This Week in Comics

My Pull List for November 5, 2025

It’s been a while, unfortunately I’ve been a bit overwhelmed since returning home from Baltimore Comic Con. As with any Whimventure® it sometimes takes time to get back into the swing of things. I’m not going to try to make up the missing comic reviews, just know that they were all good and I’m planning on reducing my pulls in the near future. I’ll write more about my choices for the next year in the coming weeks and what direction I’m heading. I guess one of the nice things about retirement and whimventuring is your personal compass points wherever and sometimes in a random direction.

My Comics

• Space Scouts #1 Dark Horse Comics W: Matt Kindt A: David Rubín

• No Place #1 Ignition Press W: Tim Seeley A: Stefano Simeone

• Batman #3 DC Comics W: Matt Fraction A: Jorge Jiménez I want the new bat signal.

• Star Trek Red Shirts #4 IDW Publishing W: Christopher Cantwell A: Megan Levens I’ve said this before, I like that this comic lists all the characters and has put x’s over those who have joined the great bird of the galaxy. We stsrted with a dozen and are down to five. The Klingons have two of them and the other three are in a rickety old ship trying to launch off the surface and get the data while teh Klingons and Romulans negotiate as only Klingons and Romulans can. How many will survive? At the end of the issue the death toll has risen, but I won’t give you a number.

• Absolute Green Lantern #8 DC Comics W: Al Ewing A: Jahnoy Lindsay A bit of the backstory of our current absolute Green Lantern

• Absolute Superman #13 DC Comics W: Jason Aaron A: Rafa Sandoval Troops arrive to stop the people of Smallville from helping the ones fighting the Lazarus Corp. We also see how even when put in a different universe, sometimes your true nature can’t be stopped.

• JSA #13 DC Comics W: Jeff Lemire A: Gavin Guidry

• Assorted Crisis Events #6 Image Comics W: Deniz Camp A: Eric Zawadzki.

• TexArcanum #4 Dark Horse Comics W: Christopher Monfette A: Miguel Martos As this series closes (at least for now) it’s nice to see an ending to generations of battle. Then again, is it the end? This issue also deals more with Belle’s origin story and his connection to all this mess.

• Nemesis Forever #3 Dark Horse Comics W: Mark Millar A: Matteo Scalera We have the ultimate bad guy, who has the ultimate plan. Hw will the good guys stop him? The bigger question is are we rooting from them to win or Nemesis?

• Minor Arcana #11 Boom Studios W & A: Jeff Lemire We learn more about the backstory and what Theresa has gotten herself into. Oh what a tangle web Lemire weaves.

• Huck Big Bad World #6 Dark Horse Comics W: Mark Millar A: Rafael Albuquerque I’m looking at this as the “end” of this series. Although Millar has created his own universe and this looks like it should be a “happy ending” it is interesting to see if this ending will seep into the other titles.

• Amazing Spider-Man #15 LGY #979 Marvel Comics W: Joe Kelly A: Emilio Laiso Spider-Man in Spaaace! Which is actually the portion of the story I like. We discover the origin of Peter’s new Spider-suit. I knew it looked familiar.

• The Book of Outrage #5 A: Frank Cho Frank Cho puts together a book of his sketch covers. Sketch covers are a “thing” -a comic with a blank cover that you take to conventions to have artists draw on. Frank is one who creates some rather amusing covers many not quite suitable for a general audience.

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Space Scouts #1 Dark Horse Comics W: Matt Kindt A: David Rubín I was pulling comics last Monday and saw this has a variant cover by Sergio Aragonés and decided, knowing nothing about it but being an old Boy Scout (BSA Scouting is what I think they call it now) I’d try it out. No, it has nothing to do with an intergalactic camping organization. In the universe created by Matt Kindt the Space Scouts are the protectors of the universe. I’m currently looking at them as a “Legion of Super-Heroes” kind of organization. The thing is if you pass all the tests and join, your planet is showered with prosperity and basically becomes utopia. if you don’t you might return home to that dustball scraping away to live. While letting down your entire planet- no pressure. So this is story of Ember who was sent off (even though she didn’t want to) to go through the trials to become a Space Scout. They start off with 1000 and Ember is just going through the motions, hoping to actually lose. The first task a race, the first 100 to cross the finish line move on. No Spoilers. By the end of this issue the final 10 go up against the cliffhanger of a final challenge. Is Ember part of that group? read it to find out. This is a magazine sized comic, which just means it’s too big to fit in a comic book box.

No Place #1 Ignition Press W: Tim Seeley A: Stefano Simeone I’ve been working on reading the stuff Ignition press is producing. The only one I’ve not picked up is Beauty and basically because I had been reading it under another publisher and stopped for whatever reason- unclear to me right now. I love stories about other magical places that ordinary people have been thrown into. It probably started with Flash Gordon, but continued with various books and comics including Christian Scott Sava’s Dreamland Chronicles, Mark Millars’s Starlight, and even Skottie Young’s rather irreverent I Hate Fairyland. No Place builds off of those stories. I think of it as X-Files/Men in Black mixed with The Wizard of OZ. We start off with a girl who has returned from one of those kind of adventures and no one really believes her. Since this is the first issue, we learn a bit about the world and a secret organization that deals with these kinds of things. Looks like things are about to get interesting.

JSA #13 DC Comics W: Jeff Lemire A: Gavin Guidry It’s Secret Origin story time!
Before Crisis on Infinite Earths the Justice Society was Earth-2’s Justice League having started before World War II. The various origins that have been told over the years that had detail have included Batman and Superman even though they were not part of the original roster. Once they moved these golden age heroes to the main timeline they couldn’t include modern heroes in the origin, so to give us a nice detailed telling of how they all come together in the real timelinwe get this arc from Jeff Lemire and Gavin Guidry. This being the first chapter it sets up the story with the various heores in their places, with their powers, but not together or even knowing (for the most part) who is who. What will bring them together? Probably Nazis. Remember when being a fascist was a bad thing? Hint: It still is, but there are a lot of people out there today who don’t get it. So for the record right now we have: Green Lantern, Sandman, Hourman, The Flash, Johnny Thunder, Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Missing from those on the cover of All-Star Comics #3 (first appearance of the JSA)- The Spectre and Doctor Fate.

Assorted Crisis Events #6 Image Comics W: Deniz Camp A: Eric Zawadzki. Assorted Crisis Events deal with so many different aspects of stories and personal connections. This one, was amazing. The pain and suffering endured by one loved one, for another. How much would you go through to care for your spouse? This is the story of a wife caring for her husband who is suffering from Retro-Anterograde Temporal Diminishment just one of the many issues when time starts acting weird. In this case the person bounces around in time. Consider it temporal dementia that impacts not only your brain, but your body. One moment you are you, the next you are 8 years old, a few hours later you are in your 90’s. with only the knowledge that your would have at that time period. So how do you deal with it? There are options, like putting them in a facility and moving on… is that something you would do. Powerfully written and a sucker punch for anyone who thinks they know how they would react.