DC Solicitations for July 2009 [Preview]
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It's time for solicitations again. Here are the DC solicitation previews for July. I'll update this post when the full solicits are posted. Also, I'd like to note how weird it is to be doing the DC solicit thread. :P
EDIT: Full solicits are up.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20881
EDIT: Full solicits are up.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20881
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$3.99 for a weekly non-traditional/experimental comic is a bit much. I'll give the first one a shot just because of the names attached to the product, but $3.99 monthlies are hard enough to swallow. A $3.99 weekly would have to be godly to warrant throwing that kind of cash out for a 16 page (i know its bigger than regular comic dimensions) newspaper is going to take a lot of convincing for me to stick with.
How fresh and innovative.
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You just had the same idea.
Cain is on the cover of the Outsiders.
Blue Beetle is in TWO books: his own co-story, and in Brave & Bold. My God. What is the world coming to?
Written by Bill Willingham
Art by Lan Medina, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha and Craig T. Hamilton
Cover by James Jean
For the first time ever, Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series FABLES is presented in a deluxe hardcover edition collecting issues #1-10. When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. When Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it’s up to Fabletown's sheriff, the reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to find the killer. Meanwhile, trouble of a different sort brews at the Fables’ upstate farm where non-human inhabitants are preaching revolution – and threatening Fabletown’s carefully nurtured secrecy.
Advance-solicited; on sale September 30
7.0625” x 10.875”, 264 pg, FC, $29.99 US, MATURE READERS
TOM STRONG DELUXE EDITION BOOK ONE HC
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Chris Sprouse, Al Gordon, Arthur Adams, Jerry Ordway, Dave Gibbons, Gary Frank, Cam Smith, Alan Weiss, Paul Chadwick and Gary Gianni
Cover by Chris Sprouse & Karl Story
Comics legend Alan Moore introduces science hero Tom Strong in the first of three deluxe hardcover editions of the popular series illustrated by Chris Sprouse and many of comics’ greatest artists. Tom’s remarkable exploits over a nearly century-long career feature an amazing cast of characters including his wife Dhalua (the daughter of a mighty chieftain), their daughter Tesla, the enhanced ape King Solomon and Tom’s robotic valet, Pneuman.
In this volume, collecting issues #1-12, Tom finds himself battling in different times, worlds and realms, facing off against an eclectic group of enemies like the ruthless Paul Saveen, the mechanized Aztechs and the prehuman Pangaean—in places as diverse as New York, Venus, an alternate Earth and even the past!
Advance-solicited; on sale September 16 • 336 pg, 7.0625” x 10.875”, FC, $39.99 US
I like this, mainly because of Albuquerque:
Although what is going on with the musical chairs with artists? Eddy Barrows was supposed to be the Action Comics artist, now he's on JLA. Ed Benes is floating from book to book. Bagley can't be given a permanent spot on a big book (which makes no sense). And Albuquerque has said his DC contract is up, and that he has some Marvel work in the pipeline, yet he's the new regular artist for Superman/Batman?
Man.
Man.
As much as that HC trade of vol.1 is awesome, it's like three times what I paid for the softcover. No thanks.
Not that Fables isn't good too.
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He's only in one book. Beechen's writing that Brave and the Bold issue, so it cancels itself out.
Anyway, after Warren Ellis' blog that said Cassaday had finished Planetary #27, I was hoping it'd show up on this weeks solicitations... If it was all an April Fools joke on Warren Ellis then DC can go fuck themselves.
Not out until the end of September though... god it'll be forever before I'm caught up!
Tom Strong seems interesting, given it'd only be three books in total I'll consider it if people are saying it's worth a read.
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Hmm, and Mike Ploog writing The Spirit?
Ellis said Cassaday had finished everything but the cover.
We have at least a year and a half to wait until the cover is finished.
Oh, I notice Superman on that cover has white temples. Okay, alternate reality or something, never mind.
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Most trades are solicited with release dates for months beyond the order dates just like that. Most are listed as on sale in August or beyond. I believe orders go in July and it gauges print runs on the more expensive trades.
Superman has white temples in that Animal Man cover as well. I don't know if that means anything, but I hope they're not going for a company-wide old man Supes.
Edit: Then again, I haven't been following Animal Man. The description make it seem like there are alternate dimensional goings-on (League of Titans) so never mind.
Oh. Now this I did not know.
I think the name just means that the Teen Titans were incorporated into the Justice League in the future.
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