Maybe "deluge" is too strong a word, but April certainly has the potential to be a busier month for comics than any I've had in a while, even if it's just a couple of possible additions to the holdovers from the month before. Plus, Deadpool's done crossing over with other books for at least a second, so I welcome it back to the fold as well.
What's new that's coming out? DC has Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma, a mini-series by Ram V, Anand RK and Butch Guice about Mitch Shelley dealing with a threat his powers somehow created. The New 52 volume of Resurrection Man was ultimately a big disappointment, though maybe I could remove the specific title and leave the statement's truth unchanged, but this might be worth at least a look-see.
The other book was Past Time, by Joe Harris and Dave Chisholm, about a vampire hoping the advent of night-time baseball will let him live out his big-league dreams. That could go several ways, but Chisholm drew (and wrote) Canopus, which I enjoyed a lot, so it's probably worth a look.
Is anything ending? No, not yet, although the solicit for Secret Six #2 has me less enthused for that book by the minute. I may be done with it before it even starts.
And all the rest: Marvel's got Fantastic Four 31, still in tie-ins to the big Doom event. Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu teases a return to villainy for 8-Ball, Laura Kinney and Winter Soldier are still having a team-up, and The Thing has Ben Grimm trying to protect his pal from Bullseye? That should be a short fight, like that Marvel Adventures story where Bullseye turns around to find Hulk looming over him, demanding he, "pay taxes."
Bullseye: *Throws something pointy that bounces off Ben."
Thing: Knock that off.
Bullseye: Yes sir.
Al Ewing and Steve Lieber are going to have Metamorpho franchise, which is never a good idea, and it sounds like Batgirl is going to take six issues to explain why Cass and Shiva are being hunted, which doesn't thrill me.
Dust to Dust is supposed to be past the halfway mark in April, although I didn't see it show up this month. Hardly encouraging if the book is behind schedule after 1 issue. Bronze Faces is at the stage where people learn shocking truths at inopportune moments. The next iteration of Great British Bump-Off is up to issue 2, and The Surgeon will be at issue 5. Mine is a Long, Lonesome Grave is up to issue 3 and promising the person behind the curse is close to being revealed, but there's no indication how long this series is, so skepticism seems warranted. And wrapping it up, Dark Pyramid will be at issue 2.
Lotta unknowns in the mix there. Books could be late, books could be disappointing, but hopefully there's enough of them to keep April from getting too dull.
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