There are really only a couple of comics coming out tomorrow that I'd honestly say I'm eagerly awaiting, but it's noteworthy to consider that my sum total of planned purchases for the week numbers but five, and all of them from DC! Here, for posterity, is the complete list:
Action Comics # 871 - The third installment of "New Krypton" awaits! I've really loved this storyline so far, as I think Geoff Johns and Gary Frank have succeeded at taking the palpable sense of imminent disaster that they built up during the "Brainiac" tale that preceded it and making the reader wonder if maybe having 100,000 superpowered Kryptonians take up residence on Earth might not end up being the bigger threat. The scene in part 2 where one of the Kandorians carried the dead whale back to show his fellow immigrants, saying that the thing had tried to eat him and so he'd punched it, was undoubtedly a sign of things to come.
Batman Cacaphony # 1 - This 3-issue miniseries written by Clerks director Kevin Smith (and illustrated by one of his longtime buddies, Walt Flanagan) could be something special. Certainly Smith's Daredevil and Green Arrow runs in the late 90s / early 2000s were very well done, but he's just as often missed the mark with his comics work, as with the Spider-Man / Black Cat miniseries (that took about a decade to come out) and the never-completed Daredevil / Bullseye mess. I remain unjustifiably optimistic that this one might be a winner, but ask me again after I've read this first issue!
Detective Comics # 850 - Although Detective has been close to being on my "drop list" for months now, I've got to at least hang around to see this double-length conclusion to the very bizarre "Heart of Hush" story, as written by Paul Dini. So far, Catwoman's had her heart physically removed from her body by Hush, leaving her reliant upon the life support device that the villain himself controls. So from now on, Selina Kyle will be living with a transplanted heart in her (lovely) chest? Weird!
JSA: Kingdom Come Special Superman - Besides having an unwieldy title, this special boasts the return of Alex Ross to interior artwork in a big way (he's painting the entire issue). It seems like Johns and Ross have lost their way a bit with the "Kingdom Come" epic that's possibly run a little too long and delivered too few thrills, but we'll see what comes of the 3 one-shots that are planned for November (this being the first).
Manhunter # 36 - I really loved this title in the months leading up to its hiatus (for re-tooling), but have been entirely disappointed with it since! (Sort of the exact opposite reaction compared to what DC was going for, I imagine.) However, news broke over the last few weeks that it's about to end (for good this time), so I guess that it just wasn't meant to be. Too bad, but in its current incarnation I wouldn't have supported it much longer anyway.
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