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Batwoman Meets Supergirl For the First Time! Plus Solicitation Issues, DC Giants in Walmart for November

Published Sat, 16 Nov 2019 08:35:21 -0600

Thursday, Bleeding Cool updated the solicit information for the Wonder Woman Giant Volume 2 #2 with information on the new stories and what will be reprinted within. Early Friday morning Walmarts around the United States put out for sale the new DC Giant books for November with the Walmart exclusive covers. Among these new books, up 1 book from last month, were Batman Volume 2 #2, The Flash Giant Volume 2 #2, Swamp Thing Giant Volume 2 #2, Batwoman / Supergirl World's Finest Giant #1 and … Wonder Woman Volume 2 #2.

The solicits for the DC Giant line, now that they are available not just at Walmart but for order at Local Comic Book Stores a few weeks later, have been vague and unusual, with only a half-a-page dedicated to all the Giant line solicited for that month. The ever popular TBD are the only creators listed, no reprint material is announced, and the solicits are only updated patchwork usually a week before FOC. It is an odd way to treat this line of books, which is only been available for order by LCBS since September and DC made a big show for making them available for all now, and not exclusive to Walmart. Why DC would wait until the day before a book is available to buy physically to release the full solicit information is unclear. (Lack of faith in the line in comic book shops? Lack of orders from comic book shops for the line? Lack of marketing emphasis since they didn't need to be marketed or solicited before? Rushing books out so that Walmart has at least 4 books a month? Anyone know?)

This month continues an emphasis on a wide variety of creators doing short stories set in the Rebirth era of the DCU … kind of. With the new Batwoman CW series, she continues to get focus with new material in Batwoman/Supergirl and reprint focus in both Batman Giant and Batwoman/Supergirl, the Signal gets his own solo outing, Gail Simone, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Amanda Conner continue their runs from Volume 1 of Flash Giant and Wonder Woman Giant, and Batwoman and Supergirl meet for the first time. (Best first versus then team-up exchange in years … maybe ever…)

(Also an exclusive ad on the back cover for the up to fourth printing of Teen Titans: Raven.)

Out Friday, Walmarts around the United States received four new books sporting their Walmart exclusive reprint covers (as shown below):

BATMAN GIANT #2
Reprint cover by Greg Capulloa
This issue includes two new stories:
o "Law of the Jungle," a 16-page story written by Michael Gray with art by Ryan Benjamin and Richard Friend
o "Lifelines," an eight-page story written by Andrea Shea with art by Neil Edwards and Scott Hanna
Plus, these reprint tales:
o "Trust Fall," from BATMAN #2
o "Elegy Part One," from DETECTIVE COMICS #854
o "Better than Batman Part One," from NIGHTWING #1

In Walmarts: November 15, 2019 (a week and half early before comic shops) SRP: $4.99

THE FLASH GIANT #2
Reprint cover by Francis Manapul
This issue includes two new stories:
o "Run Like There's No Tomorrow", a 16-page story by Gail Simone and Clayton Henry.
o "Rational Thought", an 8-page story by Jeff Parker and Ramon Villalobos
Plus, these reprint tales:
o "Gorilla Warfare Part Two", from THE FLASH #14
o "The End", from GREEN ARROW #1

o "Can't Go Home Again", from BLUE BEETLE #2

In Walmarts: November 15, 2019 (three and half weeks early before comic shops) SRP: $4.99

SWAMP THING GIANT #2
Reprint cover by Kelly Jones

This issue includes two new stories:
o "Everything Eats, Everything Dies," written by Mark Russell with art by Marco Santucci

o "The Winter Quarters," written by Phil Hester with art by Tom Mandrake

Plus, these reprint tales:
o "A Walk Among the Tombstones," from SWAMP THING #2

o "The Poison Truth part two," from THE HELLBLAZER #2
o "Fuseli's Nightmare," from ZATANNA #2

In Walmarts: November 15, 2019 (a week and half early before comic shops) SRP: $4.99

WONDER WOMAN GIANT #2

Reprint cover by Nicola Scott

This issue includes two new stories:
o "The Curse of the K2", a 16-page story written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner with art by Daniel Sampere and Juan Albarran.

o "Sure Shot", an 8-page story written by Van Jensen with art by Jheremy Raapack.

Plus, these reprint tales:
o "Year One Part 2", from WONDER WOMAN #3

o "Secret Origin Part 2", from GREEN LANTERN #30

o "The Cataclysm Part 2: The Blood of Amethyst" from SWORD OF SORCERY #1

In Walmarts: November 15, 2019 (a month before comic shops) SRP: $4.99

BATWOMAN / SUPERGIRL WORLD'S FINEST GIANT) #1

Cover by Steve Epting & Robson Rocha

This issue includes three new stories:
o ""Sister, Sister," a 16-page Batwoman and Supergirl team-up story written by Margaret Stohl with art by Laura Braga.

o "Faceless," an 8-page Batwoman story written by Sanya Anwar with art by Chad Hardin.

o "Exit Interview," an 8-page Supergirl story written by Andrea Shea with art by Mike Norton.

Plus, these reprint tales:
o "Looking Glass," from BATWOMAN: REBIRTH #1
o "Brainiac Part One," from SUPERGIRL: REBIRTH #1
o "Escape from Dinosaur Island Part One," from BATWOMAN #0

In Walmarts: November 15, 2019 (two and half weeks early before comic shops) SRP: $4.99