August solicits really not looking great. The most interesting thing is Dark Horse and IDW both got booted from the Premiere Publishers section at the top of the website (now the exclusive realm of Marvel, Image, Boom and Dynamite), down amongst the little guys.
There wasn't anything new coming out I might get. The closest was a mini-series called The Plot Holes by Sean Gordon Murphy, who's been doing those alternate timeline Batman stories recently (White Knight or something like that), about a team of fictional characters who jump into other stories to keep the plot from being destroyed. The main character is a fictional writer character who I assume will prove his worth via familiarity with genre conventions. All that time on TVTropes wasn't a waste!
It's published by Massive, which I think might just be Whatnot (which published Liquid Kill) under a new name. It has the 8 different covers I expect from their books, and the next publisher down was Massive-Whatnot. Who knows with this stuff?
The only thing I was already buying that's ending is Fallen, which might actually end since it shipped two issues this month. On the same day, which was a little odd, but Red 5's always been weird with publishing schedules.
DC's still running that Knight Terrors event from last month, but also starting up all the regular books again, so Unstoppable Doom Patrol will be back. Except now it's a 7-issue mini-series instead of six. Did it get a really positive sales response? That additional issue is offset by Grit N Gears, which was solicited for issue 5 of a-now 6-issue mini, instead of 7. And the first issue did actually come out this month, so issue 5 may see the light of day (though I suspect in September, not August)
The other 3 single issues were from Marvel: Moon Knight, Fantastic Four, and Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest. Being Marvel, there's at least three mini-events going on simultaneously, between starting up Fall of X, starting up this "Contest of Chaos" thing with Annuals for different titles. Two of which are Moon Knight and FF, but I don't care about the Agatha Harkness vs. Scarlet Witch magic-off, so skipping those. Then there's Death of the Venomverse, which is one of those five-week, one-month things. Didn't they introduce the Venomverse a month ago? And they're already killing it? I mean, I'm fine with wiping out Venom, all symbiotes can fuck right off, but Marvel seemingly thinks people like him, so it's kinda weird, even for their typical ham-handed idiocy.
I guess I could add that Viz Media solicited volume 11 of Zom 100, but I'm still not past volume 2, so that's largely academic. Jeez, if I'm going to be down to six comics, I might do something drastic and stupid, like start buying Battle Chasers (which solicited another issue. 3 months in a row, holy shit!) More likely, there's going to be a sharp uptick in Random Back Issues and manga/tpb reviews as summer rolls on.
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Boom and Dynamite are top tier now? How things have changed!
I'm still not convinced that this Battle Chasers revival isn't an elaborate prank.
I guess according to Diamond, whatever that's worth. Apparently Dark Horse joined DC in shipping out most of their comics through some other distributor, so that's probably why it got bounced. Diamond doesn't even list DC's upcoming stuff any longer, which is kind of annoying when I'm trying to figure out if they actually publish anything I want to read.
As for Battle Chasers, the first new issue is supposed to ship next month, so we'll see then.
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