My Pull List for Week 50 of 2020

This week I add 12 new issues to my backlog and am looking forward to reading these.

New Weekly Releases

• Spider-Man #5
  by J. J. Abrams, Henry Abrams, and Sara Pichelli.
  Published by Marvel Comics, 2020.
  Ben Parker and his dad are cornered and surely beaten.  Their allies that they thought could help them weren’t enough.  The son of Mary Jane and Spider-Man has an unwinnable fight on his hands… have his absentee dad and dead mother taught him enough to know what Spider-Man does in these situations?
• Giga #2
  by Alex Paknadel and John Le.
  Published by Vault Comics, 2020.
  Evan should never have gone back to the dead Giga, but he did, and now he’s a murder suspect. Meanwhile, Legs is deteriorating at an alarming rate. The Red King–the oldest and largest of the Giga–is revealed, prophesied to unleash hell on a world whose sins the great mech took into itself centuries earlier. As an old friend of Evan’s returns, he devises a desperate plan to locate the dead Giga’s real killers.
• Crossover #2
  by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Dee Cunniffe, and John J. Hill.
  Published by Image Comics, 2020.
  “KIDS LOVE CHAINS,” Part Two-The event continues to unravel as Ellie, Otto, and Ava rise from the ashes of their comic shop to begin their four-color odyssey to find the truth beyond the dome. Meanwhile: super-prisons! Magic guns! Mysterious government agents! And other stuff, too!
• Home Sick Pilots #1
  by Dan Watters and Caspar Wijngaard.
  Published by Image Comics, 2020.
  The team behind LIMBO, DAN WATTERS (Lucifer, COFFIN BOUND) and CASPAR WIJNGAARD (Star Wars, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt), launch a brand-new ONGOING SERIES.
  In the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead singer of a high school punk band-who’s been missing for weeks. How did she get there, and what do these ghosts want? Expect three-chord songs and big bloody action that’s Power Rangers meets The Shining (yes, really).
• The Depraved #1
  by Samuel D. Davies and Martin Davey.
  Published by AV Comics, 2020.
  Empire City
  The DEPRAVED – Empire City #1 of 4
  The first issue of this hard boiled, crime, pulp-noir, detective drama that you won’t want to miss. This City is wrong. It’s a terror. A Dark Empire breeding the Depraved, it’s Black Knights who do it’s terrible bidding. A high profile actress is murdered in her hotel room and Detective James Miller is the one appointed to catch her killer and bring her justice. He is a worn down man, a man who fights on in-spite of the crushing, enveloping pressure of the murderous offspring of Empire City. Not because he wants to, but because it’s all he has. He fights on, but he’s losing.
• The Greatest American Hero #1
  by Christopher Folino, William Katt, Derek McCaw, Sean Patrick O’Reilly, and Clint Hillnski.
  Published by Arcana Comics, 2020.
  A pair of strangers, liberal high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley and right-wing FBI agent Bill Maxwell, have a close encounter in the Southern California desert one night with “little green men”, who give our heroes a red superhero suit. The suit works only for Ralph, and teh two, accompanied by Ralph’s cute lawyer girlfriend Pam, reluctantly team up to battle criminals. Problems ensue when Ralph loses the suit’s instruction book, so he had to master the suit’s power on his own.
• Byte Sized #1
  by Cullen Bunn and Nelson Blake III
  Published by AWA, 2020.
  When two young siblings excitedly unwrap their final Christmas presents, they discover toy robots unlike anything they have ever seen. And with good reason. What the kids and their parents don’t know is that their quaint suburban home just became the beachhead for these self-aware ‘bots that have begun to explore the outside world. And when one of the ‘bots breaks bad, it’s going to take a Christmas miracle to stop him.
• American Vampire: 1976 #3
  by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque.
  Published by Vertigo Comics, 2020.
  Two subterranean showdowns escalate! Thousands of miles apart, rogue American vampires and the last remnants of the VMS chase the only known leads against the Beast’s looming plans for world domination. As Skinner’s crew fight for their lives aboard the runaway Freedom Train in the Tongue-infested tunnels of the Southwest, Cal and Travis scavenge the tracks below Times Square for traces of the Beast’s terrifying challenger-but when they get too close to the monster for comfort, they’re blindsided by the mother of all unexpected twists.
• Heroes at Home #1
  by Zeb Wells and Gurihiru.
  Published by Marvel Comics, 2020.
  Being stuck inside isn’t easy for anyone, even super heroes! See how your favorite Marvel characters have coped being cooped up with HEROES AT HOME! See how Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Wolverine, Black Panther and Captain America do in Quarantine! Let Marvel make you smile, courtesy of artists Gurihiru and writer Zeb Wells’ Sunday Funnies!
• Red Mother #11
  by Jeremy Haun and Danny Luckert.
  Published by BOOM! Studios, 2020.
  Daisy faces the Red Mother in her court. The true plan is revealed – and Daisy will learn just why her life was destroyed.
• The Comic Book History of Animation #1
  by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey.
  Published by IDW Publishing, 2020.
  The team behind IDW’S Comic Book History of Comic Books returns with a brand-new series! From Aardman to Zoetrope, Disney to Miyasaki, Hanna-Barbera to Pixar, and everything in between! The perfect companion piece to CBHoC, the Comic Book History of Animation focuses on the filmmakers and beloved characters of the past century and a half, and is essential for fans of the medium and ‘toon newbies alike.
• Usagi Yojimbo #15
  by Stan Sakai
  Published by IDW Publishing., 2020.
  Usagi reminisces about the months, after leaving Katsuichi-Sensei, when he trained under a second teacher.  Usagi seeks him out once again but, upon finding him, learns they are on the brink of war!

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