This week brings an honest to goodness cheat to my top picks, but some weeks simply call for it. So, let’s get to what’s a tremendous week of comics in another edition of The Pull, as I highlight my buys, recommendations, and curiosities from a slate that includes three top picks rather than the customary two.

Comic of the Week: FML #8

This series has been a true delight throughout, and I’m terribly excited to see how it ends not because of the plot Kelly Sue DeConnick, David López, and the rest have given us, but simply because I enjoy these characters so much I just want one more round with them. The story’s great as well, but geez, this book is filled with living, breathing characters that you cannot help but be enamored with. It’s a modern hang out comic, and one with incendiary art by López. Now’s a great time to get onboard as this series comes to a close, although I’d understand if you decided to wait for its eventual trade.

Trade/Graphic Novel of the Week: Billy Bat Vol. 1

What’s this manga series about?

Honestly, I don’t really know.

All I know is this: Naoki Urasawa made it (with Takashi Nagasaki), and that’s all that matters. Billy Bat is a long-awaited translation, and as a super fan of everything he does, I’m ready for it. Naoki Urasawa is all I needed to know for it to be the top pick this week.

(Another) Trade/Graphic Novel of the Week: Sleep TP

If anyone rivals my love of Naoki Urasawa, though, it’s Zander Cannon, and the cartoonist’s latest Image Comics series Sleep is collected this week. I cannot stress this enough: This comic is and was one of the best comics of the past two years. There’s a reason it finished #3 on my Comics of 2025 rankings, and it’s because this unique take on kaiju stories — it’s about a man named Jonathan Reason who turns into a monster every night and ravages his town while he sleeps, but it’s only told during the times he’s awake, so we get the aftermath but not the bulk of the violence — is a potent, human, haunting, and tragic tale that rewards deep reads and those who love a good mystery. It is so, so, so good. You really should pick this up because it’s an absolutely exceptional comic.