We here at io9 love nothing more than sit around down with a stack of funny books and just getting lost in the fantasy and adventure of reality nothing like our own . We ’ve always covered comics that caught our eye , but at the same prison term , we ’ve always wanted to read , percentage , and spread the word about more .
But writing individual tarradiddle about every single new , indie risible we end up interpretation just is n’t practicable because there are only so many hours in the day and there ’s almost always break news that takes antecedency . So why not just put out a weekly leaning of the freshest , most gripping new comic we think everyone should be reading ?
We ’ve been doing that the last few Fridays , but now we ’re doing it more officially . The Pull List wo n’t be an exhaustive list in any given week , but rather a excerption of two or three first consequence comics that grabbed us and pulled us in with its prose , gorgeous illustration , and/or fascinating concepts . We already write plenty about books coming out of Marvel and DC , so we desire to employ the Pull List as a spot where we can highlight Book from smaller publishers and indie that might get brush up in the mix of things — although occasionally some of the more esoteric comics from the Big Two might show up , as you ’ll see below .
This ’ll be fun , it ’ll be weird , but most importantly , it ’ll be io9 . With that said … have ’s tattle about funnies , folks .
Cold War #1
You have to put an unbelievable amount of religious belief in the earthly concern to agree to be cryogenically frozen and put in stasis before being awoken in the future tense . Any issue of unforeseen things could happen while you were on ice and end up killing you . Your living support organization might go down in a power outage , a innate cataclysm could dead sweep you forth or , as is the case in Cold War , you could rouse up hundreds of year in the hereafter and be immediately conscripted into a war .
Cold War reckon a world where waking up into a warfare that you did n’t agree to fight in is a everyday occurrence and most of the disoriented soldiers end up short mere moment after regaining their consciousness . new , quondam , male , female , citizenry from all walks of life are suddenly thrust into a brutal conflict they do n’t understand and make a individual direction : obliterate .
Christopher Sebela ’s writing is snappy but purposefully light on specific about just why the conflict in Cold War is break on . You ’re meant to be as lost and disoriented by the sudden rush of information and the repugnance of war because that ’s how the soldier experience themselves . Artist Hayden Sherman instance the field with a minimalist brutality that ’s packed with energising push . By the end of the first issue , Cold War will fox you for a cringle that ’ll make you realize you have no idea where the series will go and that ’s a very , very good thing . ( Christopher Sebela , Hayden Sherman , Aftershock Comics )
Death of Love #1
ThreeRed Pillswalk into a bar after attending a seminar hosted by a noted choice - up artist who promises that for a low , depleted price , he could teach each of them how to become the kind of Alpha Male ™ char will love .
dying of Love remove the premise of this very bad trick and spin it into a fantastic story about Philo Harris , a down - on - his - luck man who realise the ability to see cupidae — the normally inconspicuous , Amor - like animal who cause people to fall in love — after take a oral contraceptive from the disguised god(dess ) Eris . Though Philo does n’t get it on it about himself , he ’s a stand - in for every man who ’s never been able to understand why being a “ nice guy ” does n’t automatically guarantee that fair sex want to date him .
Another creative squad might have insert Philo to one of the cupidae and set them off on a heartwarming mission where Philo learns the true meaning of love life and why nobody owes him anything , but author Justin Jordan and illustrators Donal Delay , Omar Estevez , and Felipe Sobreiro have a much good mind . Not only does the mystic red pill loose Philo ’s eyes up to the existence of the cupidae , it invest him smack splash in the center of their on-going state of war . ( Justin Jordan , Donal Delay , Omar Estevez , and Felipe Sobreiro , Image )
Shade, the Changing Girl/Wonder Woman Special #1
The whole of DC and Young Animal ’s “ Milk Wars ” purposefully - ridiculous , but Shade , the Changing Girl / Wonder Woman Special # 1 apply the underlying wildness of the publishers ’ event to give birth a timely and all - too - substantial message about the world we dwell in .
Retconn , the reality - garble organization at the kernel of “ Milk Wars , ” turned Superman into a homicidal milkman and Batman into creepy-crawly pastor who top a cult of Gotham ’s orphan small fry — in other words , it turned them into hyper - sanitized , but also much more vivid version , of the people they already were . It tracks , then , that when Retconn bewilder its hand on Wonder Woman , it would transform her into the Wonder Wife , a perfection of domesticity who would put June chopper to pity .
Though Wonder Woman is every woman , Wonder Wife is the distillment of the variety of problematic idea about women that Diana was originally created to fight against . Everything about Wonder Wife ’s identicalness is attach to her ability to perform her wifely duties for Steve Trevor and to keep a veneer of paragon that requires her to be disconnected from her emotion . In office of her own feelings , Wonder Wife is attend to by the Shade Force — a police squad of Shades , the modify Girls , who each represent a different emotion a la Inside Out . Though the other Shades are contented with their lives in help of Wonder Wife , Happiness suspects that something is haywire … something Wonder Wife would rather she not think about too , too profoundly .
There are layers to Shade , the Changing Girl / Wonder Woman Special # 1 that will make you want to go back and translate it over and over again , and take out the fashion author Cecil Castellucci plays with the dual concepts offemale hysteriaandShade , the Changing Girl ’s madness . ( Cecil Castellucci , Magdalene Visaggio , Mirka Andolfo , Sonny Liew , DC Comics )
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