The October solicits were real slim pickings. There was no issue of Black Cat listed, so Marvel was down to Defenders and Moon Knight. And I still haven't seen an issue of the former yet, so who knows if I'll like it.
Outside that, no Black Jack Demon or Impossible Jones (no surprise on either count, but it would have been nice to be surprised), and no Locust. There is an issue of Deadbox, so hopefully the first issue of that impresses me when it comes out in August.
In new (to me) business, Albatross ran the solicitation for the first volume of a book called Namwolf, by Fabian Rangel and Logan Faerber, which came out in 2017, about a young soldier who figures out he's a werewolf while fighting in the Vietnam War. Does seem like a good way to get shot at by both sides.
Black Mask Comics has an OGN, Eternal, by Ryan Lindsay and Eric Zawadski, about some viking warrior women who defend their village from some hordes led by a, 'loitering mystical scumbag.' There's also the fourth and final issue of Everfrost, written by Lindsay with Sami Kivela as artist, which has a very cool cover. The first two issues are already out, so I might go back and pick those up.
In addition to Deadbox, Vault Comics has another series called Rush by Si Spurrier and Nathan Gordon, about some weird goings-on in the Yukon Territory around the dawn of the 20th Century. It sounds pretty cool, and even if Black Knight and Way of X didn't knock my socks off, Spurrier's non-Marvel work hasn't let me down yet (Spire, Coda). Look, I have to get excited about something, OK?
As far as manga, the 7th volume of Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General (christ that title's exhausting to type) is coming out, and there's volume 2 of No. 2, about a council of beings created to keep the peace, but one of them has gone rogue for some reason or another.
The only other thing I saw was from Aspen Comics of all places, called Artifact One, By J.T. Krul, Vince Hernandez, and Romina Moranelli, about a curious explorer who finds some startling secret. I mean, that could go a lot of places, although they solicited issues 0 through 4 at the same time (although they also say 2-4 are going to come out before 0 and 1, which is a curious publishing strategy.) But even if I bought all five issues (a big if), plus Everfrost, Rush and the single issues I'm already buying, that'd only add up to 10 comics for the month.
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