July's solicits did not bring much good news. Certainly not much new business.There are two collections solicited I'll mention. I already bought them both as single issues, but if somebody was waiting for the trade on either Black Jack Demon (from Literati Press), or The Rush (from Vault Comics), they're solicited for July. Although The Rush apparently isn't out until August. Seven Seas Entertainment has volume 1 of Box of Light, which seems to be a manga about a convenience store somewhere on the edge between life and death.
The only new thing from Marvel was an issue of X-Men Legends about Longshot, written by Ann Nocenti. On top of that, there was no listed issue of She-Hulk (I assume because the book's been a month behind since February), and that Steve Skroce Clobberin' Time mini-series is apparently not happening for a while longer. Which leaves Moon Knight, Iron Cat, and the final issue of Wolverine: Patch, in the extremely unlikely event I'm still buying it.
DC, there's just Batgirls, if I'm still buying that. Image has the fifth issue of Slumber and maybe I will buy the first issue of Above Snakes, by Sean Lewis and Hayden Sherman. On the plus side, a Western, and I am a sucker for Westerns. On the negative, the solicit describes it as, 'an explosion of Western tropes and American vengeance that explores where our rage can take us.' So it's probably yet another story about the futility of revenge. So, maybe not.
Moving to other publishers, there's the third issue of Jenny Zero II, the fourth and final issue of Kaiju Score: Steal from the Gods, and the second issue of A Calculated Man. Which reminds us that knowing the math on committing murders doesn't mean someone can pull it off cleanly. The only other publisher with any comics I figure to buy is Scout. Distorted will be up to issue 5 (if I'm still buying it by then), and Broken Eye at issue 4, but there's also a new series called She Bites about a vampire in a child's body who hires a teenager to buy her smokes and whatnot. It's by Hedwig Hale and Alberto Hernandez, and I'll give it a look.
The other book from Scout is Locust: Ballad of Man. Locust was originally solicited as an 8-issue mini-series, but the last issue that came out was #4 last fall. Looks like they split it into two 4-issue mini-series. It's still by Massimo Rosi and Alex Nieto, so it should look the same, at least.
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