By Zack Quaintance — Another week, another new set of Best ComiXology Sales recommendations. This week features a nice variety of superhero stuff, jumping on points for longer runs, and complete reads. The ideal balance, I might go so far as to say. Anyway, apparently DC Comics is going to start trickling new releases back to stores (any that are opened, anyway), but there’s still no clear and total end in site to the comics release pause. But the backlist reading goes on.
Enjoy!

Best ComiXology Sales Weekend of April 24

Black Hammer ‘45: From the World of Black Hammer
Writer: Ray Fawkes and Jeff Lemire
Artist: Matt Kindt
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
From the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer series comes a gripping World War II action-adventure tale! During the Golden Age of superheroes, an elite Air Force crew called the Black Hammer Squadron bands together to combat the Nazis, a host of occult threats, and their ultimate aerial warrior the Ghost Hunter. This volume collects Black Hammer '45 #1–#4 from the all-star creative team of Ray Fawkes, Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and Sharlene Kindt, as well as a sketchbook section.
Why It’s Cool: You can read a full review of Black Hammer ‘45 here, but in short this is a must-read volume from the Black Hammer Universe because it is ostensibly the first story in that world that has a clear ambition of expanding it through time and space, away from the superhero homages that have made the rest of this varied and intricate story so rewarding to follow.
Price: $5.49
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The Dreaming Vol. 1: Pathways and Emanations
Writer: Simon Spurrier
Artist: Bilquis Evely
Publisher: DC Comics - Black Label
In these tales from The Dreaming #1-6 and THE Sandman Universe Special #1, Lord Daniel’s absence triggers crimes and calamities that consume the lives of those already tangled in his fate. Until he is found, his realm’s residents must protect its broken borders alone. But the most senior story-tellers are tormented by invasive secrets, Lucien is doubting his own mind, and beyond the gates, something horrific awaits with tooth and talon.
Why It’s Cool: Simply put, this book is cool because it essentially serves as a gateway into all of the new Sandman Universe comics that DC launched a couple years back. It contains the first shared special that sets the stage for all of those books, followed by the first six issues of the line’s flagship title, The Dreaming, the first season of which is coming to an end on April 27, once DC uses its much-ballyhooed (and debated) alternate distribution models to get new books to retailers during this ongoing new comics shutdown. This volume won’t catch you all the way up to the first season finale, but it will give you a pretty solid indication if this new set of Sandman Universe comics is something you’d enjoy.
Price: $5.09
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Green Lantern: Earth One Vol. 1
Writer: Corinna Sara Bechko & Gabriel Hardman
Artist: Gabriel Hardman
Publisher: DC Comics
Hal Jordan yearns for the thrill of discovery, but the days when astronaut and adventure were synonymous are long gone. His gig prospecting asteroids for Ferris Galactic is less than fulfilling-but at least he's not on Earth, where technology and culture have stagnated. When Jordan finds a powerful ring, he also finds a destiny to live up to. There are worlds beyond his own, unlike anything he ever imagined. But revelation comes with a price: the Green Lantern Corps has fallen, wiped out by ruthless killing machines known as Manhunters. The odds against reviving the Corps are nearly impossible...but doing the impossible is exactly what Hal Jordan was trained to do!"
Why It’s Cool: We have a full review of this one that you can check out if you want a detailed recommendation on what works in this story, but in brief — it’s just a really well-done and complete re-imagining of Green Lantern’s origin story, arguably the best of this line of DC Comics Earth One hardcovers (though I also enjoyed the Geoff Johns/Gary Frank take on Batman and the Grant Morrison Yanick Paquette take on Wonder Woman, both volumes). Anyway, I also think this one is a good choice this week because you get a mostly complete story for the price, rather than a jumping off volume that you can use to to decide whether you want to spend more money. So enjoy it!
Price: $5.94
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She Could Fly Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Writer: Christopher Cantwell
Artist: Martin Morazzo
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
An unknown woman flying at fantastic speeds and spectacular heights suddenly explodes mid-air. No one knows who she was, how she flew, or why. Luna Brewster, a disturbed 15-year-old girl, becomes obsessed with learning everything about her while rumors and conspiracy theories roil. Will cracking the secrets of the Flying Woman lead to the liberation of her troubled mind? By Christopher Cantwell (co-creator/showrunner of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire) and artist Martín Morazzo (Ice Cream Man) with color by Miroslav Mrva.
Why It’s Cool: She Could Fly is a complex and thrilling story that involves mental health, support structures, international corporate espionage, and a mysterious woman that flew across the sky one day. It’s a great, singular story that will go in directions you won’t be able to predict throughout, all with a rich cast of characters. The creator pedigree is also strong, with writer Christopher Cantwell (Everything, Doctor Doom, and the TV show Halt and Catch Fire) and artist Martin Morazzo (Ice Cream Man). You can also pick up both volumes for less than $12 and get yourself a really great, complete read.
Price: $5.99 each or $11.98 for the full story
Link: Click here for She Could Fly Vol.1 and click here for She Could Fly: Lost Pilot Vol. 2!

The Twilight Man: Rod Serling Birth of Television
Writer/Artist: Koren Shadmi
Publisher: Humanoids
A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his own personal Twilight Zone. PUBLICATION IN 1 VOLUME - COMPLETED WORK. We recognize him as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the "Angry Young Man" of Television. Before he became the revered master of science fiction, Rod Serling was a just a writer who had to fight to make his voice heard. He vehemently challenged the networks and viewership alike to expand their minds and standards -- rejecting notions of censorship, racism and war. But it wasn't until he began to write about real world enemies in the guise of aliens and monsters that people lent their ears. In doing so, he pushed the television industry to the edge of glory, and himself to the edge of sanity. Rod operated in a dimension beyond that of contemporary society, making him both a revolutionary and an outsider.
Why It’s Cool: In The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television, writer/artist Koren Shadmi delivers a graphic novel that reads like a high-end biopic, following Serling’s life with an impressive amount of research and reporting to depict the formation of network television as we’ve known it until recently. Twilight Man strikes at a number of poignant themes that were as relevant in the 1950s as they are today, reminding us that we’re all part of an ongoing battle to ensure that our entertainment and media is more often than not in service of a better world. Also, I liked this book so much that it made my list of Best Graphic Novels of 2019.
Price: $5.39
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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.