Welcome to The Pull! Each week we pick a few comics to feature as comic book picks of the week. This week we feature All Against All #1, Gargoyles #1, Dream Master #1, and more.
We purchase most of our comics at Galactic Comic and Collectibles in Bangor, Maine.
All Against All #1
Writer: Alex Paknadel
Artist: Casper Wijngaard
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer Alex Paknadel (DC vs. Vampires: All Out War, Giga), artist Caspar Wijngaard (Home Sick Pilots), and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou present a primal vision of humanity gone terribly wrong.
In All Against All, it is the distant future. Earth is long gone, but a race of alien conquerors knows as “the Operators” have preserved its most savage animals in an artificial jungle environment they barely understand.
With no bodies of their own, the Operators move from world to world, harvesting bodies for the organic exosuits they use to wage their endless wars. Ignored and underestimated by his captors is the habitat’s sole human specimen, Helpless.
However, when their efforts to find and harvest an apex predator intensify, he gives them far more than they bargained for.
Gargoyles #1
Writer: Greg Weisman
Artist: George Kambadais
Publisher: Dynamite
All-new ongoing series, in continuity with the epic Gargoyles television classic!
One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of Gargoyles. Stone by day, Warriors by night, they were betrayed by the humans they had sworn to protect…frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and they live again! They are Defenders of the Night! They are Gargoyles!
Series creator Greg Weisman and illustrator George Kambadais reintroduce the Manhattan Clan, a family of Gargoyles at full strength, though modern New York City is full of attractions and distractions, and each member of the clan has begun to go their own way. But their bonds will be tested, when nefarious factions from all across the world attempt to steal that rarest, most precious of possessions…an unhatched Gargoyle egg!
Dream Master #1
Writer: Jonathan Hedrick
Artist: Luigi Barricelli
Publisher: Blackbox Comics
There is a forgotten paladin who protects us from our nightmares while we sleep. Without him, we may never wake up again. He is the Dream Master. His curse is to guard our unconscious bodies from an evil entity who wishes to enter our reality, collapsing it for all eternity.
Hedrick, the writer behind The Recount, is joined by artist Luigi Barricelli, colorist Rubin Curto, and letterer DC Hopkins in this new five-issue monthly comic book series.
It’s Only Teenage Wasteland #1
Writer: Curt Pires
Artist: Jacoby Salcedo
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
When his parents go out of town for the weekend, Mexican-American high schooler Javi decides to throw a party-one that’ll launch him and his buds into popularity! Or at least get them noticed by some girls. But when things take a turn for the worse, Javi and his friends are thrust into a situation and future they could have never possibly prepared for. For fans of The Nice House on the Lake and What’s the Furthest Place From Here? or other comics with really long titles and cool high concepts.
Know Your Station #1
Writer: Sarah Gailey
Artist: Liana Kangas
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
The wealthiest people in the solar system abandoned the Earth for a private sanctuary in space, leaving the rest of us to die amidst cataclysmic climate change.
But the 1% won’t be safe for long…A murderer is on the loose, specifically targeting the super-rich.
Soon Elise, an employee of the billionaire’s space station, is wrapped up in a deadly investigation, with each issue featuring a new, diabolically different kill!
2021’s breakout writer Sarah Gailey (Eat the Rich) and rising star Liana Kangas (Trve Kvlt) take a stab at the ultra-wealthy, their dreams of escaping the very planet they’ve put in peril, and the consequences of a future that might not be so far away…
Miles Morales Spider-Man #1
Writer: Cody Ziglar
Artist: Federico Vicentini
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Spider-Man faces the strongest super-powered foes and most dangerous gauntlets the Multiverse can throw his way, and every time Miles Morales falls, he rises again – stronger than before. Until now. There are some punches you don’t get up from and a new villain isn’t pulling a single one as they threaten everyone and everything Miles loves. Between school, home, his love life and battling super-charged and upgraded villains night and day – Miles is reaching his breaking point. And when this new foe is finished, Spider-Man’s world will be changed forever.
Guest-starring Mac Gargan, A.K.A. The Scorpion!
Don’t miss the next Marvel masterpiece from writer Cody Ziglar (Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Punk) and artist Federico Vicentini (Amazing Spider-Man, Wolverine)!
