Previews (June 2011)!

Here’s a look at what interested me while looking at this month’s Previews catalog for stuff shipping in August.

Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #13 looks like fun. When was the last time you heard Batman referred to as a “frenemy”? Sure, it’s a callback to the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League, but it should be worth a chuckle or two.
Flashpoint ends, along with everything else.
The DC Retroactives for the 80s and 90s are shown, but I’m only interested in about half of them.
Why publish Superman Beyond #0 now? Why not wait until Batman Beyond comes out again after the relaunch?
Oh, I want this: Showcase Presents: All-Star Comics v. 1. I loved the few 1970s JSA stories that I’ve read.
DC’s publishing a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen omnibus in hardcover.
I love the cover to Unwritten #28 with its homage to Golden Age superhero comic covers.
I don’t get the appeal of the Wonder Woman vs. Superman mini statue. It looks nice enough, but why that pose?

Marvel

Ok, I’m a sucker for Spider-Woman, even when she’s apparently falling for Hawkeye on the cover of Avengers #16. Way to draw me in, Marvel.
I hear that Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt is pretty good (#4 is solicited). Should I try to get the first three issues?
I don’t care about the Ultimates line, but that cover image by Kaare Andrews of Hawkeye is bad-ass, and the mini is written by Jonathan Hickman.
Also don’t care about the Spider-Man event, but at least it’s giving me a Spider-Girl mini.
The next CrossGen title, Mystic, is coming out. I know nothing about this title, so it will be a journey.
Wow, the FF are showing up everywhere in the Marvel U.
The X-Statix harcover omnibus is solicited. All I’ve ever heard about this title was good things, so I may pick this up in trade.
Speaking of Spider-Girl, Marvel is offering her latest series in trade. You should check it out.
God, I would love to know the sales numbers for the Shadowland trade. I heard this mini stunk.

Image Comics

I can’t decide whose penciled mouths I hate more: Gary Frank’s or Rob Liefeld’s (as shown in the new series The Infinite, written by Robert Kirkman). I know I like Liefeld’s art less in general.
Severed looks interesting, but I’m not sure what it’s about—oh, wait, it’s written by Scott Snyder, so that makes sense (that one’s for you Oddfellow). ;)
Finally! The Halcyon trade is being published. Now I can read what everyone has been clamoring about.
Hmm, I see that with issue 5’s solicitation that Green Wake is now an ongoing series. I wish I could find issue one so that I could actually read this interesting sounding series.

Misc

Dark Horse is soliciting the first issue of the new Angel & Faith series, starting where Buffy Season 8 ended. I’ll be getting this.
IDW is starting a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing.
Also from IDW is a hardcover of illustrated stories and “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, with the art done by Sam Keith.
I see that the Moon Lake v.1 trade is being reissued, one month after the whole series trade was solicited.
After I read the solicitation for Multiplex (Chase Sequence), I want to go read the webcomic.
Kevin Smith does The Bionic Man (from Dynamite Entertainment), though Phil Hester offers some respectability as cowriter. I loved the Six Million Dollar Man tv show as a kid, but not enough to read a comic about it.
Also form Dynamite, is the tie-in Warehouse 13. I wanted to watch this show from Scyfy but never got around to it. Still not reading this.
God, I am sick of zombies in comics.
I never read the original Justice Machine, but I always wanted to. Now, Moonstone is publishing a new comic that intrigues me.
Oh, Moon Girl (Red 5 Comics) was a mini? Then I can get the trade!
Twomorrows is publishing the Blue Beetle Companion.
The Thor Halloween costumes look pretty cool (as does the Wonder Woman ame-comi one—yowza!).
God, I really want that sonic screwdriver replica.
And that TARDIS lunchbox is so cute! Think of all the fish custard you could store in it!