The items of interest (to me, anyway) from DC and
Marvel are listed below. These will be listed in
Wednesday’s issue of Previews.

DC Comics

• Batman: Gotham County #1: This is a three
  issue
  miniseries that takes Batman into the suburbs.
• Arkham Asylum Anniversary Edition HC: A
  hardcover edition
  celebrating the 16th anniversary of the title.
• Superman in the Forties: A TPB collection
  of the old Man
  of Steel comic strips from newspapers, and from the
  main comic titles.
• Infinite Crisis #1: The latest Crisis
  finally kicks off.
  Guaranteed seller.
• Green Lantern #6: The new series marches
  on with Hal as
  the main Green Lantern of Earth. I’ll be picking this
  one up.
• Green Lantern Corps: Recharge #2: This is
  a six issue
  miniseries right now, but Johns has said that it will
  be extended to
  an ongoing if sales warrant. It’s another one I’ll be
  picking up.
• Showcase Presents: Metamorpho Vol. 1:
  DC’s version of the
  Essentials continue. Given my limited shelf space,
  I’ll have to start
  passing on some of these titles, including this
  one.

Marvel Comics

• House of M #8 (of 8): The big summer
  event that promised
  to change the face of the entire Marvel universe ends
  with this
  issue. Half the series has already been published,
  and I haven’t seen
  any impact in the titles I’m reading yet…
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1: This
  new series is
  written by Peter David, and pencilled by Mike
  Wieringo. I’d be on
  board for this, but they’ve decided to launch in with
  a twelve part
  story crossing over into all of the Spider-Man titles
  for four
  months. In October, PAD will write this, Marvel
  Knights
  Spider-Man #19, and Amazing Spider-Man
  #525. Then, in
  November and December, the regular writers on the
  other two titles
  will take turns writing the whole batch.
• She-Hulk 2 #1: The well reviewed but
  badly selling title
  gets another shot starting this October. Dan Slott is
  back on board
  as writer.
• Nick Fury’s Howling Commandos #1: A new
  series with a
  group of supernatural commandos that might actually
  howl.
• Ultimat Fantastic Four #24: Introducing
  Ultimate Namor.
  I’ll be getting this one, too.
• Ultimate Secret #4 (of 4): I’ll be
  waiting for the trade,
  collecting all four issues of this miniseries that was
  scheduled to
  begin in January 2005..
• Ultimate X-Men #64: Vaughan and Immonen
  continue their
  run, with a storyline that crosses over with the
  Ultimates. I’m
  waiting for the trade.
• Ultimate Spider-Man #84: Part six of
  seven in “Gangwar.”
  Once again, I’m waiting for the trade.
• Daredevil #78: Part three of five in the
  last story arc
  by the Bendis/Maleev team. Still no word on who will
  take over for
  January 2006. I’ll be getting this in TPB form.
• New Avengers #12: Bendis and Finch
  continue the story arc
  that will add the last regular member to the team.
  I’ll be getting
  this one.
• Secret War #5 (of 5): The quarterly
  painted series will
  finally wrap up. I have to wonder about the logic of
  a quarterly
  series anyway. It started to run late, and I’m really
  starting to
  lose interest in it. I say they should have waited
  until they had all
  five done before they started soliciting. I’ll still
  be getting it to
  wrap things up, but for the first time in a long
  while, I’m going to
  have to reread the first few issues just to remember
  what the heck the
  story was about in the first place.
• Fantastic Four #532: JMS and Mike McKone
  wrap up their
  first story arc with this one.
• Exiles #71: Not even a team of characters
  that jump from
  one dimension to the next can escape a House of M
  tie-in. I’ll be
  waiting for the trade.
• Supreme Power: Hyperion #2: The character
  piece centered
  around the probable eventual leader of the Squadron
  Supreme, written
  by series creator JMS.
• Supreme Power: Nighthawk #2: The Batman
  analogue gets his
  own title as well. I’ll be getting both character
  minis by the issue,
  and these will likely be the last Supremeverse titles
  in the MAX
  banner before the Marvel Knights reboot next
  year.
• The Book of Lost Souls #1: An Icon
  imprint title by JMS.
  It seems like a new ongoing, so I plan to wait for the
  trade.

Somehow, the graphic novel descriptions didn’t make
it into the
electronic version of the solicitations this month, so
I’ll just list
the titles I plan to buy with their titles, but no
descriptions.

• Essential Werewolf by Night Vol. 1: Yet
  another title in
  the Essential line.
• Daredevil Vol. 12: Decalogue: From what
  I’ve heard, this
  is the best Bendis has written in a while.
• Supreme Power Vol. 3: High Command: I
  collect this title
  by the issue rather than in TPB form, so I won’t be
  getting the TPB,
  but I’m pointing it out anyway because the title has
  been so
  impressive so far.
• X-Men: The End Book Two: Heroes and
  Martyrs: Part two of
  three for this “epic.” Let’s hope it makes more sense
  than part one.