August 2010 Solicitations

[Specter313]

Just one so far:

Spider-Man for August

 

[runawayboulder]

First off, that ASM cover by Rivera is a gorgeous piece of art! Outstanding!

Second, as much as I HATED Sins Past, I'm gonna give American Son a chance. I've got a feeling it could be good.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Spider-Girl: The End??? Say it ain't so, Joe!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Ultimate solicits

 

[Drz]

Oh yeah Ultimate Blade and a new Daredevil! This is AWESOME!

 

[Dark Victory]

Just one so far:

Spider-Man for August

Nice to see that we're only getting two issues of ASM

 

[kguillou]

Call me insane but as someone who absolutely despised OMD, i'm actually looking forward to OMIT. For once, Marvel's promising to answer EVERYTHING and forge forward without looking back and I admire that alot. Let's hope the actual answers are adequate enough. Plus, I LOVE Paolo Rivera, so at the very least it will be pretty to look at.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I want that ASM cover as a poster. What a beautiful piece of work.

 

[Silver Knight]

Nice cant wait!

When will the Hulk covers be out?

 

[JewishHobbit]

Man, that Amazing cover really is beautiful. I'm sure I'll dispise O.M.I.T. as much as OMD but that doesn't take away from the fact that that cover is just amazing.

And I was one of the few that kinda liked Sins Past, so it's a shame I can't bring myself to buy Spider-Man anymore. I'd love to see more of Gabriel Stacy... who I'm assuming dones the Iron Patriot suit.

 

[JewishHobbit]

OH, and that Spider-Man/Fantastic Four issue looks good as well. I loved the Spider-Man/X-Men mini, so I might actually consider buying the SM/FF one as well. I'll probably decide when I skim the first issue.

 

[Silver Knight]

Hulk covers out yet?

 

[kguillou]

X-Titles:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26251

All I'm going to say is Marvel's really starting to piss me off with all these Deadpool titles. Are they all selling that well?

 

[Tron Bonne]

General Solicits: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-august-2010-solicitations-100518.html

-Another one of those Punisher killing the MU things, and this one sounds even dumber than the last one. I don't understand why people want this stuff.

-I hope they aren't going to reprint all 14 issues of the previous Casanova arcs before beginning the new one. Also not a fan of that price, especially since they were originally slimmed down issues at $1.99. Even with the new bonus stories these issues are only 32 pages. I'm happy we're finally getting new issues of this great series, but this pricing doesn't make me happy.

Spider-Girl: The End??? Say it ain't so, Joe!

That's how I feel, too. With Spectacular getting downgraded to a mini, and then with this The End thing, I'm think Marvel is finally putting Mayday out to pasture

 

[Silver Knight]

General Solicits: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-august-2010-solicitations-100518.html

-Another one of those Punisher killing the MU things, and this one sounds even dumber than the last one. I don't understand why people want this stuff.

-I hope they aren't going to reprint all 14 issues of the previous Casanova arcs before beginning the new one. Also not a fan of that price, especially since they were originally slimmed down issues at $1.99. Even with the new bonus stories these issues are only 32 pages. I'm happy we're finally getting new issues of this great series, but this pricing doesn't make me happy.



That's how I feel, too. With Spectacular getting downgraded to a mini, and then with this The End thing, I'm think Marvel is finally putting Mayday out to pasture

Again no Hulk covers? WTF's going on?

 

[Tron Bonne]

You'll probably have to wait for the full solicitations on Tuesday

 

[Silver Knight]

You'll probably have to wait for the full solicitations on Tuesday

Ok, thanks dude.

 

[Watchman]

-I hope they aren't going to reprint all 14 issues of the previous Casanova arcs before beginning the new one. Also not a fan of that price, especially since they were originally slimmed down issues at $1.99. Even with the new bonus stories these issues are only 32 pages. I'm happy we're finally getting new issues of this great series, but this pricing doesn't make me happy.

I think they are going to combine two issues to make the 32. So, the reprints are going to make a 7 issue story. Still, I want new Casanova right away instead of waiting 7 months.

-Sees Marvelman solicitations, doesn't see Moore or Gaiman, doesn't care.

-"It's the hardest hitting arc of Captain America ever"

Even moreso than, you know, killing Captain America?

 

[Red]

Avengers?

 

[Tron Bonne]

I think they are going to combine two issues to make the 32. So, the reprints are going to make a 7 issue story. Still, I want new Casanova right away instead of waiting 7 months.

Ah, okay. I didn't know that. That at least makes the wait a little less, but yeah, I still wants it now. I'll keep my fingers crossed it'll be $2.99 when the new arc starts, but I doubt it, Marvel doesn't play that way anymore

 

[Tron Bonne]

Avengers?

None have popped up as of yet. Might have to wait until the full ones come out tomorrow

 

[Dread]

Initial Solicit Thoughts (and rants):

- I love the solicit for ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #13 - "in this issue, Spider-Man's life is totally destroyed". Dudes, considering how every single one of his villains either has unmasked him, knows his name, address, and relatives list, or both, and considering how there always seems to be a major battle involving him, a baddie, and SHIELD either at his high school or neighborhood at least once every two years, his life should have been completely destroyed, oh, about 50 issues ago. Maybe some minds got washed with that whole ULTIMATUM flood...

- The Ultimate line was struggling, so it cut ULTIMATE X-MEN and ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR to focus on their better sellers, ULTIMATES and ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN. Okay. Four books was too much for the Ultimate line as of about two years ago. Fine. How many Ultimate books do we have now? Four. Are sales any better? Nope. Brilliance...thy name is not Marvel editorial. People often criticize DC's strategy of, "if a franchise is struggling, add more titles to it" and how fundamentally ludicrous it is. I fear Marvel is employing the same strategy.

- Ultimate Punisher now has a mask. That's the stupidest thing I have seen since Hawkeye's new mask in that universe (inspired by Bullseye, only in purple).

- Even fans of the post BRAND NEW DAY format of ASM usually concede that ONE MORE DAY itself as a story was a disaster. The best time to do a ONE MOMENT IN TIME story would have been sometime in 2008, to convince the fans that it truly was planned and to get it over and done with. Instead they have waited over two full years and the fact that Joe Quesada is writing it himself probably means no other writer would dare ruin their career penning it (especially after JMS, and this was while he was still writing THOR, barked about regretting his name was ever attached to OMD). You cannot claim that getting around to something after a wait of over two years is proof that it had been planned since 2007, rather than, say, the last creator summit in 2009. Or maybe you can, but who would believe it?

- I will be getting the SPIDER-MAN/FANTASTIC FOUR series by Christos Gage and Mario Alberti. It will be similar to their SPIDER-MAN/X-MEN series in which both character sets team up over various ages. The stories were fun and the art was often very good. I'm definitely game for a second go, especially here since Spidey often has had stronger ties to the FF than any other team (historically). Should be fun.

- For the record, Deadpool now has 5 books. One mocks Marvel's ludicrous numbering system with a 1,000th issue, while just last week, Marvel published WOLVERINE #900 and played it straight. They are literally beyond satire, not even in house satire. Outside of team books, Wolverine only has 3 books, and one of which is Daken's. The X-Men line hasn't been able to support spin off titles for at least two years, but that hasn't stopped more from budding. Anyone get the feeling Marvel's path to market share dominance is by flooding the market?

- X-Men vs. Vampires as the next X-Event seems like the definition of what in anime is called a "filler arc". Maybe M-Day isn't getting resolved with Second Coming after all.

- That cover to X-FORCE: SEX AND VIOLENCE #2 is...quite something. We catch Wolverine in the middle of date raping Domino or what? If the Internet has any sort of problem with this cover, watch Joe Q go, "Heavens, we had no idea this had negative sexual overtones," so fast it'll make your head spin.

- The only thing more obnoxious than Cup O' Joe's answers to criticism are solicitations for Mark Millar comics. Seriously.

- So SPITFIRE is the latest to get a WOMEN OF MARVEL style one shot. At least it is by Cornell, so it will be cool to see more MI-13 style comics from him even though his series was canned quite a whole ago. It's often better than his DARK REIGN: YOUNG AVENGERS ever was.

- While I sympathize with THUNDERBOLTS fans who are wary of Zemo in CAPTAIN AMERICA, I do think this will be a real hard hitting arc for Barnes, and as someone who never read Zemo in T-Bolts, I couldn't care less how Brubaker acknowledges that part of his tenure. I'm hypocritical in this instance...but all people are hypocrites at some point. Least I admit it.

- Marvel denies that 2010 will have a crossover event, while SHADOWLAND is acting precisely as one. At any rate, I'll get the main title, and POWER MAN, and MOON KNIGHT, and GHOST RIDER (maybe), and BLOOD IN THE STREETS for Shroud. At $4 a pop, that will become very expensive.

- Also getting the GORILLA MAN mini. Notice how many comics are now $4.

- FANTASTIC FOUR #582 looks interesting. Wonder whatever happened to Kristoff, Doom's ward who Nathanial Richards was looking after?

- INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #29 looks good. Hopefully this is one arc that isn't at least an issue too long, because it is looking like a good one.

- IRON MAN LEGACY may be Iron Man's B title, but at least Stark and Doom haven't fought since MIGHTY AVENGERS, and I expect Van Lente to do a better job of it than Bendis.

- More MARVEL HANDBOOK is good, especially since the normal editions of it sell far below the "themed specials".

- Will naturally be getting STEVE ROGERS: SUPER SOLDIER. A year or two back I said that both Rogers and Barnes could never sell in their own books, but Marvel has devised a perfect strategy to actually do just that (keep Barnes in CAPTAIN AMERICA and branch Rogers off into his own mini's or Avenger title). This is one rare hand where Marvel has played it well. 1 out of 100 isn't bad.

- Looks like THE THANOS IMPERATIVE will have more than one artist for 6 issues. Hmm. At any rate, looks good; Thanos is taking on the REAL Dark Avengers there!

- Despite Matt Fraction being the THOR writer in waiting, it appears Gillen will have more than 6 issues to handle the title. That's good, as he usually has been solid.

 

[kguillou]

Originally posted by Dread

- The only thing more obnoxious than Cup O' Joe's answers to criticism are solicitations for Mark Millar comics. Seriously.

Dude, truth. Sometimes i think Mark Millar writes his own solicitations because the solicits for his comics are always these over-exaggerated, hyperbole statements claiming "THIS IS THE BESTEST BOOK EVER!!!". Not even Bendis gets that kinda hype in the solicits for his books. It kinda makes you wonder why Marvel doesn't hype all of their books the same way.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Smashing Previews (Hulk & stuff related): http://marvel.com/news/all.12532.first_look~colon~_august_2010_smashing_previews

 

[Manic]

Namor: The First Mutant #1? Is he still being called the first mutant? Apocalypse has him beat by thousands of years. If we're talking about the first mutant of the modern age, then Dr. Nemesis still has him beat by about a decade or two.