April Previews Review Part Deux: The Previewing.
Comments Off | Posted: April 18th, 2006 | Filed under: UncategorizedDC Comics, Johnny DC, CMX, Wildstorm, Vertigo, DC Direct, Etc.
The Dark Knight Detective, as always, leads of DC’s solicitations and of note is the advance-solicited Batman: City Of Crime collection featuring writing by Stray Bullets auteur David Lapham. I’ve heard good things about this run, along with a few negative comments from people whose opinions I respect, if not necessarily agree with consistently. What does the hive-mind think?
While I’m not exactly fond at all of the stories contained in the Superman/Doomsday Omnibus and Superman: Our Worlds At War Complete Edition trade paperbacks, they represent the sort of thing I’d like to see more of in the Superhero Comics Industry: giant, cheap slabs of pulp chock-full of the ur-content that drives the precious continuity so that an eager newcomer can be brought up to speed in an efficient manner.
DCU: Brave New World is the thematic followup to the justly-(in)famous Countdown To Infinite Crisis where, instead of Blue Beetle getting a bullet lobotomy, we get the first “new” appearances of The Atom, Martian Manhunter, OMAC (without awesomeness), Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters, The Creeper, and Shazam! For a buck, I’ll check it out. Maybe there’ll be something I absolutely have readmore of, you know? If it sucks, I’ll sell it on eBay for $2 a month later.
Sergio Aragones gets what looks to be the penultimate issue of Solo, which I’m sure will entertain the dickens out of me. I loved the Solo concept to death. When a company like DC can’t manage to make its version of Sony Pictures Classics sell, that means there’s something very very amiss in the marketplace.
DC Showcase Presents The Elongated Man. Thank you, sir, may I please have another?
I should care about the new Wonder Woman book, shouldn’t I?
Anyway.
Over at Wildstorm, the excellent art of Dusten Nguyen gets butchered by the sheer hackery of Scott Lobdell’s writing with Manifest Eternity, a comic featuring a precis that looks suspiciously like Robotech by way of L. Ron Hubbard..
Gilbert Hernandez opens up the Vertigo solictations with the “Oh god, yes, I’ll buy it!” that is his 128 page graphic novel Sloth. Pitched as a “surrealistic romantic drama in the spirit of David Lynch,” I’m sure this is going to be pretty close to essential comics reading for me. You can check out a preview here. This is pretty much my pick of the month from my slightly-favored of the two corporate behemoths that dominate the comics industry. There’s some toys and stuff that I can’t work up a bit of interest for, so let’s just walk away while we can.
