Ssalefish GSO First Look #176 for 9.16.20
I’m keeping it short today cause I’m already mulling over next week’s more timely post. Feels weird to be blogging in Greensboro after about four months of Thursdays spent down in Concord, but Colton asked me to kick off the weekend for him tomorrow instead so he could take his lady out for a nice birthday dinner, probably at Uncle Julio’s in Chapel Hill.
An all-time favorite game of mine that also happens to be comic-adjacent is finally coming out on the current console generation, including Switch, this Christmas, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World! Now I can finally throw away my X-box 360 that’s just been collecting dust in the closet in the laundry room for eight years!
The following titles are scheduled to ship on Wednesday, September 16th (Tuesday, September 15th for DC books) excluding some re-orders and providing nothing changes by the time the final invoice arrives on Monday:
Aero #11
Amazing Spider-Man Sins of Norman Osborn #1 - one final prelude before the return of the Green Goblin in Amazing Spider-Man #49/Legacy #850!
Batman #99 - “Joker War” part 5 with a cardstock Derrick Chew variant available for premium cover price!
Batman Curse of the White Knight HC
Batman’s Grave #10 - cardstock Arthur Adams variant available for premium cover price!
Big Girls #2 - Jason Howard is doing some very cool gender politics mashing up against Pacific Rim in this one!
Billionaire Island #6
Bleed Them Dry #3
Bloodshot #8
Captain America #23 - Alex Ross “Timeless” and Giruhiru “Heroes at Home” variants available!
Catwoman #25 - Selina celebrates hitting the quarter century mark with a “Joker War” tie-in storyline and a cardstock Lee Bermejo variant available for premium cover price!
Conan Battle for the Serpent Crown #5 - final issue!
Dark Crystal Age of Resistance #11
Dead Day #3
Dejah Thoris #8
Detective Comics #1027 - DC marks 1,000 issues of Batman starring in Detective Comics with stories by Greg Rucka & Eduardo Risso, Grant Morrison & Chris Burnham, Tom King & Walt Simonson, James Tynion & Riley Rossmo, Pete Tomasi & Brad Walker, Dan Jurgens, Marv Wolfman & Emanuela Lupacchino, Brian Bendis & David Marquez, Mariko Tamaki & Dan Mora, Scott Snyder & Ivan Reis, Kelly Sue DeConnick & John Romita Jr., and Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky and covers by Andy Kubert, Stanley “Artgerm” Lau, Lee Bermejo, J. Scott Campbell, Jim Cheung, Olivier Coipel, Gabriele Dell’otto, Adam Hughes, Jim Lee, Frank Quitely, and Mark Silverstri all available for cover price!
Devil’s Highway #3
Excalibur #12 - “X of Swords” prelude issue!
Faithless II #4 - erotica connecting variant available for premium cover price!
Fearless Dawn Meets Hellboy #1
Firefly #20
G.I. Joe #8
Giant Size X-Men Storm #1 - Alex Ross “Timeless” and Jen Bartel variants available!
Head Lopper #13 - the best adventure/ sword & sorcery/ Hellboy-esque book on the stands is back!
Heavy #1
Hellions #4
Immortal Hulk #0 - reprinting Incredible Hulk #312 & #-1 with a new framing sequence!
Immortal Hulk #37 - Alex Ross “Timeless” and Giruhiru “Heroes at Home” variants available!
Iron Man #1 - Dan Slott gives way to Christopher Cantwell for the adventures of Tony Stark!
Joker Killer Smile HC
Justice League #53 - “Dark Nights Death Metal” tie-in with an Ian MacDonald variant available for cover price!
Little Bird TP
Marvel Stanley “Artgerm” Lau” Portfolio HC
Metal Men #10
Money Shot #8
Mueller Report HC
Old Guard TP vol. 2
Old Haunts #4
Once & Future #11
Outcast #46
Possessed #1
Rai TP vol. 1
Seven Secrets #2
Slaughterhouse Five HC
Sonic the Hedgehog #31
Spider-Man Spider-Verse Spider-Women TP
Star Trek Year Five #14
Star Wars #6 - John Tyler Christopher “Action Figure” Luke featuring the telescoping yellow lightsaber and Chris Sprouse “Empire Strikes Back” variants available for cover price!
Star Wars Darth Vader #5 - I’m really glad that I had read Queen’s Shadow & Queen’s Peril heading into this very Naboo-centric story. Chris Sprouse “Empire Strikes Back” variant available for cover price!
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Dark Temple TP - I had to do a double take when I saw this graphic novel for a game that came out last October with a February item code still hadn’t come out, but that’s life in 2020.
Stillwater #1
Superman Man of Steel HC vol. 1
Teen Titans #45 - Khary Randolph variant available for cover price!
Thor #7 - Nic Klein and Ryan Sharp variant available!
True Believers Cypher #1 - reprinting New Mutants #13 for $1!
True Believers Havok #1 - reprinting X-Men #58 for $1!
True Believers Magik #1 - reprinting Magik #1 for $1!
Vampirella Trial of the Soul #1
X-Men #12 - “Empyre” tie-in AND a “X of Swords” prelude issue!
X-Men Marvels Snapshot #1
You Look Like Death Tales of the Umbrella Academy #1 - Gerard Way gets a hand from his True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys co-writer Shaun Simon for a new Klaus-focused mini series drawn by artist I.N.J. Culbard!