Last month, I told you about three Marvel comic collections that you could read for free on Kindle if you are an Amazon Prime member. This month I’ll pass on three DC collections you can also read for free as a Prime member.
1. With the success of the 2018 Aquaman movie, this is a good time to read Dan Abnett’s Aquaman (2016-) Vol. 1: The Drowning. Aquaman 
has never enjoyed the popularity (or the storytelling) of the DC “Big Three (Superman, Batman & Wonder Woman).” However, this Rebirth series attempts to correct that.
Here we meet an Aquaman who is attempting to be the bridge between the surface world and the world below. This is not the Aquaman from TV’s SuperFriends or even Bruce Timm’s animated Justice League. This is an Aquaman story that lines up real well with the movie and is worth reading and will leave you wanting more.
2. Flashpoint is perhaps one of the greatest Barry Allen/Flash stories 
ever told. This Geoff Johns/ Andy Kubert classic tale takes the question of: if you could change the past, would you? Or should you? It’s a question Barry Allen answers the hardest way possible – by experiencing a changed world.
This series is about choices and how the decisions we make (and don’t make) affect our lives and the lives of those around us. The theme running through this collection is the serenity prayer: accept the things you cannot change, have the courage to change the things you can and the wisdom to know the difference. We witness the Flash learning that difference and that’s what makes it such a good read and worthy of your time.
3. Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One is a classic among classics. The story 
is a Batman origin story that is thought provoking and in a way served as the premise for the Fox TV series, Gotham. The book is a collection of Batman issues 404-407. It follows police Lieutenant James Gordon as he starts his work in Gotham City after having previously worked in Chicago. He’s determined to clean up a mob ruled town with corrupt cops and raise his family in a city he can be proud of.
We also get a genesis of Catwoman, that is oh so different from the Bruce Timm animated Batman stories where she started out as a rich debutante. Here, Selina Kyle is a dominatrix and prostitute, but we get the inkling of who she is, who we know she’ll be, in a tightly written series.
Finally, we see 25 year old Bruce Wayne return home after training abroad for the last 12 years. We know that Wayne becomes Batman, but the journey that keeps us reading this series is the one of Gordon becoming Batman’s eventual ally.
All three of these books are available free to Amazon Prime member and are good additions to your reading library.
