As we leave 2025, we will of course, look back. But not until tomorrow. Today, we look ahead - to March (and a little of April) of 2026! The solicitations have trickled out over the last two weeks, so let's see what spring holds.
What's new? Well, after a fairly interesting February, March settled back down. Not much new that caught my eye. DC gets first crack at Superman and Spider-Man. Judging by the number of creators I saw, I'm guessing they're sticking with the approach of a moderately-sized story about the title characters, and then a bunch of short ones about other combos. I'd prefer just giving the main story as much space as possible, but I'm not likely to buy this any time soon, so my preferences really don't matter.
At Marvel, I'm pondering the Moonstar series (mini-series?) by Ashley Allen and Edoardo Audino. I'm not sure why. I've never been a big New Mutants' fan, or had any strong opinions on Moonstar in particular. Maybe that's why. After the letdown of Black Cat, better to stick with a character I have fewer preconceived notions about, no specific runs or interpretations of Moonstar to judge this book unfavorably against.
Or maybe I just like archers.
What's ending? Image's solicits swear the final issue of Dust to Dust is coming out in March. That should be filed firmly under, "believe it when I'm holding the comic in my hands," but we'll put it here for now.
And the rest: Batgirl is the only title past 10 issues, and Cassandra is back in Gotham, but dealing with suddenly appearing shadow/blood powers, which the solicit says may be connected to DC K.O. Damn it, if I cared about that mess, I woulda bought it!
The Fantastic Four are still dealing with this "Invincible Woman" thing, Nova and Star-Lord apparently aren't pals any more (I have no idea why.) Babs and Spirit of the Shadows will both be on issue 3, while D'Orc, Is Ted OK?, Generation X-23, and Marc Spector: Moon Knight are on their second issues. D'Orc seems to have taken the reasonable approach of wanting to avoid all these people who plan to kill him for something he might do, while Moon Knight's got to enemies fighting over him like Betty and Veronica. Sarah tries to help Ted, as he uncovers a conspiracy in his company. Is he right it's run by aliens, or is this just the usual corporate malfeasance? The X-23 book? I'm not sure if she found another place experimenting on mutants, or one that's trying to make mutants. Mutates, I guess.
Dark Horse solicited the 3rd issue of Touched by a Demon, as the demon tries to help some lonely office worker with a more hands-on approach. Which seems ominous, but that won't be out until April.
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