The October solicitations were not what I'd call promising. DC pushed the last issue of Amethyst back, which makes sense considering issue #4 did not ship this month. They're canceling Batgirl, Rorschach mini-series, Grifter's showing up in one of the Bat-books, blah blah blah blah bl-fucking-ah.
Marvel had. . . absolutely jack shit I was interested in. No Black Cat, no Deadpool, no Runaways, no Taskmaster mini-series. Just a bunch of X-Men crap. Not even resolicits of issues that were originally going to appear in late spring. Did they just stealth cancel all of them?
OK, so those two are busts, and Boom! doesn't have an issue of Wicked Things listed, what's everyone else got? Jesse Lonergan has a one-shot called Hedra about an astronaut leaving a doomed world in search of a new one, and finding something strange. I could have sworn I saw this listed as coming out last week, but maybe not.
Dark Horse has the second issue of Spy Island (again), and bizarrely, a trade paperback for Ann Nocenti and David Aja's The Seeds, although it doesn't actually come out until December. Which released two of its four issues in 2018 and then vanished without a trace. So hopefully this has the other two issues, and I'll buy it eventually, because I'm kind of irritated about having to buy part of it twice.
Brandon Thomas and Lee Ferguson are publishing Sympathy for No Devils through Aftershock, about the last human in the world investigating the death of a Colossal (looks like giant baby, frankly), and the human has some secret that keeps him alive in a world of demons and monsters and whatnot. Eric Palicki and Wendell Cavalcanti are up to issue 2 of Atlantis Wasn't Built for Tourists. The solicit for the first issue (which is supposed to be out in August, guess we'll see) described it as Leone meets Lovecraft. I'm not even sure how you do that in a comic book, given how much of Leone was about marrying music and cinematic techniques, but what the hell. Clearly I'm not overburdened with options here.
The only other two things of interest to me were that Vertical has the 7th volume of Kino's Journey - The Beautiful World, although not actually available until December. Maybe I'll have caught up by then! And Seven Seas has volume 5 of Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General, although not actually available until November. Not that the release date matters that much, since it's usually months before I actually buy manga or trades.
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