NCBD November 1, 2017 aka my Comics Pull List

Hello. Welcome to my weekly look at the books that will be in my buy pile this week. I try to keep this list to a dull roar of around twenty dollars but sometimes, well a lot of the time I go over that budget because there are a lot of great books out there right now. And here we go....

Lazarus X+66 4 $3.99

So I started getting the Lazarus a few months before this mini series because a couple of my favorite artists, namely Bilquis Evesly and Alethia Martinez, would be working on this book and because the main title was had one of the Pride month alternate covers. Turns out I forgot just how much I enjoyed Greg Rucka’s writing and these side story issues I’ve really connected with despite not haveing all the reference points for the characters. This is one of the issues I initially wanted so it’s heading up my Pull List. Alethia Martinez was the artist on World of Wakanda and didn’t dissapoint there so I’m exited to read this.
Grave Diggers Union 1 $3.99

Wes Craig is the artist on Deadly Class a series like Lazarus I missed out on the initial issues. As I like the look of the couple issues of Deadly Class I’ve read I am picking this up to give it a go. To y Cypress who worked on The Omega Men (he filled in on issue 4) with Tom King is working with Mt Craig on this  and  to me that is an added bonus bit of cool.  I’m getting a working class hero fighting against the apocalypse and the things that go bump in the night from what I have read about it and I like that kind of thing so I’ll check this out.

Paper Girls  17 $2.99

Last issue gave us someone new that thinks she knows what is happening and was expecting the girls or time travels to arrive at some point. As with every other point where I thought I’d figured it out I’m sure BVK will take yet another odd left to somewhere new when we least expect. . Love the Paper Girls and very much want to see where they all end up reguardless of plot twists.  It’s a gorgeous well plotted book that is a bargain in every way at $2.99.

Extremity 8 $3.99

Daniel Warren Johnson does everything but the colors in this largely body horror heavy fantasy action story. If your not reading it and you dig Japanese manga like Naussica or Attack on Titan you really need to check this book out. Johnson is telling the story of loss, perceived loss and the folly of hatred and vengance.  Thea and her brother now separated from their obsessed father hopefully will find a new way forward beyond vengeance. It’s an honestly gorgeously told Story full of wild imagined images.

No 1 with a Bullet 1 $3.99

The artist Jorge Corona who drew Feathers for Boom and We Are Robin for DC is the first draw here for me. The plot about social media taken to an extreme through recording contacts lenses, fan culture, stalking and leaked sex tapes is compelling too at least to get me to check it out as a one time cyberpunk fan. 

It looks like there are a lot of number 1s this week for me.  I’m likely to grab Deadman, Deathstroke and Black Bolt but the other books for sure
Oh and I’m pretty sure I’m getting this too...

Batman:White Knight 2 $3.99

I really enjoy Sean Gordon Murphy’s artwork, his design sense and storytelling like other artists I wrote about today clicks with my tastes. Not at all sure if this is really a Joker as the hero or not but it’s all Sean’s vision and conception and, well I think it’s worth giving a couple of issues to tell me what it is. I’ve been listening to the Inkpulp podcast and Shawn Crystal’s interview/chat with Sean Murphy was entertaining and ranged all over the place including some talk about this book in part two (here).