October Solicits: A Romp Through Marvel and DC
I was going to write a little blurb on some of the comicon news but the overall theme is, "Will I be able to buy everything?" With Bendis on Avengers, Ellis on Iron Man, Brubaker on Captain America, Waid on Legion, Busiek on JLA and Morrison doing a short JLA story in Classified, what will I be buying?
Also, where is Wanted #5?
So on to the October solicitations (a bit belated).
DC Comics
Batman: War Games continues, and I wonder when the tpb's will be available. I believe I mentioned once before - DC seems to do these all-Batman crossovers quite well. Too bad Marvel can't execute an all-X crossover the same way.
Catwoman: When in Rome is a sequel to/tangent from Batman Dark Victory. I will wait for the collected edition but I expect it will be quite good.
Superman/Batman #15 continues their storyarc with Carlos Pacheco. The Mike Turner Supergirl story is dragging on for me. Hopefully this will breathe some new life into the book.
Green Lantern: Rebirth gives me a strange feeling. I understand that fans want Hal Jordan back but where does this put Kyle Rayner? And it seems a bit odd to bring Jordan back to life regardless of how he died. Johns is a pretty good writer, hopefully this will be done well. I wouldn't mind seeing a return of a GL Corps.
Identity Crisis #5 will continue the contraversial storyline. I predict more people will die before the whole series is over.
JLA #107 begins Kurt Busiek's run on JLA. His stuff has been mainly hit but some miss for me. His Avengers run didn't impress me that much but I enjoyed Avengers Forever and Arrowsmith quite a bit.
Teen Titans begins crossovers with the Legion. I don't know a thing about the Legion, I hope that it's accessible (and from Johns' track record on JSA, it should be).
The Authority gets a new writer, Ed Brubaker, who also happens to be the first American writer of the book. Hopefully he can return the book to its former excellence.
Other books that have caught my eye: Sleeper Season 2 #5 features the Grifter, JSA deals with the fate of Rick Tyler, Ex-Machina wraps up its first storyline, and there's been a sighting of an issue of Planetary!
Marvel Comics
Mark Millar starts his run on Wolverine, and I'm looking forward to it. He recently did an interview with Newsarama that made me pretty excited.
Alan Davis returns to Uncanny X-Men after a few issues off.
Sabretooth gets another mini-series. From the solicit, I can't tell if it will be decent or not. Most of the time I don't find the villain mini series to my liking.
X-Men is written by Chuck Austen. We won't have to say that much longer. Is what he does for X-Men allowed to be called "writing?"
Wolverine: The End concludes. This series is so bizarre. Not to mention that Origin 2 is on its way. uh.. great?
Astonishing X-Men #6 has a great cover! This is the flagship X-Men title and is quite good.
X-Men: The End continues. I used to know almost everything about the X-Men. Now there are so many books (many of them non-essential) that I just don't know a thing.
Wolverine teams up with Spider-man in Ultimate Spider-Man. We get more Wolverine using Bendis-speak, just like we demanded.
Ultimate Elektra #3 will be released, does this book really have that much demand?
Daredevil #66 by Bendis and Maleev is great. Maleev's pencils are superb and bring a great, gritty style to the title.
Marvel Knights: Spider-Man keeps trucking along, it seems like Venom is now involved.
Madrox sounds like it could be a good book but I might wait for the tpb.
Amazing Spider-Man finally ends the Sins Past storyline. I think I'll jump off the bandwagon once this is done. Between Ultimate and Marvel Knights, I've got enough of a fix. Also, Straczynski's lovey-dovey Peter/Mary Jane conversations are starting to tick me off.
Other books I've noticed: Ultimate Nightmare #3 continues... as does Ultimate FF #12 (this Van Damme thing is just so odd), Ultimate X-Men #52 wraps up the Gambit story.
In the regular MU, Avengers: Disassembled also trucks along (does anyone else wonder why they re-number only to cancel the book?), Fantastic Four ties in with it, and after 12 issues of Supreme Power, I probably won't be on board for a 13th.
It might seem like I'm very negative about the Marvel stuff, but I'm not. I think it's just late.
Also, where is Wanted #5?
So on to the October solicitations (a bit belated).
DC Comics
Batman: War Games continues, and I wonder when the tpb's will be available. I believe I mentioned once before - DC seems to do these all-Batman crossovers quite well. Too bad Marvel can't execute an all-X crossover the same way.
Catwoman: When in Rome is a sequel to/tangent from Batman Dark Victory. I will wait for the collected edition but I expect it will be quite good.
Superman/Batman #15 continues their storyarc with Carlos Pacheco. The Mike Turner Supergirl story is dragging on for me. Hopefully this will breathe some new life into the book.
Green Lantern: Rebirth gives me a strange feeling. I understand that fans want Hal Jordan back but where does this put Kyle Rayner? And it seems a bit odd to bring Jordan back to life regardless of how he died. Johns is a pretty good writer, hopefully this will be done well. I wouldn't mind seeing a return of a GL Corps.
Identity Crisis #5 will continue the contraversial storyline. I predict more people will die before the whole series is over.
JLA #107 begins Kurt Busiek's run on JLA. His stuff has been mainly hit but some miss for me. His Avengers run didn't impress me that much but I enjoyed Avengers Forever and Arrowsmith quite a bit.
Teen Titans begins crossovers with the Legion. I don't know a thing about the Legion, I hope that it's accessible (and from Johns' track record on JSA, it should be).
The Authority gets a new writer, Ed Brubaker, who also happens to be the first American writer of the book. Hopefully he can return the book to its former excellence.
Other books that have caught my eye: Sleeper Season 2 #5 features the Grifter, JSA deals with the fate of Rick Tyler, Ex-Machina wraps up its first storyline, and there's been a sighting of an issue of Planetary!
Marvel Comics
Mark Millar starts his run on Wolverine, and I'm looking forward to it. He recently did an interview with Newsarama that made me pretty excited.
Alan Davis returns to Uncanny X-Men after a few issues off.
Sabretooth gets another mini-series. From the solicit, I can't tell if it will be decent or not. Most of the time I don't find the villain mini series to my liking.
X-Men is written by Chuck Austen. We won't have to say that much longer. Is what he does for X-Men allowed to be called "writing?"
Wolverine: The End concludes. This series is so bizarre. Not to mention that Origin 2 is on its way. uh.. great?
Astonishing X-Men #6 has a great cover! This is the flagship X-Men title and is quite good.
X-Men: The End continues. I used to know almost everything about the X-Men. Now there are so many books (many of them non-essential) that I just don't know a thing.
Wolverine teams up with Spider-man in Ultimate Spider-Man. We get more Wolverine using Bendis-speak, just like we demanded.
Ultimate Elektra #3 will be released, does this book really have that much demand?
Daredevil #66 by Bendis and Maleev is great. Maleev's pencils are superb and bring a great, gritty style to the title.
Marvel Knights: Spider-Man keeps trucking along, it seems like Venom is now involved.
Madrox sounds like it could be a good book but I might wait for the tpb.
Amazing Spider-Man finally ends the Sins Past storyline. I think I'll jump off the bandwagon once this is done. Between Ultimate and Marvel Knights, I've got enough of a fix. Also, Straczynski's lovey-dovey Peter/Mary Jane conversations are starting to tick me off.
Other books I've noticed: Ultimate Nightmare #3 continues... as does Ultimate FF #12 (this Van Damme thing is just so odd), Ultimate X-Men #52 wraps up the Gambit story.
In the regular MU, Avengers: Disassembled also trucks along (does anyone else wonder why they re-number only to cancel the book?), Fantastic Four ties in with it, and after 12 issues of Supreme Power, I probably won't be on board for a 13th.
It might seem like I'm very negative about the Marvel stuff, but I'm not. I think it's just late.
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