The Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List is a great speculator tool. It shows what books retailers are going back to get more of, in advance of their release. They are actually putting their money up betting these books get big. These are the books people are talking about in shops, message boards, and websites. Here is the Diamond Comics Advance for 9/3/18:
Some guy named Wolverine is returning and is leads the list. Mattina is off Flash and on Batman. Doing great looking covers as usual. Dell Otto provides an awesome Amazing Spider-Man variant, cover priced too, I always like that. Middleton provides another great Aquaman cover too. Batman Who Laughs is back in Justice League #8.
RETURN OF WOLVERINE #1
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1 DELLOTTO VAR
BATMAN #55 VAR ED
VENOM #6
VENOM #5 2ND PTG STEGMAN VAR
JUSTICE LEAGUE #8 VAR ED
RETURN OF WOLVERINE #1 CHRISTOPHER VAR
RETURN OF WOLVERINE #1 YU VAR
AQUAMAN #40 VAR ED SINK ATLANTIS
BATMAN #55
TEEN TITANS #22 VAR ED
EXTERMINATION #1 2ND PTG LARRAZ VAR
VENOM FIRST HOST #4
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4 2ND PTG OTTLEY VAR
INFINITY WARS #2 3RD PTG DEODATO VAR
JUSTICE LEAGUE #8
RETURN OF WOLVERINE #1 BLANK VAR
RETURN OF WOLVERINE #1 MCNIVEN ORIGINAL WOLVERINE VAR
RETURN OF WOLVERINE #1 CASSADAY VAR
CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL #1 ANDREWS VAR
AVENGERS #8
TRUE BELIEVERS PUNISHER FIRST APPEARANCE #1
INFINITY WARS PRIME #1 3RD PTG SPOILER VAR
VENOM FIRST HOST #4 MIYAZAWA VAR
GO GO POWER RANGERS BACK TO SCHOOL #1 MAIN
Mattina keeps cranking out great cover after great cover..that guy must never sleep!
Some would say he cranks out so many covers because some of his work is blatant rip offs of other artists including not just comic art but comic statues too.
https://comicsheatingup.net/2017/09/13/lee-jeehyung-accuses-francesco-mattina-of-copying-his-work/
https://comicsheatingup.net/2017/09/13/lee-jeehyung-accuses-francesco-mattina-of-copying-his-work/
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/05/19/separated-birth-mattina-vs-macdonald-venom-phoenix/
There’s another one to but the link is not posting with his Venomized Magneto cover.
That Tten Titans Variant is nice
I like that Aquaman #40b cover.