It’s a fifth week (meaning the fifth Wednesday of a month, which are relatively rare), so this edition of The Pull gets weird, as it always does with fifth weeks.

Comic of the Week: Black Cloak #11

In a week lacking a traditional headliner, let’s highlight an underrated gem. Even though Black Cloak was nominated for an Eisner Award this past year and is written by a writer with a lot of heat behind her these days, it feels like people are sleeping on this series. Which is too bad! Black Cloak’s a good one, as writer Kelly Thompson, artist Meredith McClaren, and letterer Becca Carey have fully realized a new world here with characters that stick with you and mysteries that draw you in. It’s part police procedural, part science fiction, and all great comic. I’m quite fond of this series, and I suspect you’d enjoy it as well.

Trade/Graphic Novel of the Week: Into the Unbeing Vol. 1

This is mostly a “holy crap, Hayden Sherman is an unbelievable artist and I have to read everything they draw” play, especially given that Sherman colors themselves here. That said, this book’s concept — it feels like it has a bit of The Thing in its DNA, even if that’s an obvious comp — and writer Zac Thompson’s promotion of it on social media has captured my attention. I’m looking forward to reading this in trade, even if I probably should have been on it long ago.