Comic Stack 07/08/15 – 5 Upcoming Comic Reviews

I’m a little behind on my comic book reading. Getting caught up on my books has taken precedent over most of my comics with the time I can spare for reading. I work full-time, and sometimes, my work obligations make it hard to focus on all the things I would love to focus on. Usually my comics are the first to suffer because I feel a bigger obligation to finish ARCs and books I’ve been sitting on for a while than comics. I skipped last week, and this week was looking to become another skip week, even though I should be talking about Deathstroke, because I had to hammer down from the short week. However, I thought I’d give you a little taste of five upcoming comics that I will be reviewing/talking about soon.

“King just wants what anybody wants: not to get fired, eaten, or forced to mate with a cheetah lady.”

This is actually an ARC set to be released on August 19th, so that’s when my official review of this book will go up, but King centers around a post-apocalyptic earth now populated by mutated humanoid creatures like cheetah ladies. King is the last known human survivor of this apocalypse and finds himself the subject to the new inhabitants whimsies such as being sent on jobs to find relics of the old world like Excalibur and iPod shuffles. While the new inhabitants battle it out, King starts looking for something called the “seed of life,” which may bring things back to the way they used to be.

A Vertigo ARC that I’ll be reviewing on August 26th. This will be something a little different for me as it’s a financial thriller, and I can’t say that I’ve read many of those, especially not in comic format. The story starts with a woman who is killing off people Kill Bill style that were involved in her husband’s death. However, things become much more complicated as she becomes embroiled in the world of money. This book is being touted as Kill Bill meets The Wolf of Wall Street mixed with a little Da Vinci Code. We’ll see how this works out, and I’ll admit that part of the draw for me was that the story seems to feature a leading lady of color.

An ARC provided by DC set to be released on August 12th. Admittedly, as much as I love the Teen Titans cartoons in its various incarnations, I have never read a Teen Titans comic. Not one. Part of that I blame on the fact that I’m just now starting to read more DC comics in recent years. So, I’m well past due for reading about the Teen Titans. Maybe the New 52 isn’t the best way to meet the team since I’ve only been “meh” about so many of the DCnU titles, but I thought this was an interesting line to add to the blurb for these new adventures: “…any one of whom could be the next heroic figure or major villain!” So, I’m hoping they make good on making these kids seeming to toe the live of hero and villain.

ARC comic that I’ll be posting a review for on August 4th. This is based on Robert Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy, which follows the adventures of a young slave boy named Thorby who is adopted by a beggar, a beggar who turns out to be so much more than that. I haven’t read the novel yet. It has been sitting on my TBR pile for a while. However, I have already this comic, and it’s definitely made me want to read this novel now. I thought the comic was pretty good and it piqued my interest in learning the full story of Thorby.

October Faction Volume 1 by Steve Niles
My final entry (and yes, another ARC) is October Faction, which I’ll be reviewing for July 22nd. I think I’m going to just use the blurb for this one because it’s so damn interesting:

The October Faction details the adventures of retired monster-hunter Frederick Allan and his family… which include a thrill-killer, a witch, and a warlock. Because sometimes crazy is the glue that binds a family together.

There you have it. These should be some of my upcoming comics reviews. I’ll also be trying to find a way to shoehorn in Marvel’s Civil War because that reread is about to happen with a friend starting with House of M, and yes, we’re absolutely nuts for doing this.

Happy reading!