We’ve got a couple of new series and a couple of ongoing series to preview in this week’s pull list. Friend of the blog Larime Taylor is back with a new five-issue A Voice in the Dark miniseries and story arc starting with A Voice In The Dark: Get Your Gun #1. Over at Dark Horse, their Fire and Stone series continues with Aliens: Fire and Stone #1.

In ongoing series, the ever confusing numbering of the Spider-Man series continues in The Amazing Spider-Man #1.5 which concludes the Learning To Crawl arc. Star Trek continues the Q story line as DS9 makes an appearance in Star Trek #37. And DC’s Future’s End series continues with Superman, Aquaman, The Flash, Catwoman and more.

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When I do pull list recommendations, I try to look for new or interesting comics that might be worth a read. This week seems a little harder than usual to pick out recommendations. I suppose a good place to start would be the series finale of Thor: God of Thunder. Issue #25 will be the final Thor comic before we get the debut of the new female Thor in a series to start in October.

And DC continues their Future’s End series of comics with this week’s offerings including Justice League, Batman/Superman, Superman/Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman.

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Since I took last week off and didn’t do a pull list, let’s get one item out of the way up front. This month is The Death of Wolverine month. Issue #1 was last week. This week is The Death of Wolverine #2. Next week, Marvel prints more money. Love the idea of killing off characters to bring them back later and cash in some more or hate it, it’s a time-honoured tradition of the comic book industry. It also helps a company quickly amass a war chest of funds which gives them a little more flexibility to take risks on new or smaller series… Well, hypothetically, anyway. It could all be down to greed.

Meanwhile… Dark Horse has an Alien(s) comic from that recent prequel that everyone loved with Prometheus: Fire and Stone. Because I’m a mark for vintage radio dramas, I feel compelled to mention Dynamite’s Shadow miniseries comes to an end in The Shadow: Year One #10. And DC is going through a New 52 anniversary event right now with 41 “Future’s End” branded comics for some of their characters and series. This week’s Future’s End offerings include Batman, Justice League United, the Green Lantern Corps, Batgirl, Constantine and many more.

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The theme of this week’s Comic Book Pull List is series finales. Three of the big publishers have series wrapping up this week. The biggest is Marvel who will end their current Wolverine series to carry on with the Death of Wolverine storyline with this week’s Wolverine #12. Jonah Hex’s series comes to an end in All-Star Western #34. And the final Star Wars comic rolls off the printing presses at Dark Horse in Star Wars: Legacy #18.

And just to balance things out, we have a series debut to recommend too. One of my favourite cartoons, Bob’s Burgers, gets its first comic book series starting in Bob’s Burgers #1.

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This week, I think we should look at some anthologies in the pull list recommendations this week. Dark Horse brings you a multitude of stories in each issue of their revived Dark Horse Presents anthology series. Alternatively, DC and Marvel are doing various characters and stories in a series rather than in an issue. DC launches Multiversity which will at characters and stories across the DC multiverse. And Marvel wraps up the Original Sins series in Original Sins #5.

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With Disney buying Lucasfilm, everything Star Wars that isn’t under the Disney umbrella is coming to an end. This week, the Star Wars comic series that’s set between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back is ending its run in Star Wars #20. Hopefully Marvel gives us some good Star Wars comics before too long and not all just Episode VII tie-ins either.

IDW has a few new miniseries this week but the one I’m looking forward to is Judge Dredd: Anderson, Psi-Division which takes a look at Dredd sidekick Anderson’s early days in Psi-Division in a four-issue miniseries. Alternatively, part two of the Q storyline brings us to an alternative timeline Deep Space Nine to see what happens to Ben Sisko in a rebooted Star Trek universe in Star Trek #36. And just to keep dancing around the big two with my recommendations, The Walking Dead #130 is out this week too.

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Here’s an interesting question: How does a comic series end and then come back after a short hiatus? Marvel tries to answer that question in Superior Spider-Man #32. They also smartly schedule their line-up to cash in on the blockbuster release of Guardians of the Galaxy with Legendary Star Lord #2 and Rocket Racoon #2.

Meanwhile, over at Valiant, fans of the Harbinger series gets a short miniseries that rises from the ashes of its predecessor in Harbinger: Omegas #1. A man must choose between the love of his life and duty to his people in Image’s Imperial #1. And if a kids comic is more your speed, Adventure Time writer Rebecca Sugar is behind Boom’s new Steven Universe series. No idea why that title would catch my eye…

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I don’t know how often I accomplish it but I like to start these Comic Book Pull List posts with a look at some of the new and odd offerings that comic book publishers have each week. For example, we know that Dynamite is adapting A Game of Thrones into a comic series. Now, Avatar has another George R.R. Martin book coming to coloured ink with In The House Of The Worm #1.

Over at Vertigo / DC Comics, they have a horror slash murder mystery miniseries that covers four murders in four time periods from the 1890s to 2050s. If that’s not your speed, you can always read about a “homicidal cybernetic kung fu rooster” in Chew: Warrior Chicken Poyo #1.

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There are a lot of new franchises this week for your perusal. Marvel continues to roll out new single-character focused series with the debut of Storm #1. For 90s nostalgia, there’s Super Secret Crisis War: Johnny Bravo #1. And for 80s crossover action figure nostalgia, you have to take a look at Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #1.

On the sci-fi franchise front, Titan takes over the Doctor Who franchise with new adventures of 10 and 11 in Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #1 and Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #1. And if Mass Effect fans want to keep giving money to Mac Walters, allegedly one of the two writers of ME3’s ending, the finale of the Mass Effect: Foundation series takes us right into the Citadel DLC with a tale about Maya Brooks in Mass Effect: Foundation #13.

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