Well, some of the others that caught my eye anyway

First off, Rann-Thanagar Holy War #6.  Its back!!!! Going from the cover, Adam Strange has his Planet Heist kit back.  Yay

JSA #20 features the New Earth JSA and the Earth-2 JSA with Power Girl torn between the two.   I’m really looking forward to this storyline, as is probably most of DC fandom.  But I’m still really intrigued to see how this Earth-2 JSA is going to be approached.    As I’ve mentioned before, the Earth-2 JSA shouldn’t be the Golden Age JSA, so I’m wondering how they’re going to reconcile this.   Earth-2 in 52 was shown to have some kind of link to events on new Earth (both Kryptonians missing), but it also showed differences to the classic Earth-2 we see here.  Of course, there was obviously something going on with Earth-2 during Infinite Crisis (it was the only unpopulated world, E-2 Lois and E-2 Wonder Woman seemed to hint at being drawn somewhere - in the trade at least), so I wonder if this story arc will start to address that.

Booster Gold has a new writer in October in the form of Rick Remender. I’ve not read any of his other stuff (off the top of my head), but I love the sound of this arc, with Daniel unwittingly being possessed by Starro. It sounds like the kind of light-hearted adventure that suits this series down to the ground.

The Tangent Comics crossover is another mini I’m really loving (although it has been pointed out that the JLA really didn’t come out of the last issue looking that great. Powergirl versus Powergirl should be an entertaining matchup and I’m really intrigued to see where this series takes the Tangent Universe. I’ve been really enjoying the trades they’ve been releasing and re-casting Superman as the villain makes a lot of sense for the character.

Finally, the Superman titles explore the fallout of the Brainiac story, with 100,000 Kryptonians living on Earth.    Sounds like a really interesting story setup.  I guess I’ll be picking up the titles for a little while after the Brainiac arc ends.  It certainly gives them a lot of scope to really dig into where Clark sits in between both cultures.  Supergirl’s part in the story should be incredibly interesting, as I imagine she’s going to be really pleased to be around Kryptonians again (especially since this iteration of the character has really struggled to find her feet on Earth).

Yup. October’s going to be an expensive month for this DC fan.

The solicits for Final Crisis in October really sound promising. We’ve got a whole bunch of one-shots that month, as well as issue 5 out of the 7 issue miniseries. For anyone worrying about the pace of the story, there can’t be much doubt now that its building up to something huge. With the Earth still basically screwed with only 2 issues to go, it really is sounding like an epic storyline.

I’m unsure about most of the one-shots though. The fact that its only a one-off probably raises the chances I’ll buy Submit and Resist. Revelations I’ll probably try and see what I think. I loved Gotham Central, so the Question and Spectre storylines intrigue me, but Batwoman is a character that I just can’t bring myself to care about. She does provide a good cover for issue 3 though.

It’ll be interesting to see how much these tie-ins actually play into the main narrative. Submit and Resist certainly sound like they’ll fill in some details, but a lot of the others sound like they’re more out on the periphery. Of course, the danger of integrating them closely to the main series means you could end up with another Infinite Crisis. I re-read that series again recently, and without reading the tie-ins along side it, a lot of it really doesn’t hang together. Stuff just seems to happen in panels with no real explanation, and that’s the balancing act with these events. I think its partly why Sinestro Corps worked so well. By not crossing over with everything going, this wasn’t really an issue and kept the story tighter.

Still, meandering thoughts about tie ins aside it really does sound like its all hit the fan in issue 5, and I can’t wait.   Granted we’re only two issues in (currently), but I’m already loving this storyline.

The latest Knight Rider trailer is teasing the thing fandom most felt was lacking from the 2hour pilot.  Yup.  Turbo Boost.

A key part of the fun in the original series was KITT jumping over stuff.  However Gary Scott Thompson’s suggested that the new turbo boost might not be so straight forward.   Granted, its pricey to do, but I can’t help but feel that simpler could be better in this instance.  Just have the Mustang (be it a model, CGI or old junker stunt car) jump over something.

I also note that it doesn’t sound like Val Kilmer in the ads, and the voice seems more treated.   I hope its a sign that Kilmer’s voice will have a more electronic sound to it in the series, just to give it that slight feel of something synthesized, rather than sounding like someone reading out some lines.

Also, I could be wrong, but I think the theme is sounding tweaked as well.

There’s loads of good stuff in the October solicits for DC, so I’ll do a couple of posts on them. First, the GL issues.

October sees the release of Rage of the Red Lanterns and it looks like this is the month where the buildup to The Blackest Night hits high gear. Rage of the Red Lanterns, and October’s issue of GL sees the buildup we’re currently seeing in Secret Origin pay off, and will see Hal leading (interesting that its Hal, given the Guardian’s general distrust of him. Has that changed since the Corps War, or is this Hal going off on his own?) a group of GLs to Ysmault to confront the Red Lanterns and Atrocitus. I’m really looking forward to this, especially seeing Laira’s interactions with her fellow GLs since the red ring claimed her.

Its interesting to see Sinestro featured prominently on the cover to the one-shot. We know from Secret Origin that he was investigating Abin Sur’s death, and we know the Red Lanterns are gunning for him as well. Presumably its going to stop the Guardians from executing him, but will he have knowledge about the red lanterns that the Guardians will have to spare him for? We know that the various Corps will have to join forces for the Blackest Night, so I wonder if this will fore-shadow that.

With the one-shot and the main GL title focusing on the Red Lanterns, GLC is bringing one of the other Corps back into focus. One of the first of the new Corps we saw, the Star Saphires take centre stage. I really liked the ideas Geoff brought to the Star Saphires, especially retconning their appearance to something more alien. I’m still slightly wary of them remaining a ring+lantern style Corps after this event, but I’m definitely keen to see where it goes. The cover looks interesting as well. Given the various pairing-up going on, is the cover hinting to something between Kyle and Soranik? Of course, given the power of the saphires, its a fair bet they’re under their influence in some way.