On The Pull 17/07/2019

New comics are due to hit the shelves on Wednesday so here’s a look ahead at some of the books we’ll be picking up this week along with a full list of titles that will be available from Paradox Comics.

Jo S: A greater than usual level of ruthlessness was required for this week's final rundown: lots of lovely tasty stuff I've enjoyed previously recurs along with a bouquet of new titles so I've had my work cut out cutting out the chaff. Starting in the Marvel camp, the last issue of Daredevil reached a fascinating conclusion, with something of an end-of-arc feel to it in some ways; the ongoing existence and persistence of crime in Hell's Kitchen forcing Matt Murdock's alter ego to continue, somehow, with his work.

I'm doing my homework currently regarding Silver Surfer: Black. Norrin Radd had yet to register on my radar when issue #1 appeared last month, so I've been catching up with Steve Engelhart's '80s series to give myself a bit of background on this melancholy cosmic baldy: he's not quite a robot or a cyborg, but roughly fits my tinman interests! This new series has a deeply psychedelic vibe; I'm not totally sure I'm into the artwork as yet but I'm keeping an open mind.

DC produce a clutch of goodies this week in the form of the complex and beautiful gem that is Pearl, Tom King's Batman (knowing he will be leaving this earlier than expected has made me oddly more dedicated to the book) and a new Wonder Woman series, Come Back To Me, which I took a look at for our Shipping Forecast for this month.

A raft of independents join the gang this week too: I'm really enjoying Image's Fair Lady; each issue is a freestanding story, akin to a TV detective series, but set in a post-technological world with a medieval societal structure, with added giant cat people - what's not to like? Sonata, Faithless, Lady Mechanika: Sangre and Ride: Burning Desire give me a quadruple dose of strong women with hidden strengths - the latter made a surprise strong start last month and will go in the read-last-and-savour spot in the bedside pile.

The final precious space goes to a surprise continuation: I picked up the first Road Of Bones for Alex Cormack's art, which is such an inextricable part of the appeal of the horrifically dark and gory Sink series, and fully expected from the blurb to find it too grim to deal with, but issue #2 managed to grip me yet more than the first. Cormack's art is quite stunning and Rich Douek's writing, following the almost entirely hopeless journey of three escapees from a nightmarish remote tundral prison, is gut wrenching, in all the good ways.

It's going to be an intense week!

DARK HORSE:

American Gods: Moment of the Storm #4 £3.30
Joe Golem Occult Detective: Conjurors #3 £3.30
Orville: New Beginnings #1 £3.30

DC COMICS:
Aquaman #50 £4.10
Batman #75 £4.10
Collapser #1 (of 6) £3.30
Justice League #28 £3.30
Nightwing #62 £3.30
Pearl #11 £3.30
Supermans Pal Jimmy Olsen #1 (of 12) £3.30
Teen Titans #32 £3.30
Teen Titans Go #35 £2.50
Wonder Woman: Come Back to Me #1 (of 6) £4.10

DC / VERTIGO:
Lucifer #10 £3.30

IMAGE:
Assassin Nation #5 £3.30
Black Science #41 £3.30
Cyber Force #11 £3.30
Evolution #17 £3.30
Exellence #3 £3.30
Fairlady #4 £3.30
Gideon Falls #15 £3.30
Hit-Girl Season Two #6 £3.30
Infinite Dark #8 £3.30
Little Bird #5 (of 5) £3.30
Outpost Zero #11 £3.30
Port of Earth #12 £3.30
Ride: Burning Desire #2 (of 5) £3.30
Sonata #2 £3.30
Warning #9 £3.30

MARVEL:
Age of X-Man: Omega £4.10
Captain Marvel #8 £3.30
Daredevil #8 £3.30
Deadpool #15 £3.30
Domino Hotshots #5 (of 5) £3.30
Giant Sized X-Men #1 Facsimile Edition £4.10
Immortal Hulk #21 £3.30
Invaders #7 £3.30
Loki #1 £3.30
Punisher Annual #1 £4.10
Secret Warps: Ghost Panther Annual #1 £4.10
Silver Surfer Black #2 (of 5) £3.30
Spider-Man: City at War #5 (of 6) £3.30
Spider-Man: Life Story #5 (of 6) £4.10
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #34 £3.30
Star Wars: Tie Fighter #4 (of 5) £3.30
Superior Spider-Man #9 £3.30
True Believers AC: Maximum Carnage #1 £0.90
True Believers AC: Savage Rebirth #1 £0.90
Uncanny X-Men #22 £4.10
Unstoppable Wasp #22 £3.30
X-Force #10 £3.30

MORE:
2000AD #2140 £2.85
Animosity #22 £3.30
Black Badge #12 £3.30
Blade Runner 2019 #1 £3.30
Bloodborne #13 £3.30
Blossoms 666 #5 (of 5) £3.30
Clue: Candlestick #3 £4.10
Doctor Who: 13th Doctor #10 £3.30
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark #7 £3.30
Faithless #4 (of 5) £3.30
Fathom Vol.8 #3 £3.30
Firefly #8 £3.30
Ghost Tree #4 £3.30
GI Joe: A Real American Hero #264 £3.30
Gretel #5 (of 5) £3.30
Hellchild: Blood Money #4 (of 4) £3.30
James Bond: 007 #9 £3.30
Jim Henson Storyteller: Sirens #4 £3.30
Jughead vs. Vampironica #3 £3.30
Jughead: Time Police #2 (of 5) £3.30
Lady Mechanika: Sangre #2 (of 5) £3.30
League of Extraordinary Gents: Tempest #6 £4.10
Life and Death of Toyo Harada #5 (of 6) £4.10
Marvel Action Classics: Captain America £4.10
Mary Shelley: Monster Hunter #4 £3.30
Ragnarok: Breaking of Helheim #1 (of 6) £4.10
Road of Bones #3 (of 5) £3.30
Smooth Criminals #7 (of 12) £3.30
Transformers #9 £3.30
Transformers / Ghostbusters #2 £3.30
Turok #4 £3.30
Usagi Yojimbo #2 £3.30
Vampirella #1 £3.30
Wailing Blade #2 (of 4) £4.10

GRAPHIC NOVELS:
Black Widow Vol.1: No Restraints Play Tp £14.50
BPRD: Devil You Know Vol.3 Tp £17.99
Die Die Die Vol.1 Tp £17.99
Grumble Vol.1: You're the Dog Now Man Tp £15.99
Gunning for Hits Tp £14.99
Miles Morales Vol.1 Tp £15.99
Ronin Island Vol.1 Tp £10.99
Sandman Vol.10 30th Anniversary Edition Tp £16.99
They Called Us Enemy Tp £17.99
Wolverine: The Long Night Tp £14.50
Wonder Woman Vol.9 Tp £16.99
X-Men Epic Collection - Always Darkest Before Dawn Tp £35.99