Jack Kirby's The New Gods

Y'know, I love ComiXology. And as I currently have 1,021 books from them, I think I've backed up that love with some action. I've also been a ComiXology Unlimited subscriber for some time, and would definitely recommend that you put your money down for that if you are into comic books. (Or if you just want to explore, since they give you a very nice free trial period.) It gives you access to tons of books...and gives you a discount on many of your purchases--up to 15%. So yes, I love ComiXology.

But sometimes....

Well, you just have to be careful.

For instance, if you're interested in having a look at Jack Kirby's The New Gods series, you have several choices to make. You can go for the e-versions of the original series...

...which gives you 11 issues for $21.89 + tax, which is quite reasonable. And it's well worth the price, for sure. I mean, 11 new comics would cost you $43.89 + tax, would give you fewer pages, and would give you zero Jack Kirby.

However....

DC did a reprint of the original series, and each issue of that in e-version on ComiXology will cost you...

...yep. So that's about half the price--$11.94 + tax...for the same stuff, right? Not quite. Because that 6th issue includes the original issue #11 plus a brand new issue's worth of story, so you actually get more story for half of the money.

But wait...

Because there's also a collected edition:

And if you're thinking, "The cover art colorist should be fired immediately," then I am totally with you. (If anybody had to turn pink, it certainly should have been Forager rather than Orion. Sheesh.)  But ignore that and check this out. First off, note that this is on sale, and that sale might end at any moment, but for the nonce, this collection gives you the best price yet. (And speaking of ComiXology Unlimited, if you happen to have signed up for that, you get 15% off of all of the prices I've so far mentioned...which takes this collected edition down to $8.49 + tax.) And get this: this collection contains the original eleven issues, the new story from the final issue of the reprint edition, AND the graphic novel The Hunger Dogs, which more or less * completes Jack Kirby's The New Gods storyline. It weighs in at an impressive 424 pages. 

So there you have it. 

P.S. It often pays to compare the prices between ComiXology and Amazon Kindle. Even though Amazon owns both of them, there are sometimes big price differences. As for The New Gods, though, the price remains the same on both platforms.

* "More or less" in the sense that Jack Kirby's story never really felt complete, but this is all that he did New Gods-wise, so....