Graphic Novel Bargain

The latest Image Humble Bundle has some great stuff in it - I've not read anywhere near all of it but of what I have, Ice Cream Man is a fantastic horror series, Zero is a really interesting espionage series with a different artist each issue, Sex Criminals is an extremely funny yet surprisingly character-focused fantastical crime comedy about sex-based superpowers, Injection is Warren-Ellis-brand Weird Science, and Luther Strode has some of the best ultraviolent action of this century's comics. Honestly for £21 there's so much in there that it's hard to argue against - tbh if you see a single 3 or 4 trade series you want to read, it's probably earned the price of admission and you'd still have a ton of other stuff to check out.

That 2000AD bundle is actually pretty good - they've had a few before and I was unfairly expecting a lot of overlap, but this one has some Dredd stuff that I don't think they've included before, a whole bunch of Nikolai Dante and Slaine stuff they've not included before. Of the duplicates (Brink and Absalom) they have also included more things, so all 5 Brink books and the Cabbalistics, Inc series that comes before Absalom and introduces the world and characters of the later series.

Another decent-looking bundle - this time it's 60 issues of Rick & Morty comics. I've not read any so can't speak first-hand as to their merits but Marc Ellerby's "Chloe Noonan" comics are awesome, and I've heard some good things about the series.

Humble have a new Hellboy universe bundle, this time also including most of the BPRD titles as well. I ended up missing the last bundle so will probably jump on this.

There's a Cerebus Humble bundle running at the minute with PDF copies of the entire 300-issue run. Also an option to just get the first 5 volumes if you're not too fussed about the whole thing. Crucially, if you are curious about the work but reluctant to give Sim any money, you can opt to give all the money to the charity (minus the mandatory humble bit, that is).

That is a very generous bundle - the Essex County trilogy is really good, and Locke & Key is a pretty good horror-fantasy series. I've only read the first two 30 Days of Night books but they're pretty good as well (depending on your enjoyment of Steve Niles' writing - I find him kinds hit and miss, myself). And of course From Hell is Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell in roaring form, so hard to go wrong there...

Speaking of Humble Bundles, the latest Hellboy Universe Megabundle is an absolute bargain.

Just following up on this - I got around to downloading the Usagi Yojimbo comics and there are 2 things to note:

1. File format is PDF only 🤬
2. It's not a full set - in terms of the trades, you get the Omnibus collections of books 8-31, then individual trades of books 32 & 33, and individual trades of books 39 and 40. Nothing from books 1-7 as far as I can tell. There's also some Space Usagi stuff in (2 versions each of 2 stories, one as part of the Usagi Yojimbo Saga Legends omnibus, the other as either a trade or single issues).

So absolutely worth the money still, but useful to know if you're looking for a complete set/definitely want to start at book 1.