My Pull List for Week 26 of 2020

I’m pleased to see that the comics industry is coming back and there are some interesting issues this week that highlight that fact.

This week I select 9 issues to pull and check out.

New Weekly Releases

• Die #11
  by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans.
  Published by Image Comics , 2020.
  “THE GREAT GAME,” Part One. Half the party is ruling a whole empire. The other half is on the run. Neither has it easy. There is nothing easy in this game, especially when the stakes get shockingly real. The most epic arc of DIE begins as it means to go on: messily.
• Once & Future #8
  by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora.
  Published by BOOM! Studios, 2020.
  When a strange newcomer arrives at the dark court of Camelot, his presence disrupts The Otherworld. Sometimes winning the battle risks losing the war…as Duncan and Bridgette will soon find out.
• Empyre: Avengers #0
  by Al Ewing and Pepe Larraz.
  Published by the Marvel Comics, 2020.
  Tony Stark wakes from strange dreams – as old allies make a distress call to the Avengers. In the new Green Area of the Moon, the Cotati are waiting with news of a terrible enemy that could wipe out both them and humanity itself. The Celestial Messiah has returned… but are the Avengers ready to hear his message?
• John Constantine: Hellblazer #7
  by Simon Spurriuer and Aaron Campbell.
  Published by Vertigo, 2020.
  How are all those poor British fishermen supposed to keep the French out of their waters? By summoning an ancient merwoman, perhaps? Of course, there’s the little matter of what to do with her once she’s served her purpose…and what to do about this John Constantine fellow who’s come sniffing around to find her himself…
• Immortal Hulk #34
  by AL Ewing and Butch Guice.
  Publisehd by Marvel Comics, 2020.
  The Thoughtful Man is here – and his dreadful thoughts are vast and dark enough to swallow even the Devil.  Samuel Sterns walked through the Green Door and gained knowledge. Follow him through the journey of his life – from his rebirth to his final experiment. Follow the LEADER.
• Year Zero #2
  by Ben Percy and Ramon Rosanas.
  Published by AWA, 2020.
  Ben Percy (Wolverine) and Ramon Rosanas (Star Wars: Age of Resistance) team up to present an epic tale that offers a global look at the Zombie Apocalypse. A Japanese hitman, a Mexican street urchin, an Afghan military aide, a polar research scientist, a midwestern American survivalist-five survivors of a horrific global epidemic who must draw upon their unique skills and deepest instincts to navigate a world of shambling dead. Year Zero wrestles with the weighty moral and theological questions posed by the pandemic and investigates its cause and possible cure.
• Rogue Planet #2
  by Cullen Bunn and Andy MacDonald.
  Published by Oni Press, 2020.
  The crew of the salvage vessel Cortes set down on Lonely Orphan with dreams of getting rich. Now, they desperately hope to escape with their lives, as the planet itself displays a malicious intelligence-an intelligence that turns the crew’s worst nightmares against them.
• Batman #93
  by James Tynion IV and Guillemots March.
  Published by DC Comics, 2020.
  Batman faces off with the Designer as “Their Dark Designs” reaches its epic climax! In the last year, Batman has lost more than he could have imagined, and now he faces a cost so dear it will change the course of his life. And there is worse on the horizon. In the midst of all the horror, he can feel the drumbeat of battle. “Joker War” is coming, and Gotham City will never be the same.
• Rick and Morty Presents: The Council of Ricks #1
  by Jake Goldman and Philip Murphy.
  Published by Oni Press, 2020.
  A long time ago or, you know, whenever, just not right now….  Hired by the PRIME RICKMINISTER himself, RICK PRIME is on the hunt for who’s been making COUNTERFEIT RICKS and selling to planets of rich idiots who could use a genius. But when he discovers that FIVE COUNTERFEIT RICKS have escaped into THE CITADEL, he’ll have to assemble a team (a COUNCIL, if you will) to help him find the FAKE RICKS and get rid of them, preferably as violently as possible. But who is really behind these COUNTERFEIT RICKS and why?! And what does this have to do with the GAGGLE OF JERRYS that hides in the subsections of the CITADEL?!

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