DC universe a little bit... But all the collections are described by saying something like "the event that rocked the foundations of the DC universe" or that "changed the DC universe forever". That's not very helpful for newcomers, folks.

Out of this selection the only one I've read is Forever Evil (I purchased it in a recent sale; I enjoyed it).

I like Grant Morrison, so I am interested in Batman RIP and Final Crisis. I am also thinking in picking up that fat, juicy collection of Superman: Doomed (500 pages for such a low price!). And Batman: Knightfall was very well received, wasn't it? But do I need the three volumes to get a complete story?

I have never read a Green Lantern, Aquaman, or Flash comic, so I feel I need to educate myself and pick up at least one from these guys. My obsessed-with-superheroes 6 year-old son needs a father who knows his stuff. Maybe The Sinestro Corps War (that guys shows up in Forever Evil, so at least I know who he is).

That 52 thingy looks interesting, too. But I don't know what it is.

Anyway, any suggestions? And sorry for my rambling.

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by Andanzas

A little help?

I splurged (only a little bit, because of the sorry state of my wallet) on the recent Eisner sale. I didn't even get the comics I wanted the most (the Sandman), but I purchased several series and I thought: OK, this is it for me this summer. No more comics for a while.

A couple days later, I have 4 or 5 titles in my cart. Oh well.

This current DC sale looks like an awesome way to get to know the DC universe a little bit... But all the collections are described by saying something like "the event that rocked the foundations of the DC universe" or that "changed the DC universe forever". That's not very helpful for newcomers, folks.

Out of this selection the only one I've read is Forever Evil (I purchased it in a recent sale; I enjoyed it).

I like Grant Morrison, so I am interested in Batman RIP and Final Crisis. I am also thinking in picking up that fat, juicy collection of Superman: Doomed (500 pages for such a low price!). And Batman: Knightfall was very well received, wasn't it? But do I need the three volumes to get a complete story?

I have never read a Green Lantern, Aquaman, or Flash comic, so I feel I need to educate myself and pick up at least one from these guys. My obsessed-with-superheroes 6 year-old son needs a father who knows his stuff. Maybe The Sinestro Corps War (that guys shows up in Forever Evil, so at least I know who he is).

That 52 thingy looks interesting, too. But I don't know what it is.

Anyway, any suggestions? And sorry for my rambling.

I've been a comic fan for 40 years and more a DC fan than anything else, so I'm a little too biased to give credible advice perhaps.

That said, for a casual fan I'd recommend Death of Superman. A lot of the 'big earth shattering crisis event books' are great, but you may need a bit of history with the characters to really appreciate them. Some of these books probably aren't appropriate for a 6 year old either, like Identity Crisis.

I'm looking forward to reading Doomed. I've read very little of the last few years of DC, the new 52, but what I've read I've mostly really enjoyed.

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by Andanzas

And Batman: Knightfall was very well received, wasn't it? But do I need the three volumes to get a complete story?

Yes. It's a 3-part arc of Batman being defeated, replaced, and coming back, so if you're going to read one, then you kind of need to read them all. That said, it's a very 90s sort of tale, so YMMV. (I read it from the library a long time ago and wasn't particularly impressed. Same goes for Death of Superman, which I guess was okay in that 90s retro grim-and-gritty your-newer-and-less-competent-heroes-can-never-take-the-place-of-the-beloved-old-ones-who-were-the-best-at-what-they-did wannabe kind of way.)

Originally Posted by Andanzas

I have never read a Green Lantern, Aquaman, or Flash comic, so I feel I need to educate myself and pick up at least one from these guys. My obsessed-with-superheroes 6 year-old son needs a father who knows his stuff. Maybe The Sinestro Corps War (that guys shows up in Forever Evil, so at least I know who he is).

What I've read of the Sinestro Corps stuff (from the library) was pretty decent and in the case of those "Tales from the Sinestro Corps" backups or whatever they were, told good and interesting stories about the members. Some of the assorted Lantern Corps Wars stuff has also been part-adapted into the Green Lantern animated movies and series, IIRC, that you might be able to watch with your son if that's a bonus selling point. Flashpoint has also been adapted into an animated movie that I've seen, but was not particularly impressed by (haven't read the original comics, which might be better).

Originally Posted by Andanzas

That 52 thingy looks interesting, too. But I don't know what it is.

It was one of those year-long "event" storylines where they did this gimmick that some of the main heroes had disappeared for whatever reason and so they put together this year-long arc focusing on the more minor heroes stepping up to take their place and how they were managing to cope with the apparent losses and such. I actually rather liked this one, and it had some strong and interesting storytelling that led to some good and ongoing character development for often-overlooked DCU mainstays like The Question and the Shazam family. But a big chunk of it was reset by future events, I think.

Originally Posted by Andanzas

Anyway, any suggestions?

I will give you an anti-recommendation for Identity Crisis, which I read from the library a long time ago and remains overhyped trash that tried too hard to be ~shocking~ and ~edgy~ while at the same time pretending to have a pretentiously ~deep~ and ~meaningful~ point about the ethics of [SPOILER REDACTED] which nobody in the DCU really cares about anyway unless it suits the author's agenda. Also (and more importantly, TBH) for a variety of reasons, the whodunnit of the murder mystery just doesn't make sense.

Also, I personally wouldn't spend money on Zero Hour. It's probably not all that bad a piece of storytelling, but it was a very long-ago event meant to reboot and reset the new DC Universe for once and for all, and obviously they've since done the retconning equivalent of quietly going into the next room and never mentioning it again. So your time is kind of wasted on that unless you're a morbidly curious history-of-the-DCU completionist.

Hope this helps.

[Andanzas]

Hey, thank you for the great (and fast!) responses. Great info (the anti-recommendations are particularly useful! ). I am currently swamped with work, but I'll come back later to write a proper response.

By the way, I noticed the first issue of 52 is free (new freebie?). I am going to read it and see how I like it.

[TrevorViking]

Sequential gets into the summer sale bandwagon with over 350 collections at 50-90% off.
http://www.sequential.cc

Dark Horse has an as-of-yet unannounced sale on nearly everything. Prices are pretty much the annual sale prices, with non-current singles at $1 and $5 collections. Not sure if there are any discount codes.
https://digital.darkhorse.com/browse/

Huge Marvel sale at Comixology on Infinity singles at $.99 and twenty new collections at a steeply discounted $5 each.
Infinity main event - 24 singles
Infinity tie-in issues - 31 singles
https://www.comixology.com/Infinity-...Sale/page/7360

That Comixology Dark Horse sale I posted yesterday has expanded with 64 additional collections at 40-50% off.
https://www.comixology.com/Dark-Hors...Sale/page/7297

[TrevorViking]

I promise to never buy these, but digital variant covers are now a thing.
https://www.comixology.com/SDCC-2015-Variants/page/7301

New French language freebie collection.
https://www.comixology.com/Koma-Vol-...l-comic/209860

The Dark Horse sale was officially announced; 50% off everything in their digital sale. As always, the single issue bundles are your best value. Sale ends Sunday.
https://digital.darkhorse.com

Get a month of Marvel Unlimited for a penny until 7/20/15.
http://marvel.com/penny

Podcast freebie this week is the really neat sounding book Silver #1 with code SILVERPOD.
https://www.comixology.com/Silver-1/digital-comic/39985
https://www.comixology.com/redeem

[TrevorViking]

New Humble Bundle on Tales from India has lots of new and forthcoming Grant Morrison.
https://www.humblebundle.com/grantmorrison