The Pull: A Look at the Comics Dropping the Week of September 29th

By David Harper

September 29, 2021

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There can only be one at the top this week. Let’s get to it.

Book of the Week: Inferno #1

Duh.

“You’re coming with me”: The for sure buys and recommendations of the week

Adventureman #5: I’ve read this, and as per usual, it’s a fun comic from a creative team that is having an absolute blast. It’s also the ending of the first arc, and I like how it’s setting up the future here. This book feels like it has a lot of room to grow in the very best of ways.

Die #20: I had an up and down relationship with this series at times, but as it reaches its conclusion, I am 100% in and loving this final arc. Can’t wait to see how it ends, and hey, bonus points for the remarkably simple cover they ended up with. It looks incredible with the usual design on there and makes me even more excited for the finale.

Scarenthood TP: Nick Roche and Chris O’Halloran’s excellent IDW series is collected in this trade paperback, and if you missed it, I highly recommend this title that’s about a family man and his daughter, his small-town Irish community, and the haunting they’re all contending with.

Superman: Son of Kal-El #3: I’m conflicted about this book. It features Henry Bendix and Gamorra Island, but as noted on Off Panel, it displays some of Tom Taylor’s more heavy-handed tropes. I’m still here, as it’s just two issues in so far. But it’s on notice.

S.W.O.R.D. #8: A Storm-centric issue is very appealing, as is just a new issue of this title after it evidently took a skip month, but I must admit, I miss Valerio Schiti on this book.

Thor #17: I continue to enjoy this book, and Michele Bandini’s contributions to it. This should be a good one, even if it isn’t the next issue, which apparently is a Throg solo issue drawn by Pasqual Ferry, which I presume Donny Cates took from my dream journal.

Would buy, but I’m a dirty, rotten trade waiter

Batman: Reptilian #4
Department of Truth #13
Echolands #2
Something is Killing the Children #20

Game Time Decisions: The Ones that Might Come Home

Detective Comics #1043: With this Detective Comics run perpetually on the edge of being dropped, it tying into a larger crossover might be the straw that finally breaks this camel’s back. But, then again, Dan Mora is drawing it, and I am rather fond of Dan Mora. And the Nightwing Fear State tie-in did work well as an issue of Nightwing. So it’s a lean towards continuing with it, but it is a heavy TBD.

Notable Replies

steven1 says:

September 29, 2021

I cannot believe you wait for a trade for Dept of Truth. I’d go crazy having to wait so long.
SKTCHD says:

September 29, 2021

I’m not going to lie, it’s an extremely stressful trade read. It’s not a usual narrative for trades, and immersing yourself in it, you sort of feel like you need a shower after. So maybe I should read in single issues!
michael2 says:

September 30, 2021

Remember how Y or TWD built really great single issue cliff hangers into each issue?

DoT does the same thing and you’re missing a huge part of the experience and appeal by trade waiting it. You need to be buying this book monthly.
SKTCHD says:

September 30, 2021

I think it’s fine to read any comic any way you want! I’m sure there would be advantages to reading in single issues, but there are probably advantages to reading in trade as well. I’ll stick to what I’m already doing unless I’m compelled to otherwise.

I will say, if I liked it as much as The Nice House on the Lake, I’d be buying it in single issues already. I like DoT but I don’t LOVE it. Maybe that’s why?
michael2 says:

September 30, 2021

I get what you’re saying and no doubt TNHotL is better. (it’s one of the best books of the past thirty years. ).

And I’m not even arguing that you should read SiKtC in single issues. That’s a very trade friendly book.

Nor am I arguing that you should buy DoT in single issues to ‘support’ the book.

In the specific instance of DoT the reading experience is different and more exciting in single issues. Then if you buy the trade and sell the singles it still evens out.

Some books are just built for single issues due to telling relatively contained stories (that are still part of a larger whole) and having some really kick ass cliff hangers. DoT is one of those books.

Consider DoT 3 for example. the extreme emotional gut punch of that issue would have been blunted if read solely in trade as it would have felt more like a unimportant piece of a larger whole rather than a self contained study in loss and horror that could have been told seperate from the DoT universe.

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