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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:38 pm

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Thad wrote:Abrams bundle has some good stuff -- a buck will get you Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country


If that actually includes the music, that's an amazing pickup.


I don't think it does, but I'm not 100% on that.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Mongrel » Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:39 pm

Well if anyone gets that and does want the contents of the CD, I would be happy to share my copies (I have to double-check but I'm almost certain all of it is public domain).
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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Tue Jan 25, 2022 7:28 pm

Thad wrote:Humble has another Humanoids bundle on.

There's some good stuff in there. And some extremely problematic stuff in there. (The link itself may be NSFW due to some risque covers; the previews of some of the books are *definitely* NSFW.)

Also, all the books from last year's Humanoids bundle are included at the $25 tier, which is great and which I'd like to see more of, because it means if you missed last year's bundle you get another shot at it, and if you bought it you can kick in at one of the lower tiers and not feel like you're paying for a bunch of books you already paid for once.

Another Humanoids bundle on (same caveats about problematic/NSFW content apply), and just like last time, the books from the previous bundles are available at the higher tiers in case you missed them.

Course, that makes me less likely to grab this one, since I already have a shitload of books from previous bundles I haven't gotten around to reading yet and this leads me to believe that if I don't get this one right now I'll probably get another chance later.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Tue Feb 22, 2022 4:18 pm

Download a free PDF of The Nib magazine’s Nature issue

Link goes straight to the download page, skipping the page where you're prompted to enter an e-mail address. (And there's no confirmation e-mail, so you don't have to enter a valid e-mail in the first place.)

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Tue Mar 01, 2022 6:20 pm

Groupees has a Euro Comics noir bundle on right now. I don't recognize most of the titles but I hear good things about Blacksad.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Mongrel » Tue Mar 01, 2022 7:54 pm

Blacksad is absolutely excellent. One of the best Euro series of the last 20-odd years.
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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Fri Mar 18, 2022 4:16 pm

Humble has an Image Leading Ladies bundle that includes Saga, Rat Queens, Bitch Planet, and many more.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:20 pm

And a Kodansha Award-Winning Manga bundle. I am not familiar with any of the books in question. Presumably they're good, what with the winning awards, but if anyone has anything more to say about them feel free.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:27 am

Terry Moore bundle

I bought all of Echo and Rachel Rising in single issues. I've only read a little bit of Strangers in Paradise and Motor Girl but liked what I read.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:21 pm

Humble's got a bundle they're calling The Complete Love and Rockets.

There's so damn much material, and it's been collected so many different times and in so many different ways, that it's hard to confirm whether or not it's actually complete, but it looks like it might be? Like, the books I didn't notice at a glance are in there, they've just been recompiled in larger collections (eg High Soft Lisp is included in Three Sisters, and The Love Bunglers is included in Angels and Magpies).

$1 gets you Heartbreak Soup, the first volume of Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar stories, and Maggie the Mechanic, the first volume of Jaime Hernandez's Locas stories, plus Love and Rockets: The Covers. Heartbreak Soup all by itself is one of the greatest comics of all time. Maggie the Mechanic isn't bad but it's not really fully-formed yet; it's still kind of a sci-fi adventure setup, instead of the more down-to-earth, character-driven soap opera it would become. (Over time it would transition to fewer rockets and more love.)

There are $10 and $18 bundles, and the whole shebang for $25. I think I already have all of these in print in one form or another, but I'm tempted by the convenience of having digital copies of everything. I have a $50 Palomar hardcover, and two $40 Locas hardcovers, and they're fucking beautiful but they don't travel very well.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Thu Sep 01, 2022 7:15 pm

Humble's got another Star Trek comics bundle on.

The only one of these I've read is City on the Edge of Forever, which is in the $18 tier (and costs $10 by itself on Comixology). It's good! I can't vouch for anything else in there but it looks like it's a cross-section of Star Trek comics from the '70s to the present. (John Byrne did fumetti based on TOS? Huh.)

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Fri Nov 11, 2022 5:55 pm

I said over in the Obits thread:
Thad wrote:If you haven't had a chance to read Finding Batman from this year's DC Pride, it's worth tracking down.


DC Pride 2022 is now free to read on DC Infinite (you have to sign up for an account).

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:28 pm

Humble's got a Neil Gaiman Dark Horse bundle on.

Most (all?) of these aren't "Neil Gaiman comics" so much as "Neil Gaiman prose stories adapted as comics by other creators." But there's some great stuff in there. I'm particularly fond of Colleen Doran's adaptations, the latest of which, Chivalry, just made the Washington Post's list of the 10 best graphic novels of 2022.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:20 pm

$18 for the complete Elfquest, in a Humble Bundle benefiting the Hero Initiative.

Though if you want to just read it for free, everything published prior to 2014 is up at elfquest.com.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Thu May 18, 2023 2:32 pm

Humble has a Leading Ladies Bundle. It includes Saga and Bitch Planet, which are great, and a bunch of other stuff I haven't read but hear good things about, like Paper Girls.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Wed Aug 30, 2023 3:55 pm

Bundle of Holding has an Atomic Robo bundle on.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:45 pm

The complete Creepy for $18.

(Missed the Eerie bundle a couple of weeks ago, but hopefully it'll be around again next Halloween.)

I don't know Warren as well as I should, but this is some classic shit. Frazetta, Toth, Ditko, Wood, Craig, Corben, Infantino, John Severin, Neal Adams, plus the 2009 series with work from guys like Wrightson and Torres.

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Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Postby Thad » Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:54 pm

$3 for the complete original Priest/Bright run of Quantum and Woody? Yeah, okay, I'll go for that.

(There's other Q&W stuff in there too, very weirdly organized and priced. For example, Priest and Bright's followup, Q2: The Return of Quantum and Woody is in there as single issues at $1 apiece, rather than in its collected form.)

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