Dynamite Entertainment's Miss Fury November 2013 solicitations

Had a bit of a scare here.  I found a large list of Dynamite solicitations for November and Black Bat wasn't on it.

Sales for the book do not appear to be strong, but according to writer Brian Buccelato, he had signed on for 12 issues.  I was concerned that the book was either ending prematurely, or falling behind schedule, something that has plagued Dynamite books a number of times in the past.  However, the actual answer for his absence is quite simple; the list I have found is incomplete.  So when the solicitation(s) for The Black Bat are revealed, I'll have a post specific to that.

In the meantime, let's see what's in store (pun intended) for Miss Fury.

Miss Fury #8
Story: Rob Williams
Art: Marcio Abreu

The Pharaoh of Time is alive and he and his enormous mothership have come to 1943's New York City for Miss Fury. But which one will he find? The immoral murderer with the samurai sword, the titanic stash of grenades and the epic love of debauchery or the Miss Fury who is lost in time, grasping for a sense of sanity and for the good inside her? It's a metaphysical battle played out with martial arts as two futures of our hero fight for supremacy, and only one Miss Fury is getting out alive.

And here's an unexpected treat...

Noir #1
Story: Victor Gischler
Art: Andrea Mutti

Prelude to Miss Fury! When thieves steal from other thieves it always causes problems, doesn't it?  So when The Black Sparrow is hired to steal a mysterious "Moon Stone" from a museum in New York, her decision to keep the thing for a better payday annoys her former employers who then steal it back from her.  Now it's The Black Sparrow who is annoyed, and that's a dangerous thing.  All she wants is what she stole fair and square, but she needs help.  She needs The Shadow!

The first volume of the Miss Fury series also comes out in November. Entitled "Anger is Energy", it checks in at a healthy 144 pages.

Miss Fury Digital #1, Chapter Two

Dynamite Entertainment quietly snuck this one out today.

Once again, it is available for $0.99 on Comixology (click the cover above to be taken to the page).  Where the first issue clocked in at 10 pages, this one has 12, yet seems like a quicker read.

These chapters take the time travel aspect of the series further.  In fact, they arguably take it too far.  She encounters Roman soldiers in this issue (among other things, but we want to remain spoiler-free) and based on the solicitation for the second compilation of digital chapters, they're going to be sticking around a while.

It was one thing when Miss Fury was travelling through two time periods in the regular series.  In this digital one, others are travelling to hers, and she also travels to a third era.  It may be getting to be a bit much.

Miss Fury Digital 1

Mystery solved.

This book's solicitation has been confusing from the beginning.  But a conversation with another poster on the Dynamite Entertainment message board finally cleared it up.

Bottom line: Three short stories are released digitally.  They are eventually collected into a 40-page print edition.  The first such collection will be available in stores in August.

The first "chapter" was very quietly released last week on Comixology.  It includes eight pages of story for $1 (The 10-page count includes to cover, inside and out).

The "digital" tag applies to more than the release format in this case.  It also refers to the art style (or at least it did in the first chapter).  See an example below.

Assuming that each chapter is the same length, that only cover 24 pages, so I'll be curious to see what fills the rest of the 40 pages.