Trevor

Today's Marvel Monday is 25 issues of the X-Necrosha storyline.

Trevor

This could be an expensive day/week for me. Today starts a weeklong Sandman sale from DC. All 76 regular issues, several mini-series, and a couple specials. I own pretty much all of them physically, but am still tempted.

Also today starts a three day sale from Marvel on all (?) the Marvel Zombies stuff. 31 issues total from various mini-series.

Trevor

No new sales today, just the above two threatening to take all my overtime money. The weekly freebies aren't up yet either, at least in iOS.

TheBigDave

I don't know if anybody here reads manga, but Crunchyroll Manga just opened up. It's a subscription service ($5/month or $40/year). It's also part of the Crunchyroll All-Access Membership which includes their Anime/Drama streaming service ($12/month or $100/year). There's apps for iOS and Android.

A dozen ongoing manga series are currently available. The latest chapters are added the same day they're released in Japan. They claim that more new series and back catalog titles will be coming soon.

Unfortunately, some of the most popular series like Attack On Titan and Fairy Tail are limited to recent issues. I guess it's because these books are currently being published in the US.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...ga-is-now-open
http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga

fujishig

As an all access pass member, that's pretty cool, though you'd think they would have given some kind of heads up to subscribers before this. I mean I get their "specials" every day and don't remember seeing an announcement or anything.

majorjoe23

The first issue of Afterlife with Archie (zombie series set in Riverdale) is 99 cents on Comixology with the code ARCHIEZOMBIE99

davidh777

Are all these 99c per?

Trevor

Yep, over 100 Sandman issues.

Trevor

Today starts a weekend Mark Waid sale from Marvel; 49 issues of I guess his key runs there.

Also there's a weekend sale from IGW on Cyberforce, Velocity, and Aphrodite IX stuff.

KenKeith

Are any of the non-gaiman sandman series that are on sale worth it?

Trevor

Nothing new today, just the three continuing sales.

Josh-da-man

Not really. Some of them are okay, but by and large they're surplus to requirements.

I bought all of the Sandman Presents comics and The Dreaming when they came out, and to be honest, I'd rather have the money I spent on them back.

The only Sandman spin-off I can recommend is Mike Carey's Lucifer series. It was introduced as a three issue "Sandman Presents" title, and was later given an ongoing series. The original three issue miniseries isn't particularly memorable, but the ongoing series that spun out of it was really good.

majorjoe23

Anything written by Willingham, Carey or Brubaker is pretty good.

Supermallet

I highly recommend the full Lucifer series. I went ahead and grabbed several of the spin-offs anyway.

malichai

I picked up an Ipad Air for an upcoming 2 week trip and wanted to go buy the entire The Sandman and Fables trade paperbacks. I was going to go Comixology because I've heard good things about the reader for it, but Amazon is about 30% cheaper per book, which REALLY adds up over 28 trade paperbacks. Are there coupons or something that bring Comixology prices in line with Amazon? Is the Comixology reader THAT much better than the Kindle reader for Ipad?

Supermallet

Why not buy some cheapie comic on both and see which one you prefer before plunking down the cash for the whole run of graphic novels?

Trevor

Both have hundreds of freebies as well.

Trevor

Today starts a seven day sale on the ten different New 52 trade volume 1 collections that feature a Bat. $3.99 each. I'll pick up any I don't own paper versions of, but that may be only one or two thanks to those old Amazon sales.

Also from DC, today starts a weeklong unnamed Alan Moore sale. 99 cents each for the V for Vendetta series, the first six issues of most of his America's Best stuff, and that random Green Lantern 188 where he did the great backup story.

majorjoe23

Both Fables and Sandman have been on sale in the last few weeks, so it will probably be a bit before either is on sale again.

malichai

The individual comics or the digital trade paperbacks were on sale in the last few weeks?

I will follow advice and check out a few free comics tomorrow when the Ipad arrives.

majorjoe23

I guess the Sandman books are still on sale for another day or so, digital trades are $12.99 each, which doesn't seem like a great deal.

But DC does have some pretty sweet digital deals right now on a bunch of New 52 trades for $3.99 each.

Trevor

No new sales today, and the weekly freebies aren't up yet.

fumanstan

Amazon has a handful of Vol. 1's of the new 52 comics on sale for $3.03. Some examples...

Batman Vol 1. - http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Vol-The...d_sim_kstore_1

Justice League Vol 1. - http://www.amazon.com/Justice-League...d_sim_kstore_4

Nightwing Vol 1. - http://www.amazon.com/Nightwing-Vol-..._sim_kstore_10

Teen Titans Vol 1. - http://www.amazon.com/Teen-Titans-Vo...d_sim_kstore_5

majorjoe23

Wow, almost a buck cheaper than Comixology. I may have to buy from Amazon.

Trevor

Today Marvel has a one day sale on some Avengers collections: Assemble, Season One, and Mythos for $4.99 each.