It's that time again for solicitations! For September to be precise, and DC sure has a surprise in store for everyone, prequel books! Yeah...prequel books...read ahead for more!
- All of The New 52 for the month of September will be #0 issues, highlighting stories taking place just before the #1 issues. They will show new origin stories, fill in continuity gaps, and tie the world together for the upcoming year. The perfect jumping on point!
- Many of the issues also feature guest writers, such as Greg Hurwitz on Detective Comics and Judd Winick returning to Green Arrow!
- In addition to that, Wave 3 of the New 52 is set to begin that very month! 4 brand new on-goings are set to replace the recently cancelled books Voodoo, Captain Atom, Resurrection Man, and Justice League International. The new books are:
- Talon (James Tynion IV, Guillem March): Spinning out of Batman's Court of the Owls story-line, this series details the adventures of Calvin Rose, the only Talon to ever escape the brainwashing of the Court of Owls!
- The Phantom Stranger (Dan DiDio, Brent Anderson & Scott Hanna): Spinning out of FCBD's The New 52 #1, this series tells the tale of the Phantom Stranger and his important connection to the Circle of Eternity and Pandora!
- Sword of Sorcery (Christy Marx, Aaron Lopresti & Matt Ryan): Teenager Amy Winston discovers she is Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld; and she's being hunted! Includes a back-up story (Tony Bedard, Jesus Saiz) featuring a post-apocalyptic re-telling of Beowulf and Grendel.
- Team 7 (Justin Jordan, Jesus Merino): Spinning out of sub-plots trickled through-out the DCU comes Team 7, a series set five years in the past; chronicling the missions of a military team created to investigate and take down these new, so-called, "super-heroes". Featuring Amanda Waller, Steve Trevor, John Lynch, Alex Fairchild, Grifter, Black Canary, and Deathstroke!
- Zero Month (as I like to call it) also brings with it one creative team shake-up, that of Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rockafort taking over for Giffen and Jurgens on Superman.
- In the Vertigo world, many new series continue to chug along while one simply couldn't find a foot-hold. Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child ends in September with issue #7.
- And finally, a single image has been revealed for an upcoming issue of Smallville: Season 11 that eludes to a future story-line. In it, not only do we get the Smallville Universe's first appearance of Batman, but also the fan favorite Stephanie Brown in the role of Nightwing! She's been a Robin and a Batgirl (as well as Spoiler) but this is her first time under this particular cowl. Color me excited!
- As for Marvel, the 50th Anniversary of Spider-Man continues to build and build! We've had the monumental story-line "Ends of the Earth", the universe-shattering mini-series "Spider-Men" and now Marvel has teased a single-image with the catchphrase "Who is Alpha?" Could this be related to the story of Amazing Spider-Man #700, which is rumored to "break the internet in half"? Stay tuned as details emerge!
- Two new books start up in September: an 8-issue mini-series called "Road to Oz", the latest in Marvel's adaptations of Frank Baum's beloved Oz series; as well as "Nemesis 2" the latest and perhaps most anticipated in a number of recent Millarworld books.
- Rumors of the post-AvX Marvel Universe continue to surface. In particular a writer re-shuffling is being talked about with great interest. Brian Wood has already taken over adjective-less X-Men and Ultimate X-Men as of this week, but other ideas being tossed around are Kieron Gillen and Greg Land taking over Iron Man, bumping Fraction and Larroca to Fantastic Four/FF, giving Avengers and New Avengers to Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic.
- So where is Bendis going? Signs point to him taking over Uncanny X-Men and a new Guardians of the Galaxy ongoing, as well as Marc Waid on Avengers Assemble and Rick Remender on a new book with Jeremy Opena titled Astonishing Avengers. Whew...that's a lot to memorize.
And those are the bullet points for this week! You are now safe to start up conversations with the nerds at the comic shop without looking like a complete fool.
Until next time comics fans, stay golden.
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