The Pull: A Look at the Comics Dropping the Week of October 1st

By David Harper

September 30, 2025

While it’s not a deep week of releases, it is an exceptional one, with a headliner that’s one of my favorite single issues of the year. So, let’s get to it, as I highlight my buys, recommendations, and curiosities in another edition of The Pull.

Comic of the Week: Good Devils: Don’t Play Fair with Evil #1

As you may have noticed from this week’s episode of Off Panel, I’m a bit of a fan of David Brothers and Nick Dragotta’s Image Comics one-shot Good Devils: Don’t Play Fair with Evil. All three of the stories contained within were ones I enjoyed in their original forms of release, and all three are enhanced by this new print edition designed by the great Sasha E. Head. If you liked Time Waits, if you like Absolute Batman, or if you just like good comics, I cannot recommend this comic enough. This is a brilliant collection of comics featuring truly elite craft. Don’t miss it.

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IsaacKelley says:

September 30, 2025

I’ve been waiting for the axe to fall on BOP since Jordie Bellaire left the book. Her work on that first arc is probably my favorite color art in any superhero book ever. Each issue felt like a gift.
SKTCHD says:

September 30, 2025

IsaacKelley:

I’ve been waiting for the axe to fall on BOP since Jordie Bellaire left the book.

Yeah, it felt like the die was cast when she left. That said, it lasted for quite a long time for this day and age. I’m thrilled by 28 issues!
mark1 says:

September 30, 2025

I’d like to know what’s going on with digital comics at the moment. So many issues are just not coming out when they’re supposed to, or they’re listed for pre-order then vanish at a later date. On Amazon, you can’t buy Something Is Killing the Children issues #41–43 even though issue #44 comes out today. It’s listed on Amazon as coming out on October 8 too, which makes me suspect they’ve confused it with Something Is Killing the Children: A Monster Hunter Walks into a Bar. Their whole storefront is riddled with errors and you can report them, but they never get fixed. Just look at how many there are here:

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It’s not just Amazon either. Google Play Books has random issues missing, Global Comix has the numbering wrong from issue #25 onwards. Everyone is doing digital comics badly to varying degrees. (I’ve got my fingers crossed Neon Ichiban and Sweet Shop get it right.)

I am sure Wes Craig keeps on cooking here, as he has throughout the run. But let’s take a second to celebrate the fact that a comic that’s written and drawn by one creator has managed to make it to 30 issues. That’s a dang miracle, and a feat of sheer effort and talent by Craig.

It is indeed a miracle, but it shouldn’t be. It sucks this is the state of things right now.

I’m still reading digitally. I keep hoping for some nice hardcovers that collect everything, including the shorts stories paired with the prelude chapters in singles.

IsaacKelley:

I’ve been waiting for the axe to fall on BOP since Jordie Bellaire left the book. Her work on that first arc is probably my favorite color art in any superhero book ever. Each issue felt like a gift.

She makes every book she’s on better.
Ian_A says:

October 4, 2025

I’d like to know what’s going on with digital comics at the moment. So many issues are just not coming out when they’re supposed to, or they’re listed for pre-order then vanish at a later date.

Exactly.

In fact, David’s Comic of the Week is one of the impacted issues. Kindle has the release date for Good Devils: Don’t Play Fair With Evil as next Wednesday, October 8, and that discrepancy is increasingly common.

When issues do drop on time, there’s no guarantee that they’ll be tagged properly to be included on a series page, making subscriptions moot. I’ve started double checking the New Releases page every week to find out if I’ve missed anything, and, sure enough, there are always at least a few issues that didn’t get automatically pulled. Image and DC titles seem to be affected more often than titles from other publishers, but the problems are prevalent across the ghost of ComiXology.

I trade-wait SIKTC, so I wasn’t aware how screwed up its listings are. Have you considered reaching out to Tiny Onion? Jazzlyn Stone or someone else on that crew might know whom to contact to get the issues posted correctly. I’m sure Tynion would appreciate his work being available for purchase as intended.
SKTCHD says:

October 4, 2025

mark1:

I’d like to know what’s going on with digital comics at the moment. So many issues are just not coming out when they’re supposed to, or they’re listed for pre-order then vanish at a later date.

Ian_A:

In fact, David’s Comic of the Week is one of the impacted issues. Kindle has the release date for Good Devils: Don’t Play Fair With Evil as next Wednesday, October 8, and that discrepancy is increasingly common.

I will look into this! This is new to me, as I don’t deal with digital, really. I was already working on a digital piece, but I’ll aim for this one to take precedent because it’s smaller and weirder. Thanks for the heads up on this!

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