Ssalefish GSO First Look #163 for 6.17.20
It was SO good to dig into a BIG stack of comics this week from so many different publishers! It’s wild how Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, and Ty Templeton were able to fall right back to 1992 and make me feel 8 years old again in Batman The Adventures Continue, Die Die Die had one of the craziest first pages I’ve ever read (and it’s interesting that Image had the first letters pages to be printed since the shutdow and acknowledge it), and Craig Thompson keeps putting out one of my favorite books even though it’s a study of the cultivation and history of ginseng (Ginseng Roots)! People keep asking and I’ll keep saying it’s good to be back!
And next week is Dark Nights Death Metal! I talk more about it below, but we’re going to reserve the official announcement of a midnight release on Monday, June 15th because we’ve never done one that early before! So once books are safely in hand to make it happen, we’ll shout it loud and clear!
When Disney went a little nutty and cancelled everyone’s reservations before the re-opening on July 15th, I took the money we were saving to go back in September and used it to get a custom Fender Mark Hoppus Jaguar Signature from this guy Allan Corona in San Diego! It’s so much punchier than even my authentic jazz/ precision bass, and it definitely makes me want to start a band! It’s too cool not to show off on stage!
The following titles are scheduled to ship on Wednesday, June 17th (Tuesday, June 16th for DC books) excluding some re-orders and providing nothing changes by the time the final invoice arrives on Monday:
A Man Among Ye #1 - female adventure on the high seas with Anne Bonny and Mary Read!
After Realm #2
Aquaman Giant #4
Batman & the Outsiders #13 - Michael Golden variant available for cover price!
Birthright #44
Catwoman TP vol. 3
Crow Lethe #2
Daphne Byrne #5 - Sebastian Fiumara variant available for cover price!
Dark Ark After the Flood #4
Dark Nights Death Metal #1 - back in 2017, the first Metal series by Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo was our first runaway hit for the shop! Now, over three years later, we expect the same for Concord (and much, much more for Greensboro & Winston), and with the teasers that DC has given us, that’s a sure thing! Stay tuned for details of a midnight release event on MONDAY, June 15th at 11:59 PM, and in the meantime get your orders in for variants by David Finch (Batman), Francesco Mattina (Superman), and Stanley “Artgerm” Lau (Wonder Woman)!
Dawn of X TP vol. 5
Death to Army of Darkness #3
Detective Comics #475 Facsimile Edition - reprinting the infamous Jokerfish issue!
Dying is Easy #5 - final issue!
Family Tree #6
Firefly #16
Flash Annual #3
Flash TP vol. 12
Frozen True Treasure TP
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #272
Gideon Falls #22
Gideon Falls TP vol. 4
Green Lantern Season 2 #4 - Matteo Scalera variant available for cover price!
Grievling #1 - a debut for Clover Press from legendary horror writer Steve Niles!
Grumble Memphis & Beyond the Infinite #2
Hardcore Reloaded #5 - final issue!
Hawkman #24 - Gerardo Zaffino variant available for cover price!
Hotell #2 - my favorite launch from new publisher AWA Studios (even though I didn’t get that the title is “HELL” with the “O” and “T” in the sign of the hotel burned out), it’s an anthology of purgatory!
Invader Zim Quarterly #1
Joker Deluxe Edition HC
Justice League TP vol. 5
Kaijumax Season 5 #3
Lady Zorro #1
Ludocrats #2
Man Who Effed Up Time #3
Metal Men #7 - Brian Bolland variant available for cover price!
Mirka Andolfo’s Unsacred #5
Moonshine #18
Moonshine TP vol. 3
Nightwing Annual #3
Panorama TP
Pokemon Adventures Collector’s Edition TP vol. 1
Power Rangers/ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5
Psychodrama Illustrated #1
Question Deaths of Vic Sage #3 - Howard Chaykin variant available for cover price!
Red Sonja Age of Chaos #4
Resistance #2 - my second favorite new AWA release, and it actually got me pretty shook when it came out on March 25th and was about a pandemic sweeping the world. They got superpowers for surviving, but at least some of us got stimulus checks!
Savage Dragon #249
Star Wars Age of Rebellion HC
Strange Adventures #2 - Evan “Doc” Shaner variant available for cover price!
Superman #22 - Bryan Hitch variant available for cover price!
Superman Giant #3
Tartarus #3
Transformers #20
Vampironica New Blood #4 - final issue!
Wonder Woman #757 - Olivier Coipel cardstock variant available for premium cover price!
Wonder Woman Dead Earth #3
Wynd #1 - the first new series to be solicited since the shutdown, James Tynion is flying high off seamlessly taking over for Tom King on Batman and Something is Killing the Children being optioned by Netflix! I’m sure a variant cover by the red-hot Peach Momoko didn’t hurt in making this the biggest Boom Studios launch in history!