Best comiXology Black Friday Sales 2020 - Marvel and DC

There are a ton of fantastic digital comics sales online today for Black Friday, and we’re going to be putting out a few recommendations, starting with the best sales from Marvel and DC.

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Top Comics to Buy for October 28, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — Hey kids, high-concept sci-fi comics! Of several different varieties!…that’s basically the tagline for this week’s Top Comics to Buy for October 28, 2020, which features the latest chapter of the startlingly accurate dystopian Lazarus, the tournament getting under way in X of Swords, and the new series that everyone is buzzing about — Giga. It’s a great week for complex sci-fi, and a reminder of what comics has to offer (complicated fantastical ideas with quick(er) turnaround time) that other mediums do not.

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Best Graphic Novels and Comics About Sports

By Zack Quaintance — Comics and sports have a complicated relationship. This maybe stems back to tired and outdated bullying dynamics in schools, because I don’t know how many times I’ve heard typically older creators, say stuff like, “We’re comics people, we don’t like sports!” As if jocks versus nerds isn’t an outdated paradigm, as if everyone nowadays doesn’t watch Marvel movies; as if it were still 1988.

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Best comiXology Sales: Weekend of October 23, 2020

By Zack Quaintance — I was downright elated to see that there was a massive Image Comics graphic novel and collected trade sale on this weekend. One of the things that frustrated me throughout the pandemic was that Image (one of my favorite publishers) wasn’t running any new sales. Well, the time to catch up has now arrived — our Best comiXology sales for the weekend of October 23 list is entirely made up of Image Comics.

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5 Other Comics Like Saga: A Reading List

By Zack Quaintance — Earlier today I wrote a blog entitled When Is Saga Coming Back: Not in 2020. The title kind of speaks for itself there, sadly. In the process of putting it together, however, I started to think about doing a new reading list, one aimed for more casual comics fans who might be left wondering during these fallow times — what other comics are like Saga?

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Top 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!

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