They're up here.
A few notes:
*Origin backups return to the weekly format--although the ones in COUNTDOWN are written by Scott Beatty rather than Waid.
*COUNTDOWN TO ADVENTURE is the first of what I understand will be several 8-issue, two-project series on the TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED model. All I can say is I hope there's a new Adventure Comics at the end of this particular rainbow.
*ACTION ships three times in August--maybe they're trying to get ahead so that when the Donner/Johns/Eric Powell storyline falls behind schedule, it'll all even out.
*Five "Countdown" tie-ins, four "Amazons Attack" tie-ins.
*BATMAN isn't scheduled. DETECTIVE is the first of a two-part fill-in.
*ALL-STAR SUPERMAN is on the schedule, but the solicitation seems to indicate that nobody has any idea what's going to be in it.
*SUPERMAN #666 by Busiek and Walt Simonson: that could be fun! But didn't Kurt Busiek have some kind of super-secret project he was supposed to be working on, besides ASTRO CITY, which has now apparently vanished into non-shipping-ville? Does he have to write three Superman fill-in books every month now too?
*GREEN ARROW/BLACK CANARY TPB appears to be basically a clip show about their relationship, to set up the wedding.
*DR. THIRTEEN TPB: yessss!
*METAL MEN 8-issue miniseries written and drawn by Duncan Rouleau sounds like a very, very good idea--his 2-page backup with them in 52 was lovely.
*SHOWCASE volumes for BATMAN & THE OUTSIDERS--just in time for this month's Outsiders thing--and, uh, CAPTAIN CARROT.
*AUTHORITY? Not solicited. WILDCATS? Not solicited. ALL-STAR BATMAN? Don't make me laugh, punk.
*DEADMAN: cancelled. TESTAMENT: now bimonthly.
*Brian Bolland's doing the cover for JACK OF FABLES!
― Douglas, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)
What about The Un-Men?. I find it strangely appealing (probably because the idea of closet communities filled with monsters is always cool) but I have the feeling it will be generic as hell. Do we really need another story of a stranger investigating some murder or mistery in them?.
Is Dr. Thirteen any good?. Loved the cover, love the character, but Azzarello it's not so high on my list.
― Amadeo, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)
Great art on Doc 13, I thought, but not so keen on the actual story.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)
The big question will be whether or not Dr. 13 looks as good on its own, without that GAWDOFFAL Spectre series to contrast against.
Also, WTF, Supes Confidention minus Cooke? NO THANKS.
― Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)
That Batman/Lobo two-ish mini is a surprise - the fact that Sam Keith's doing it certainly (in my view) raises it beyond "curio" to "item of genuine interest".
BTW: Did anyone read BATMAN: SECRETS? Was it just Batman smoking in a dark dank room and delivering lurid details about the Penguin's sexual proclivities or something more?
― R Baez, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)
WTF, Supes Confidention minus Cooke?
Rotating-creative-teams comic in rotating creative team shockah!
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)
yeah but from Cooke to them???
― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)
GREEN ARROW/BLACK CANARY: FOR BETTER OR WORSE TP
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)
The more I think about DOCTOR THIRTEEN, the more I want to punch it (tho Cliff Chiang is fantastic). Or maybe I want to punch myself for paying $28 for warmed-over post-modern half-ass slappiness and overwrought Spectring. Or maybe I hate fun.
― David R., Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)
In other words: my transformation into the Dr. Morbius of ILC is finally complete BWAH HAH HAH.
― David R., Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)
Does this mean you're gonna start telling us that perhaps we'd like "Showcase: Haunted Tank" better if it was drawn by our precious Rob Liefeld?
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)
New list of Oct. '07 Collected Editions includes an Atomic Knights/Great Disaster volume. I can't even tell you how happy I am about this.
― Douglas, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)
Wrong choice for format, but whatevs: THE QUESTION VOL. 1 TP Writer: Dennis O'Neil Artists: Denys Cowan & Rick Magyar Collects: THE QUESTION #1-6 $19.99 U.S., 176 pages
― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)
Read Dr. Thirteen / Spectre last night. Spectre is really bad (but, c'mon! City Of Crime was the same! it seems Lapham is only capable of writing awful characters with an evil secret or a bad deed in their past, incapable of redemption) but Dr. Thirteen I liked pretty much. Yes, it's metatextual comentary that only 15 people will get, but...I don't know, probably Chiang's art made it seem much more cool that it really is, and the fact that I would have never expected Azzarello to write something like this. And: why do we like this kind of stuff when someone like Morrison writes it but not now?.
― Amadeo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)
TAKE IT BACK re: City of Crime!
― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)
Looked more closely, and that Great Disaster volume is even more bonkers than I thought it was: all the Atomic Knights stories including the coda from DC Comics Presents, (nearly?) the complete run of Hercules Unbound, Jack Kirby's "Atlas" story, the "Tales of the Great Disaster" stories from Kamandi, a relevant issue of "Superman," and a few dozen short-short pieces called "The Day After Doomsday" that ran in DC's war and horror books. The only ones I've read before are the Atomic Knights stories, which are some of my favorite Silver Age comics...
― Douglas, Thursday, 24 May 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)