By Zack Quaintance — Look, this is probably the hardest time of year to spend money, what with the holiday bills hitting with such force. That said, there is a case to be made that a few bucks spent on a digital comics sale can help soothe the desire to spend money elsewhere…which is my roundabout way of saying: please check out my list of Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of January 22 below!

Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of January 22, 2021

BANG!
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Wilfredo Torres
Colorist: Bill Crabtree
Letterer: Nate Piekos of Blambot!
Publisher: Dark Horse
A best-of-the-best secret agent with memories he couldn't possibly possess, a mystery writer in her eighties who spends her retirement solving crimes, a man of action with mysterious drugs that keep him ahead of a constant string of targeted disasters, a seemingly omnipotent terrorist organization that might be behind it all . . . And they're all connected to one man: a science-fiction author with more information than seems possible, whose books may hold the key to either saving reality or destroying it. Collects BANG! #1–#5, along with all covers, a sketchbook section, and pinups by Matt Kindt.
Why It’s Cool: This book is a metafictional romp through action storytelling tropes, incorporating homages to famous characters as it goes. Think Die Hard meets Community, and you’re getting close — but not quite there because it’s also very much it’s own thing.
Price: $5.99
Buy It Digitally: BANG!

Dementia 21 Vol. 2
Writer/Artist: Shintaro Kago
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Devilishly funny, absurdist manga short stories about a sprightly home aide caring for a series of eccentric patients. In Vol. 2, Yukie boldly decides to join the resistance ― against a squadron of maniacal diapers hell-bent on taking over the world! A shorthanded hospital hires zombies to care for its patients, but … what exactly do they eat? When an old man creates a machine that causes out-of-body experiences, what could possibly go wrong? And why are children getting rocket launchers in their stockings? Three words: Santa has dementia!
Why It’s Cool: Do you want to read something totally unlike anything else you’ve read recently? Well friend, try reading Dimentia 21 via comiXology Unlimited…and then we’re done also nabbing this book. Believe me, you won’t be disappointed.
Price: $8.49
Buy It Digitally: Dementia 21 Vol. 2

The Fearsome Doctor Fang
Writer: Tze Chun and Mike Weiss
Artist: Dan McDaid
Colorist: Daniela Miwa
Letterer: Steve Wands
Publisher: TKO Studios
NOTHING TO FEAR...
BUT FANG HIMSELF!
In this globe-trotting adventure, a San Francisco cop and a treasure hunter pursue a Chinese criminal mastermind who is not what he appears to be.
Why It’s Cool: Publisher TKO Studios has an amazing sale on right now where all their books at $1.99. We picked some favorites last week, so presuming you read (and enjoyed) those, today we have another: The Fearsome Doctor Fang. Read this comic and be prepared for your expectations (as well as stereotyping character cliches) to be subverted.
Price: $1.99
Buy It Digitally: The Fearsome Doctor Fang

Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye, Vol. 1 - Vol. 4
Writer: Matt Fraction
Artist: David Aja
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Clint Barton - aka the self-made hero Hawkeye - fights for justice! With ex-Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he's out to prove himself as one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! SHIELD recruits Clint to intercept a packet of incriminating evidence - before he becomes the most wanted man in the world.
Why It’s Cool: Do you want to read some all-time great superhero comics? Do you want to read a comic that helped shape Marvel’s tone for the next 5 years (and counting!)? Do you want to read a comic that continues to spark a wave of superhero imitators? Sure you do! Well then, you want to read Matt Fraction and David Aja’s all-time great run on Hawkeye, which is on sale now.
Price: $15.26 for all four volumes
Buy It Digitally: Hawkeye…scroll down to the collected editions section

We3
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Frank Quitely
Publisher: DC Comics - Vertigo
A powerful tale from the ALL-STAR SUPERMAN team of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Morrison and Quitely deliver the emotional journey of WE3--three house pets weaponized for lethal combat by the government--as they search for "home" and attempt to ward off the shadowy agency that created them. With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 (WE3) have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the program's prototypes, and now that their testing is complete, they're slated to be permanently decommissioned, causing them to seize their one chance to make a desperate run for freedom. Relentlessly pursued by their makers, the WE3 team must navigate a frightening and confusing world where their instincts and heightened abilities make them as much a threat as those hunting them.
Why It’s Cool: Told by one of the best comics teams of our lifetimes, this story combines animal-loving sensibilities with serious questions about animal mistreatment as well as high-action comics storytelling that make this a compulsively readable page-turner, one that you won’t put down until you’ve completed.
Price: $5.09
Buy It Digitally: We3

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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.