Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 10:24:08 CST From: thad a doria <[dor 1] at [midway.uchicago.edu]> Subject: PREVIEWS-O-RAMA II JAN 1996 *********************************************************** P R E V I E W S - O - R A M A. II. DC-Image *********************************************************** now archived! gopher://cerebus.acusd.edu, directory ftp/pub/Comics/New Comics/Previews-O-Rama also reachable at http://cerebus.acusd.edu/html/Comics/Comics.html Thanx to Jerry at Negative Space! *********************************************************** Shipping January 1996 //////////////////////////////////////////////////// SPOILERS \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Everything contained herein is IMO. Duh, 'cuz I wrote it. CLIP AND SAVE! -------------------- DC: === Guest star month in Superman: Superman: The Man of Steel #54 (L. Simonson & Cowan). The Spectre. Superman #110 (Jurgens & Frenz). Plastic Man. Adventures of Superman #533 (K. Kesel & Immonen). Impulse. Action #719 (Michelinie & Dwyer). Batman. Superman: The Man of Tomorrow # (Stern & Grummett). Captain Marvel. Batman titles crossover in "Contagion." A lethal plague threatens Gotham. Hawkman #30 (McGreal & Castillo). Katar's mind is consumed by the souls of his previous incarnations, which makes him want to kill Vandal Savage. Well, wouldn't you? Showcase '96 #3 (Various). Jaime Delano & Wade von Grawbadger have a Deadman story in this. Power of SHAZAM! #13 (Ordway & Krause). Cap vs. Junior. It is hinted very strongly that Mr. Mind is on his way... Aquaman #18 (PAD & Egeland). For the first time anywhere, the origin of Dolphin. Extreme Justice #14 (R. Washington III & Tom Morgan). Booster Gold returns to his former glory. His new suit resembles his old one in the way that the Batman Forever costume resembles the one in the comics. Legion #78 (Peyer/McCraw & Moder). The Sun-Eater/Fatal Five saga begins. Note that the "WANTED" omnicom pic does show a female member, but The Emerald Eye is nowhere to be seen. But we do appear to have Validus back. Legionnaires #35 (Stern/McCraw & Moy). Legion HQ is attacked andthe only ones left to defend it are Tenzil Kem, Hockey Girl, Shvaughn Erin, and Chuck Taine. R.E.B.E.L.s '96 #17 (Peyer & Aucoin). Final issue, Vril vs. Lyrl. Sandman #75 (Gaiman & Vess). Final issue. The sequel to the Midsummer Night's Dream issue, as Morpheus collects on Shakespeare's debt to him. The Seekers has been retitled Seekers: into the Mystery (DeMatteis & Glenn Barr). Blood & Shadows #1 (of 4) (Lansdale & Mark Nelson). Hard-boiled horror, a private detective follows a serial killer and finds an inhuman, elemental force. Batman: Scar of the Bat one shot (Max Collins & Barreto). Trenchcoated Prohibition-era Batman vs. Al Capone. An Elseworlds, in case you can't tell. DRAWN & QUARTERLY: ================== Underwater #5 (Chester Brown). EVENT: ====== Ash #0 (Quesada/Palmiotti). All secrets revealed, all questions answered. EYE SCREAM GRAPHIX: =================== Vignettes TPB. Autobiographical comix of Jim Valentino. 100 pages. FANTAGRAPHICS: ============== Lena's Bambinas one shot (Wolverton). Basil Wolverton's Lena the Hyena, by Basil's son Monte. FULL BLEED STUDIOS: =================== Pitt #10 (Gerber & Keown). Timmy is out of Image and out of control. Pitt trading cards are coming. GATES OF HECK: ============== Narrative Corpse. Like most surrealist games, I'm sure this seemed like a good idea at the time. art spiegelman collects 69 comix ar- tistes (including Crumb, Eisner, Bagge, Groening, Hernandez) to create a story about Sticky the Stick Figure--3 panels at a time. GLADSTONE: ========== Donald Duck #37. Valentine's Day special. Uncle Scrooge #297. The secret origin of the Lucky Dime. IMAGE: ====== Black Anvil #1 (of 3) (Wein & Gomez). With Stryke Force disbanded, Percy travels the world in search of fortune & glory. Black Ops #1 (of 3) (Dan Norton). The oft-rumored Black Razors miniseries? Not quite. This is about a squad of rogue I.O. agents. No sign of Ben Santini's team. Extreme Destroyer is Yet Another Extreme Cross-over (tm). As always a Prologue/Epilogue format, running through Maximage, Glory, Young- blood, Knightstrike, Supreme, New Man and New Force (which replace Newmen, by the way) Astro City #6 (Busiek & B. Anderson). Samaritan goes on a date with Winged Victory. Will the world stop having crises so they can share some quality time? Mike Grell's Maggie the Cat #1 (Grell & Grell/Snoddy). Former Jon Sable supporting character and "The original bad girl of comics" gets her own series. No clue as to whether this ties into Shaman's Tears... Team 7:Dead Reckoning (Dixon & Jason Johnson) is the final Team 7 miniseries. StrikeBack! #1 (Peterson/Maguire). The former Bravura mini returns to the company it was initially pitched to. Reprint of #1 but with some new art (and unretouching of "The Savage Finster", of course) Spawn/WildC.A.T.s #1 (of 4) (A. Moore & S. Clark). Present and future selves of Spawn and the C.A.T.s collide in 1995 and 2015. "This is like that twilighty show about that zone." --Homer Simpson 21 #1 (of 3)(M. Sylvestri & Tan). A Top Cow SF series (unrelated to the previous Weapon Zero mini). Robots & teenage misfits fight for the future of humanity 1963 #1 is "offered again". Is this a sign? IS IT?!! -Motown Machineworks- Casual Heroes #1(of 5)(K. McCarthy & Stangeland, cover by Steve Rude). Meet Saturn Red and The Redeemers--Twentynothing superhero poseurs. Can they survive their first exposure to *real* danger? The Crush #2(of 5) (Baron & S. Harris). The Crush vs. the evil supernatural force known only as...The Squeegee! Yep, that sounds like a Mike Baron book to me. TPBs: Prophet, Newmen, Savage Dragon (#1-6) To be continued...