Top Comics to Buy for May 4, 2022
The calm before the Free Comic Book Day storm.
Read MoreTop Comics to Buy for December 15, 2021
This week’s top comics to buy for December 15 features a double dose of Jeff Lemire — Mazebook, plus Batman and Robin — as well as plenty of other great books…check it out!
Read MoreBest Gifts for Comics Fans in 2021 - Marvel Comics
Our ongoing look at the best gifts for comics fans in 2021 continues today with the Marvel Comics edition. I took a bit of a different approach on this one, and you can find it in full now!
Read MoreBest comiXology Sales: Weekend of July 9, 2021
Although this week’s set of comiXology sales for the weekend of July 9, 2021 has fewer sales than it feels like most weeks might otherwise have, the books that are on sale are very solid…
Read MoreTop Comics to Buy for June 2, 2021
Holy cow, this is a wild week for our list of the Top Comics to Buy for June 2, 2021, chock-filled with summer blockbuster books like Tankers, Nocterra, and Hellions.
Read MoreBest comiXology Sales: Year-End 2020
The end of the year is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than treating yourself to some eleventh hour digital comics sales in the name of solid reading next year?
Read MoreTop Comics to Buy for October 21, 2020
By Zack Quaintance — There’s lots to love in the Top Comics to Buy for October 21, 2020 for students of comics craft, be it with individual issues like the Tonci Zonjic-illustrated Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy #5, or the hardcover graphic novella series November by Matt Fraction and Elsa Charretier, which is now on its third book. You can find all that and more on this week’s list…enjoy!
Read MoreBest comiXology Sales: Weekend of September 25, 2020
By Zack Quaintance — Eclectic is my favorite type of Best comiXology Sales lists, and this week’s is perhaps the single most eclectic bunch of books we’ve ever assembled for this feature. We have five different publishers, ranging from indie to corporate Big 2 to European reprints. The end result is a great list that might have some choices you’ve been meaning to read right there beside hidden gems you were not previously aware of before reading this.
Read MoreTop Comics to Buy for September 16, 2020
By Zack Quaintance — I try to limit the number of new #1 comics we put on these weekly lists, but this week’s Top Comics to Buy for September 16 is a rare group that has two of them on there. The reason being is twofold. I typically find that #1 comics sell well enough on their own. They get peak publisher promotion. So much so that many of you out there reading this have probably already made up your mind whether you’re going to buy this week’s new #1s. One issue is also difficult for me to recommend, because how do I know whether it’s worth following long term?
Read MoreBest comiXology Sales: Weekend of August 21, 2020
By Zack Quaintance — This week it was comics writer Brian Michael Bendis’ birthday. This weekend is also DC Comics Fandome, the online promotional event the publisher is rolling out to replace the con appearances it can’t make this year due to COVID-19. Anyway, as a result, there’s a big DC sale going on, and we’ve picked two of our favorite Bendis books from his DC era to include on the list of Best comiXology Sales weekend of August 21 below.
Read MoreTop Comics to Buy for July 15, 2020
By Zack Quaintance — I feel like I keep saying this, but this Top Comics to Buy for July 15 feels like one of the first of these columns that has a full compliment of industry-wide monthly books to choose from. The distribution stoppage feels increasingly behind us after both Marvel and DC took the week before July 4 off, and now we have a great selection of comics from the Big 2, from indie publishers, and also from book publishers, with Tom Scioli’s excellent Jack Kirby book standing out as the cream of that crop.
Read MoreBest comiXology Sales: Weekend of June 19, 2020
By Zack Quaintance — The thing about perusing these comiXology sales, is that there’s not really a unified aesthetic week-to-week. Some weeks, we have all indie books and literary-minded graphic novels; other weeks its all capes and tights superheroes. The best comiXology sales for the weekend of June 19 is very much the latter, going hard with superhero stories.
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