A Slow Cooling Off in October

New things in the solicitations I found interesting is pretty small, and none of it feels like a definite buy. Let's run it down.

There's Ghost Planet, a 40-page one-shot out of Scout Comics, by Jeffrey Burandt and Sean van Dorman which is about a family of space explorers trying to get off a planet where their loved ones are back from the dead and trying to kill them. If it's a mystery about what's going on, I might be more interested, but the solicit describes it as a, 'classic sci-fi tale with a body horror twist.' I'm not really a body horror guy. Image has the tpb of New Masters, by Shobo and Shof Coker, about a bunch of kids in West Africa who find an ancient artifact and have to deal with the struggle that emerges over it.

Source Point has the first issue of A Guardian (or A. Guardian, it looks like there's a period after the "A"), by Eastin DeVerna and Kay Baird about the sentinel of some ancient tomb and what they'll have to do when a war erupts. I haven't had a lot of luck with things published by Source Point, though. Finally there's the first volume of No Longer Allowed in Another World out of Seven Seas (though not until December). It's one of those isekai mangas, where the protagonist finds themselves in a fantasy world. Those things are insanely popular these days, and . But Hiroshi Noda and Takahiro Wakamatsu's protag is some depressed writer from the 1940s who just wants to find a place to die. Get in line.

There's a few resolicited items in there. Blood Moon put the second through fourth issues of Ice Canyon Monster back up. I might buy the second issue, but the other two would have to wait, assuming any of them actually show up. Marvel did relist the first issue of Ann Nocenti's X-Men Legends story, so that's nice.

Actually might not be an awful month for Marvel, since there's the last issue of Iron Cat, plus a Moon Knight Annual, the Moon Knight ongoing, She-Hulk, and Damage Control. Although it remains to be seen if I like Damage Control, and She-Hulk is on thin ice. Issue 6 is really gonna have to hook me, but that's 6 books potentially.

Beyond that, fourth issues of Blink, Above Snakes, and Agent of Worlde. Although the last of those says it's the fourth of four issues, while I am sure the previous couple of issues said this was a 5-issue mini-series. The solicitation text doesn't really read like you'd expect for a conclusion, either. There's also the third issues of She Bites and Locust: Ballad of Man, and it turns out Sgt. Rock vs. the Army of Undead is a 6-issue mini-series, not a one-shot.

Even with things slowing down, there's a good shot that 2022 will already be my biggest year in new comic purchases since at least 2015 by the end of October. I'm not sure if I'm doing any better at picking things I ultimately enjoy, though.