Undeadcow

Great Avengers sale, I got suckered into buying them all...

It's really strange that the entire runs of Avengers (2010 - 2012) and New Avengers (2010 - 2012) series are on sale EXCEPT for the last 6 issues of New Avengers, 29-34, even disconnecting the sale issues in the middle of a story arc. Hopefully those get added before the end. [Annuals excluded seems to be the norm]

fujishig

I swear they put a sale on this particular Bendis run of Avengers every few months.

Trevor

Has anyone ever had a problem with Comixology 'losing' books in your owned collection and 'letting' you buy them again? During the big Marvel sale there were a few issues here and there that I swear I had bought before (like middle issues in large runs of previous sales) but were showing as not owned. And then today there are two of the Avengers Fear Itself tie-in books showing as not owned; but I swear that I bought every Fear Itself book during the 2for1.

Undeadcow

I haven't noticed anything but seemingly you could search e-mail receipts to confirm item purchases. I have noticed that sometimes when I click "add title" on Comixology to place something in my basket it doesn't end up there so that's another possibility.

Trevor

Yes, I've noticed that too. Sometimes clicking 'add' takes me straight to the shopping cart, but without the last item I clicked. Hopefully it's just that issue, as I really don't want to search my million message inbox.

davidh777

File this under "Trevor's Worst Nightmare."

Trevor

No, my worst nightmare is passing away before reading my ~15,000 digital comics; which is why one of you needs to promise to read them for me in that event. Jen will give you my password.

fujishig

Unless you're five or something, you're never reading all those digital comics... it's like my stack of PS1 JRPGs, it'll always be there.

Trevor

Yet another Transformers sale. Not even looking at it, I have more Transformers books than I knew existed from Humble Bundles.
15 different collections roughly 50% off, ends 3/17/15.
https://www.comixology.com/Discover-...Sale/page/5679

Another weeklong DC sale, this time 500 Flash books. Yes, that's five hundred different DC Flash or Flash-ish books at $.99 each. I need to pick up some overtime.
https://www.comixology.com/Flash-500-Sale/page/5678

Trevor

The Flash was my favorite superhero as a kid, so feel free to ignore my 'all of it' advice.

More recommendations later, but one thing I noticed was that the three annuals of the new series were included. No idea if they're any good, but those large annuals are often not included in these sales so I snatched them up in my first run thru the lists.

Undeadcow

DC's digital pricing is confusing, some issues seem to have a base price of $0.99 mid-series and between higher priced titles but then others are priced $1.99. Not that I'm complaining on cheaper books.The Web says the following Flash issues/storylines are "essential." [v1 137, v1 139, v1 155, Born to Run: v2 62-65, Return of Barry Allen: v2 74-79, Terminal Velocity: v2 95-100, Dead Heat: v2 108-111, Blood Will Run: v2 170-172, Blitz+: v2 197-205; Rogue's War v2 220-225, The Flash v3, Fastest Man Alive, Flashpoint, Crisis on Infinite Earths]

Trevor

DC does have a bunch of random stuff permanently(?) priced at $.99 a book: most of the Wally West Flash run, the Red Tornado mini, lots of the 'kiddie' books, most of the digital only books, many #1 issues, and their bizarre conglomerates of certain stories from multiple issues hodgepodged together as one issue.

Trevor

New French language freebie, Lazarus #1.
https://www.comixology.com/Lazarus-1...l-comic/187828

New Viz bundles, up to 77% off.
https://www.comixology.com/Viz-Bundl...Sale/list/5841

rocket1312

I haven't read much from Flash v.1, but I did pick up all of the later issues (#275 to the end) that were available just because of their importance to Barry Allen's story (Iris killed, Flash on trial for murdering Zoom).

Crisis on Infinite Earths is absolutely essential reading. It can be a little daunting for DC newbs, but it features Barry Allen's greatest moment ever and thus should be read by anyone interested in the Flash.

The Flash v.2 (starring Wally West) is almost all great. Just about anything by Mark Waid or Geoff Johns is a winner. I have only read parts of Waid's run, but his Return of Barry Allen arc is absolutely essential. The entire Johns run is one of my favorite things ever. The first half of it (#164 to #200) featured Scott Kolins on pencils and is superior to the back half (#201 to #225) which gets slightly mired in all of the DC events, but it's all good.

After Johns leaves, the series goes down the crapper immediately and is eventually canceled and replaced by The Flash: Fastest Man Alive which starred Bart Allen. I only read the first handful of issues of that series before I stopped buying comics completely for about 7 or 8 years, but what I read wasn't good. I've heard the second half of the series is better and the ending is important to the overall mythology (although in the New 52 era I guess none of it matters), but it wouldn't be the first thing I chose.

Anything after that series, I have no idea. Volume 2 was resurrected for a little bit by Mark Waid before Geoff Johns brought back Barry Allen and tried to reinvigorate the franchise like he had done with Green Lantern a few years previous. I haven't heard anything that suggests any of it is up to the level of either guys' earlier work on v.2, but I've never read any of it myself. I used this sale to pick up all of the latter era Johns material (Rebirth, Final Crisis: Rogue's Revenge, Blackest Night, v.3, Flashpoint). I'm worried that a lot of it won't make sense without an overall working knowledge of DC circa 2007 to 2011, but there's no way in hell I'm going down that rabbit hole. I was all-in on Infinite Crisis, but once that was over I didn't have the energy (or the money) to keep up with DC's big events.

Trevor

Crap, a few months late to save me much $, but Humble Bundle has all of Bloom County/Opus/Outland for a week.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books#t

majorjoe23

I may have to go for that.

fujishig

Yeah, the Waid and Johns first runs are good (the Waid/'Ringo run is still my favorite, even though it goes a little off the deep end in the speed force stuff).

After that, Wally has kids, they age, he disappears, Bart takes over, then editorial pulls the plug on Bart in the worst way. Then editorial/Johns pulls the plug on Wally. Then Barry and Iris somehow completely de-age, and John's last run, which I was counting on to be epic, basically treads water because Flashpoint completely destroyed whatever he was setting up.

Trevor

Huge B.P.R.D bundle at Dark Horse. All 144 issues for only $99.99, unknown duration.
https://digital.darkhorse.com/profil...-megabundle-2/

Trevor

Four new sales at Comixology.

The Marvel collections on sale have rotated; now we have Daredevil: Yellow and Daredevil Season One at $3.99 each.
https://www.comixology.com/Daredevil...Sale/list/5820

Today only from Marvel, Ed Brubaker's Daredevil; 39 issues at $.99 each, issues 82-119 and (120)500. Remember that they had a big Daredevil collection sale a few months ago, so you may own all of this in that form.
https://www.comixology.com/Daredevil...Sale/page/5769

Project Superpowers sale ends 3/16/15; 5 collections and 47 singles.
https://www.comixology.com/Project-S...Sale/page/5768

And the SXSW 2015 sale is a bundle of 30 books for only $2.99, 95% off, ends 3/16/15.
https://www.comixology.com/SXSW-Subm...Sale/page/5765

majorjoe23

Leaving Megalopolos alone is worth the $3

Bob_Bobbson

So, Comixology tweeted this
And then less than a half hour later, their first free comic is up!

Get Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide Vol. 1 (TPB) for free with the code COLLIDE at their redeem page:

https://www.comixology.com/redeem?ut..._redeem_sxsw15

Trevor

Glad you're a tweeter Bob, thanks! And a $12 book too, nice start.

Bob_Bobbson

Next free book:

Valiant: An 8 Bit Adventure free with the code UNITY

https://www.comixology.com/redeem?ut..._redeem_sxsw15

Bob_Bobbson

Dark Horse Weekend Sale is up. It's a Mike Mignola Sale.
All issues are 99 cents each
Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible #1-3
Abe Sapien: A New Race of Man #1-2
Baltimore: The Plague Ships #1-5
Baltimore: The Curse Bells #1-5
Baltimore: Dr. Leskovar's Remedy #1-2
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1-4
Hellboy: Wake The Devil #1-5
Hellboy: Citizen Worm #1-4
Lobster Johnson: Iron Prometheus #1-5
Lobster Johnson: Burning Hand #1-5
Lobster Johnson: Prayer of Neferu (one-shot)
Lobster Johnson: Caput Mortuum (one-shot)
Lobster Johnson: Scent of Lotus #1-2
Sledge Hammer '44 #1-2
Sledge Hammer '44: Lightning War #1-3
Witchfinder: In The Service of Angels #1-5
Witchfinder: Lost and Gone Forever #1-5

https://digital.darkhorse.com/genre/206

Bob_Bobbson

Next free book:

X-Files Season 10: Vol 1 (TPB) with the code XFILES

https://www.comixology.com/redeem?ut..._redeem_sxsw15


Note: Comixology has clarified that these codes are good for 24 hrs. I'm not sure if that is 24 hrs from when the code is tweeted or 24 hrs from when they started the promotion this morning. The safest bet is to just redeem these as soon as you can.