It's mostly been a bunch of slow months in the solicitations since everything went to hell back in the spring. Did the solicitations for January 2021 break the cycle?
No. Maybe we'll have to wait for solicits to be released in the actual new year.
Which doesn't mean there's nothing to discuss, just that I'm probably not buying much of it. DC announced Future State, which is going to be a two-month thing where they don't publish all their usual titles, but instead do a bunch of stories set in the amorphous future with the next generation of heroes or something. There's gonna be a different Superman and Wonder Woman, but it seems like Original Recipe Batman might still be roaming around.
It just reminds me of Convergence from a few years back. Remember, they came up with some weird excuse for a mini-event to do for two months while DC moved its offices cross-country or something?
Marvel, meanwhile, will be hip-deep in King in Black, as well as a shitload of Alien variant covers, 'cause they got that license away from Dark Horse. Great, I look forward to Carol Danvers adding one of them to her new attempt at an ongoing, like putting Conan in Savage Avengers. Or maybe they'll do a Pet Avengers reboot, and they can add it in there.
Other than that shit, there's Black Cat (doing a King in Black tie-in), Deadpool (doing a King in Black tie-in), and an Iron Fist mini-series by Larry Hama and David Wachter (not a tie-in to anything!) I didn't see Taskmaster or Power Pack, but there's supposed to be an issue of Runaways out this week, and I don't remember seeing it resolicited for release at any point, so who the hell knows.
Outside those two companies, it's mostly the smaller publishers. Aftershock has issue 4 of Sympathy for No Devils, and issue 3 of Kaiju Score. I'm hoping to have the first issue of Sympathy for No Devils by next week, so maybe I'll know if I'm interested.
21 Pulp has a collection of a series called Hero Hourly, by James Patrick, Carlos Trigo, Alex Sollazzo, and Marco del Verde about superheroing as a regular old job. I mean, maybe it would be fun. It's Alive is releasing a series by Sam Glanzman from the early 1960s called Kona: Monarch of Monster Isle. I only know Glanzman's work from the USS Stevens stories that used to run in some of DC's war comics. Again, might be worth a look.
Scout Comics has Sweet Downfall by Stefano Cardoselli, about an old crash-test dummy that works for the mob as a hitman, until he's ordered to bring in a mermaid. This is the first issue, but it may be meant mostly to get your interest, because it says shortly after this they'll release the whole thing as one volume. So maybe wait for the trade. Of course, Cardoselli was half the creative team on Live Die Reload, which I did not exactly love when I read it earlier this year, so that's a counter-argument.
The only other thing that caught my attention were the two trades for Jay Faerber's Elsewhere, which aren't new, but I guess I missed them the first time around. I wonder if it's a complete story, or if Faerber just dropped it part way through, which seems like what he did with Copperhead (and maybe Dynamo 5).
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