July solicits! Not too great! Isn't the perfect time to read comics when it's too hot and humid to be moving around? On the other hand, given the increase in devastating wildfires, carrying easily flammable things could constitute a health hazard.
Speaking of signs of disaster, Image solicited issue 11 of Battle Chasers. Joe Mad had multiple issues ready to go?!
(I'm not buying it, but it was surprising enough to merit mention.)
What's new I might buy? Ann Nocenti's writing a Captain Marvel mini-series, but one set in the current day, rather than a continuity insert. So I might try that. Stephen Mooney and David Messina are doing another Rocketeer story for IDW, Den of Thieves, following up on the "European flying race" mini-series they did previously. Not sure if it's a one-shot or mini-series, or if I'll buy it, but it's there.
There were 3 books from Scout Comics I'm looking at. Most notably, Louis Southard's Midnight Western Theatre: Witch Trial, set prior to most of the action of the first mini-series. Butch K. Mapa, who I'm not familiar with, will be artist rather than David Hahn, but I'm excited! Space Outlaw is written and drawn by Marco Fontanelli, a 3-issue mini-series about a Martian killer robot sent to capture an escaped prisoner. Fontanelli homaged The Outlaw Josey Wales with the cover, so, fingers crossed for something good. Finally there's Wild Cosmos, by Curtis Clow and Mauro Mandalari, about a salvage crew running into trouble in an abandoned space station.
That's the one I'm least interested in, but we'll see. If it's a slow month I might try it. Assuming any of these show. That Impossible Jones one-shot was supposed to be out two months ago, nothing.
I might buy Eight Limbs, a graphic novel by Stephanie Phillips and Giulia Lalli, through Humanoids, about a Muay Thai fighter coming out of retirement to help her adopted kid. Don't know, see how I feel. This was originally released in 2021 but, Search for Hu, about a man trying to protect his parents from their feuding mob families. It's by Jon Tsuei and Steve Orlando, with Rubine as artist.
What's wrapping up? Hellcat, Clobberin' Time, and The Great British Bump-Off will all conclude in July. I was expecting to see the solicit for the last issue of Fallen, but it was absent. Maybe not a surprise, since we should be on issue 3 by now (meaning April), but we've only seen 1.
What's left? Hardly anything that was actually listed. Fantastic Four and Grit N Gears. On the latter, let's note that issue 1 was supposed to come out this month, and it did not. This is after it was originally solicited for December, only to not come out. So, consider me doubtful. There's also Moon Knight, but since it's issue 25, Marvel's doing a 96-page issue (although some of that's a reprint, and the rest is leading into an event), at $10. Maybe I can find a beat-to-hell copy on discount. Fallen may show up, but at this rate, it may only be up to issue 4 by July.
DC is doing some sort of nightmare event thing which seems to have put all their books on delay for the month, so no Unstoppable Doom Patrol. Black Jack Demon couldn't make it to 3 consecutive months, which is fine. I wasn't expecting that.
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