The 2015 Pull List: Additions, Subtractions and Special Orders!
CageNarleigh
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Ok, so not to take away from other threads and their purpose, but I sort of see this idea as a amalgam of a few different threads we have going.
The idea is posting our pull list. Then updating with new posts as we go. Both when we add things and subtract things. Why? Because of a few reasons. As a podcaster (and as a general comic fan) there are always people asking "What are you reading now?" Well, sometimes I forget a title or two. Sometimes I go based on habit, forgetting I actually dropped a title several issues ago, etc. Another reason is that, by telling people when you're adding titles or subtracting titles we might actually get a few discussions going on people reading the same title who have varying opinions. (IE: "I'm considering dropping ________. Here's why." "Oh me too but I heard ______ is coming on the title, you might want to wait just a bit longer!")
That and it can serve as a "What I'm getting as a result of this months PREVIEWS" kinda topic as well. Like, there are ALWAYS titles in previews where I go, "Hmm, let me try that an issue" hence that would be a special order. Or there are others announced where I go, "Oh HELL yeah. I'm getting that ongoing!" hence pull list.
Get the gist? Cool, cause I really like the idea of keeping track of subscriptions, when people drop titles (and why) and seeing what interests people in previews vs seeing which of those interests they're keeping up with 3 months later.
Ok....
I'll start things off and get the format rolling.
PULL LIST:
Angela: Asgards Assassin
Superior Iron-Man
Thor (female arc)
The Multiversity
Gotham by Midnight
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Green Lantern: New Guardians
Red Lanterns
Sinestro
Nexus Omnibus
Convergence
Batwoman
Chrononauts
Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return
Star Wars
ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK:
Amazing X-Men: I loved it when it started. Then the Wendigo thing happened and that was "eh" and now I'm just kinda lost as I read it. I'm not certain it's designed for someone who is ONLY reading that X title.
SPECIAL ORDERS:
Spider-Verse titles only
Guardians of the Galaxy (planet venom story issues only)
Batman: Earth One Vol 2
Action Comics #40 (for the Bill and Ted variant)
Batman #40 (for the Mask variant)
Batman: The Animated Series Riddler Action Figure
Alter Ego #132
Back Issue #80
(EDIT: By the way, if it's highlighted in a list, it was in the most recent PREVIEWS. I think that makes more sense than having a completely separate PREVIEWS section.)
The idea is posting our pull list. Then updating with new posts as we go. Both when we add things and subtract things. Why? Because of a few reasons. As a podcaster (and as a general comic fan) there are always people asking "What are you reading now?" Well, sometimes I forget a title or two. Sometimes I go based on habit, forgetting I actually dropped a title several issues ago, etc. Another reason is that, by telling people when you're adding titles or subtracting titles we might actually get a few discussions going on people reading the same title who have varying opinions. (IE: "I'm considering dropping ________. Here's why." "Oh me too but I heard ______ is coming on the title, you might want to wait just a bit longer!")
That and it can serve as a "What I'm getting as a result of this months PREVIEWS" kinda topic as well. Like, there are ALWAYS titles in previews where I go, "Hmm, let me try that an issue" hence that would be a special order. Or there are others announced where I go, "Oh HELL yeah. I'm getting that ongoing!" hence pull list.
Get the gist? Cool, cause I really like the idea of keeping track of subscriptions, when people drop titles (and why) and seeing what interests people in previews vs seeing which of those interests they're keeping up with 3 months later.
Ok....
I'll start things off and get the format rolling.
PULL LIST:
Angela: Asgards Assassin
Superior Iron-Man
Thor (female arc)
The Multiversity
Gotham by Midnight
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Green Lantern: New Guardians
Red Lanterns
Sinestro
Nexus Omnibus
Convergence
Batwoman
Chrononauts
Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return
Star Wars
ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK:
Amazing X-Men: I loved it when it started. Then the Wendigo thing happened and that was "eh" and now I'm just kinda lost as I read it. I'm not certain it's designed for someone who is ONLY reading that X title.
SPECIAL ORDERS:
Spider-Verse titles only
Guardians of the Galaxy (planet venom story issues only)
Batman: Earth One Vol 2
Action Comics #40 (for the Bill and Ted variant)
Batman #40 (for the Mask variant)
Batman: The Animated Series Riddler Action Figure
Alter Ego #132
Back Issue #80
(EDIT: By the way, if it's highlighted in a list, it was in the most recent PREVIEWS. I think that makes more sense than having a completely separate PREVIEWS section.)
Comments
PULL LIST
Image/Dark Horse/IDW/Avatar
Saga
Walking Dead
The Fade Out
Velvet
Zero
Lazarus
Deadly Class
Black Science
Low
Copperhead
Sex Criminals
Stray Bullets
Southern Bastards
Wytches
Starlight (mini, I think)
Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw
Manhattan Projects
Crossed Plus 100 (mini, I assume)
War Stories
G.I. Joe
The "Fire & Stone" minis (Prometheus, Aliens, AvP, Predator)
Marvel/ICON
Avengers
New Avengers
Secret Avengers
Magneto
Ms. Marvel
Men of Wrath (mini)
Also, thanks to some great ongoing digital swaps:
All New X-Men
Uncanny X-Men
Thor
Uncanny Avengers
Amazing X-Men
And there also some titles I pick away at through Marvel Unlimited, like Captain America, Ultimate universe titles, Wolverine here and there, Punisher, etc. Though lately I have had little enough tablet time that I might drop Unlimited for a few months or a year and rejoin later.
DC/Vertigo
Multiversity
Batman
Gotham By Midnight
NEW ONES I'M TRYING/ON THE FENCE
Bitch Planet
Drifter
Roche Limit
Trees
PREORDERED ADDITIONS/SOME SPECIAL ORDERS
Criminal
Casanova
Nameless
Secret Identities
Surface
ODYC
Postal
The Dying and the Dead
Suiciders
Rat God (mini)
Star Wars
Darth Vader (mini)
It has been awhile since I have looked at it as a pull list. I notice that I am getting a lot of things, which is probably why I am behind on reading a lot of them. But I also don't think I have ever had so much great choice for genres other than superheroes to follow, many by some of my favorite creators. As a result, the creator-owned vs. company owned breakdown of what I am buying is probably the inverse of what it was four or five years ago.
EDIT- Though I am only a month or two behind on All-New and Uncanny. To me, those have been excellent from the start. And I think they compliment each other, but could also be enjoyed individually. If you end up dropping Amazing, I would suggest going back for one of those.
Image/Dark Horse
Revival
Walking Dead
The "Fire & Stone" minis (Prometheus, Aliens, AvP, Predator) (ending in a month or two)
DC/Vertigo
Batman
Batman Eternal (ending for Convergence, but supposedly picking up again after it, unlike the other two weeklies)
Detective Comics
Earth 2
Earth 2 Worlds End (ending for Convergence)
Futures End (ending for Convergence)
Grayson
Multiversity (Should be ending about the middle of the year)
Sandman (I'm thinking this will end about the middle of the year?)
Unwritten (final issue due in a month or two - it's been delayed)
NEW ONES I'M TRYING AND ON THE FENCE
Convergence main book and various tie-in issues
Justice League
Justice League United
The Life After
Superman
Star Wars main book and the other new Marvel SW books
So with a few of these books ending about the same time as Convergence and the other Star Wars books start coming out, I should be able to get those without a big change in spending.
DC
Swamp Thing (ending with Convergence, hoping it'll restart after)
Batwoman (as above)
Secret Origins (as above, but would've dropped it anyway)
Earth 2 (I'll be dropping with Convergence, gone rapidly downhill since Worlds End)
Justice League United (I'll be dropping after this story arc, love the art in this though, just lost interest)
Justice League
Multiversity
Gotham by Midnight
Secret Six (currently on the fence with)
Image
Saga
Deadly Class
Outcast
Sex Criminals
Marvel
Thor
Valiant
The Valiant (mini series)
Ninjak
Divinity (mini series)
This will look very different in couple months time.
DC
Batgirl
Batman Eternal
Deathstroke
Earth 2 World's End
Flash
Grayson
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Green Lantern New Guardians
Harley Quinn
New 52 Future's End
New Suicide Squad
Red Lanterns
Secret Origins
Secret Six
Sinestro
Star Spangled War Stories; G.I. Zombie
Image
Clone
C.O.W.L.
East of West
IXth Generation
Lazarus
Morning Glories
Postal
Rise of The Magi
Thief of Thieves
Think Tank
Marvel
Hulk
Moon Knight
Valiant
Archer and Armstrong
Bloodshot
Divinity
Imperium
Ivar Timewalker
Ninjak
Rai
The Valiant
Unity
X-O Manowar
Other Independents
Bunker
Epochalypse
Letter 44
The Resurrectionists
Uber
I really read too many books so when a lot of these end I do not necessarily plan on replacing them, but who knows. I am a big fan of Charles Soule and he has a new creator owned coming soon as well as some other Marvel titles which I suspect may include a run on Daredevil and a solo Iceman title. So I may be increasing my Marvel pulls. Also I read just about everything Valiant to that will also continue.
Dark Horse:
The Ghost Fleet
Grindhouse: Drive In Bleed Out (mini)
Resurrectionists
IDW:
The Bigger Bang (mini)
Shadow Show (mini)
Star Trek/Planet Of The Apes (mini)
DC/Vertigo:
Justice League 3000
Justice League Dark
Sinestro
Trinity Of Sin (for the remainder of it's short-lived existence)
Image:
Alex + Ada
Bitch Planet
Dream Police (I can only assume that this title is ending because it's been extremely late and has not been solicited for months)
The Humans
ODY-C (probably going to drop this one)
Saga (in trade)
Shutter
Velvet (in trade)
Kaboom:
Capture Creatures
Marvel:
All-New X-Men
Captain Marvel
Cyclops
Ms. Marvel
Silver Surfer
Bliss On Tap
Future Proof
Boom!
Big Trouble In Little China
Escape From New York
Dynamite
Shaft
Bionic Woman Season 4
Six Million Dollar Man Season 6
IDW
Star Trek Planet of the Apes: Primate Directive
Valiant
Divinity
Imperium
The Valiant
Marvel
Darth Vader
Inhuman
Legendary Star Lord
Rocket Raccoon
SHIELD
Silver Surfer
Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Woman
Star Wars
Thanos Vs Hulk
Thor
Chopping Block
All New Ghost Rider (series ending at #12)
Angela Asgard's Assasin (on the fence, just got issue #1 and will decide)
She-Hulk (series ending at #12)
Sherwood, TX (limited series ending)
George Perez's Sirens (on the fence, just got issue #2 and will decide after trying to read it)
Going to check out
Convergence #0
Chrononauts
Descender
Ninjak
Capture Creatures
Munchkin
Dark Horse
BPRD Hell on Earth TPB
Hellboy TPB
DC / Vertigo
Batman
Fables
Gotham Academy
Grayson
IDW
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Powerpuff Girls
Ragnarok
Samurai Jack
Image
Birthright
Saga
Marvel
The Amazing Spider-Man
Daredevil
Spider-Man 2099
Star Wars
Rocket Raccoon
Silver Surfer
Archie
Afterlife With Archie
DC
Authority
Batman 66
Harley Quinn
Supergirl
Injustice Gods Among Us
Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman
Batman The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga
Dark Horse
Complete Elfquest
Manga
Certain Scientific Railgun
Citrus
Dorohedoro
From The New World
Gakuen Polizi
Hentai Prince And The Stony Cat
Im Not Popular
Master Keaton
Nisekoi False Love
Sacred Blacksmith
Tiger & Bunny
Yotsuba & !
Boom!
Fairy Quest
Dynamite
Lady Rawhide
Vampirella Archives
Image
Lazarus
Rat Queens
Velvet
Titan
Michael Moorcock Elric
Marvel
Ms Marvel
Oni
Princess Ugg
DC
Batman
Red Hood and the Outlaws
Grayson
Marvel
Rocket Raccoon
Silver Surfer
Daredevil
Independent
Holmes vs Houdini (5 issue mini)
Star Trek
Tooth and Claw
Velvet
The Fade Out
The Woods
Oddly Normal
New Additions
Ant Man
Star Wars
Darth Vader
Recently Removed
War Stories
United States of Murder Inc
Gotham by Midnight
My current pull list is pretty small because I switched to trades on DC after Flashpoint, and I get trades for almost every indie book I read.
Marvel
Hulk
Hulk Adjace Title
Miracle Man
Daredevil
Indie
Knights of the Dinner
Trades
Saga
Black Science
Southern Bastards
Lazarus
Dropped
Wonder Woman trades
Ghost Rider
Have they just done the one volume so far?
Yes.
Just curious.
Amazing X-Men is interesting and it's the first X title I've read in a long time (if not ever) but it's IMPOSSIBLE to read if it's the ONLY X title you're reading. Seriously. It jumps all over the damn place. Like how the holy F did Kurt go evil? And when (if at all) did it get resolved? Because it's sure as crap not mentioned in the VERY NEXT ISSUE.
Sigh. So, so long Amazing X-Men. I loveth thee. Firestar my love, we shall meet again I hope.
DC - time to step it up. Just focus on writing good books with a solid art. May I suggest that when Snyder/Capullo pull of of Batman that we sign on James Tynion IV and Ethan van Sciver? Who wouldn't buy that? (no one say "me" because that would hurt my fragile ego - just kidding :)).
DC
Convergence: Swamp Thing
Convergence: Shazam
Image
Saga
Deadly Class
Outcast
Sex Criminals
Marvel
Secret Wars
Thor
Valiant
Bloodshot Reborn
Ninjak
Divinity (mini series)
Dropped (some voluntary, some not, and some be back after Convergence)
Swamp Thing
Batwoman
Secret Origins
Earth 2
Justice League United
Justice League
Multiversity
Gotham by Midnight
Secret Six
The Valiant (mini ended)
Justice League will also be back on. Secret Six I'm on the fence about. I'll see after issues 2 & 3 whether it stays on.
DC
Convergence: Swamp Thing
Convergence: Shazam
Image
Saga
Deadly Class
Outcast
Sex Criminals
Marvel
Secret Wars
Planet Hulk
Thor
Valiant
Bloodshot Reborn
Ninjak
Divinity (mini series)
MARVEL: Angela: Asgards Assassin
MARVEL:
Superior Iron-Man(Dropped)MARVEL: Thor (female arc)
DC: The Multiversity
DC: Green Lantern
DC: Sinestro
DARK HORSE: Nexus Omnibus
DC: Convergence
BOOM STUDIOS: Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return
BOOM STUDIOS: Ufology
MARVEL:
Star Wars(Dropped)MARVEL: A-Force
IDW: Insufferable
IMAGE: The Mantle
DEVILS DUE ENTERTAINMENT: 7 Days of Death
ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK:
Gotham by Midnight: Don't get me wrong. I LOVE the concept. I love the story. But the art is just NOT for me. I think it's perfect for the series, but sometimes it's just too much of a distraction for me.
SPECIAL ORDERS:
MARVEL: Night Nurse #1
MARVEL: Venom by Rick Remender: The Complete Collection Vol 1 TPB
VERTIGO: The Wake TPB
TWOMORROWS: Back Issue #81
CONSIDERING BEFORE ORDERING:
IDW: The Bigger Bang TPB
(UPDATE: Scratch that. Saw some interior pages on IDW's website. The art isn't for me.)Never heard of it before, but the cover art and the concept intrigue me. Anyone heard of this mini-series?
BLUE JUICE COMICS: Accelerators: Momentum #1
Another intriguing concept. The way it's titled I'm assuming there have been prior story-lines. But this one is a group of time lost people who are with a time machine that can ONLY go forward.
BLACK MASK COMICS: The Disciples #1
I don't know. The concept seems mildly interesting but something about the cover just caught my eye...
(EDIT: By the way, if it's highlighted in a list, it was in the most recent PREVIEWS. I think that makes more sense than having a completely separate PREVIEWS section.)
Idw-tmnt current series and the mini tie-in
Marvel-secret war(when It comes out)
Wish list
Marvel-
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Avengers
New avengers
Amazing spider man
Spider Gwen
Star Wars
Dc-
Batman and robin
Batman the dark knight
Batgirl
Eart 2
Green arrow