Thursday, July 11, 2013

Marvel Comics Solicitations - October 2013

The Marvel Comics solicitations are now live for the month of October, 2013.

Canonical Heavy Hitters that I am concerned with include:

Infinity #4 (of 6)

JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • JEROME OPEñA & DUSTIN WEAVER (A)
Cover BY ADAM KUBERT
Design Variant by JEROME OPENA
Generals Variant by IN-HYUK LEE
Hero Variant by RYAN STEGMAN
Young Variant by SKOTTIE YOUNG
• Negotiating the fall of worlds.
• The Illuminati versus Thanos.
• Thor, God of War.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

  

Infinity #5 (of 6)

JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • JEROME OPEñA & DUSTIN WEAVER (A)
Cover BY ADAM KUBERT
Design Variant by JEROME OPENA
Generals Variant by IN-HYUK LEE
Hero Variant by SARA PICHELLI
Young Variant by SKOTTIE YOUNG
• The Avengers Universe.
• The Heroes of Earth rally to defeat Thanos.
• The war for Earth begins.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

   

Avengers #21

JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • LEINIL YU (A/C)
Lego Variant Cover by Leonel Castellani
INFINITY TIE-IN – “AVENGERS UNIVERSE: IV”
• The final battle for the Marvel universe begins.
• The fall of a Galactic empire.
• The rise of a new one.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99


   

Avengers #22

JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • LEINIL YU (A/C)
AVENGERS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT BY Daniel Acuna
INFINITY TIE-IN – “AVENGERS UNIVERSE: V”
• The Avengers return to our Solar System.
• The battle for Earth starts in the heavens.
• The Black Order makes their move.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99


New Avengers #11

JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) •MIKE DEODATO (A/C)
Lego Variant Cover by Leo Castellani
INFINITY TIE-IN – “BUILDING WORLDS”
• The Illuminati travel to another Earth during an incursion.
• Thanos in Necropolis.
• The Builders on Earth.
32 PGS./Rated T+…$3.99



Guardians of the Galaxy #8

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (A/C)
THOR BATTLE VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
RIVERA VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
INFINITY TIE-IN
• What will it take for Peter Quill to betray the entire Marvel Universe?
• And if you don’t know Eisner award winning artist Francesco Francavilla yet, you will after this comic!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99


 

Uncanny Avengers #13

RICK REMENDER (W) • Daniel Acuña (A)
Cover by John Cassaday

Ragnarök is now!
• Against his masters’ orders a deranged and vengeful Sentry kills an Uncanny Avenger! No hoax, no dream and only the first casualty of many!
• To allow reinforcements from other eras The Wasp must find and destroy the Twins Tachyon transmitter, but first she’ll have to defeat The Grim Reaper.
• Scarlet Witch makes an impossible choice that will define her forever.
• Sunfire and Rogue, alone without back up, must defeat the combined might of both Apocalypse Twins or watch the end of our world!


   

Superior Spider-Man #19

DAN SLOTT (W) • RYAN STEGMAN (A/C)
Necessary Evil CONCLUDES!
• The moment that changes world of Spider-Man-- and the Marvel Universe for years to come.
• Which Spider-Man is responsible for such a thing? Spider-Man 2099 or the Superior Spider-Man?
• Major developments for both Spider-Man’s cast... and for the future.


   

Superior Spider-Man #20

DAN SLOTT (W) • GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI (A/C)
• From the fallout of NECESSARY EVIL, comes new beginnings and new twists that will be felt in the pages of Spider-Man for years to come! SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #20 is where it all starts! Do NOT miss this one!
• It’s the first ever adventure for the Superior Spider-Man and the Black Cat. Felicia Hardy always cared for the Spider more than the man. But what happens when that man is Otto Octavius?
• Plus: A day Otto has been waiting for is finally here. Is the world ready for “Dr. Peter Parker”... and what he plans to do next?


   

Daredevil #32

MARK WAID (W) • CHRIS SAMNEE (A/C)
THOR BATTLE VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
• The Man Without Fear--trapped in a nightmare situation!
• Something final is building in Daredevil’s life--and building fast!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99



Captain America #12

RICK REMENDER (W) • CARLOS PACHECO (A/C)
Lego Variant Cover by Leonel Castellani
LOOSE NUKE PART 2
• Nuke on a rampage!
• The Weapon Minus program revealed!
• Meet Dr. Mindbubble, the unbelievable Super Soldier created in the 1960s!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99


  

Indestructible Hulk #14

MARK WAID (W) • MATTEO SCALERA (A)
Cover by MUKESH SINGH

“HULK AGENT OF T.I.M.E.” PART 5!
• The secret of the CHRONARCHISTS--and their impact on the entire MARVEL UNIVERSE!
• One last time-trip--to a certain Gamma Bomb explosion of yore!
• In order to save the timestream, HULK will have to undo his own origin!


   

Iron Man #17

KIERON GILLEN (W) • MAHMUD ASRAR (A)
Cover by CARLO PAGULAYAN
Classified Baby Variant by GREG LAND AND DAVID MARQUEZ
Lego Variant Cover by Leonel Castellani
MORE MIND-BLOWING REVELATIONS AS “THE SECRET ORIGIN OF TONY STARK” CONCLUDES!
• What 451 didn’t know.
• What TONY didn’t know.
• What changes things FOREVER.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



Thor: God of Thunder #14

JASON AARON (W) • RON GARNEY (A/C)
Lego VARIANT by Leonel Castellani
THOR BATTLE VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
• The Wild Hunt has begun! As Malekith the Accursed continues his bloody rampage across the Nine Realms, Thor finds new allies to aid him in the chase: A Dark Elf sorceress!
• A gun-toting Light Elf! A gargantuan Mountain Giant! A dwarf who loves dynamite! and a particularly surly troll..?!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


  

Fantastic Four #13

MATT FRACTION (W) • MARK BAGLEY (A/C)
• The Fantastic Four end up where we started -- literally!
• Trapped in an entire UNIVERSE controlled by DR. DOOM!
• Has Old John Storm been right all along?
• And Reed and Sue make a fateful decision that will change the lives of the whole Richards family!


   

All-New X-Men #17

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • STUART IMMONEN (A)
X-MEN: BATTLE OF THE ATOM, PART 6!
• Magik and Young Beast have a special mission!
• The X-Men and Future X-Men have Jean Grey and Cyclops and are going to send them back in time with the rest of the Original X-Men.
• But who is opposing them and why?


   

X-Men #6

BRIAN WOOD (W) • DAVID LOPEZ (A)
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS

X-MEN: BATTLE OF THE ATOM, PART 7!
• CHAOS AT THE JEAN GREY SCHOOL as the X-Men and Future X-Men are attacked!
• Rachel Grey is the only X-Man qualified to defeat the mystery opponents!


   

Uncanny X-Men #13

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • CHRISTOPHER BACHALO (A)
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS

X-MEN: BATTLE OF THE ATOM, PART 8!
• Wolverine, who just lost his healing factor, takes a mortal hit!
• And a surprise ending that changes everything in the X-Men Event of 2013!


   

Wolverine and the X-Men #37

JASON AARON (W) • GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI (A)
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS

 X-MEN: BATTLE OF THE ATOM, PART 9!
• All of the X-Men (present & future) and their adversaries are reeling from the events of Part 8!
• With the adversaries’ Plan A squashed, they turn to their far more sinister Plan B on the grounds of the X-Men’s first adventure!


   

X-Men: Battle of the Atom #2 (of 2)

JASON AARON (W) • ESAD RIBIC (A)
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS

X-MEN: BATTLE OF THE ATOM, PART 10!
• The biggest battle in X-Men history will melt your face off.
• All of the X-Men find their footing in the world much changed.
• The X-Men event of 2013 concludes and sets up the major X-Men stories for 2014!


   

Wolverine #10

PAUL CORNELL (W) • ALAN DAVIS (A/C)
PART 3 OF KILLABLE!
• Who says you can’t go home?
• Logan and Kitty’s road trip heads north – to the grounds of the former Howlett estate!
• But more than bittersweet memories are waiting for Logan in the place he once called home.
• The ghosts of Logan’s Canadian childhood meet the demons of his adulthood as he continues to grapple with his new reality!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99