DC in May

I'm still catching up on the solicitations for upcoming comics. I was just going to stick this in the Awesome List below, but dang if there aren't a lot of interesting comics coming from DC in May.

In no particular order:

House of Mystery #1



There aren't many people I'd trust to make an ongoing horror anthology series interesting, but Bill Willingham is one of them. Especially since he and co-writer Matt Sturges aren't doing a real anthology so much as they are a series of tales with a connected, mystery metastory running through them. Or something like that.

It's still really risky business, but like I said, I trust Willingham enough to give it a serious look.

Justice League Unlimited #45



I don't usually read this comic, but it's got Mary Marvel on the cover with a gorilla who's holding some kind of superscience device. Time to see if this compares well to Marvel's Marvel Adventures comics that I love so very truly.

Detective Comics #844



All I need to know is that Zatanna's on the cover.

Gotham Underground #8



I'm gonna have to flip through this one in the store, but Azrael's sort of appearance on the cover is getting me to at least pick it up. I fully expect him to appear in flashback or something, which means I'll be leaving it on the shelf.

Batman: Gotham After Midnight #1



Steve Niles and Kelley Jones on an ongoing about Batman's "bizarre and frightening case files" featuring grave-robbers and man-made monsters. DC just made me a regular reader of a Batman comic again.

Tor #1



This is another one I'm going to have to flip through. I absolutely love Joe Kubert's art, but the blurb bothers me a little by focusing a lot on Tor's struggle with existential questions. Not that I'm at all against having some deeper subject matter, but I want to see him struggle more with giant crocodiles than the meaning of life.

The War That Time Forgot #1



This sounds like a no-brainer. "A lone USAF pilot, about to warn his superiors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, finds his craft suddenly crash-landing on a mysterious island populated with prehistoric creatures and soldiers of wars of the past, present and future - including Tomahawk, Firehair, and Hans Von Hammer, the Enemy Ace! What bizarre force has compelled these military masters of every era to inhabit the same strange territory? Can they survive without killing each other or being devoured by dinosaurs?"

The only problem is that it's written by Bruce Jones, a guy who's sometimes taken awesome concepts and turned them into solemn, weighty stories. Again, I'm all for adding strong characterization and profound themes to all the historical soldiers vs. dinosaurs action. Let's just make sure that it's only Time and not the writer who forgets the War.