Ssalefish GSO First Look #169 for 7.29.20
I’m proud to share my birthday week with my new nephew, Nash David Mayer, born Monday, July 20th! Miranda, David, and the little bean passed all of the COVID protocols and are home happy & healthy with Ellie, who’s now almost two! Hopefully I’ll be able to make it up to Chicago to meet him sometime this fall, but I can’t make the quarantine period they’ve requested happen at the moment.
Tonight is finally opening day for the Yankees, as they take on the Nationals in Washington at 7 PM! The exhibition games against the Mets and Phillies over the weekend were definitely weird, but the Bombers look dialed in, especially Judgey, who hit three homers in two games. I can’t accurately express the relief of going home for the next three months and not having to wonder what I’m going to watch (streaming services are a VERY big place, and on more than one occasion since we’ve reopened I’ve searched for something that struck my fancy for half an hour before turning off the TV and listening to Talkin’ Yanks instead).
Next week’s Free Comic Book Summer offerings are:
Archie Blue Ribbon Presents
Batman Overdrive Once Upon a Crime
Stranger Things & Minecraft
The Boys #1
The following titles are scheduled to ship on Wednesday, July 29th (Tuesday, July 28th for DC books) excluding some re-orders and providing nothing changes before the final invoice arrives on Monday:
Adventure Zone TP vol. 3 - a perenial favorite, this one is “Petals to the Metal”!
Alice in Wonderland Little Golden Book HC
Amazing Spider-Man #45 - Mark Bagley variant available for cover price!
Ascender #11
Ash & Thorn #3
Bao Little Golden Book HC - this was the best part of Incredibles 2, IMHO!
Batman/ Superman #10 - cardstock Riccardo Federici variant available for premium cover price!
Bigs & Tiny #1
Black Magick #12
Blade Runner 2019 #8
Bleed Them Dry #2
Boys Dear Becky #3
Cable #2 - “Dawn of X” tie-in with Ariel Olivetti and David Yardin “Marvel Zombies” variants available!
Captain Marvel #18 - “Empyre” tie-in with a Dan Mora variant available for cover price!
Coco Little Golden Book HC
Critical Role TP vol. 2 - for fans of The Adventure Zone and vice-versa!
Cuphead TP vol. 1 - I’ve always loved the art style of this game, but was too intimidated by the gameplay to get into it, so I’m excited to get a dosage without the stress!
Dark Ark After the Flood #5
DC Cybernetic Summer #1
Dead Body Road Bad Blood #2
Doctor Tomorrow #4
Empyre #3 - John Tyler Christopher “Action Figure”, Tony Daniel “Skrull”, Alexander Lozano “Avengers”, Ed McGuinness, Michael Cho “Fantastic Four”, and “Secret” variants available!
Empyre Captain America #1 - Steve Epting variant available for cover price!
Empyre Savage Avengers #1 - Rafa Sandoval variant available for cover price!
Firefly #18
Godkillers #4
Grit #1
Hedra #1
I Am Skeletor Little Golden Book HC
Iron Man 2020 #5 - Simone Bianchi “Connecting” and Ron Lim variants available for cover price!
James Bond #6
John Constantine Hellblazer #8
Kill Lock #6 - final issue!
Legion of Super-Heroes #7 - cardstock Alex Garner variant available for premium cover price!
Lost Soldiers #1
Marvel Action Spider-Man #3
Mercy #4
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #52 - Goni Montes foil variant available for premium cover price!
Moana Little Golden Book HC
Nailbiter Returns #3
Pandemica #5 - final issue!
Plunge #4 - Gary Frank variant available for cover price!
Pokemon ABC Little Golden Book HC
Previews #383
Pulp HC - a fantastic new original graphic novel from the award-winning team behind Criminal, Incognito, The Fadeout, and Incognito (among others), Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, that straddles the 19th & 20th centuries as an outlaw in the Old West finds it difficult to adapt to life in a society in the throws of the industrial revolution and other modernizations!
Red Hood Outlaw #47 - Philip Tan variant available for cover price!
Red Sonja & Vampirella Meet Betty & Veronica #12
Rogue Planet #3
Savage Bastards #4
Seeds & Stems Megg & Mogg HC - see Jay for this recommendation!
Shadow Roads #9
Silver Surfer Parable TP - a must-read from two of comics’ passed juggernauts, Stan Lee & Jean “Moebius” Girard, finally back in print!
Sleeping Beauties #2
Spawn #308
Spawn Vengeance TP
Spider-Man Noir #2 - Dan Panosian variant available!
Spider-Verse Spider-Zero TP
Star Trek ABC Little Golden Book HC
Star Wars Darth Vader #3 - Aaron Kuder and Chris Sprouse “Empire Strikes Back” variants available!
Star Wars Rise of Kylo Ren TP
Stranger Things Bully TP - a second all-ages original graphic novel!
Stranger Things TP vol. 3 - collecting “Into the Fire”!
Suicide Squad #7 - Jeremy Roberts variant available for cover price!
Symbiote Spider-Man #5 - final issue with Ron Lim and Alex Suviak variants available!
That Texas Blood #2
TMNT #107
TMNT Annual 2020 #1
TMNT Totally Turtles Little Golden Book HC
Usagi Yojimbo Color Classics #5
Vampirella/ Red Sonja #9
Walking Dead Alien HC
Wonder Pony HC
Wonder Woman #759 - cardstock Jim Lee variant available for premium cover price!
X-Factor #1 - “Dawn of X” tie-in with David Baldeon, Emanuela Lupacchino “Marvel Zombies”, Tomm Muller “Design”, and Otto Schmidt variants available!
X-Men #10 - “Empyre” tie-in with, Ryan Brown “Marvel Zombies”, Phil Noto, and Patrick Zircher “Confrontation” variants available!