It’s a dense week of releases in comic shops, one that’s heavy with some big ticket items — but I pre-ordered one of them back in March so that’s past David’s problem! — and a surprising number of trades and graphic novels. Let’s look at all of that and more in this week’s edition of The Pull.

Comic of the Week: The Domain #2

While I was tempted to give this to The Power Fantasy #1 again because I’m actually going to buy (and read) it this week, instead I’m going to highlight a comic within a comic that’s honestly shockingly good even though its great creative team establishes a high baseline. That’s The Domain, the comic created by the cast in Chip Zdarsky’s Public Domain, which is written by Zdarsky, drawn by Rachael Stott, colors by Enrica Eren Angiolini, and letters by Jeff Powell. I expected it to be good. Its first issue was actually one of the best superhero comics I read this year, which is pretty cool for a meta comic like this one. Consider this your recommendation: You should be reading The Domain, and you should also be reading Public Domain!

Trade/Graphic Novel of the Week: Houses of the Unholy HC

I could copy and paste what I wrote for Where the Body Was, the last graphic novel from writer Ed Brubaker, artist Sean Phillips, and colorist Jacob Phillips, and it wouldn’t need much editing at all. Probably just the name. Every Brubaker and Phillips release is an event comic for me, and Houses of the Unholy is seemingly going to be their one release this year, which maybe isn’t a surprise with the Criminal show being in the midst of shooting. In a dense week of releases, though, this graphic novel was the easy pick for this slot.