It's A Lopsided Kind of March

So the March solicits were pretty lousy. Outside Marvel, I hardly found anything. 

DC's kicking off their Infinite Frontier thing, which has largely amounted to them drastically slashing their number of titles. Which, on the one hand, is probably smart. Focus on books you think can actually survive. From my perspective, it's not great, because the books they're going to publish aren't ones I'm interested in. Not that that's a new thing. The closest was the anthology Bat-book, Batman: Urban Legends, that might highlight non-Batman Gotham types. But even then, it'll depend on which characters they pick.

Oh, and Ryan North and Derek Charm are doing some kind of Lil' Constantine graphic novel, which is an. . . interesting choice. Not one for me, but I'm sure for somebody.

As for Marvel, Black Cat is finally out of King in Black tie-in hell! Whoo! But with yet another artist. Sigh. Black Knight and Beta Ray Bill are each getting mini-series. I don't know the Daniel Warren Johnson that's writing and drawing Beta Ray's book, but Si Spurrier's teaming up with Sergio Davila on Black Knight. Between Spire, Coda, and that Marvel Zombies Secret Wars tie-in mini-series, Spurrier's usually worked out for me. The Larry Hama Iron Fist mini will be up to issue 3, The Union up to issue 4, and Taskmaster will be on its last issue. Runaways is supposed to finally ship that issue where the mutants to to convince Molly to come to their shitty weird sex-cult island, so she can hang out with cool dudes like Magneto and Mr. Sinister. There was no sign of Deadpool's ongoing; instead there's some giant-sized 30th anniversary issue of his first appearance. 

Pass.

Like Taskmaster, Sea of Sorrows will be on its last issue, if I'm still buying it at that point. White Lily, about the Soviet fighter ace lady, will be on its second issue. The only new thing I saw that looked interesting was by Louis Southard and David Hahn, called Midnight Western Theatre, about two strangers marching into a town held hostage by some outlaw and his gang. One of them has sharp teeth on the cover, so I'm guessing vampires.