Batgirl #14
Oh, Babs, with all your piercings, do you have a pierced belly-button like Kitty Pryde?
Jokes aside, Batgirl is the DC book I am enjoying the most week after week.
The Pull List
The Pull List, Release Date 8/16
I have a situation.
A dilemma, if you will.
I will put it in broad terms, in question form:
How much is $4 worth to you? Is $4 a reasonable price for long-awaited entertainment? If you could watch Game of Thrones early one week, for $4, would you do it? What if it meant you had to walk across town?
This is my dilemma, sort of.
Next Wednesday, I will be at GenCon. I have picked up comics at GenCon before, that is not the issue.
The issue is, should I hold off buying a comic that my FLCS will set aside for me, as it is in my actual pull list?
What if the comic is one of your faves? I know that I gush about Archie and their offerings, this one is so dark and wonderful. Sabrina #8, we waited a long time for #7, can i wait 5 days? More to the point, can i justify the expenditure, I would be buying it twice?
I am unsure.
But anyone out there reading this, YOU SHOULD PICK THIS COMIC UP!
The Pull List, Comic Release Date 8/2
Sheena #0
It’s only 25 cents.
Why not.
The “jungle girl” genre can be lots of fun, they can be cheesecake, and they can be awful, and sometimes all at the same time.
It has Marguerite Bennett writing so I am hopeful it won’t be awful cheesecake.
The Pull List, Comic Release Date 7/26
There is an elephant in the room. The room being the Marvel and DC room. The elephants are Convergence and Secret Wars. Secret Empire has had moments, the most surprising was when it acknowledged the past of Marvel comics. I enjoyed International Iron Man, and wish that titled had not been cancelled. It is one of my favorite artist-writer combos. Another one of my favorite combos is on display in Infamous Iron Man. What gives it that little extra something is that it acknowledges the Marvel history. This is one of the books I most look forward to when it comes out.
The Pull List, Release Date 7/19
Comics today often suffer from taking too long to tell a story, restricted to the 6-issue TPB model, stories often drag out, miniseries and events often get extended, along with delayed.
Archie’s Over The Edge promised dramatic changes for one of the characters, death was implied.
There was a list of five potential characters, which erased speculation of a the spotlight character being Jason Blossom perhaps to get in-line with the TV show. Before the first issue even arrived, several of the potentials were also eliminated.
All of this served an odd purpose, to decrease the drama inherent in a book promising:
“The end has come for one of Riverdale’s most beloved residents.”
Every time I have doubts about an Archie-verse title, it delivers. This story-arc has sped by incredibly quickly, no pun intended, and I am nervous to see the conclusion, and am trusting it will have a payoff.
The Pull List, Comic Release Date 7/12
One of the joys that comes from not reading Previews, is I can get very excited about a title right before it comes out, knowing nothing about it prior. I might take a look at IDW’s Dread Gods, but more to the point, Spider-Men II has me enthused. I knew nothing about it, and now I do. Please let it be good. Thanks, BMB!
The Pull List, Release Date 7/5
Sabrina #7
No one will remember it was late if it was awesome.
I have missed this teenage witch. Afterlife is great, but Sabrina really evokes all the awesomeness of the old EC comics but with enough canon-winks to make it even better.
The Pull List, Release Date 6/28
Supergirl: Being Super #4
I wanted to like the regular Supergirl series, but it did not click with me. Her appearances in Batgirl and with Batgirl have been charming, but this miniseries has been great so far. I’ll be sad to see it end, but happy to pick it up.
The Pull List: Release Date 6/21
Wonder Woman Tasmanian Devil Special
I am not going to lie and say i am definitely picking this one up, but, the premise alone makes me smile at the silliness of it. Or something like that.
I am going to flip through and possibly will pick this one up.
Why not?
The Pull List: Release Date 7/14
Betty & Veronica #3 (Final Issue)
My only regret is that this did not come out more frequently, and that it did not last longer.
No shame.
Was it perfect?
No.
But it had a specific point-of-view that presented the two heroines as interesting and dynamic, each in their own way.
