It’s a small week with some high end headliners, so let’s get straight into a funky edition of The Pull, as this look at my buys, recommendations, and curiosities from the week of comics is headlined by the penultimate chapter of a Marvel staple.

Comic of the Week: Ultimate Spider-Man #23

Spoilers for The SKTCHD AWRDS: Ultimate Spider-Man will not be making my list. In fact, it was at no point even in consideration, not even in my initial long list. But it’s still a great comic, which is why I wanted to recognize it here. Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s series was a sensation to start, and it’s still popular, but the oxygen from the room was definitely taken up by Absolute to some degree. And yet, with its penultimate chapter here and Ultimate Endgame on the horizon, I’m excited to see where it lands, and to get a feel for how it will ultimately (no pun intended) as a singular narrative when it’s collected at the end. One way or another, it’s going to look incredible, and Hickman’s obviously had a good time with these characters and this world. It’s a fun book with a fun hook, and sometimes, that’s all you want out of superhero comics.

Trade/Graphic Novel of the Week: Absolute Green Lantern Vol. 1

I don’t need to go on anymore about how much of a fan of Absolute Green Lantern I am. There was an entire edition of Double Take where I raved about it — to say nothing of my incessant touting elsewhere — so you probably have had enough of it. But I do think Absolute Green Lantern’s a great comic, with Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay cooking up a slowburn sci-fi/horror spin on the Green Lantern mythos that is incredibly original and engaging if you can deal with information being doled out at a slightly slower pace. I suspect this is the Absolute series that will most benefit from being collected even, so if you haven’t read it yet, you’ll have to report back to me.