Dc Solicits of Interest: August 2012

[espanolbot]

WONDER WOMAN #12

Written by BRIAN AZZARELLO
Art and cover by CLIFF CHIANG
1:25 B&W Variant cover by CLIFF CHIANG
On sale AUGUST 15 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. The variant cover will feature the standard edition cover in a wraparound format.
• WONDER WOMAN faces a choice: Defend ZEUS’S throne from APOLLO – or defend her closest friend!
• Plus: Zola gives birth to something completely unexpected!

Wanna bet the somegthing completely unexpected is Donna Troy? Or the baby's perfectly normal, except it has adult Terry Long's face?

BATMAN, INCORPORATED #4

Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art and cover by CHRIS BURNHAM
Variant cover by ANDY CLARKE
1:100 B&W Variant cover by CHRIS BURNHAM
On sale AUGUST 22 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Combo pack edition: $3.99 US
Retailers: This issue will ship with three covers. Please see the order form for more information.
• BATMAN and TALIA AL GHUL continue their fight for control of their son DAMIAN – better known as ROBIN!
• WINGMAN and REDBIRD descent upon GOTHAM CITY! Who are these heroes, and what is their relationship to THE DARK KNIGHT?
This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue.

Hm, considering they made a mysterious out of who the new Wingman was in the pre-reboot issue of Batman Inc., I am curious about who this guy actually is. I was going to say Jason Todd, though DC seem to have made that idea nonviable on their own.

BATMAN #12

Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Backup story written by SCOTT SNYDER and JAMES TYNION IV
Art by GREG CAPULLO and JONATHAN GLAPION
Cover by GREG CAPULLO
Variant cover by BRYAN HITCH
1:100 B&W Variant cover by GREG CAPULLO
On sale AUGUST 8 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
Combo pack edition: $4.99 US
Retailers: This issue will ship with three covers. Please see the order form for more information.
• It’s the epilogue to “The Court of Owls”!
• The next major storyline begins here!
This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue.

Another cool cover. :)

DETECTIVE COMICS ANNUAL #1

Written by TONY S. DANIEL
Art by ROMANO MOLENAAR and SANDU FLOREA
Cover by TONY S. DANIEL and SANDU FLOREA
On sale AUGUST 29 • 48 pg, FC, $4.99 US • RATED T
• The grudge match you’ve been waiting for: BATMAN vs. THE BLACK MASK!

Roman or Jeremiah?

BATWOMAN #12

Written by J.H. WILLIAMS III and W. HADEN BLACKMAN
Art and cover by J.H. WILLIAMS III
1:25 B&W Variant cover by J.H. WILLIAMS III
On sale AUGUST 15 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T+
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. The variant cover will feature the standard edition cover in a wraparound format.
• J.H. WILLIAMS III returns as artist on this new story!
• An adventure of epic proportions begins here, with BATWOMAN and the werebeast zealot, ABBOTT, hot on the trail of the urban legend BLOODY MARY. The trail leads to a twisted carnival and an abandoned HALL OF MIRRORS, where they face nightmarish versions of themselves…
• Batwoman seeks an unexpected ally: WONDER WOMAN!

Nice cover, and yay for Kate and Diana meeting!

BATGIRL #12

Written by GAIL SIMONE
Art by ARDIAN SYAF and VICENTE CIFUENTES
Cover by STANLEY “ARTGERM” LAU
On sale AUGUST 8 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• BATGIRL battles BATWOMAN!
• KNIGHTFALL strikes!

Woo, go Kate! ...What, the new version of Barbara has left me cold. So sue me.

CATWOMAN #12

Written by JUDD WINICK
Art by ADRIANA MELO and JULIO FERREIRA
Cover by GUILLEM MARCH
On sale AUGUST 15 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T+
• The big finale is here, as CATWOMAN confronts DOLLHOUSE!
• Don’t miss the fallout from CATWOMAN’s tryst with SPARK!

Wait, "tryst"? Oh God, they DID have Selina have bi one night stand! XD That's AMAZING!

Link to previous month's solicit, so you don't think I'm jumping to conclusions,
http://espanolbot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/catwoman-has-bi-one-night-stand-in.html

TEEN TITANS #12

Written by SCOTT LOBDELL
Backup story written by FABIAN NICIEZA
Art and cover by BRETT BOOTH and NORM RAPMUND
Backup story art by CHRISCROSS
1:25 B&W Variant cover by BRETT BOOTH
On sale AUGUST 22 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. The variant cover will feature the standard edition cover in a wraparound format.
• Lookout, RED ROBIN and SUPERBOY! The power of WONDER GIRL’S armor has been unleashed!
• Introducing DIESEL – is he WONDER GIRL’S new boyfriend, or worse?
• And in the backup story, the fate of the prehistoric visitors from MYSTERY ISLAND rest with KID FLASH. Will they become extinct, too?

Wait, why is Vin Diesel being her boyfriend bad? And if it is, what is worse than him being her boyfriend? Is he secretly Zeus or something? Also, the armous's full power involves it becoming spikier than most Nineties Anti-heroes and some spikes.

NATIONAL COMICS: LOOKER #1

Written by IAN EDGINTON
Art by MIKE S. MILLER
Cover by GUILLEM MARCH
On sale AUGUST 29 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
• New digital-first adventures!
• Emily Briggs was a top supermodel until she was turned into a vampire!
• Briggs uses her supernatural powers to protect the innocent as they navigate the corrupt world of high fashion and modeling!
• A fresh, sexy take on a classic DC character!

...Now, Ian Edginton is one of the most consistantly entertaining and talented writers in comics... but this doesn't really seem like a good concept.

THE SHADE #11

Written by JAMES ROBINSON
Art by FRAZER IRVING
Cover by TONY HARRIS
1:10 Variant cover by FRAZER IRVING
On sale AUGUST 15 • 32 pg, FC, 11 of 12, $2.99 US • RATED T+
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. See the Previews Order Form for details.
• The Celestial Pharaohs, the secret power behind an ancient cult, are rampaging through London!
• A weakened Shade must stop them, even if it means exploring dangerous new aspects of the shadow dimension from which he draws his powers!

Pretty cover!

PRINCE OF CATS TP

Written by RONALD WIMBERLY
Art and cover by RONALD WIMBERLY
On sale SEPTEMBER 5 • 144 pg, FC, $16.99 US • MATURE READERS
This hip-hop retelling of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet focuses on Tybalt (derisively referred to as “the Prince of Cats”) and his Capulet crew as they do battle nightly with the hated Montagues. Set in a Blade Runner-esque version of Brooklyn, PRINCE OF CATS is a mix of urban drama, samurai action and classic Shakespearean theater...all written in iambic pentameter!
Don’t miss this original graphic novel written and illustrated by Ronald Wimberly (SENTENCES: THE LIFE OF M.F. GRIMM)!

Sounds interesting.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=38660

Comments

[eaglet_auditore]

I can't believe that Wonder Woman cover. It's... not... something I ever imagined.
I'm really disliking the Teen Titans art. Really really.
The Shade cover is fantastic! But I don't read the Shade. I'll have to make a quick search about it.
Might give Prince of Cats a try.

Seen the other solicits, one in particular in which I'm trying to find the bright sides. (Shameless hope! Watch me cover my ears and sing loudly!)
Ok, so, what the Hell is a Blood Beetle? Is it somehow related to the tick and is cousin to the dung beetle? Scarabaeus sanguinis? Where does it live and how much rubbing alcohol will I need if it gets behind my ear?

[long_silence]

Apparently Blood Beetle is the name of Paco's supervillain identity.

God remember when we were afraid he became Black Beetle after something happened to Brenda? I'd almost prefer that now.

Then it's worse than I expected.

[eaglet_auditore]

I actually tried to forget that.

Paco's supervillain identity... I would've agreed with that,
if his evil plan was to ban pants all over the world. Oh, the humanity!

Man, I cannot undo my sadness now.

[espanolbot]

I love all of the pseudo-Nineties names that have emerged from the reboot thus far.

Like Blood Beetle here, and a character called Hellspont over in LIefeld's Grifter series, and Knightfall over in Batgirl.

I was fortunate enough to miss that era of comics for the most part the first time, (I read the BTAS tie-in comics and then spotted until the early 2000s when I started collecting the No Man's Land trades, and from there the rest of the DCU) Seems a shame that it appears to be coming back again.

[biod]

Just when DC gets over it's "love" of the Silver Age, it falls head over heels for the Dark one, like a teenage girl in a sitcom.

[q99]

Helspont is an old Wildstorm name, btw. Vintage 90s rather than new-wave 90s.

[gerardotejada]

Its not far to speak so bad of the nineties and so high of the silver age, cause there were pretty bad things in the silver age and good thing in the 90.
Maybe my love for Azrael in Batman comics, or my love for Steel and Superboy, is talking, but even there were obscure comics like The Spectre that were very good.

Hell I got the first 100 issues of all three Spawn, Witchblade and Savage Dragon.

I want to remember the good times not that DC put the things I try to forget in front of my face.

PD: Also, before Internet comics arrived 10 or 5 years late and not every comic arrived, so I should say I dont remember the 90 cause I never saw more than 3 or 4 series from that period. So maybe my argument is invalid

Still, this is so very bad

[q99]

Gonna be honest here- totally not digging the new take on Beetle.

[gerardotejada]

The series has not been the same since Giffen left. I think they will cancel the series again, this time will be totally their fault that It not selled.

[darkknightjrk]

Yeah--I wasn't even a huge fan of the original (liked it, but didn't LOVE it), but at first I wasn't interested because it appeared to be a retread, then it just got weird.

That said, I did pick up #9, because it tied in to Green Lantern: New Guardians...it was actually pretty fun. Got a good laugh from what happens when Jaime meets Bleez for the first time...in an awfully close manner, too. XD

[eaglet_auditore]

I'm still reading the new Beetle. Once a month, after a session of reading, swearing and facepalming, I put the newest issue away and cleanse my soul with the pre-New52 trades. I can't remember reading something over and over again so much.
I'm starting to memorise the dialogue.



Gosh, what am I doing with my life?

[airawyn]

Paco's a supervillain? :( :( :( So glad I dropped that book.

[bariman]

Paco's supervillain identity

What.

[espanolbot]

It was a thing in the back-ups of Booster Gold... I think. It might have been a storyline that involved Jaime's sister getting brain damaged by a supervillain and going evil herself in later life, though I can't remember the specifics.

The case with Blood Beetle, if it's Paco, is that the DCnU reboot version of Khaji Da took over Jaime's body and stabbed Paco to death in order to keep Jaime's secret identity... secret. Jaime, horrified over being made to murder one of his best friends against his will, forces Khaji to heal Paco with the suits many magical alien whatsits. But since the suit is designed to kill rather than heal, the result was that Paco became possessed by a substandard version of Jaime's own scarab.

Then, in order to save Brenda's life, after Paco!Beetle rampages around El Paso and knocks down a chunk of the Reyes' house, Jaime!Beetle grabs Brenda and punches her in the face to trick Paco!Beetle into thinking that he's evil too.

Yeah, the new series is pretty much the antithesis of the original one, stick with the one in the Young Justice cartoon and comic, he's actually like preboot Jaime!

[bariman]

stick with the one in the Young Justice cartoon and comic, he's actually like preboot Jaime!

Good idea. And I'm going to go read the TPBs again. They actually have happy things in them.