My Pull List for Week 49 of 2020

This week I add 10 new issues to my backlog and am looking forward to reading these. The Alien screenplay continues with issue #5, Marvel’s symbiotes run rampant in King in Black # and I pick up a couple of interesting independent issues in Summoner #1 and The Seems of a Dream #1

New Weekly Releases

• Alien: The Original Screenplay #5
  by Christians Seixas and Guilherme Balbi.
  Published by Dark Horse Comics, 2020.
  The fight for survival! Sheer terror befalls the remaining crew members as the Alien claims the ship as its feeding ground. With retaliation proving futile, the only way out is to run.
• Dryad #7
  by Kurtis J. Wiener and Justin Barcelo.
  Published by Oni Press, 2020.
  Morgan is now working with Creston and the radicalized Sowers to find answers about what experiments the twins endured, and for what reason. Meanwhile, the shock of powerful magic has left its mark on the twins. For Griffon, it’s made clear there’s something different about them, and he gains a sense of self and confidence he’s never felt before. For Rana, it throws her whole identity off-axis, only worsened by the world being completely different than they knew.
• Inkblot #4
  by Emma Kubert and Rusty Gladd.
  Published by Image Comics, 2020.
  In the time of ancient Egypt, Sorcerers roamed the sands in search of the End of the Earth. Lost, they turn to an ancient monster to be their guide.
• King in Black #1
  by Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman.
  Published by Marvel Comics, 2020.
  DARKNESS REIGNS! After a campaign across the galaxy, Knull’s death march arrives to Earth and, worse yet, he hasn’t come alone! With an army of hundreds of thousands of symbiote dragons at his command, the King in Black is a force unlike any Earth’s heroes have ever faced. EDDIE BROCK, A.K.A. VENOM has seen firsthand the chaos that even one of Knull’s symbiotic monsters can wreak – will he survive an encounter with the God of the Abyss himself? From Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin and VC’s Clayton Cowles comes the definitive chapter in their two-year-long VENOM saga that changed everything you thought you knew about symbiotes!
• The Boys: Dear Becky #7
  by Garth Ennius and Russel Braun.
  Published by Dynamite Entertainment, 2020.
  Butcher comes clean about why he’s doing what he’s doing, while Annie helps Hughie understand a few truths of his own. It’s time for the Boys to clean house- which for Julian Baxter Pugh and the Skorchers, might just be very bad news indeed…
• Summoner #1
  by Dionysius Zogaris
  Published by Dionysius Zogaris, 2020.
  Chapter I – A Powerful Vision. Summoner is an action-packed story with fun characters and mythological themes. It follows Adelice Belmont, a gifted girl with the powers of a Summoner, and her family’s connection to the parallel world of Zaros, a world ruled by a religious regime and is dependent on Gods.
• The Seems of a Dream #1
  by Daniel Curran, E. Curran, Peter Curran and Jose Nieto.
  Published by REALM Comics, 2020.
  Through Druid Eyes
  In dreams, it’s hard to remember where you came from, but not impossible. Still, dreams feel like another reality. And sometimes dreams have a deeper purpose for why we’re there.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer #20
  by Jordie Bellaire and Ramon Bachs.
  Published by BOOM! Studios, 2020.
  It’s Faith, Buffy and Willow versus Xander – not everyone is making it out alive. No Buffy fan will want to miss the shocking conclusion! Meanwhile, Wesley Wyndam-Price has arrived in Sunnydale with his own secret mission.
• Stranger Things: Dungeons & Dragons #2
  by Jody Houser, Jim Zub, and Diego Galindo.
  Published by Dark Horse Comics, 2020.
  With Will ”the Wise” rescued from the Upside Down, the party is finally back together again, but each kid has been affected by their struggle to save their town from real monsters. Mike strives to get Will and the others back into Dungeons & Dragons with the hope that they can find some normalcy in playing their favorite game.
• Spy Island #4
  by Chelsea Cain and Elise McCall.
  Published by Dark Horse Comics, 2020.
  Super spy Nora Freud is just like the rest of us: fit, stylish, sardonic, devilishly attractive, annoyingly smart, and maybe, possibly, a tiny bit imperfect? Could Nora’s family baggage be key to identifying the recent fauna agitation in the Bermuda Triangle?  Nah. It probably has something to do with the super villain in the underwater sea lab.
  This issue is the THRILLING conclusion of this limited series.  

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