This Week's Books and DC's June 2009 Solicitations

Well it's my favorite week of the month... new solicitations from DC and Marvel! Even though I can't buy these books for another three months, it always feels a bit like Christmas to me just looking through the list.

But first, the books I'll be getting this week, via Preview's website:

Books:

-Avengers: Hawkeye (I'm a sucker for these Marvel Premiere Classics books)

Issues:

-Justice League of America #31

-Superman #686

-Amazing Spider-Man #589

-Captain America #48

-I may check out the X-Force Cable Messiah War Prologue, I haven't decided yet. I liked the Messiah Complex crossover, but I read 1 issue of X-Force before dropping it and 2 issues of Cable, so we'll see on that one.

All in all, a bit of a light week for me, so I should hopefully have some time to put some thoughts on the books up here.

On to the DC solicitations. I'm not going to mention every book listed, just some thoughts on the books that caught my attention (for reasons good or bad).

-I have absolutely no interest in any of these Final Crisis Aftermath books...

-Morrison + Quitely = Comic Gold, so Batman & Robin #1 should be a slam dunk. Although I think they may have given away that Damien is going to be Robin with that cover.

-Judd Winick is back on Batman. Say what you want about the guy, but at the very least, the man is consistent. You will either always like his stories, or always hate them.

-Rucka on Detective with Batwoman should be intriguing.

-I'll pick up the first issue of Red Robin, but whether or not I stick around is going to depend a LOT on that first issue. Wow me, Yost & Bachs.

-That's probably going to be it for the Bat books this month. My apologies to Paul Dini.

-I'm just as surprised as you are that I enjoy ALL of the Superman titles (even Supergirl... I know!), especially since they're almost all sans Superman. Although the one book Supes is in, World of New Krypton is easily shaping up to be the best of the bunch.

-I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am for Flash: Rebirth... You've got my expectations sky high, Mr. Johns, and I have full faith in you. Please don't disappoint me.

-As much as I've been loving Green Lantern by Geoff Johns, I really don't think Hal Jordan needs to wear every single color of ring throughout this series. It's just getting a bit improbable that he'd be in that situation, what? 7 times? Can John or Guy or Kyle snag a new ring at some point? Hell, throw the indigo one to Kilowog. I don't care. I just don't want to see a repeat of 'Hal gets/doesn't want/fights off a new ring' this many times. I know there's a lot of speculation on the internets about Hal becoming the 'White Lantern,' but I can't see it. I can't see DC bringing back Hal as the 'definitive GL', and now Barry as the 'definitive Flash', just to change Hal's role again. Kyle would be a perfect White Lantern. John would work pretty well, too. Not so much Guy. But definitely not Hal.

-I really hope JSA can keep up its continuing level of excellence with a new creative team on board.

-I'll probably be picking up Absolute Justice. I remember liking it when it started out, but just lost interest with the shipping delays and whatnot. It'll be nice to read it all in one shot. Plus I'm a sucker for Absolute/Omnibus/Deluxe/Whatever Other Fancy Term Hardcovers.

-I really don't know what to make of the DC Comics Classics Library. I had high hopes for this line. But 6 issues of George Perez's Justice League of America... for forty bucks? I will politely decline.

-I love Fables, so this thrice monthly crossover shebang should be fun.

-Aaaand DC Direct gives away another Black Lantern's identity. Well, technically they did it last month, but it's officially solicited this time around. I hope surprise isn't a big element of that story.

That's about it for DC in June. Thoughts on the Marvel solicits tomorrow!