The Gift of Books You Can't Buy For Another Three Months

There's actually quite a bit going on in the solicitations for March that interests me, roughly equal parts good and bad.

Last month, I said the Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell series was on a skip month. Well, they solicited issue 4 for March, so I guess it isn't skipping February. That's good. On the other hand, Dark Horse's website says the Ann Nocenti/David Aja miniseries, The Seeds, is supposed to be out March 28, but it isn't in the solicits. That's bad, but I'll wait. I'm not operating under the illusion it'll come out monthly, because David Aja couldn't keep to that schedule with a year's lead time and his life depending on it. I am operating under the theory it'll be interesting (because Nocenti) and look good (because Aja).

At DC, they're restarting some of those Young Animal line books, now set after the crossover thing they're doing in February. So it's Cave Carson Has an Interstellar Eye whatever that means. No Gerard Way, but Jon Rivera's still writing it and Michael Avon Oeming is still drawing it, so I'll give it a shot. Other than that, I think they're spinning some more stuff off from that Metal thing, and probably some other stuff. Kyle Rayner's struggling to use Hal's ring (why?), Lois' asshole dad is gonna meet his grandson, stuff like that.

Marvel is canceling a bunch of titles, the only one of concern to me is Gwenpool. You can commiserate about any of the ones that were near and dear to you in comments. It's disappointing, but not surprising. Although how the crap is that Punisher book with him in the War Machine armor not in the toilet yet? But hey, Marvel's got plenty of quality books to replace the recently departed! Like Weapon H, the book about a Hulk that has Wolverine claws! And Infinity Countdown, another mini-series about people trying to collect all the Infinity Gems! Feel my excitement, I'm about to die from it. Wait, wait, no, that's actually boredom. Or gas. Might be gas.

Like Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood Suckers, a mini-series written by Joe R. Lansdale about Nixon recruiting Elvis to fight aliens. Sure, "Bubba Ho-Tep" was how Elvis described that soul-sucking mummy, rather than any term referring to the King himself, but if I hadn't seen that phrase, I probably would have scrolled right past this solicit. So let's hear it for branding.

That's pretty much it for books either hopping on or falling off the shopping list. Giant Days, Squirrel Girl, Ms. Marvel, and Deadpool are continuing to chug along, the old reliables at this point. Well, maybe not Deadpool so much, but he's going to get into a fight with Captain America in March! Not HYDRA Cap, but that's still hopefully something.