After the quiet affair of the April solicitations, May's brought a few new things. Like flowers blooming, they're pretty, but they also spew pollen everywhere and mess up your allergies.
What's new? Marvel has a Storm mini-series, written by Ann Nocenti, set during Storm's mohawk phase. I am conflicted. The "nostalgia" minis haven't exactly worked out great, even with characters I like a lot more than Storm. On the other hand, Ann Nocenti.
DC listed a Power Girl one-shot written by Leah Williams, but it says they changed Power Girl's superpowers after Lazarus Planet and she's estranged from the rest of the family, whatever that means. They did the different powers thing in the '90s, with the Atlantean heritage telekinesis or whatever, and I do not recall it being a rousing success.
Fairsquare Comics has Far South: Crooks, Pimps and Gauchos, which is described as a different sort of western, with violence in a Sin City style. Rodolfo Santullo's writing it, with Leandro Fernandez (who I remember from Ennis' MAX imprint Punisher work, if it's the same person) as the artist. Ten bucks, so I don't know if it's a one-shot, or a big collection or what.
OK, I haven't actually mentioned anything I'll definitely buy, so let's get an easy one. Impossible Jones and Captain Lightning #1, which is going to guest-star one of Kesel's other Kickstarter projects, the Section Zero cast he and Tom Grummett created. Black Jack Demon #4 isn't technically a new book, but there hasn't been an issue since 2021, I think that's a long enough absence to mention it here. Scout Comics also has Sudden Death #1, by Alexander Banks-Jongman and Robert Ahmad about a guy who can't die and a detective trying to solve why.
What's ending? Nature's Labyrinth, so we'll see how many answers we get.
What's left besides that? At Marvel, Fantastic Four and Deadpool involve fighting Dr. Doom and a host of assassins, respectively. Moon Knight's teaming up with Eddie Brock's kid. May give that a pass. Clobberin' Time and Hellcat are both on their third issues.
Unstoppable Doom Patrol is going to pit Robotman and Negative Man against a couple of Green Lanterns. Immortal Sergeant and Darkwing Duck are both up to issue 5, although by the time this posts, I may know whether I'm still bothering with the latter.
Fallen and Liquid Kill are both up to issue 4, although Liquid Kill has no been extended to a 6-issue mini-series instead of 5. Fallen promises that the gods are regaining strength, which I can't imagine will be good for humanity. Maybe the "Just Don't Look" strategy from the Simpsons Halloween Special will work on them, too.
As far as magna, Zom 100 issue 10 seems to involve the guys trying to cruise a geisha district in the apocalypse. Good to know they have the energy to be horny.
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I'm a bit surprised that Nocenti hasn't come back to do one of those nostalgia series with Daredevil, as I thought her run on that was quite well-regarded.
That's a good point, I know she did a short story with David Aja in, maybe issue 500, it was back before the Mark Waid run, but maybe she figures she said all she had to about him.
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