'Tis The Season For Random Mini-Series

So what's coming out in July? 

Jonathan Hickman's writing at Marvel again, this time with a couple of X-Men mini-series, which will probably lead into him writing an ongoing series for the X-Men, just as soon as Marvel cancels Uncanny X-Men again, which they only restarted late last year.

Mark Waid's writing an Invisible Woman mini-series, which tells us she was involved in an espionage mission before she went into space and got bombarded with cosmic rays. Sure, whatever. There's a Death's Head mini-series, by Trini Howard and Kei Zama. I don't know anything about either of their work, so I can't say whether it'll be any good or not, but if you're a fan of Death's Head, something to keep an eye out for.

There are also several random one-shots. Blade fighting Wolverine (in his black and grey X-Force costume, based on the cover). The Punisher fighting the Brood Queen in outer space (with Jonah Jameson along for the ride?!) Ms. Marvel's getting an Annual (not by her current creative team or the previous one) where she fights Super-Skrull, who is Skrull Emperor now. When did that happen?

Squirrel Girl is still trying to finish its War of Realms tie-in, even though War of Realms will be over by then. Barring delays. So it probably won't be over by then.

DC, the only thing I noted that wasn't me being sarcastic was that Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber and doing a 12-issue Jimmy Olsen mini-series. Oh, and they're releasing the second volume of Orion by Walt Simonson. I don't really care about the Fourth World stuff, outside of preferring to have Scott Free and Barda running around being a cute crime-fighting married couple, but I know a lot of folks swear by Simonson's Orion.

I didn't see anything from Dark Horse or Image that interested me. IDW may have the last (or at least the 4th) issue of something called Ghost Tree. The first issue is supposed to be out this week, and the description sounded interesting enough I may buy it. Whether I'll still be buying it in July is another matter.  In other news involving books that are already out that I'm just becoming aware of, the 4th issue of Bronze Age Boogie, which is about combining a bunch of different popular '70s genres into one story will be out, by Stuart Moore and Tyrone Finch. If barbarians and martial artists against Martians sounds fun, there you go.

The fifth story of Infinity 8 starts in July, as a zombie outbreak on the ship spreads to the mass space graveyard, rather than the other way around. Smooth Criminals was absent from the Boom! solicits again, but Giant Days is there, so that's the important thing.

I'm going to be so depressed when that book ends.

Michael Jan Friedman and Caio Cacau have a graphic novel called Empty Space coming out, about a guy who wakes up on a starship that seems like the one he knows, but not quite. So there's a mystery afoot. Calbier Entertainment has a collection of Live Die Reload, but Andrea Armenta and Stefano Cardoselli. I don't really know how to summarize the description, other than it seems like a bit of a noir book, but with some mysticism or supernatural elements.

At least I found a few promising items for mid-summer.