MY FIRST NEWSLETTER FROM WALT’S ACTUAL OFFICE.
Yes. The days of writing to you from my desk at my apartment while my boyfriend thinks I’m listening to him complain about how quickly lettuce goes bad are OVER.
I’m currently at Walt’s office, looking at everyone doing their jobs and getting your books out while I pretend I’m ALSO doing some serious stuff.
To answer questions: Yes, looking at omnibuses all day is making me want to buy more stuff.
Is Walt hiring me just a long-term plan to make me spend more?
Should I just ask for my payment to be automatically converted into books I will for sure buy?
No, I still have to buy the boyfriend his really quick-to-go-bad lettuce. But if you don’t tell on me, I also won’t tell the percentage of you all spending on Batman.
Ok, let me write this before I buy even more stuff!!! I’m going insane.
The Fury of Firestorm #1
Everyone’s favorite hero is back (your dad and me, probably).
The one where we all say, “Did you know Firestorm was hitting issue 60 in the ’80s?” when we want to make a point about everything getting cancelled with 12 issues nowadays.
Well, this is a 6-issue miniseries, so that complaining will continue, but I’m not biting the hand that feeds me.
The coolest stuff about these DC Next Level phase books is that they basically went to creators, asked what they wanted to do, and gave them the go-ahead.
This means that some really cool titles and characters we all hold near to our hearts but that don’t really sell well are back on the shelves. Let’s change the “don’t sell well” aspect of this and put money where our love is.
I went on a Firestorm bender last year. Both the ’80s run with Ronnie and the 2000s reinvention with Jason are vastly underrated.
The good thing about a character not having that many issues is that you can binge everything and get caught up in, like, a week. Or you can just trust me (and your dad) and bet on this new one.
It’s Jeff Lemire, c’mon. (He’s just like us. He wants to keep JSA and Firestorm going.)
The Hab #1
Bad Idea is quickly rising to the top of my pull list every single month. And this has me very excited.
Announced last year as Habitat and now, unsolicited, with the much cooler title The Hab, this features art by none other than Bill Sienkiewicz (no introductions needed, but let’s say Elektra: Assassin) and David Lapham (another legend you may know from Stray Bullets).
One of them would be enough to make me buy this book. But this collaboration...
SEND IT TO ME, HEIKO!
This is described as a “horror tour-de-force” about the continued trend of billionaires preparing bunker communities because they know the end of the world is near (also known as our reality).
It looks very alternative and twisty. It reminds me of the great weird musical The End I saw last year (just me, not even your dad), and I hope it brings some horror-comic goodness into these motherfuckers’ lives.
But also, if you are a billionaire, please include me in your bunker. I only carry a collection of omnibuses, nothing the whole underground area of Australia cannot cover.
Also from Bad Idea are the reprints of Ordained, the very fun John Wick but with a priest. If you don’t trust me, there’s a quote from the John Wick creator right on the cover. And it’s going to be a movie with Colin Farrell!!!
Pretty Hate Machine #1
I don’t watch a lot of anime or read a lot of manga (I’m whisper-writing this so the rest of the staff doesn’t murder me on sight), but I did watch Death Note.
And I don’t want to be THIS guy.
Buuuuut... it does give Death Note vibes, c’mon. (And Boss Baby can hang with me any day of the week. I think he’s THE MAN, well, THE INFANT.)
In this book, Thomas is a kid haunted by the accidental death of his dad. Then an entity with knives for hands tells him he was actually murdered. Now Thomas is double haunted. He is a sad guy, hunted by demons, and he probably listens to The Kooks. So basically the type of guy I used to cry myself to sleep over when I was 14.
Thomas would definitely talk to me in high school about Digimon during chemistry class.
Ok, the premise of the book is very dark, and the only thing I can say is that Thomas is kinda hot. MTV has destroyed a whole generation’s capacity to live in society, so I’m the victim here.
Tim Seeley is writing, with art by newcomer Ryan O’Nan, but it’s those very throwback, atmospheric Todor Hristov covers that are really selling me on this book.
Ok. Got through writing my first in-office newsletter. And I didn’t buy one omnibus! (Yet.)
Check out everything on pre-order here:
Our orders are open until Saturday at 4 p.m., so don’t be late. We are in Germany, after all. (Says the guy who took a train to the other side of the city and was very late today!)
Email Heiko if you have questions, or you can email me and ask me to yell at him to see if he hears me downstairs (a new thing I can do).
See you,
Math.