FREE/BARGAIN - Comics - 2015

[TrevorViking]

Two new sales at Comixology.

The first Harley Quinn trade is $4.99, unknown duration.
https://www.comixology.com/Harley-Quinn-Sale/list/5429

And yet another Darkness sale, ends 2/5/14, 18 collections and 120 singles.
https://www.comixology.com/The-Darkness-Sale/page/5247

[ATDrake]

I stopped waiting for the exchange rate to hopefully get better, and bought the Humble Bundle Archie Comics bundle (which expires tomorrow morning incidentally) before I forgot.

They added some really nifty stuff since the original offering, which IMHO, is more than worth it if you read these things at all.

There's some substantial Sabrina and Josie & the Pussycats collections in there now at the pay-more-than-average tier, as well as another volume of the Best of Archie Comics, which comes with contextual notes for stories throughout Archie's publication history (not just Archie, but also other long-forgotten Archie-owned characters like this Donald Duck-copy-looking "Lucky Duck" they used to publish).

And there's also 2 1000-page mega-collections of Archie stories proper, as well.

Very good value for money, and I don't regret spending the $15 for the top tier, even if our petro-dollar has devalued significantly over the past 2 weeks, sigh.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the Non-Fiction megathread, where the copy-paste of the current full contents went:

The new Humble Bundle for ebooks from No Starch Press contains at least 3 graphic novel guides to stuff, including The Manga Guide to Electricity, TMG to Physics, and a Comic Guide to building your own website with HTML, CSS, and WordPress.

I own paper copies of the Manga Guides, which are excellent and translations of works written by Japanese university professors.

[Froide]

• Better Call Saul premieres tonight on AMC. (Yeah, b***h!)
• Better Call Saul: Client Development Comic Now Online

February 4, 2015

Find out how Saul and Mike discovered the true identity of the mysterious Heisenberg.

The show premieres tonight on AMC.

[TrevorViking]

Everyone check your email for a B1G1F code from Comixology. I didn't get one myself, but if you're not going to use yours I'd love to get two $99 Spawn bundles for $99.

Here's the Spawn release/bundles sale
https://www.comixology.com/Spawn-Debut-250/page/5269

A couple new freebies in the Comixology main free page.
https://www.comixology.com/free-comics

A new round of Marvel collections on sale.
https://www.comixology.com/comics-sale?list_id=5467

First new freebie at Dark Horse in quite awhile, Smite #1.
https://digital.darkhorse.com/profile/5477.smite/

[TrevorViking]

Two new sales at Comixology, today only on Howard the Duck, and yet another Witchblade sale.

[conanfan]

The Walking Dead Compendium 1 and 2 are available for $4.99 each from Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/books/...AgAAQBAJ&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/books/...AgAAQBAJ&hl=en

[TrevorViking]

This week's DC sale is on a bunch of Superman collections; 14 collections at $5.99 each.
https://www.comixology.com/Superman-...Sale/page/5307

From Dynamite, ending 2/12/15, a sale on Bill Willingham's Legenderry, a mash-up of a bunch of their pulp characters. "Featuring Red Sonja, Vampirella, Green Hornet, Kato, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Silver Star, Captain Victory, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Zorro, as you've never seen them before!"
The collection is $5.99, or the 7 issues and 12 related issues at $.99 each.
https://www.comixology.com/Legenderry-Sale/page/5375

And a little sale of the three issue series, The Dead God, from Vice City Comics.
https://www.comixology.com/comics-sale?list_id=5512

[TrevorViking]

Probably today only, a free ebook on Amazon about Warren Ellis.
http://www.amazon.com/Voyage-Noise-W...dp/B00EVBRYAS/

[TrevorViking]

A big sale from Marvel on X-Factor, today only. Issues 200 thru the last issue, 262 (also includes 224.1). Is this all of Peter David's run? As much as I like Peter David's writing, i keep putting this one off. Time to jump on board I guess.
https://www.comixology.com/X-Factor-Sale/page/5397

A weekend Archie Valentine's Day sale. Looks like much of it is duplicated in the recent Humble Bundle.
https://www.comixology.com/Archie-Va...Sale/page/5396

Watson and Holmes #6 is free on Comixology with code BLACKCOMICSMONTH

[TrevorViking]

A sale from Oni Press on Letter 44, ends 2/16/15.
https://www.comixology.com/Letter-44...1_Weekend_Sale

[TrevorViking]

The usual big weekend sale at Dark Horse of course, stuff like Baltimore, Strain, and Vampirella.

Also a huge $99 Vampirella bundle.

[ATDrake]

Just a reminder that the Humble Brainiac Book Bundle filled with books from No Starch Press, some sort of division/associate of the O'Reilly computer books company, will be expiring tomorrow morning, and the top tier is for $15.

Last week's additions included the Manga Guide to Calculus, bringing the pay-more-than-average total to 3 Manga Guides to assorted science subjects (highly recommended, incidentally; I own these in paper, and they're translations of Japanese works written by actual Japanese university professors and lecturers), 1 comic on how to build your own website, and a whole bunch of LEGO® stuff and kid-friendly computer programming guides.

[TrevorViking]

Wonderland sale ends 2/20/15, 4 collections and 30 singles.
https://www.comixology.com/Wonderland-Sale/page/5399

My Little Pony sale ends 2/23/15' 2 collections and 12 singles.
https://www.comixology.com/My-Little...Sale/page/5424

Viz bundle sale, 7 bundles up to 71% off, ends 2/28/15.
https://www.comixology.com/Viz-Bundle-Sale/page/5389

[TrevorViking]

Get it while it lasts.

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Well, there was something amazing in the slushpile which I'm pretty sure is a glitch freebie, so enjoy it while it lasts.

Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, is an award-winning ground-breaking graphic novel that should need absolutely no introduction whatsoever if you've any acquaintance with North American comics at all.

Nevertheless, if you don't, here's a nifty write-up over at TVTropes (warning, I am not responsible for the hours of your life you will lose following the links there), and the obligatory Wikipedia entry which explains just some of the history & cultural significance of this work and its creators, etc., etc.

This is a truly wonderful work which transcends genre and medium boundaries and should be experienced at least once if you've any interest in great storytelling (not to mention deconstruction and commentary of the genre and medium it's in), and I personally own three paper copies of this (the magnificent and highly recommended Absolute Edition, the Deluxe edition that came bundled with my Ultimate Collection Blu-Ray of the film, and my really old and worth-every-penny regular trade paperback edition which I bought way back when I was first starting to get into comics).

Anyway, this is free courtesy of publisher DC Comics, as some sort of weird glitch, it looks like (not a pirate edition, but the full legal version complete with a Q&A with artist Dave Gibbons on its product page), as it is definitely not free in any of the other venues that I checked.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians; this particular edition doesn't seem exist outside of North America, according to the spot-checks I made on various regional Amazon stores).

Incidentally, I'm going to also take the time to highly recommend Hatoful Boyfriend (Wikipedia, TV Tropes, both of which are chock-full of spoilers and I recommend only reading far enough to possibly whet your appetite, if it seems like it might be your kind of thing, which if you like Alan Moore or Grant Morrison or Warren Ellis' usual sort of work, it should be), which is available along with a whole bunch of other games and their soundtracks at the $8 top tier in the current Humble Bundle Weekly Bundle for Lovers.

It's a visual novel (kind of like a Choose Your Own Adventure storytelling game) which on the surface of it looks like a wacky absurdist parody of the genre (it's ostensibly a post-apocalyptic pigeon dating sim), but if you keep with it long enough, turns into a truly incredible genre-deconstructive socio-political commentary mindscrew of Watchmen-esque proportions, with excellent "regular" storytelling and characterization and seemingly throwaway bits that all become relevant and important to the eventually revealed plot which you gradually become clued-in upon underlying all the "WTF did I just read?!" and which makes it all make horrible, terrible, and utterly brilliant sense in the end, to boot.

I bought this on impulse because I figured I might as well bump up my pay-more-than-average pledge by the extra $2 after shelling out for another game in the bundle which I wanted to try, and now consider it to be the very best reading-related purchase I've made thus far this year (compatible with Windows, Mac, & Linux, and it turns out there are some incredibly entertaining Let's Play gaming threads on other forums associated with it).

And this has been the (late!) selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Because for obvious reasons I don't need to explain.

Enjoy!

Description
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.

One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial bestseller, WATCHMEN has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V FOR VENDETTA, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and THE SANDMAN series.