Best Gifts for Comics Fans in 2021 - DC Comics, Marvel, and more

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This year I have compiled a quick guide with some ideas on the best gifts for comics fans in your life, broken down below by the sort of publisher. Enjoy, and I hope this helps, even a little bit!

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Top Comics to Buy for September 2, 2020

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By Zack Quaintance — Here we are bright and early with our Top Comics to Buy for September 2, 2020, and it’s my favorite kind of week — eclectic. Nowhere is this more evident than with our pick of the week, Lonely Receiver #1. We’ll go into more detail about it below, but this is the type of surprising and singular book we just love to see launched, one that delivers an expert grasp of comics-making craft along with bold risk taking.

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Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of July 31, 2020

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By Zack Quaintance — Last weekend saw the advent of the 2020 Eisner Awards (a nice compliment to our own Extra Eisner Awards). One of the marquee prizes is the BEST CONTINUING SERIES AWARD, and this year’s prize went to the creator-owned title from Image Comics, Bitter Root. You can read more about Bitter Root in this excellent piece by Ariel Baska…and then when you’re done, you can head over to comiXology and buy the first volume of the series at a great sale price.

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Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of July 17

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By Zack Quaintance — One thing I found a bit odd during the pandemic was that Image Comics wasn’t actively running any sales on digital comics. This perplexed me, because there has never been a better time to sell digital comics than during that stretch of weeks when physical comic shops were mostly closed. That, however, has now changed! And we’re back in business with an excellent Image sale. In fact, four of this week’s five Best comiXology Sales are Image comics.

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Best ComiXology Sales: Weekend of April 24, 2020

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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.

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