Wow. It’s almost Strong Women Protagonists Week at the comic shop!
DC offers Birds of Prey 76, Catwoman 37, Manhunter 4, and Wonder Woman 210. (For balance, DC is offering you the chance to watch Sue die all over again with a third printing of Identity Crisis 1.)
From Marvel, there’s Pulse 6 (a Secret War tie-in guest-starring Wolverine, so don’t get too excited) and She-Hulk 9. (For those of you wondering, yes, the bracelet on my ankle will explode if I don’t plug She-Hulk every time it ships. I would do it anyways, though.)
If you’ve forgotten what the heck was happening in Secret War, given how long it’s been since the last issue shipped and how very incrimentally the plot is moving forward, Marvel feels for you. They’re re-issuing “Book One” and “Book Two.” (Calling these rather slim outings “books” seems like a flagrant insult to the spirit of Book Week.)
I’m also looking forward to Ed Brubaker’s first issue of Captain America which, coincidentally, is the first issue of Captain America… again. Madrox 3 also arrives, a book that could actually sustain variant covers from a thematic standpoint but will probably never get one. And Viz busts out with the second volume of the gimmicky but charming Case Closed.