Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Sensational Comics for November, 2012


Wonder Woman
WONDER WOMAN #14
Written by BRIAN AZZARELLO
Art by TONY AKINS and DAN GREEN
Cover by CLIFF CHIANG
1:25 B&W Variant cover by CLIFF CHIANG
On sale NOVEMBER 21 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

• Wonder Woman's twisted "family" grows larger than she could have imagined.

• On the trail of the god who betrayed her, Diana crosses the path of the deadly SIROCCA!

Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. The variant cover will feature the standard edition cover in a wraparound format.

BATWOMAN #14
Written by J.H. WILLIAMS III and W. HADEN BLACKMAN
Art and cover by J.H. WILLIAMS III
1:25 B&W Variant cover by J.H. WILLIAMS III
On sale NOVEMBER 21 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T+

• The Batwoman/Wonder Woman team-up epic continues!

• Batwoman may be out of her league as she chases down Medusa!

Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. The variant cover will feature the standard edition cover in a wraparound format.
I've been hearing bad things about JHW3's writing and attitude lately. Anyone available to dismiss/clarify?

JUSTICE LEAGUE #14
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and cover by TONY S. DANIEL and RICHARD FRIEND
Variant cover by JASON FABOK
1:100 B&W Variant cover by TONY S. DANIEL
On sale NOVEMBER 21 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
Combo pack edition: $4.99 US

• The second chapter of a tale that lights the fuse that will ultimately explode in 2013's TRINITY WAR.

• The League must fight the mysterious Cheetah… AND a monstrous Superman! The result will radically change the dynamics of the entire team!

• Amid all this, where is Green Lantern?

• Plus: The next chapter of the SHAZAM! backup epic by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank! This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue.

Retailers: This issue will ship with three covers.
Johns continues to write his own version of Bronze Age Wonder Woman hosted in JLA, and I'm strangely okay with that. I don't want to read it myself, but at least Cheetah is being treated as a force to be reckoned with after years in second stringer status. She was Diana's go-to villain for decades, but nobody has known what to do with her in the modern age. It would have helped to have had Jim Lee draw her though, instead of a fill-in between a shift in art teams.

TEAM 7 #2
Written by JUSTIN JORDAN
Art by JESUS MERINO
Cover by DOUG MAHNKE
1:25 Variant cover by BRETT BOOTH
On sale NOVEMBER 14 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

• The secret history of The New 52 is told here – with bullets!

• Set five years in the past, Team 7 races into the heart of darkness to stop the evil that the Black Diamond will unleash!

Woof, that cover makes me glad I passed on #1 after all.
GREEN LANTERN #14
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and cover by DOUG MAHNKE and CHRISTIAN ALAMY
1:25 B&W Variant cover by DOUG MAHNKE
On sale NOVEMBER 7 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Combo pack edition: $3.99 US
On sale OCTOBER 10 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

• "Rise of the Third Army" continues!

• The Justice League comes after the new Green Lantern, demanding answers about the missing Hal Jordan!

• The Green Lantern Corps makes a disturbing discovery about the Guardians!

This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue.
It's weird seeing Mahnke draw the JLA again, especially when he used to do it much better. This looks like early Dougie Braithwaite inked by Tomm Coker.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VOL. 2: THE VILLAIN'S JOURNEY HC
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by JIM LEE, SCOTT WILLIAMS, GENE HA, CARLOS D'ANDA, IVAN REIS and JOE PRADO Cover by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS
On sale JANUARY 30 • 176 pg, FC, $24.99 US

• Now that the team's origin story is complete, we shift to the present-day Justice League! What has changed? Who has joined the team since? And why does Green Arrow want to join those ranks so badly?

• Plus, someone is out to get the Justice League, and he is determined to show the world how mortal these godlike beings really are!

• Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE #7-12.
SUPERMAN: GROUNDED VOL. 2 TP
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI and CHRIS ROBERSON
Art by JAMAL IGLE, ALLAN GOLDMAN, TRAVEL FOREMAN, EDDY BARROWS, DIOGENES NEVES and others
Cover by JO CHEN
On sale DECEMBER 5 • 168 pg, FC, $14.99 US

• Collected from SUPERMAN #707-711 and 713-714.

• In this final "Grounded" volume, Superman meets the new Wonder Woman for the first time! But why can't he shake the feeling he already knows her?

• Then, Superman visits Boulder, Colorado, where The Flash made a strange discovery that relates to Superman.

• And in Salt Lake City, Batman arrives to revisit one of his earliest adventures with The Man of Steel!
Oh, yeah. This. Love how JMS gets top billing for not doing his job.
WONDER WOMAN VOL. 2: GUTS HC
Written by BRIAN AZZARELLO
Art by CLIFF CHIANG, TONY AKINS and DAN GREEN
Cover by CLIFF CHIANG
On sale JANUARY 9 • 144 pg, FC, $22.99 US

• Wonder Woman goes to hell! After playing Poseidon, Hades, and Hera against each other, Hades strikes back by kidnapping Zola and trapping her in the Underworld. It's up to Wonder Woman — with a little help from the God of Love and the God of Smiths — to break Zola out. But what is Hades' real game, and once you get into the land of the dead, how exactly do you get out?

• Collects WONDER WOMAN #7-12.

Wonder Girl
TEEN TITANS #14
Written by SCOTT LOBDELL
Art by ALE GARZA
Cover by BRETT BOOTH and MARK IRWIN
1:25 B&W Variant cover by BRETT BOOTH and NORM RAPMUND
On sale NOVEMBER 28 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

• With Red Robin missing, the rest of the team heads to Gotham City in search of clues.

There were only two bullet points last month, and now none? What's the big secret? Lazy copy writing? Don't expect it to sell on cover alone, especially that cover.
YOUNG JUSTICE #22
Written by GREG WEISMAN
Art by CHRISTOPHER JONES
On sale NOVEMBER 21 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED E

• The Invasion continues!
• Earth's greatest heroes are kidnapped by Kylstar!
• Brainiac has Metropolis under glass and Lex Luthor's secret weapon is on the loose!
You know, I really did like that casual, simple, legitimately wearable Wonder Girl outfit. Certainly better than Heavily Armored Riding Hood.
TEEN TITANS BY GEOFF JOHNS OMNIBUS HC
Written by GEOFF JOHNS, BEN RAAB, JAY FAERBER, JUDD WINICK, JEREMY JOHNS, MARK WAID and MARV WOLFMAN Art by MIKE McKONE, JUSTINIANO, GEORGES JEANTY, MATT CLARK, IVAN REIS, TONY S. DANIEL and others
Cover by MICHAEL TURNER
On sale JANUARY 30 • 1,440 pg, FC, $150.00 US

• In this massive hardcover from superstar writer Geoff Johns, Superboy, Kid Flash, Robin, Wonder Girl and Cyborg join together as the DC Universe's premiere teen super team!

• Plus, meet new arrivals Miss Martian and Ravager and witness a battle for the fate of the universe as the INFINITE CRISIS arrives!

• Collecting TEEN TITANS #1/2-26, 29-46 and 50, LEGENDS OF THE DC UNIVERSE #2, TITANS SECRET FILES #2, TEEN TITANS/OUTSIDERS SECRET FILES 2003, BEAST BOY #1-4, TEEN TITANS/LEGION OF SUPER HEROES SPECIAL #1, OUTSIDERS #24-25, ROBIN #147-147, INFINITE CRISIS #5-6 and TEEN TITANS ANNUAL #1.

Donna Troy
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: OMEGA TP
Written by JAMES ROBINSON
Art by MARK BAGLEY, BRETT BOOTH, POW RODRIX, ROBSON ROCHA, ROB HUNTER, CHRISTIAN ALAMY and NORM RAPMUND
Cover by MARK BAGLEY and ROB HUNTER
On sale DECEMBER 12 • 200 pg, FC, $16.99 US

• The World's Greatest Super Heroes battle The Crime Syndicate in these tales from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #49-53 and STARMAN/CONGORILLA #1.

• It's up to five members of The Justice League to save Washington, D.C., with serious repercussions for one Leaguer.

• In order to help their teammates, Bill and Mikaal must begin an odyssey across the world that will evoke memories of the departed Prometheus.

2 comments:

karl said...

JHW's writing certainly has gone off the boil lately; dont know about any 'attitude' of his but I do know of several last-minute editorial changes where writers are considering being swapped round from Batwoman to Firestorm to Birds of Prey, without even first consulting them. I do know that some have criticised the recent Batwoman plot, where Kate Kane is now a reluctant operative of Agent Chase [which many readers disagree with, preferring for her to remain a vigilante] and the poorly-plotted lesbian love triangle that not only is lamely written but cheapens Kate somewhat. The abrupt switchover of the previous [excellent] artist for the current one also didnt agree with him, as JHW personally wanted him to draw the book and with him gone its lost that special 'look'.
On the plus side the Medusa plot is coming along quite nicely - its great to see all these disparate villains coming together to create a supernatural underworld in Gotham.
I havent read the latest issue yet but apparently Diana's guest appearance is using her 'inner voice' not in direct conversation with Kate. Cannot wait to read it and find out for myself.

Diabolu Frank said...

Thanks Karl!