Hey, let’s talk about Marvel’s January Solicitations in list form.

I generally ignore previews from Marvel anymore, so I’m sure you’ve already noticed all of this. Indulge me.

• Nice Doc Savage tribute on the cover of The Twelve #3.

• Ultimate Iron Man II #4 hits streets the same month as the hardcover collection for the entire 4-issue miniseries. No rewards for you, early reader! (More on the book edition a bit further down.)
• I don’t want to be that guy (mostly because I’m remiss in even noticing the change,) but going from Frank Cho to Mark Bagley on The Mighty Avengers is going to give a lot of the book’s original audience a bit of whiplash, isn’t it? Not that Bagley isn’t as competent as they come, but, you know, right?
• Hey, you know whose origin didn’t need to be retold again? You can find out when you read Mythos: Captain America, a book that seems to exist only to remind the world that Paul Jenkins has something on Joe Quesada.
• I don’t necessarily want to read the new Millar/Hitch Fantastic Four, but issue 555 has this solicitation:
  

  “Buy this issue for a first-look at mankind’s new home. Also, the Torch gets nekkid with a supervillain.”

  That’s damned hard to resist, that right there. Yes, I’m easy. Just like your mom.

• Speaking of things that are tempting until you look at the writer, that Ed McGuinness-drawn Hulk comic sure appears to fun, but after seeing how thorough Loeb was at missing the point in The Ultimates Volume 3 #1, I’m just going to wait until some other sucker wanders into that particular field of fire.
• Cable‘s first issue proves just one thing.

  

  Dude hates babies so much he hides behind them.

• I more-than-kind-of want to read this Logan miniseries. Risso’s art seems so perfect for Wolverine that I’m shocked it’s taken this long.
• I had no idea that Criminal was going to undergo a format change, but 40 pages of the best comic on the stands for $3.50 sounds like a good idea to me.
• The Ultimate Iron Man II hardcover sets a new high for commercial hubris – $20 for four issues. $20 for ninety-six pages of books from which you’ve already made ad and sales revenue in just the last four months? Man, I want to borrow Dan Buckley’s balls for a while so I can start a four-square league.