May on a Precipice

May solicits didn't present many surprises, other than I didn't see Nova: Centurion. Apparently it's been canceled. Ouch. Combined with two books ending in May, I fear I'm headed for another second-half decline in comics to buy.

What's new? Marvel's Spider-Man/Superman crossover was in the May solicitations, after also being in April's. Not sure if that means it was delayed, or Marvel was trying to get a jump on orders or what. Either way, it's still written by a bunch of people whose work I have no interest in, so pass it over again.

IPI has the first issue of The Matron, by Drew Edwards, David Bowles, Monica Gallagher and Henry Saxon, which follows the daughter and granddaughter of a famous serial killer, trying to live their lives decades later, when a similar string of killings begins. Will I even be able to find copies of this book to try it out? Dunno.

Mad Cave has a solicitation for the tpb of Our Soot Stained Heart, a mini-series by Joni Hagg and Stipian Morian which hasn't actually finished coming out yet, but maybe it will have by late spring.

What's ending? Spirit of the Shadows concludes with issue 5. It was in last month's batch of solicits, but the 4th and final issue of Touched by a Demon is also supposed to be out in May.

And the rest? With no Nova, Marvel is down to Fantastic Four #11 (with a back-up story by Stan Sakai!), Marc Spector: Moon Knight #4, Generation X-23 #4, and Moonstar #3. Ryan North's also writing a mini-series about Dr. Doom trying to go back in time to fix all sorts of past conflicts in an attempt to create a better future, before Reed Richards can do the same.

Which is a very Doom thing to do (if not a very Reed thing to do), but, setting aside Marvel's occasional rules on changing the past just creating branching timelines, can North give Doom a rest for a minute? He spent a damn year on a massive event that was all about Doom, which also involved him manipulating time. It's not even like that was by a different writer; it's the same guy! Maybe instead, he could do a mini-series about the Wizard trying to go back and manipulate time, only he fucks up and erases himself from existence at the end? I'd probably buy that (in tpb.)

Batgirl is maybe wrapping up the story about her having blood-shadow powers, Babs may have acquired and then sold a powerful artifact she really shouldn't have, D'Orc sounds like he's going to get dismembered one way or the other, and the answer to Is Ted OK? is getting more "NO" by the day.