Some New Things to Love in February

Not a lot of new things, mind you, and they were confined to a few companies, but there were a few things.

From Red 5, there's Fallen, a six-issue mini-series by Matt Ringel and Henry Ponciano, about an immortal warrior who serves Zeus, acting as a P.I. looking into the murder of a god. I think Ponciano's the cover artist as well, and if so, I like the look of it. Whatnot Publishing has only been in Previews a few months, and seems largely defined by getting well-known artists to do variant covers. Case in point, the solicit for Liquid Kill touts Toni Infante being a new cover artist before it tells you anything about the book or creative team (Max Hoven and Aaron Crow as writers, Gabriel Iumazark as artist). Liquid Kill's concept sounds at least intriguing. A militia of vigilantes searching for their leader fighting some horrible monster. Sounds a bit like Predator, or something along those lines.

The other three were from Scout Comics. Kesel and Hahn have another Impossible Jones one-shot. There's also Deadfellows, by Kody Hamilton and Ramiro Borallo, about a guy stopped from killing himself by a ghost in his apartment, who tries to befriend the ghost. The other book is TC Pescatore and Luciano Cruzado's Junction Jones and the Corduroy Conspiracy. I feel like I've seen other Junction Jones books, but my quick search revealed nothing, so *shrugs*. I don't know if I'll get either of the latter two books, but they're at least Maybes.

There's only one thing out of the rest of my books that's ending in February, and that's Sgt. Rock vs. the Army of the Dead. The cover suggests Rock's fighting amped-up, undead Hitler. Aw yeah, punch his jaw off like the Black Panther did to the Red Skull that one time!

Everything else is still in progress. Tiger Division will be on its penultimate issue, while the Mary Jane and Black Cat mini-series is up to issue 3, even as Dark Web appears to be wrapping up. The Wasp and Northern Guard mini-series will both be on issue 2, if I buy either one. Nature's Labyrinth is up to issue 4, and Grit N Gears is up to issue 3, although I'd swear the length of the mini-series increases with every month. It was 6 issues last month, now it's up to 7. Is this some sort of bait and switch, or is the story getting away from the creative team?

Deadpool and Fantastic Four are on issue 4, and it at least appears Ryan North is going to explain the smoking crater that made everyone hate the FF. Better than Zeb Wells dragging that shit out, what 15 issues so far, on Amazing Spider-Man? Moon Knight is all the way up to issue 20, while Immortal Sergeant and Darkwing Duck would both be on their second issues.

Overall, it's potentially a busy first couple of months, assuming these books ship on time, but there's at least 4 or 5 of these I might skip, and I haven't seen the first issue of Nature's Labyrinth of Grit N Gears to judge them on. Deadpool's not entirely safe, either. So it's in flux.