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Better Read the Solicitation for Joe Hill's Basketful Of Heads #1 if You Want to Know What's Going On (Spoilers)

Published Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:46:29 -0500

Last updated Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:44:30 -0500

You learn a lot more in the solicitation for A Basketful Of Heads #1 in the solicitation for the issue rather than the comic book itself. It reads:

BASKETFUL OF HEADS #1 (OF 6) (MR)
(W) Joe Hill (A) Leomacs (CA) Reiko Murakami
The rain lashes the grassy dunes of Brody Island, and seagulls scream above the bay. A slender figure in a raincoat carries a large wicker basket, which looks like it might be full of melons… covered by a bloodstained scrap of the American flag.
This is the story of June Branch, a young woman trapped with four cunning criminals who have snatched her boyfriend for deranged reasons of their own. Now she must fight for her life with the help of an impossible 8th-century Viking axe that can pass through a man's neck in a single swipe-and leave the severed head still conscious and capable of supernatural speech. Each disembodied head has a malevolent story of its own to tell, and it isn't long before June finds herself in a desperate struggle to hack through their lies and manipulations… racing to save the man she loves before time runs out.
Plus, in the premiere chapter of the backup story "Sea Dogs," which sails across all the Hill House Comics titles! In Shops: Oct 30, 2019 SRP: $3.99

Because tons of that doesn't actually happen in the comic. Not the first issue at least. Which opens big with said basketful of heads…

But if you hadn't read the synopsis of the first issue, you'd have no idea what that actually was where it came from, whose heads they might have been and who decapitated them in the first place.

I mean, aside from the title, there don't appear to be any heads in that basket. It's a basketful of arms. Instead, you get a story of a temporary policeman and his girlfriend riding around the place, deciding what they should be doing with their lives, the words of prisoners escaping, and a confrontation foreshadowed. The only look at that axe is right here…

Look, it's glowing. But if I'd have only read the comic book, I'd have no idea what this comic book was all about… Did you do any better? Also, apparently, Leomacs was discovered by DC Comics at a London comic book convention. Still worth popping along for such opportunities, it seems.

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