Så var det dags att ta en titt på vad som dyker upp på de amerikanska seriehyllorna i september 2020. Flera förlag, främst Dark Horse Comics, har halkat efter i utgivningen men annars innehåller september flera härliga godbitar.
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DC COMICS
DETECTIVE COMICS #1027
Written By Brian Michael Bendis, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Matt Fraction, Tom King, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Scott Snyder, Mariko Tamaki, Peter J. Tomasi, James Tynion IV, Marv Wolfman, And Others
Art By Chris Burnham, Jamal Campbell, José Luis García-lópez, Emanuela Lupacchino, David Marquez, Dan Mora, Ivan Reis, Eduardo Risso, John Romita Jr., Riley Rossmo, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walter Simonson, Brad Walker, Chip Zdarsky, And Others
Wraparound Cover By Andy Kubert
Batman Friends And Foes Variant Covers
Batman And Nightwing Variant Cover By Lee Bermejo
Batman And Batgirl Variant Cover By J. Scott Campbell
Batman And Batwoman Variant Cover By Stanley ”Artgerm” Lau
Batman And Robin Variant Cover By Jim Lee And Scott Williams
Batman And Superman Variant Cover By Tbd
Batman And Bane Variant Cover By Jim Cheung
Batman And Harley Quinn Variant Cover By Olivier Coipel
Batman And Scarecrow Variant Cover By Gabriele Dell’otto
Batman And Catwoman Variant Cover By Adam Hughes
Batman And The Joker Variant Cover By Marc Silvestri
blank variant cover
ON SALE 09/15/20
$9.99 US | 144 PAGES | FC | DC
Light the Bat-Signal, because Detective Comics #1027 is here! In honor of Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics #27, this special, book-size celebration brings you the biggest names in comics as they chronicle the most epic Batman adventures Gotham City and the DC Universe have ever seen! The World’s Greatest Detective has a mountain of cases to crack: Who murdered Gotham’s most corrupt police officer? What does The Joker’s annual visit mean for Bruce Wayne? And most importantly, what WayneTech mystery will sow the seeds of the next epic Batman event? All this and more await you within the pages of the biggest Batman issue of them all!
Intresse: 3
Kommentar: DC Comics uppmärksammar Batmans första framträdande i Detective Comics #27 (1939) med ett megamaxat specialnummer med extra allt.
HELLBLAZER: RISE AND FALL #1
Written By Tom Taylor
Art And Cover By Darick Robertson
Variant Cover By Lee Bermejo
ON SALE 09/01/20
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | 1 OF 3 | FC
DC BLACK LABEL | AGES 17+ | BIMONTHLY
A billionaire falls out of the sky and is gruesomely skewered on a church spire. Bizarrely, Angel Wings are attached to his back. More follow until, hallelujah, it’s raining businessmen. Detective Aisha Bukhari is stumped by this, until she’s visited by her childhood friend, occult investigator John Constantine. DC’s Hellblazer discovers a link between the falling elite and a shocking moment in his and Aisha’s misspent youth. How do these killings tie to the first death on John’s hands? How does this involve heaven and hell? Even if this is kind of John’s fault, will Constantine be happy to let a few more rich bastards fall from the sky, like a vindictive Robin Hood? It’s an all-new DC Black Label mystery starring John Constantine in his very first tale spun by acclaimed writer Tom Taylor (DCeased) and artist Darick Robertson (The Boys)!
Intresse: 3
Kommentar: Ny miniserie med John Constantine som verkar lovande eftersom Darick Robertson tecknar.
MARVEL COMICS
IRON MAN #1
CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL (W) • CAFU (A/C) • Wraparound Cover by ALEX ROSS
VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
Launch Variant COVER BY R.B. SILVA
PREMIERE VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS
IRON MAN TIMELESS VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS
HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY RICK LEONARDI
VARIANT COVER BY TENJIN
VARIANT COVER BY DUSTIN WEAVER
RED & GOLD VARIANT COVER AND BLANK VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
BIG IRON!
Tony Stark is looking to restart his engine. He decides he’s going back to basics, putting away his high-tech toys and high-profile image so he can get his hands dirty again. It’s time to dig into the guts of real machines, put on some old-fashioned metal and fly.
But can he really lay that Stark-sized ego down? Life isn’t that simple, something that old friends and frustrating foes are quick to point out. If you strip down a billionaire to his bolts, does he run solid or just overheat?
Tony’s going to find out once a threat to the entire universe rears its head from the past. As he suits up again, Tony remains sure of one thing: he’s still IRON MAN down to his flesh and blood core.
40 PGS/Rated T+ $4.99
In Shops: Sep 16, 2020
Intresse: 4
Kommentar: Nystart av Iron Man och jag är mycket sugen på att se vad Christopher Cantwell ha. Jag är mycket imponerad av hans titlar hos Berger Books (She Could Fly och Everything) och han har redan spänt Marvel-musklerna med Doctor Dooms senaste solotitel som också nominerades till en Eisner Award.
SHANG-CHI #1
GENE LUEN YANG (W) • DIKE RUAN WITH PHILIP TAN (A) • Cover by JIM CHEUNG
Design variant by Jim Cheung
VARIANT COVER BY INHYUK LEE
VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY INHYUK LEE
VARIANT COVER BY RON LIM
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY RUDY NEBRES
THE MASTER RETURNS! An ancient and evil secret society has stayed in hiding since the death of their leader, Zheng Zhu. But now his successor has been chosen to shift the balance of power in the world…Zheng Zhu’s son, Shang-Chi! Witness the Marvel Universe’s greatest fighter return to a world of death and destruction he thought he left behind long ago…and discover the secrets to Shang-Chi’s past that will change his world forever.
Don’t miss out on this epic tale of family, betrayal and justice as the incredible team of Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese), Dike Ruan (SPIDER-VERSE, BLACK CAT) and Philip Tan (UNCANNY X-MEN) launch a new chapter in the legend of Shang-Chi!
Rated T+ $3.99
In Shops: Sep 30, 2020
Intresse: 3
Kommentar: Shang-Chi har aldrig varit någon favoritkaraktär för mig men jag är redo att ge honom en ny chans nu när Gene Luen Yang håller i rodret.
GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: STORM #1
JONATHAN HICKMAN (W)
RUSSELL DAUTERMAN (A/C)
Variant Cover by JEN BARTEL –
Order using APR200901
TIMELESS STORM VARIANT
COVER BY ALEX ROSS
HICKMAN & DAUTERMAN TAKE FLIGHT AGAIN!
In GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: JEAN GREY & EMMA FROST, Hickman and Dauterman took Jean and Emma into Storm’s mind to learn what had happened to her. Now they take the X-Men’s resident goddess to the far end of the world to save herself!
Rated T+ $4.99
In Shops: Sep 16, 2020
Intresse: 4
Kommentar: Jag har fortfarande inte satt tänderna i Jonathan Hickmans nystart av X-Men och detsamma gäller floden av nya Giant-Size X-Men som ser mycket lovande ut, särskilt med Hickman och Dauterman vid spakarna.
JUGGERNAUT #1 (OF 5)
FABIAN NICIEZA (W) • RON GARNEY (A) • Cover by GEOFF SHAW
VARIANT COVER BY NICK BRADSHAW
VARIANT COVER BY RON GARNEY
HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY Werner Roth
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
BROWN & RED VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
READY OR ’NAUT, HERE HE COMES!
A mystic gem. A force of overwhelming power. Nothing can stop the Juggernaut. Except himself. Another building falls. Cain Marko is done letting others pick up the pieces of the things he’s destroyed. Renowned X-scribe Fabian Nicieza (X-FORCE, DEADPOOL) and celebrated artist Ron Garney (CAPTAIN AMERICA, DAREDEVIL) team up to take the unstoppable in a new bold new direction!
32 PGS/Rated T+ $3.99
In Shops: Sep 23, 2020
Intresse: 3
Kommentar: Juggernaut är en av mina absoluta favoritkaraktärer i Marvels universum men däremot är jag ingen fan av Fabian Niciezas 90-talsdoftande verk. Däremot så är jag förtjust i Ron Garneys alster så kanske kommer jag plocka upp den här solotiteln ändå.
THE RISE OF ULTRAMAN #1 (OF 5)
KYLE HIGGINS & MAT GROOM (W) • FRANCESCO MANNA with MICHAEL CHO (A)
Cover by ALEX ROSS
VARIANT COVER BY ED MCGUINNESS
VARIANT COVER BY ADI GRANOV
SPIDER-MAN VARIANT by Olivier Coipel
VARIANT COVER by Yuji Kaida
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
CLASSIC PHOTO VARIANT COVER AND BLANK VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
In darkness there lurks Kaiju – terrifying and unfathomable monsters. Between Kaiju and the rest of us stands the United Science Patrol!
But who are these enigmatic defenders, and how do they perform their miracles? Shin Hayata and Kiki Fuji have spent half a lifetime trying to find out – and their quest is about to drive them toward a decades-old dark secret and put them on a collision course with a mysterious warrior from beyond the stars!
Kyle Higgins (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), Mat Groom (Self/Made) and Francesco Manna (AVENGERS) reimagine the classic origin of a pop culture icon as THE RISE OF ULTRAMAN begins!
48 PGS/Rated T+ $5.99
In Shops: Sep 09, 2020
Intresse: 2
Kommentar: Marvel börjar publicera en följetong av den japanska franchisen Ultraman vilket är imponerande i sig men av lite intresse för mig själv eftersom min förkunskap när det gäller Ultraman är obefintlig.
IMAGE COMICS
THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH #1
WRITER: James Tynion IV
ARTIST / COVER A: Martin Simmonds
COVER B: Jenny Frison
SEPTEMBER 30 / 32 pages / FC/ M / $3.99
Cole Turner has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn’t prepared for what happens when he discovers that all of them are true, from the JFK assassination to flat Earth theory and reptilian shapeshifters. One organization has been covering them up for generations. What is the deep, dark secret behind the Department of Truth?Bestselling writer JAMES TYNION IV (Batman, Something is Killing the Children) debuts his first Image ONGOING SERIES alongside breakout artist MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy)!
Intresse: 5
Kommentar: Something is Killing the Children är en av mina nya favoritserier och jag är därför extra sugen på vad den series författare, James Tynion IV, kokat ihop i The Department of Truth, plus att jag alltid fascinerats av galna och mindre galna konspirationsteorier.
STILLWATER BY ZDARSKY & PÉREZ #1
WRITER: Chip Zdarsky
ARTIST: Ramón K. Pérez, Mike Spicer
COVER A: Ramón K. Pérez
SEPTEMBER 16 / 40 pages / FC/ M / $3.99
Nobody dies. In the town of Stillwater, that’s not just a promise. It’s a threat. Join superstar writer CHIP ZDARSKY (THE WHITE TREES, Daredevil) and Eisner Award-winning artist RAMÓN K PÉREZ (Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand, Jane) as they dive into a world of horror and intrigue in this new ongoing Skybound series.
Intresse: 4
Kommentar: Förutom Sex Criminals så kan man även njuta av Chip Zdarskys serier Kaptara och The White Trees på Image Comics. Nu kommer även en renodlad skräckserie författad av Chip och tecknad av den fenomenale Ramón K. Pérez som ser mycket lovande ut.
DRACULA, MOTHERF**KER! HC
WRITER: Alex de Campi
ARTIST / COVER A: Erica Henderson
OCTOBER 07 / 72 pages / FC/ T+ / $16.99
Vienna, 1889: Dracula’s brides nail him to the bottom of his coffin. Los Angeles, 1974: an aging starlet decides to raise the stakes. Crime scene photographer Quincy Harker is the only man who knows it happened, but will anyone believe him before he gets his own chalk outline? And are Dracula’s three brides there to help him…or use him as bait? A pulpy, pulse-pounding graphic novel of California psych-horror from acclaimed creators ALEX DE CAMPI and ERICA HENDERSON.
Intresse: 5
Kommentar: Alex de Campi är en skicklig författare som har en mycket säregen röst och vars berättelser ofta rör sig i de mörkaste delarna av vårt medvetande. Hit hör bland annat Semiautomagic, No Mercy, Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight samt det mycket läsvärda albumet Bad Girls. I Dracula Motherf**ker! samarbetar hon med Erica Henderson (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Assassin Nation) och bjuder på en tvättäkta rysare med greve Dracula själv i högform.
INKBLOT #1
WRITER: Emma Kubert
ARTIST: Emma Kubert, Rusty Gladd
SEPTEMBER 02 / 24 pages / FC/ T / $3.99
Third-generation comic artist EMMA KUBERT partners with up-and-coming creator RUSTY GLADD to deliver a high-fantasy epic! This new ONGOING SERIES follows a powerful sorceress attempting to correct her greatest mistake—the creation of a magical cat that can travel through time, space, and reality. The cat threatens to unravel the fabric of the universe, doesn’t care, and just won’t listen!
Intresse: 5
Kommentar: Emma Kubert, barnbarn till Joe Kubert (långvarig serietecknare hos DC Comics och grundare av The Kubert School), brorsdotter till Adam Kubert och dotter till Andy Kubert är den senaste i den välrenommerade serietecknarfamiljen som gör sin debut med Inkblot. Emma har alltid haft svårt att relatera till superhjältar men älskade å andra sidan fantasygenren och drömde länge om att få skapa sin alldeles egna värld vilken nu blir verklighet.
SEX CRIMINALS: SEXUAL GARY SPECIAL
WRITER: Matt Fraction
ARTIST: Enrica Eren Angliolini, Rachael Stott
COVER A: Chip Zdarsky
SEPTEMBER 02 / 48 pages / FC/ M / $4.99
Remember “Sexual Gary”? What was up with that guy? The brilliant RACHAEL STOTT (Supergirl, Doctor Who) drew a story so crazy it had to be told, but not by Chip, who was still a big part of the whole thing.
Intresse: 3
Kommentar: Sex Criminals går i mål i september med två utgåvor: först ett specialnummer med den ständigt gäckande Sexual Gary samt seriens allra sista nummer. Sexual Gary har varit en del av serien ända sedan första början men den här gången får vi äntligen historien bakom mannen och myten, levererad av Matt Fraction och tecknad av Rachael Stott.
SEX CRIMINALS #69
WRITER: Matt Fraction
ARTIST / COVER A: Chip Zdarsky
SEPTEMBER 23 / 32 pages / FC/ M / $3.99
FINAL ISSUE! SERIES FINALE in which we skip ahead 39 issues and check in with how it all ends up a few years down the line. SPOILERS: pretty okay?
Intresse: 4
Kommentar: Det är snart sju år sedan första numret av Sex Criminals dök upp och slog världen med häpnad. När den kom stod den för något helt nytt och spännande men efter några fantastiska volymer så tyckte jag att den började trampa vatten och hoppades att Fraction och Zdarsky skulle hinna avsluta den innan den blev en parentes och förhoppningsvis kommer det sista numret leverera allt det som gjorde den så fantastisk.
GUNNING FOR RAMIREZ, VOL. 1 TP
WRITER / ARTIST / COVER A: Nicolas Petrimaux
SEPTEMBER 30 / 144 pages / FC/ M / $16.99
What if the deadliest assassin in all of Mexico, a man with dozens of kills to his name, was actually a vacuum repairman in Arizona?Falcon City, Arizona. Jacques Ramirez works at Robotop, the leading home appliance company in the Southwest United States. Jacques is efficient, thorough, and discreet. That last one is easy: he’s also mute. But everything changes when two members of one of Paso del Rio’s largest drug cartels stumble upon Jacques and believe him to be the deadly hitman who betrayed them in the past: the ruthless Ramirez.Could it be that the cartel’s legendary clean-up man is really a legendary vacuum cleaner expert?NICOLAS PETRIMAUX presents the first in a trilogy—a tribute to the action thrillers of the 1980s and ’90s, a brutal narrative with never a dull moment. GUNNING FOR RAMIREZ is as much a descendant of Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. as it is Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction or Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy.
Intresse: 2
Kommentar: Nicolas Petrimaux presenterar den första delen av tre om den stumme dammugarreparatören Ramirez som misstänks vara Mexicos brutalaste lönnmördare.
NORROWAY, BOOK TWO: THE QUEEN ON THE HIGH MOUNTAIN OGN
WRITER: Cat Seaton
ARTIST/COVER A: Kit Seaton
SEPTEMBER 16 / 232 pages / FC/ T / $14.99
Happiness is an illusion when unfinished business awaits.Seven years have passed since the disastrous events of Book 1, and now it’s time for Sibylla to face her curse-breaking destiny. When Troll Kingdom soldiers arrive in the once-safe town of Fiskeby, she’s forced to flee up the Glass Mountain. But the moment she steps foot on Troll lands, she’s thrown into a jail cell, where she discovers her amnesiac ex-fiancé is set to wed the Troll Queen’s daughter. Using all of her wits, she must convince the princess to turn against her own mother, or else face execution on the day of the wedding—and doom the kingdom to remain cursed forever.TRIM SIZE: 6″ X 9″
Intresse: 4
Kommentar: Första delen av syskonen Cat och Kit Seatons fantasyserie Norroway nominerades till en Eisner 2019 i kategorin Best Publication for Teens och nu är det dags för fortsättningen där Sibylla råkar ut för nya äventyr.
DARK HORSE COMICS
TALES FROM THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY: YOU LOOK LIKE DEATH #1 (OF 6)
Gerard Way (W), Shaun Simon (W), I.N.J. Culbard (A/Variant Cover), Gabriel Bá (Cover), and Leo Romero with Jordie Bellaire (Variant Cover)
On sale Sept 16
FC, 32 pages
$3.99
Miniseries
The first The Umbrella Academy spin off series! When 18-year-old Séance gets himself kicked out of the Umbrella Academy, and his allowance discontinued by Hargreeves, he takes to a place where his ghoulish talents will be appreciated––Hollywood. After a magical high on a vampire-drug-lord’s stash, Klaus needs help, and doesn’t have his siblings there to save him.
• Séance gets his own miniseries!
• From Gerard Way and Shaun Simon of the The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys!
Intresse: 3
Kommentar: Tyvärr har jag ännu inte utforskat The Umbrella Academy (förutom TV-serien som gav mersmak) men här kommer i alla fall en spin off-serie där vi får följa Séance öden och äventyr i Hollywood.
BILL & TED ARE DOOMED #1 (OF 4)
Evan Dorkin (W), Roger Langridge (A/C/Variant Cover), and Evan Dorkin w/Sarah Dyer (Cover)
On sale Sept 9
FC, 32 pages
$3.99
Miniseries
After defeating the evil dictator De Nomolos in Bogus Journey in 1995, things aren’t looking as excellent as they should for either Bill and Ted or Wyld Stallyns. There’s tension in the band and worry at home. Bill and Ted’s obsessiveness with writing the one song to bring peace to the world is affecting their playing and their relationships with their families. The band is losing favor with fans and the future isn’t shaping up as they were all led to believe it would from past (and future) events. Desperate for a solution Bill and Ted burst in to announce their great idea to revive the band’s fortunes: A world tour to spread the love—and the rock, and the love of the rock—to the world.
Intresse: 3
Kommentar: Jag har ett svagt minne av att jag såg Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure för cirka 30 år sedan och snart är det även dags för den senaste filmen Bill & Ted Face the Music där Keanu Reeves och Alex Winter dyker upp igen plus en alldeles ny miniserie från Dark Horse Comics.
BOOM! STUDIOS
WE ONLY FIND THEM WHEN THEY’RE DEAD #1
WRITER: Al Ewing
ARTIST/COVER A: Simone Di Meo
COVER B: Toni Infante
* For fans of Decorum and Something is Killing the Children comes a new sci-fi epic from Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk) and Simone Di Meo (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) on the edge of space where humanity is harvesting the corpses of giant alien gods to survive.
* No one has ever seen a living god, but Captain Malik is obsessed with being the first.
* Captain Malik and the crew of the Vihaan II harvest the only resources that matter from the giant corpses of alien gods found on the edge of human space. While other autopsy ships race to salvage the meat, minerals, and metals that sustain the human race, Malik sees an opportunity to finally break free from this system.
* But Malik’s obsession with the gods will push his crew into the darkest reaches of space, bringing them face to face with a threat unlike anything they’ve ever imagined – unless the rogue agent on their trail can stop them first…
$3.99
In Shops: Sep 02, 2020
Intresse: 5
Kommentar: Från Al Ewing och Simone Di Meo kommer en ny episk science fiction-serie som handlar om jakten på gudar i universums utkanter. Låter alldeles underbart i mina öron.
UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS #1
WRITER/COVER A: Dan Panosian
ARTIST: Marianna Ignazzi
COVER B: Qistina Khalidah
* Not all the witches burned during the Salem Witch Trials – and the ones that survived did so together. Now, generations later, their descendants protect the ancient secrets entrusted to them. They call themselves the Ravens.
* Wilma is the new girl in school, and she plans to go completely unnoticed – except that she bears an eerie resemblance to the Raven member Waverly. And Waverly just went missing.
* But the truth behind Waverly’s disappearance will put the entire coven in danger – and Wilma will have to rely on power she never knew she had if she wants to save her new friends.
* Writer Dan Panosian (Slots) and artist Marianna Ignazzi present a supernatural mystery, perfect for fans of The Marked and Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2019).
$3.99
In Shops: Sep 23, 2020
Intresse: 3
Kommentar: Ny serie om unga häxor som ser mycket lovande ut.
MÅNADENS TIPS:
Mina favoriter ur septemberskörden är The Department of Truth, Dracula, Motherf**ker, Inkblot och We Only Find Them When They’re Dead och om jag måste välja mellan konspirationsteorier, gotisk skräck, fantasy och episk rymdsaga så blir det den senare.
