This bundle has a whopping 175 items(!!!) for $18 USD, including some big names (e.g. Saga, East of West, Paper Girls). They’re all DRM-free and come in EPUB, PDF, and CBZ formats. Hopefully this...
This bundle has a whopping 175 items(!!!) for $18 USD, including some big names (e.g. Saga, East of West, Paper Girls).
They’re all DRM-free and come in EPUB, PDF, and CBZ formats. Hopefully this one is available worldwide (unlike the last one I posted).
If anyone has recommendations for where to start in this collection, let us know. Also be sure to click Adjust Donation and move the sliders to your liking before buying.
Holy shit! IMO, this bundle is worth getting purely for Saga, which is one of the best comic series ever created... let alone Black Science, East of West, Descender, and Kill Six Billion Demons,...
Holy shit! IMO, this bundle is worth getting purely for Saga, which is one of the best comic series ever created... let alone Black Science, East of West, Descender, and Kill Six Billion Demons, which I've also read and are excellent. And despite having already read so much of the bundle already, I am still going to buy it. Thanks for sharing this, @kfwyre.
Also be sure to click Adjust Donation and move the sliders to your liking before buying.
Worth noting is that if you lower the amount, it lowers the amount of comics you get from the bundle. So if you want all 175 of them you have to pay at least $18 USD / $25 CAD.
Edit: And also worth noting, unfortunately, Saga only goes up to Vol 9 in this bundle of the 12 published so far (and it's still ongoing), so to read the whole thing people will need to acquire the rest through other means. East of West has all 10 volumes though. Descender has all 4 volumes but is missing the sequel, Ascender's 4 volumes (although I didn't enjoy the sequel as much thanks to its genre 180). And Kill Six Billion Demons only has the first 4 volumes of the 6 published so far (and it's still ongoing too). Despite all that, the bundle is still well worth it though, since there is a ton of great stuff to read in it, IMO.
I have been kicking myself for not buying the Saga bundles the last few times they’ve had them available over the years, so I was thrilled to see it back. I’d be happy if it cost me 18 bucks just...
I have been kicking myself for not buying the Saga bundles the last few times they’ve had them available over the years, so I was thrilled to see it back. I’d be happy if it cost me 18 bucks just for that series alone!
The everything else that they added just makes the deal so much better. It honestly feels like a starter pack for digital comic collectors.
If you're looking to start collecting, you really can't go wrong with Image Comics, IMO. I have been a fan of theirs for a long long time, since shortly after they were founded back during The...
If you're looking to start collecting, you really can't go wrong with Image Comics, IMO. I have been a fan of theirs for a long long time, since shortly after they were founded back during The Maxx days, which was one of the first non-Marvel/DC comics I ever read, and I still have all my physical copies of. Vertigo is about the only other publisher that I would absolutely jump at any chance I had to buy a whole bunch of their series in bulk like this as well.
As someone who's entirely out of the physical comics space, can anyone explain if it's normal that the first issue of each one isn't included in the bundle? Is this a way of getting you interested...
As someone who's entirely out of the physical comics space, can anyone explain if it's normal that the first issue of each one isn't included in the bundle? Is this a way of getting you interested but also pushing you to buy the first one of each series?
What ones are missing their first issues? AFAICT every series in the bundle includes its Vol. 1 (which would have issue #1 in it). CTRL-F for "<comic name>, Vol. 1" and you should be able to find...
What ones are missing their first issues? AFAICT every series in the bundle includes its Vol. 1 (which would have issue #1 in it). CTRL-F for "<comic name>, Vol. 1" and you should be able to find them all. I think the sorting is just a bit messed up since a lot of the Vol. 1's are included in the lower payment tiers that don't actually give you all 175 items, and so those ones appear lower in the sort than their counterparts when the full bundle tier price is selected.
For anyone looking to get the best image quality possible I'd check out the PDFs. In Kodansha bundles they are much higher quality than the other offered formats. The highest available quality of...
For anyone looking to get the best image quality possible I'd check out the PDFs. In Kodansha bundles they are much higher quality than the other offered formats. The highest available quality of any source, AFAIK. I haven't bought this or any previous Image bundles, so I'm not sure if the same applies.
You can use something like Xpdf (pdfimages/pdftopng) to extract the images and repack them to a more versatile format. With western comics it may be worth converting them to JPEG or some other format, as full colour PNGs are usually super bloated.
This bundle has a whopping 175 items(!!!) for $18 USD, including some big names (e.g. Saga, East of West, Paper Girls).
They’re all DRM-free and come in EPUB, PDF, and CBZ formats. Hopefully this one is available worldwide (unlike the last one I posted).
If anyone has recommendations for where to start in this collection, let us know. Also be sure to click
Adjust Donationand move the sliders to your liking before buying.Holy shit! IMO, this bundle is worth getting purely for Saga, which is one of the best comic series ever created... let alone Black Science, East of West, Descender, and Kill Six Billion Demons, which I've also read and are excellent. And despite having already read so much of the bundle already, I am still going to buy it. Thanks for sharing this, @kfwyre.
Worth noting is that if you lower the amount, it lowers the amount of comics you get from the bundle. So if you want all 175 of them you have to pay at least $18 USD / $25 CAD.
Edit: And also worth noting, unfortunately, Saga only goes up to Vol 9 in this bundle of the 12 published so far (and it's still ongoing), so to read the whole thing people will need to acquire the rest through other means. East of West has all 10 volumes though. Descender has all 4 volumes but is missing the sequel, Ascender's 4 volumes (although I didn't enjoy the sequel as much thanks to its genre 180). And Kill Six Billion Demons only has the first 4 volumes of the 6 published so far (and it's still ongoing too). Despite all that, the bundle is still well worth it though, since there is a ton of great stuff to read in it, IMO.
I have been kicking myself for not buying the Saga bundles the last few times they’ve had them available over the years, so I was thrilled to see it back. I’d be happy if it cost me 18 bucks just for that series alone!
The everything else that they added just makes the deal so much better. It honestly feels like a starter pack for digital comic collectors.
If you're looking to start collecting, you really can't go wrong with Image Comics, IMO. I have been a fan of theirs for a long long time, since shortly after they were founded back during The Maxx days, which was one of the first non-Marvel/DC comics I ever read, and I still have all my physical copies of. Vertigo is about the only other publisher that I would absolutely jump at any chance I had to buy a whole bunch of their series in bulk like this as well.
Strongly recommend East of West for anyone who hasn't read it. Big fan of deaths horse.
Black Science and Descender are so good.
As someone who's entirely out of the physical comics space, can anyone explain if it's normal that the first issue of each one isn't included in the bundle? Is this a way of getting you interested but also pushing you to buy the first one of each series?
What ones are missing their first issues? AFAICT every series in the bundle includes its Vol. 1 (which would have issue #1 in it). CTRL-F for "<comic name>, Vol. 1" and you should be able to find them all. I think the sorting is just a bit messed up since a lot of the Vol. 1's are included in the lower payment tiers that don't actually give you all 175 items, and so those ones appear lower in the sort than their counterparts when the full bundle tier price is selected.
Ah, gotcha. I was looking down the list and wasn't seeing the #1s, and missed that they were down in the lower tier.
For anyone looking to get the best image quality possible I'd check out the PDFs. In Kodansha bundles they are much higher quality than the other offered formats. The highest available quality of any source, AFAIK. I haven't bought this or any previous Image bundles, so I'm not sure if the same applies.
You can use something like Xpdf (
pdfimages/pdftopng) to extract the images and repack them to a more versatile format. With western comics it may be worth converting them to JPEG or some other format, as full colour PNGs are usually super bloated.