Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Starting the New Year by Hitting the Snooze Button

Typically I listen to part of a Youtube music playlist while I scan through the solicitations. So I can sort of judge how interesting a month it is by how many songs it takes to make it through. It was only 8 for January's solicits. Granted, one of those was a 9-minute Deadmau5 track, but still, not a lot to make me stop and go, "Hmmmmmm, maybe. . ."

What's new that's coming out? Denpa Books has Short Game, which looks like a collection of Mitsuru Adachi's (Cross Game) shorter manga works. So maybe a bit like the Akira Toriyama Magna Theater I picked up two years ago.

Other than that? Ummmmm, I briefly entertained buying New Gods, but I think that was strictly a reaction to the Walt Simonson variant cover.

What's wrapping up? Avengers Assemble, and it sounds like it's Captain America's turn to become a snake-person. Ha, see how you like being responsible for the next 40 years' worth of America's downward spiral, Rogers!

And the rest: Let's see, we've got Metamorpho, Laura Kinney: Wolverine, Dust to Dust and The Surgeon (now listed as a 6-issue mini-series), all on their second issues. They're dealing with a rival to Sapphire Stagg, Elektra-Daredevil (is there some cutesy shortened name for that?), ecological disaster and, whatever 'the Hot Animal Machines' are, respectively. I'm guessing the Transformers from Beast Wars, filtered through one of those AI art things. Terrifying.

Batgirl, and Calvera PI are on their third issues, while Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu's up to issue 4. It's mommy issues, drug trade, and an imminent return to the grave to plague that group.

Beyond that, Body Trade is up to its penultimate issue (assuming I'm still buying it), Reed Richards is going to attempt to time travel to understand magic in Fantastic Four, and Deadpool's not dead any longer. Whether or not he's pool remains to be determined. On the manga front, volume 9 of Yakuza Fiance, so I better get back to trying to close the gap.

And that's it. Red Before Black was absent (and issue 3 didn't ship this month, either.) The Pedestrian's not back (assuming it will be at all.) Scout didn't even bother listing Rogues or Loop. I didn't realize Dark Harbor might just be another sub-imprint of Scout, but now Loop's absence makes perfect sense. Still, I guess 11 books isn't too shabby, assuming I'm actually buying all of them.

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