DC Comics’ June solicits went up on Monday, and last month’s promise of penultimateness in Wonder Woman #611 has paid off in the form of an “earth-shattering conclusion” in Wonder Woman #612:
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI and PHIL HESTER; Art and cover by DON KRAMER and WAYNE FAUCHER; 1:10 Variant cover by ALEX GARNER
This is the one you’ve waited for! The year-long “Odyssey” storyline comes to an earth-shattering conclusion! Can Diana defeat the powerful forces that destroyed her entire reality? And even if she wins, she could still lose everything!
As you can see above, for some reason the cover that was supposed to be a variant for Wonder Woman #609 is attached to this issue in the solicit. So either they’ve changed their minds and put the cover on this later issue OR neither Don Kramer or Alex Garner have their Wonder Woman #612 cover finished yet so this is a placeholder. Whatever is happening, it’s still a nice cover.
Anyway, “Odyssey” will be over in June!! I’m very excited. As much as I’m all for mixing it up comicwise, this storyline really hasn’t worked. The solicit isn’t very detailed… really, it sounds like every single last issue of an arc solicit ever written. Whoever first wrote “even if X wins, X could still lose everything” should have copyrighted it, because they would have made a fortune from solicits alone. I’m assuming that Diana will successfully defeat the powerful forces that destroyed her entire reality, only because if she didn’t then it wouldn’t be the end of the storyline, would it? That’s one bad thing about solicits… it takes out the element of surprise. I’d love for a story to just end crazily sometime with NO advance warning.
Next month’s solicits will be the big one, obviously. With this arc done and JMS’ looming spectre gone from the book, I’m curious to see what direction it goes in and who, if anyone, of the creative team is going to stay on board. DC’s last few big name Wonder Woman launches haven’t gone particularly well, so maybe they’ll let Hester have a go at building an audience on his own terms. I can see it going either way.
In other June solicitation news:
- Kelly Sue DeConnick is writing Supergirl!! She has a three issue arc starting with Supergirl #65, and it’s guest starring Lois Lane. This is awesome because a) good lord does DC need more female writers, and b) Kelly Sue DeConnick is super cool. It’s a bummer Amy Reeder isn’t doing the cover… but Mahmud Asrar looks fun!!
- I know DC cancelled a few books to pave the way for Flashpoint minis, but there are a LOT of Flashpoint books and damn near every regular series seems to be coming out too… it looks like June is going to be a really busy month.
- Superman’s going to make a friend named Sharif, so look forward to Nightrunner Outrage Part 2.
- I love Jock covers SO much.
Look for Wonder Woman #612 in comic shops everywhere on June 29th!!
Tags: Alex Garner, Don Kramer, J. Michael Straczynski, Phil Hester, Wonder Woman
