Diamond's selection of September solicits was pretty thin, but I also went through Lunar Publishing's stuff, plus finding the larger companies' - DC, Marvel, Image, IDW, Dark Horse, Boom - offerings scattered around your various comic news sites.
Not looking great! DC has entirely too many books written by Tom King, and most of Marvel's still about fighting Godzilla, when it's not hyping a new Marvel Zombies, now under their "Red Band" imprint. Now they can be extra graphic with the depictions of eating human flesh (because they'd been so restrained, previously.)
Deadpool/Batman is $7, so I won't be buying that unless I can find a beat up used copy somewhere. Also, Marvel must have decided those comics spinning off from the '90s X-Men cartoon were gold, because they're doing one for the '90s Spider-Man cartoon. And it looks, judging by the cover, like they're going to introduce Morlun. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.
What's new I'm buying? Probably nothing. Zethia Space Witch by Anton William Blake, through Cosmic Lion Productions, sounded like it might be interesting. That's as close as anything got, and I had to go back through a second time looking for anything that even remotely jumped out at me to find that.
What's ending? The Thing. For some reason, I thought it was a 6-issue mini-series, but I was wrong. I guess if he fights Juggernaut in issue 4, there's not much room left for escalation. Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma wraps up, although I'm increasingly unsure I'll stick with that.
And the rest: Image's website says Dust to Dust 6 comes out in August, then issue 7 comes out in September. So the mini-series will probably end sometime this fall. Maybe!
Moon Knight's maybe doing a favor for the Wrecker. Which makes sense, as the Wrecker was instrumental to freeing Khonshu so he could resurrect Marc Spector during that Blood Hunt event. The Fantastic Four are doing something in issue 3 to try and stop Doom, the Runaways mini-series is up to issue 4, and Black Cat is on issue 2. Batgirl is getting confronted by the same cult that killed Shiva's parents, so we'll see what happens with that, I guess.
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I'm not sure what's worse; Marvel persevering with "red band" or persevering with Marvel Zombies.
That's a tough one. As little as I like Marvel Zombies, I think I might go with "Red Band", just because it feels pointless. It's not even real shock value, it's fake shock value, because I don't think it really adds anything to the comics they publish under that imprint.
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