Well, October's solicitations had a bunch of things that at least merited a second look. I don't know how many I'd actually buy, but that's still an improvement, I guess.
What's new? Let's dispense with the big event stuff first. Marvel's got some X-thing that's running 16 mini-series. It got to the point, scrolling through the solicits, I wondered if they'd just canceled all their regular books for the duration of this mess, ala Hickman's Secret Wars.
Anyway, I see comparisons drawn to Age of Apocalypse, but the way it's set some ambiguous stretch into the future, with everyone being a mutant now, reminds me more of Earth X. There were a handful of mini-series I glanced at, but once I saw the creative teams, I usually lost enthusiasm. X-Avengers? Written by Jason Loo (writer of that lousy Dazzler mini-series). Pass. Binary? Stephanie Phillips, who is less "hit-or-miss" with me, and more just "miss" (pending the conclusion of Red Before Black.) Pass. Longshots? I'm more a fan of the concepts Jonathan Hickman introduces than how he writes them, and I'm not sure Gerry Duggan being collaborator to offset that. Undeadpool? Don't love the concept, and I've not read anything of Tim Seeley's I found really satisfying (West of Sundown had a lot of potential I thought was left unexplored.) Radioactive Spider-Man? Not the biggest Joe Kelly guy, although I do like Kev Walker's art.
Eh, there's another two months of solicits before any of this comes out. Maybe one of the books can sell itself a little better before then.
Stepping away from Marvel, there were a few things. Matt Kindt and Tomas Giorello have Save Now, through Bad Idea, about a guy who can rewind to the past, but hasn't been able to avert the end of the world. Apparently each trip back gets added onto his life, so if he was 30 and traveled back to when he was 6, by the time he got back to when he was 30, he'd actually be 54. I'm not clear on how that manifests, and I didn't love Kindt's Apache Delivery Service when I read it last year, but, you know, maybe?
Oni Press and EC are releasing an Outlaw Showdown anthology book. I only paused because it had a nice cover and I spotted Ann Nocenti as one of the writers. $9, though. Image has the first issue of a 3-issue mini-series by Benito Cereno, Derek Hunter and Spencer Hall, Hector Plasm: Hunt the Bigfoot. I might want to track down the earlier Hector Plasm stuff to see if it's my jam, but put it down as a strong "probably." IDW had Tuatha, a one-shot by Gavin Fullerton about a woman transporting the head of her dead king through what's left of their civilization. Stronger odds than Save Now, worse than Hector Plasm?
IDW also had a graphic novel, Jonas Thorne's Bridge Planet Nine, which is a heist on a supposedly uninhabited planet that goes wrong. The cover was definitely eye-catching. Pow Pow has The Mongoose by Joana Mosi, a graphic novel about a woman proving it is a mongoose trashing the garden she's taking care of. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but that's my primary takeaway at this time. Titan has a tpb of Shannon Eric Denton and David Hartman's Kraken, which seems like it's about a pulp hero-type who was lost in another dimension for 3 years and has returned significantly altered by the experience. Of the three, Bridge Planet Nine, then The Mongoose, then Kraken in terms of likelihood. How easily I can get them may decide things.
What's ending? Runaways, though One World Under Doom still somehow has another month to go. If they must waste our time with Big Events, they should keep them 6 issues of shorter, because it just drags out something no one believes will have any significance long past the point it becomes annoying.
Bronze Faces is also supposed to conclude in October. Given its erratic release schedule so far, I'll believe it when it's in my hands.
And the rest: Batgirl's checking back in with the crew in Gotham, Moon Knight Fist of Khonshu's dealing with the Wrecker, Black Cat and Fantastic Four are on their third and fourth issues, respectively.
So right now, it's looking like 7 comics, 8 or 9 tops, plus a graphic novel or two, maybe. Hope they're more "treat" than "trick".
2 comments:
I liked Hector Plasm; it's a sort of low-key comedic Hellboy, but it was difficult to keep track of it when an issue came out once every 12 years, usually unannounced.
I noticed it had been a while since a previous issue had shown up. Means there's not many back issues for me to track down, at least.
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