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If you’ve been waiting for the Akira 35th Anniversary boxed set to go back on sale, your patience has been rewarded. While this isn’t the lowest price it’s ever been, it’s the first time in a long time it’s dipped below $120 in ages.

On top of one of the greatest collections of a manga series ever offered, the complete hardcover edition of Calvin and Hobbes is also still on sale, as is the Far Side (if you don’t mind getting that one from a third-party vendor).

Hardcover Comic Collection Deals at Amazon

The Akira 35th Anniversary boxed set came out in 2017, so we’re actually looking at the very real possibility of a 40th anniversary boxed set next year. But I wouldn’t hesitate to buy this boxed set right now, while it’s both available and on sale, because it is absolutely fantastic. The quality of the books is outstanding, and the case it comes in is also top-notch.

Even if this were just paperback editions, I’d still recommend it because the Akira manga is so good. The biggest problem with the movie (which is also amazing and I’m not trying to knock it) is there just wasn’t enough time to condense the entirety of the manga into a single feature film, as incredible as it is.

I feel the same way about Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side as I do about Akira. They collect some of the greatest works in comic-dom into great boxed sets. The Far Side is so absurd and weird, it really was way ahead of its time. Nothing has come close and probably never will again.