Best ComiXology Sales: Weekend of September 18, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — Things are bad out there, between the pandemic, the apocryphal president, the stress of the coming election, the reckoning with racial injustices, the entire West Coast being on fire…the list just goes on and on. Thankfully, though, we’ve got a colorful anecdote for some of what might be stressing you out, and that colorful anecdote is Batman ‘66, which is one of our picks for the Best ComiXology Sales for the Weekend of September 18, 2020.

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Top 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?

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Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of September 11, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — There are a ton of superhero comics sales happening this weekend, which is why our best comiXology sales for the weekend of September 11, 2020 are…that’s right…primarily superhero comics. We’ve got some good ones, too — from Jason Aaron’s epic run on Thor to the classic Batman: Black and White comics, which we just learned this week would be returning with new stories in December. Anyway, if you’re looking for some top-tier capes storytelling this weekend, we’ve got your picks.

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Top Comics to Buy for September 9, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — Ah, hear that? It’s the sound of me being significantly less stressed now that my Kickstarter campaign for Next Door has ended and I’ve had an entire three-day weekend to decompress, go hiking, and even read comics for the better part of an entire day. It’s been a nice recovery process. Now, I’m back with the Top Comics to Buy for September 9, 2020, which is essentially a set of superhero books (unusual for this feature) along with my favorite comic period, Ice Cream Man.

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Top Comics to Buy for September 2, 2020

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 August 28, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — It’s a week of villainy and crime comics here on our Best comiXology Sales for the weekend of August 28, 2020. It’s also a week in which one of my all-time favorite superhero comics runs is on sale, with Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley’s classic Thunderbolts topping our list. This was a formative set of comics for me, and if you haven’t read it yet, I really recommend you do so now.

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Top Comics to Buy for August 26, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — Welcome to our Top Comics to Buy for August 26, 2020, which features a wonderful and eclectic bunch of indie comics, many of which are rooted in crime stories and reality, which make them among my personal favorites. Speaking of my personal favorites, the PICK OF THE WEEK here is a new issue of Stray Bullets, and I’m absolutely thrilled that the latest chapter of the Lapham’s masterpiece has arrived. But there are plenty of other great books coming out this week too, and you can find our picks below…enjoy!

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Best 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.

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Top Comics to Buy for August 19, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — August is an exhausted month, perhaps this August more than any other, with everything that’s been going on in the world. Comics, in fact, had a rough week of its own, with one of the biggest corporate entities in the space — DC Comics and owners WarnerMedia — making known that it would soon be undertaking a restructuring that involves reduced staff. Even if it’s ultimately for the best (which very much remains to be seen), people losing their jobs in comics is no fun. That said, we’ve got a set of vibrant books — especially of the indie variety — arriving this week, and below you can find our picks for the Top Comics to Buy for August 19.

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Best comiXology Sales: August 14, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — This week, comiXology’s small press mega sale continued, giving us another chance to spotlight some of the best indie books of recent years. And we’re not talking Dark Horse or Image Comics indie. No. We’re talking the indie-est of the indie, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. There has rarely been a better time to pick up your tablet and dive into some interesting, medium-pushing comics concepts.

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Top Comics to Buy for August 12, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — So, as you’ve likely noticed if you follow either this site or my Twitter account, I spent most of last week promoting my first Kickstarter comic, Next Door. Over the years that I’ve formally been involved with the comics industry — primarily as a critic/reporter and a social media personality — I’ve written about too many comics to count. I have not, however, ever had to talk up and promote my own work directly, not until now. And I have to tell you…this way harder than it looks. In fact, I’d say that I came into this past weekend more burnt out on comics than I’ve ever been in my life. But still, I sat down to read my advanced review copies for the week…and the effect of just reading the books was restorative. And now it is my pleasure to share my restorative Top Comics to Buy for August 12 with all of you.

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Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of August 7, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — I’ve made no secret about this, but I’m running a Kickstarter this week for my first full-length comic, Next Door, and as such, I’ve been spending a whole lot of time browsing books on Kickstarter. And folks? There are just so many good small press comics being made these days. Coincidentally at the same time, one of the marquee best comiXology sales for this weekend just so happens to be small press comics, and so this week’s picks (past the PICK OF THE WEEK) are heavy on those choices.

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Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of July 31, 2020

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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Top Comics to Buy for July 29, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — The Top Comics to Buy for July 29, 2020 are a disparate and powerful bunch. The stories in this week’s crop of top recommendations range from a pair of major superhero debuts, to the return of one of the best Image Comics series to the finale of the very underrated Kill Lock from IDW Publishing. And! On top of all that, we get a new original graphic novel from one of the best teams in comics, with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips releasing Pulp. In other words, there’s a lot going on this week and it’s great.

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Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of July 24

By Zack Quaintance — I’ll just come out and say it…this week is essentially the best of modern Image Comics, featuring five books from the publisher that I absolutely love. They’re all available here in giant, long-read formats for great prices (generally about half off). Basically, if you’ve been wanting to catch up on the most-talked-about creator-owned books of the past decades, then this Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of July 24 is for you.

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Top Comics to Buy for July 22, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — New releases have all but resumed full strength since the COVID-19-induced distribution stoppage earlier this year, as was made evident earlier this month by a letter from Marvel Comic’s editor-in-chief welcoming readers back to the fold. This resumption is bore out in the rising number of monthly comics coming to shelves. That said, the majority of titles on our Top Comics to Buy for July 22 are comics that we’ve been consistently praising in the recent past...and you can find them all below.

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Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of July 17

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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Top 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.

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Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of July 10

By Zack Quaintance — Another week, another set of new comiXology Sales. This week finds a red hot Netflix adaptation available through Image Comics, the usual slate of Avengers and Avengers adjacent titles from Marvel, and a Justice League summer grab bag from DC, all of which we’ve highlighted now in our best comiXology sales for the weekend of July 10.

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