THEY POSTPONED OUR DOOM.
You lucky bastards, you didn’t order your blind bags, and the planet has basically… given you another chance.
(Heiko WILL cry if they keep doing this.)
Marvel expanded the Doom blind bag FOC to this week. This Peach Momoko cover is making the rounds.
Dare I say this might be Peach’s best work so far. I wanna frame it so badly. By the way, we can grade covers for you, just let us know what you are looking for.
(I asked Walt if we can have this one on the website for you peach-hungry bastards. Call Me By Your Name-level peach obsession with you guys.)
What we do have for now are the blind bags and the pack of 5 back on pre-orders.
A 2000s comic getting a continuation 20 years later?
Well, Capes #7 will do just that.
Capes was a short-lived spinoff from Invincible backups in 2007. The idea was to do a workplace comic akin to The Office, but with superheroes.
Kirkman described it as his favorite book to write. And honestly, it does indeed leave a feeling of something that needed time to perfect. Good concept, killed too early.
They reprinted the comics with new illustrations and dialogue in issues 1–6, and now they are doing new stories from #7 onwards. Written by Benito Cereno, with Mark Englert returning to art duties.
How cool is it that the Invincible franchise has grown so big that things like this are possible?
Can all of my fave indies get Jeff Bezos marketing money?
Goodbye Hickman on Spider-Man. Hello Hickman on Spider-Man.
If you are still suffering over the end of Ultimate Spider-Man (I still cannot believe this is a real thing they chose to do), I got something for you.
Spider-Man: Long Way Home #1 is a collaboration between our boy Johnny Hick and the other legend, Adam Kubert.
This is an Elseworlds story with Spidey, Hulk, and Punisher.
Sounds familiar?
Yes, movie synergy. I know we all yell about how we hate things like this.
BUT. Movie synergy with your big-name guy? Might be more of the way, if it has to happen.
I’m one of the guys who thought Aliens vs. Avengers was massively overlooked. I’m okay with Hickman doing miniseries all the time now.
Catching up with Image Comics:
I admit, I lost some good series last month. There’s only so much I can recommend without you changing your tab to doomscroll on X.
But I can always do the backreading for you and talk about buses you definitely want to jump onto.
Corpse Knight is a winner.
France is a young girl who just lost her dad to the violence around her.
But she gets a “miracle” of some sort when his cadaver is brought back to life. The first issue is a masterclass of comic book premieres. Beautiful drawings by Matthew Roberts, with a somewhat simple idea. But I get the feeling that it will very much stick.
Issue one is getting a reprint and #2 is on F.O.C.
Do you also love The Many Deaths of Laila Starr?
Try In Your Skin.
A beautiful, enchanting miniseries mixing Bollywood,body horror and erotic fiction. With art that feels like it will peel out at any second, it screams like something Julia Ducournau would go for.
Aditya Bidikar and Somnath Pal are doing something very interesting with a concept that is on the verge of running out of steam. I think that’s the best place for art, when a concept feels like it’s about to die and you pull out a “WAIT A MINUTE” out of nowhere.
Issue 1 is still available in the store, and issue 2 is on FOC.
At the end of Red Roots #1, Lorenzo De Felici wrote that this book only opened itself to him the moment he decided to marry two very different ideas together.
One is a story about a woman being hunted by talking, depressed severed heads of corpses, and the other is a John Wick-style guy going on a quest for revenge, only to find himself dead and being reborn in roots.
Insane issue. Indeed, it feels like reading two different things. So that quote at the end has haunted my brain since I read it.
There’s a hidden beauty in this intriguing book, and I can’t wait to continue. Congrats, Mr. Felici, you have my attention (and my work commute).
Issue 1 is still available in the store, and issue 2 is on FOC.
Red RootsAnd to end this little catch-up:
Fireborn is a phenomenon. A spinoff from a character from Lost Fantasy, this has sold more covers than anyone was ready for. Issue 2 is on FOC this week, so let’s not make the same mistake again.
There are a lot of books on FOC, and you can check out all of them here.
That includes a Tarzan Beyond book that I wanna read unironically. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the absolutification of I.P. has reached Tarzan, of all people.
Will we ever have a Heiko Beyond? I don’t know, but you can ask him that, along with any question on Manage Comics or F.O.C. preordering.
See you next week,
Math.
