Sara Pichelli, Luana Vecchio, and Erica D'Urso.
What is this? A mother™ convention???
No, it's Walt's Comics' February line-up. If you haven't caught up on the news, go get your FREE TICKETS fast.
“Wow, Math, holding this secret must have been crazy.”
YOU WOULD THINK, BECAUSE THEY DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING. Walt and Gloriana like to blindside me with cool news.
It's like they think I would spill everything immediately in the newsletter cold opening.
Well... uhnn, yes, they're right, I probably would, because I'm loyal to single-issue subscribers, y'all. You sub, I GOT YOU*.
*Except last week, when I might have forgotten it was my week because January got me in a time vortex. How are 3 days suddenly two weeks???
**If you miss the FOC for the new Vertigo books, this newsletter does give you permission to hit me with any compendium of your choice at any event you might see me.
***OR you can buy Bleeding Hearts, End of Life, and The Nice House by the Sea directly at the store when they hit next month and subscribe for issues 2 onward, avoiding having my tombstone read “Dead by Invincible.” Do tombstones feature causes of death? I think they should.
“Matheus, 1996 - 2006. Dead by trying to move Omnibus between cities. Specifically, by trying to carry Teen Titans by Geoff Johns and Final Crisis at the same time.”
The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1
I won't let you miss this Vertigo title, tho! So all is forgiven, I hope.
This does look like classic Vertigo, with the hot, but probably scumbag,guy who is also a detective. They know their audience.
This is by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips. The megastars behind That Texas Blood.
The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery slaps as a title, I'm not gonna lie. Alternatively, this is also how I describe trying to go to the bathroom at 3 a.m.
We did get the issues to read beforehand, but I still didn't figure out how to log into the website that allows us to do that. But I think telling you I had a chance to read all the Vertigo titles before release and fumbled is an even funnier selling point.
If a guy tells me he read the new Vertigo and thought it was awesome, I would be like, “Fuck you.”
Now, knowing that he had it all and screwed up would make me laugh and subscribe for the pity alone.
Anyway, the Vertigo relaunch is the best thing happening this year, so you know what to do. Vertigo detective shit!!!!
Alias: Red Band #1
Jessica Jones fans used to pray for times like this.
Not only did we get a glimpse of her return to the MCU in the new Daredevil: Born Again, we now get her back in the comics via Sam Humphries and Geraldo Borges.
It's the 25th Anniversary of Alias, Brian Michael Bendis' groundbreaking series. The noir-inspired classic told us the story of a woman who refused to behave like a supposed female hero character should. Jessica was one of the first in what would be many original characters Bendis introduced to the Marvel Universe.
Alias was a masterpiece. A book about not conforming and refusing to let the pain define you. Or to put more precisely, about how pain does define you sometimes, and the sweet liberty saying fuck you to that pain can give you.
Jessica should never not have a book in the stands and the fact that Marvel didn't follow on this after Bendis left is a glowing mistake.
This mini is at least a step towards reparation.
Wonder Man #1
I was not planning on spotlighting, or (to be honest) even picking this up. But wow. That MCU show was a banger.
It’s everything you wouldn’t expect an MCU show to be, and we are forever grateful that Destin Daniel Cretton was allowed to do a small character study that just happens to have superpowers.
That’s what we’ve been yelling about superhero comics/films all along: it’s simply a genre with specific parameters. It should be whatever it wants to be.
Sooo... it made me excited to see what they do with Simon Williams in the comics.
It’s described as a love letter to his comic history, and as someone obsessed with characters people ignore, bring it on. And the cover by Paulo Siqueira can only be described as HOT.
Our Others #1's
Comics! The Magazine #1 is coming up, from the guys responsible for the Chip Zdarsky Comic News. We are all very excited for this at Walt's. Wizard fans will get the same deal, with exclusive interviews, reviews, and industry analysis from creators and fans. Comics journalism is hard to maintain in AI days, but its importance should never be underrated.
AND they are also somehow publishing new Chew stories from John Layman and Rob Guillory. That is also very cool and shows that the possibilities here are endless.
If you have a pullbox at Walt's, you are getting issue one already, for free (I know, so cool!). Nothing's stopping you from subbing to issue 2 onward. (I can't physically stop you from anything, I'm just writing to you online!!)
A Quiet Place: Storm Warning #1 is bringing the hit horror movie to comics. I love this franchise so much. That first scene is imprinted in my brain. If you don't know, it's about a world where Earth is invaded by aliens that perceive, and kill, by sound alone. Newsletter readers already know I would never survive this apocalypse scenario because I can't shut up for 5 minutes.
You can check everything on pre-order here: SI FOC
You can email Heiko if you have any questions. There are quite a few X-Men books on FOC, including the Rogue reprint, and if I don't mention mutants, I feel like I might get some emails instead.
(live view of Gloriana and Walt debating if they should share secrets with me)See you,
Math.