Marvel September 2009 Solicits

[Specter313]

Just Ultimate Comics preview so far, but I'm sure others will follow shortly.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

X-Universe Solicitations

 

[Tron Bonne]

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090616-marvel-sept-2009-solicitations.html

Here's the general Marvel September previews, I don't know how to do none of that fancy hyperlinking stuff

 

[TheCorpulent1]

- Toro's dead, right? I could've sworn Toro was supposed to be dead.

- Thank God Espin's drawing the covers on Exiles now. The cover artist they had was f***ing terrible. Also, Dormammu! Yay!

- Hmm, Su-Wan comes back as a villain in Agents of Atlas? I tend not to like these kinds of stories...

- Aw, Hickman's gonna be dealing with Millar's leftovers in Fantastic Four? Maybe I'll wait a couple arcs before I jump on...

 

[Brainiac 8]

I really want to see the confrontation between Scott and Emma, as I'm really going to be peeved if they ruin one of the more interesting couplings of the Marvel Universe just to lightswitch Emma into being a villian again.

 

[venom892]

I see no X-men Legacy on there.I hope Carey continues on the book in some form.Weren't they going to rename it again?

 

[CaptainCanada]

- Toro's dead, right? I could've sworn Toro was supposed to be dead.

He is.

- Hmm, Su-Wan comes back as a villain in Agents of Atlas? I tend not to like these kinds of stories...

I thought that would be fairly obvious, given the previous issue referring to a female villain called the "Jade Claw".

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, that was the implication, but I guess it didn't hit me until I saw the "lover" thing in the solicitation.

 

[CaptainCanada]

For me so far:

The Marvels Project #2 - I've been waiting for Brubaker to do something set wholly in the Golden Age for a while now. Can't wait.
Invincible Iron Man #17 & 18 - I keep vacilating between dropping this book and sticking with it, but I like the solicits for the last few stories, so I'll see this arc through. My prediction: it comes down to Iron Man and New Cap vs. Iron Patriot.
Exiles #6 - alright, I've been hoping Espin would start doing the covers from the start. I imagine it'll be Panther getting naked with someone, since it's his plan.
Agents of Atlas #10 & 11 - what is with all the double-shipping? That makes at least three months of it.
Fantastic Four #571 - nice to pick up on some plot elements if they spark your imagination. Though the "Solve Everything" arc idea has me sort of uneasy; that sort of story has been done before with Reed (and other characters), and they always end with the "you can't solve everything" aesop.
Criminal: The Sinners #1 - Miniseries format, then?
Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus - be interested to see where this story goes. Fraction's clearly a big fan of Emma, so I'm hopeful that he's not going to go the really predictable route with her.
Uncanny X-Men #515 - ooh, mysterious!
X-Force #19 - this should be a great arc.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The Marvels Project has me a bit worried because unifying all the early heroes in some kind of superhero arms race sounds a little too much like Alex Ross' "connect everything just because!" idea with the Celestials in Earth/Universe/Paradise X, which I hated. But it's Brubaker and Epting so I'll try to keep an open mind.

 

[Spider-Jay420]

Uh, did I miss the Spider-Man stuff?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hulk/Herc Solicitations

- Son of Hulk apparently follows that little Shadow kid who still confuses me from earlier in the series.

- The Savage She-Hulk backups in Incredible Hulk are confirmed to be about Lyra, a.k.a. Ginger-Hulk, which makes me feel like I'm wasting money even though I'm buying Incredible Hulk anyway.

- I guess Zeus is reborn as a kid and is lending his thunderbolt power to Herc for his fill-in stint as Thor? What a random, crazy plot. But Herc's heading to Svartalfheim, so I don't really care. Dark elves! I wonder if Malekith or Kurse will show up.

- Hulk still looks stupid.

 

[IFryKids]

At least we get some Juggernaut action. I always consider it a treat to get a Juggernaut story outside of the x-titles.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing Juggernaut fight Skaar. Skaar's even more of a dick than the Hulk normally is, so it should be interesting to see how they play off each other and how Banner will deal with being on the sidelines rather than Hulking out and joining the fight.

 

[CaptainCanada]

So is iHerc splitting the two stories through rotating issues, or having two running subplots with the separate solicits just spotlighting different stories? Seems like the latter would make more sense from a reading perspective; would be very choppy otherwise.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Probably the latter. I was wondering that myself, though. Then again, if they're coming out twice a month, alternating stories wouldn't be a big deal.

 

[Dread]

They may not have released the Spider-solicits yet.

Thoughts on the Partial Solicits for Sept. 2009:

- So Brubaker & Epting's THE MARVELS PROJECT is re-imagining a lot of the 40's wartime era heroes as being part of a sort of superhuman arms race. I actually think it makes sense. In real life, the Allies were in an arms race against the Axis, looking to exploit any secret, foil any spy, make sure to build any weapon before they did. That was how we got the atomic bomb, after all. Why would metahumans be any different? Besides, the comics loosely alluded to these things before. The Nazi's in Marvel were always trying to duplicate American and European super-beings. From bastardized versions of the super soldier serum to endless robots and mad scientists to monsters to even clones of Namor retcons, such an "arms race" did happen. Brubaker seems to be connecting the dots and adding a dash of realism to the fantasy, much as he did turning Bucky from Robin Lite to being a trained killer, which worked. I'm enthused.

- For the record, while Toro was always believed to have been killed, way, way, WAY back in POWER PACK, a mysterious old man was following and secretly mentoring the Pack kids and his name was "Mr. Raymond". A 2004-2005 era Golden Age Handbook made the connection that it may have been hinted that it could have been an older Toro. Nothing has come of that, though (or the Power Pack for that matter, beyond out of continuity kiddie comics). Iffy on buying it, now that we know what REBIRTH is about.

- UNCANNY X-MEN FIRST CLASS looks interesting. Some critics claim now that it has gone with the "second" class it isn't worth getting because it is "too similar" to modern X-books, but I disagree. For one, you have Banshee who isn't dead, and able to be written about. Secondly, everyone hasn't been tortured to angst oblivion yet.

- Marvel Mystery Handbook sounds great.

- INVINCIBLE IRON MAN and AGENTS OF ATLAS both twice a month. Sounds good, and it seems AGENTS OF ATLAS comes out at a quick rate, which is something new and good.

- Hickman seems to be playing with left-over pieces from Millar's run in his FF run. That's fine; Nu Earth is an explorable concept, even if no one yet has really played with it.

- GHOST RIDERS and IMMORTAL WEAPONS replace their ongoings. Looking forward to both.

- MARVEL DIVAS seems to be about more than T & A, which makes me question why the solicit for issue #1 seemed to sell it as such. Anyway, for the life of me I have no clue why four heroines who have never so much as met before are now seeming like quick friends. Wouldn't it have been easier to try to find some heroines who have at least been on the same team together at the same time? I am also betting this series will feature "standard heroine Hellcat" and not "borderline insane quirky Hellcat" from Kathy Immonen's mind.

 

[Blader5489]

I see no X-men Legacy on there.I hope Carey continues on the book in some form.Weren't they going to rename it again?

Isn't it ending this week?

 

[Specter313]

Isn't it ending this week?

Of course not. It's just a preview, not the full, and Legacy always seems to either show up late in the preview for some reason, or not until the full solicits come out.

 

[venom892]

I hope so.It's my favorite X-book.Although I get the feeling Rouge and Gambit are going to be shipped to Uncanny.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

So what happens to Hulk, does he just dissappear for awhile and at the same time Skaar and Rulk roam around.....

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Banner appears to be co-starring solely as Banner in Incredible Hulk with Skaar, so I guess something happens in Planet Skaar that prevents him from turning into the Hulk.

 

[venom892]

-I kinda wish would go ahead and say "yea we canceled Moon Knight".It's plain obvious now after 4 months of no solicts.
-Ether X-men:Legacy is canceled or it's taking a month off.It's never taken a month off to my knowledge but I'm hoping it's not canceled.
-After the Dark Avengers stuff Uncanny X-men seems to be going back to 2.99.So it goes back on my pull list.
-No Daredevil again?I wanted to see what Andy Diggle was going to bring to the title.
-Looking forward to the Immortal Weapons and Ghost Riders minis.Those ongoings are going to be missed.
-Not that it's a big deal but why release two Deadpool books the same week?wouldn't it make sense to seperate them a bit?
-looking forward to the Shang Chi one shot.It's been too long.
-Also no Captain America this month.I hope Reborn and Marvels project don't delay this book.

 

[CaptainCanada]

-Also no Captain America this month.I hope Reborn and Marvels project don't delay this book.

It's taking Reborn off, since the main cast is going into that.

 

[Dread]

-I kinda wish would go ahead and say "yea we canceled Moon Knight".It's plain obvious now after 4 months of no solicts.

You have to realize that Joe Q's Marvel is a Marvel that published comics criticizing how the Bush Administration was overly secretive and denied the obvious aside for propaganda spin, while they themselves are overly secretive about the obvious and deny everything aside for spin. I am not defending the Bush Administration; just saying that someone lives in a glass house, throwing stones.

MOON KNIGHT isn't "canceled". It's "on hiatus".

I'd love a Marvel that took their fans for being reasonably intelligent and was honest with them, about errors as well as cancellations, to spread good will, something every industry needs more of. But that's akin to wishing more people in general were virtuous; a proper wish, but is simply that; a wish.