DC Solicits of Interest - March 2013

[espanolbot]

WONDER WOMAN #18


Written by BRIAN AZZARELLO
Art by TONY AKINS and DAN GREEN
Cover by CLIFF CHIANG
1:25 B&W Variant cover by CLIFF CHIANG
On sale MARCH 20 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for more information.
• We’ve seen the history Wonder Woman shares with Ares — but what does the God of War have planned for her future?

Cool cover, as always. Interesting to see how Ares and Diana's relationship goes in the new universe, especially considering their relationship in Wonder Woman 0, I think it was...

BATMAN, INCORPORATED #9


Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art and cover by CHRIS BURNHAM
Variant cover by CHRIS BURNHAM
1:100 B&W Variant cover by CHRIS BURNHAM
On sale MARCH 27 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Combo pack edition: $3.99 US
Retailers: This issue will ship with four covers. Please see the order form for more information.
• The fallout from last month’s shocking turn of events has Batman on the run!
• Is The Dark Knight a murderer?
This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue.

What, this series is still going? It's just hard to get invested when the threat of Leviathan and co. are being completely ignored in the rest of the Bat Books due to it being kind of not in continuity any more.

BATMAN #18


Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Backup story written by SCOTT SNYDER and JAMES TYNION IV
Art by ANDY KUBERT and SANDRA HOPE
Backup story art by ALEX MALEEV
Cover by GREG CAPULLO
Variant cover by ANDY KUBERT
1:100 B&W Variant cover by GREG CAPULLO
On sale MARCH 13 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
Combo pack edition: $4.99 US
Retailers: This issue will ship with four covers. Please see the order form for more information.
• Welcome guest-artist Andy Kubert!
• In the wake of unspeakable tragedy, Batman is in danger of losing his humanity!
• And in the backup story, fan-favorite character Harper Row returns—but will she be able to pull Batman back from the brink?
This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue.

...Harper Row is a fan favourite? I mean, she seems cool and all, but I'd prefer it if they'd just let Snyder use Cass like he wanted to in the first place.

BATGIRL #18


Written by RAY FAWKES
Art and cover by DANIEL SAMPERE and VICENTE CIFUENTES
On sale MARCH 13 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• The first of two issues by guest writer Ray Fawkes!
• Batgirl must face the man who sold her out to The Joker during “DEATH OF THE FAMILY”…her own brother, James Gordon, Jr.
• Can Barbara help him, or will this conflict be the final nail in her family’s coffin?

No, he's confirmed to be a lost cause, throw him under a bus. Also, has she always had those boots? They look hilarious.

CONSTANTINE #1


Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
Art by RENATO GUEDES
Cover by JUAN JOSE RYP
1:25 Variant cover by RENATO GUEDES
On sale MARCH 13 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T+
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for more information.
• The star of JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK is unleashed in his all-new ongoing series!
• Liar, cheater, manipulator…John Constantine is all of these, and yet he uses these skills and more to protect the world from the darkest corners of the DC Universe.
• What Constantine learns in this first issue will shake the very foundations of the New 52…and only he knows how to deal with it!

*single tear for the loss of Hellblazer*

DEMON KNIGHTS #18


Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
Art and cover by BERNARD CHANG
On sale MARCH 13 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• After thirty years, the Demon Knights are slowly pulling themselves back together—but there’s an army of vampires waiting to tear them apart!
• What punishment does Xanadu have in store for Etrigan the Demon?

Ah, reminds me, I may be meeting Paul Cornell tomorrow at a book signing. ^^ Also if these guys attack Ystin the results would be hilarious.

ALL-STAR WESTERN #18


Written by JUSTIN GRAY and JIMMY PALMIOTTI
Art by MORITAT
Backup story art by STAZ JOHNSON
Cover by GLENN FABRY
On sale MARCH 27 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T+
• When Catherine Wayne is kidnapped in Gotham City, Alan Wayne turns to Jonah Hex for help!
• Faced with the machinations of Vandal Savage, can Hex and Mrs. Wayne make their escape?
• In the backup feature, John Leather travels to Mexico where he faces werewolves and…The Shade!

SSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Seriously, this is the only book I'd trust him to appear in any for them not to mess it up.

Comments

[icon_uk]

Also, has she always had those boots? They look hilarious.

I suspect that Dick got a matching pair for Babs and Bruce last Christmas, just for giggles

[lieut_kettch]

It makes kneeing someone in the groin just that much more painful.

[kenn_el]

They're reboots.

[pyrrhocorax]

HAH

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, them calling Harper Row a fan-favorite is really jumping the gun. Personally I'm not all that jazzed by the character, she's neat, but as a rule I could not care less about the civilian companions of superheroes.
I'm with you about Batman Inc. I really feel like it would have been best if DC had left it and Green Lantern in the old DCU to wrap up, since they fit the least well with the new continuity.

[spacebetween]

The problem with the reboot is that they wanted to go clean slate with everything while keeping all the build up of Batman and Green Lantern. It was something they clearly didn't think through because as it is going to they realising the problems and trying to do shoehorned recons that are not working.

Honestly they if they had to reboot the universe it should have been everything. Since the reboot I have found my interest waning almost to the point that I couldn't be bothered looking at any articles DC related. As it is I'm not reading any of their titles anymore as I have nothing to look forward too.

[darkknightjrk]

It's funny--when the New 52 was announced, the only thing on-going in the DCU that was truly worried about being disrupted was Batman Inc. and was JOYOUS when I heard they were going to finish Morrison's story. Now that it's on it's way...it's decent, but the excitement factor has kinda filtered away. I'm not sure if it's because it's not as "important" anymore, or if it's just not as good as Morrison's B&R or the first volume of Inc. was.

[mrstatham]

I don't think it's jumping the gun. There was largely a positive response to her despite the fact that some people really didn't like the fact she 'replaced' Cass.

But I think people are missing the point in blaming Harper for Cass' non-appearance. It's not like Snyder deliberately removed Cass from the story, he was specifically told he couldn't use her, and blaming a character who he created after changing the story to accommodate her is absolutely stupid.

[espanolbot]

I don't BLAME Harper for Cass' nonappearance, but they really shouldn't have told us that she was Cass' replacement in the first place.

It's like if a friend is due for a promotion where you both work, only for them to be fired at the last minute and replaced by someone from another branch of the company. The replacement might be the nicest person in the world, but the fact that they replaced someone you were more familiar with and like more is going to be an overhanging factor, at least for a while.

[bewareofgeek]

I like to think of BATMAN INC as the _only_ in-continuity Batbook...

[whoha]

So batman inc doesn't matter because it's self contained? I thought being self contained and not being involved in crossovers and the likes was a good thing?

Also, I wish I cold omega beam the notion about comics only being read worthy on the grounds of it "mattering" out of existence.

[leoboiko]

Hell, considering what the continuity has become, I don't ~want~ it to come down to continuity.

[drexer]

When this month comes along, Batman Inc. will be the last DC title I'll be reading. It really is the only thing that interests me of them currently seeing as all the rest either does not seem to bring anything new to the table or just hasn't got a minimum of quality in writing or is just problematic altogether.

The fact that it is out of continuity is the icing on the cake, as I find that this need for everything to be involved and perfectly aligned and forever-continuing is more damaging than anything else as time and time goes on. Don't get me wrong, continuity building is fun, but as time and time goes on I find most people are getting too obsessed over it.

[invadertoph]

Is All Star Western any good? I haven't really heard much about it. But then again, Demon Knights is ignored by most websites and that series is great.

[akodo_rokku]

It's as good as Jonah Hex was before it, IMO. So pretty darn good.

[i_paint_the_sky]

I haven't read it yet but everything I've heard about All Star Western has been overwhelmingly positive.

[silverhammerman]

The only criticism I've really seen is that they spend an awful lot of time in 1800's Gotham for a book called All-Star WESTERN. Other than that everything that I've read about the book has been positive.

[espanolbot]

The backups generally are further afield, but it's essentially a place where DC's Western characters (both old ones like El Diablo and new ones like the awesome Barbary Ghost) can mix in a variety of settings.

[espanolbot]

I got the first trade recently and loved it, though I'm kind of a sucker for Westerns and 1800s set stuff like this. ^^;

It makes an interesting contrast between Gotham of the 1880s and the present day, and the dynamic between Jonah Hex and Jeremiah Arkham (here as a proto-criminal profiler, trying to find the cause of crime and cure it but seen as a weird meddler) is cool.

[jaybee3]

Somebody should clip that quote about Harper Row being a "fan favorite" (since when?) since given DC's record once Snyder is finished with his run she'll either disappear or be used as cannon fodder in a crossover. Such as the fate of any female (barring Kate Kane - so far) in the Batverse.

Also, given that Batman Inc. is not even in continuity basically (I'm sure Talia will turn up at some point somewhere else in the DCU with a completely different personality than the Morrison-version) it makes it even harder to accept the reasons they wouldn't let him finish the story with Cass Cain/Black Bat (a persona he invented) and Stephanie Brown.

[akodo_rokku]

Jonah Hex vs. Vandal Savage? FUCK. YES.

[wake_the_dragon]

DC just callling someone a fan favorite, does not make it so.

I really need to catch up on Demon Knights and All-Star Western looks good, I should probably try a few issues of it.

[darkknightjrk]

About that All-Star Western solicit...is it just me, or does that main story sound almost EXACTLY like the story of Return of Bruce Wayne #4?

[bj_l]

Secret Identity is coming back into print? Fuck yes!

[eyz]

I'd love if Batman Inc could just "admit" it's not in-continuity and simply start using or acknowledging the existence of Steph's Batgirl, Cass's Black Bat/Batgirl and the likes...