The solicitations for May are not as encouraging overall as those for April. However, if we're talking quality over quantity, Volume 4 of Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin's Bandette is coming out! Whoo! Everything is coming up Calvin! The rest of these solicitations can go pound sand, who gives a damn about them?!
. . .
OK, fine, we'll keep going.
DC is bringing the Milestone characters back, again. Just like the last, what two, three? times they did that, it will probably peter out after six months or so. Still, it's better than Marvel doing a Heroes Reborn mini-series.
*forehead strikes desk repeatedly*
I'm sure there are some people who have enough faith in Al Ewing to go for that, but I'm not one of them. To be fair, it seems mostly to be a world where the Squadron Supreme are the big heroes, and most of the typical Marvel heavyweights are absent. If you think that just sounds like DC with the Justice League, well, one of the tie-in series is Peter Parker as a photographer who is also Hyperion's best friend, which, you know, would not do anything do dispel your concerns.
With Marvel, The Union is wrapping up, Iron Fist will be on its penultimate issue, Black Knight's at issue 3. Runaways' solicitations says it can't even show us the cover for the issue because it would spoil possibly the best comic of 2021. I don't know man, that first issue of Iron Fist had Danny Rand knock an undead ninja's skull off with another undead ninja's arm. That's gonna be tough to beat. Black Cat gets a visit from a certain spider, and Way of X does not help its cause with a solicit about a threat in the mindscape, which makes me think Shadow King. No Shadow King, please.
Image has the trade of Dan Watters and Jan Wijngaard's Limbo, which came out five years ago, but I'd swear I saw this solicit for the first time before the time of plague, but maybe not.
Behemoth Comics has the second issue of You Promised Me Darkness, so if I like the first issue, that'll be something to look forward to. There's also Freak Snow by Kevin Roditeli and Rob Cannon, about a guy addicted to psychedelics living in a frozen wasteland on a quest to find a mystic hole of truth. Could be fun, could also be a complete mess.
Mad Cave has a tpb of Hollywood Trash, about two garbagemen who steal from a powerful executive and must survive his attempts to kill them via swords and giant mechs. Also forest fires, but this is set in California, those could be unrelated fires. Vault has the first volume of Brandon Sanderson's Dark One, where a man learns he's prophesied to travel to another realm and become a great destroyer, and has to embrace that? Doesn't that seem like a fate you should be trying to avert? But in this day and age, who hasn't had thoughts of destroying everything?
Beyond that, there's the fourth issue of White Lily from Red 5 Comics, and Source Point has Graham Misuriak and A.L. Jones' Yuki vs. Panda, about a panda that has spent ten years bent on revenge against a schoolgirl for something that happened at the zoo. It sounds bizarre enough to be worth a look, you can go different ways with that.
Scout Comics has the tpb of Sweet Downfall, the story about the crash test dummy turned hitman, I reviewed the sampler issue of last month. And there's a "Legendary Edition" of something called Phantom Starkiller, about a 'cosmic ghoul warrior', based on a toyline? Points for the name alone, though.
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Well, the last time Marvel did a Heroes Reborn follow-up, it was Loeb and Liefeld's Onslaught Reborn, so it could be a lot worse.
I actually thought of that when I saw this solicit. You're right, this almost certainly can't be as bad as that probably was. (I didn't read it because Loeb and Liefeld working together on something seemed like an event horizon of awful that would rip my eyeballs right out of my head.)
I'm not on the "Al Ewing is the greatest comic writer since Alan Moore" bandwagon but I'm convinced he'd do a much better job than Liefeld and Loeb.
I'm not sure I've actually read any of Ewing's Marvel stuff. I bought the first issue of that "We Only Find Them When They're Dead" thing he did thru Boom starting last year, and as first issue go, it didn't do much for me.
People swear his Hulk run is good, but I'm not sure I care that much about Hulk.
I read the first twelve issues or so of his Immortal Hulk and it's... fine. I was led to believe it was a grand reimagining of the character, but it's more of a shift in perspective. The Hulk is still the Hulk, but they are looking at it from a horror perspective, so the storytelling is a bit different.
It reminds me a lot of the Bruce Jones run from 2001 or so. There's also an element of JMS' Spidey run, as there's an attempt to add a mystical element to the Hulk concept, similar to the Spider Totem idea.
It's fine. Readable enough, but nothing that blew me away.
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