After noting a comparative lack of comics coming out the last couple of weeks, I swear that this week’s pull list just doesn’t end. An appearance at your local comic book store this week will certainly dent your wallet.

DC Comics has a new miniseries this week that certainly piqued my interest. In The Kitchen #1, the wives of some imprisoned Irish mobsters from Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, take over operations while their husbands rot in the slammer. Marvel isn’t going to be outdone with the launch of Sam Wilson as Captain America in All New Captain America #1. This month’s edition of Star Trek takes the crew of the rebooted USS Enterprise to DS9 in the middle of the Dominion War thanks to Q. And if you want something ridiculously cool and outlandish, Quentin Tarantino writes a mashup of Django Unchained and Zorro in Django Zorro #1. This is one mashup/crossover I never saw coming

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Usually I start these posts with recommendations for new comic series but this week we start with a final issue. After nine issues, Superman Unchained comes to an end. Scott Snyder and Jim Lee are off to carry on with other projects (Batman, mostly) but their Superman collaboration ends with Superman Unchained #9.

Meanwhile, Marvel continues to try to cash in on the death of Wolverine by launching two more series this week. There’s Death of Wolverine: Life After Logan and Death of Wolverine: Weapon X Project. If that’s not your speed, maybe you can check out John Carter: Warlord of Mars. It’s from Dynamite rather than Marvel/Disney so there might be hope for those of you who weren’t high on Disney’s take on John Carter.

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I seem to recall hearing about a Dredd movie sequel coming in comic form at some point from 2000 AD. I thought that they already did that but if you’re still wanting more Dredd (and who doesn’t want more Dredd), there’s Rebellion / 2000 AD’s Dredd: Uprise. Not only does Dredd find himself fighting crime but he’s also caught up in a bit of an economic culture war. That’s timely with elections just wrapping up in Ontario and upcoming in America.

Marvel continues with the death of Wolverine by bringing in a couple of his pals trying to keep people from studying Logan’s DNA in The Death of Wolverine: Deadpool and Captain America #1. And it’s annuals season over at DC Comics. They’ve got four annuals coming out this week with Harley Quinn, Swamp Thing, Justice League Dark and Justice League United all represented this week.

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Is it just me or does this week seem pretty quiet in terms of new comic releases. Maybe everyone’s waiting until the week before Halloween and I just didn’t pay attention to that being a popular time for comic releases. Anyway, I have a couple of recommendations for the week. After a five decade absence (in the story), Edward Scissorhands is back and getting a comic book sequel (until the inevitable far too late cash-in revival [because I’m not a cynic or anything like that]) in Edward Scissorhands #1.

And I’ve never heard of the self-obsessed Earth-16 in the DC multiverse (there are 52 worlds in it so I can’t know it all) but it seems like something that would be oddly appropriate as a substitute for our Earth-0. Anyway, The Multiversity: The Just #1 sees the children of Earth-16 unprepared for the threat that faces them because they’re too interested in themselves to be at the ready for action. See, take out superheroes and it’s our actual Earth-0.

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There are scads of licensed properties getting debuts this week on the comic book pull list. There are #1 issues for Sleepy Hollow and Doctor Who (featuring the Twelfth Doctor). There are also a pair of video game adaptations with Titan launching a The Evil Within series and IDW getting their hands on Skylanders.

If more traditional, superhero based comics are your thing, DC’s Trinity of Sin get their own series after last year’s Trinity War and Forever Evil crossover events in Trinity of Sin #1. More importantly, The Death of Wolverine miniseries ends in issue #4 which is out today. And Marvel is already trying to spin this story off to make more money with Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy #1.

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I’ve left it until the last-minute so here’s a quick, thrown together comic book pull list for this week.

Injustice started as a comic book prequel to the video game but it seems as though the comic has more staying power than the game. It’s time for Injustice: Gods Among Us –  Year Three #1. With war engulfing the Earth and a great evil threatening mankind, can the Avengers and X-Men co-exist long enough to help? The answer lies in the nine-part miniseries Avengers and X-Men: Axis. And George R.R. Martin’s Meathouse Man short story gets its own one-shot comic book treatment from Jet City Comics.

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Thor is the Asgardian God of thunder and utilizes his hammer, Mjolnir, to defeat his enemies. Well, that is until he is no long able to wield Mjolnir and hands it over to a worthy successor. And her much awaited debut comes this week in Thor #1. Marvel is keen to point out that the new Thor is Thor and not She-Thor, Lady Thor or “Thorita.” Not to sound like a cynic but I’d be much more excited if this becomes canon in the movies at some point too. That would take real balls from Disney/Marvel.

Elsewhere, Lobo is getting his own comic series and heads will roll. One’s already come off its former body on the cover of Lobo #1. And Sherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini join forces as someone is trying to destroy Houdini’s career. However, the title indicates there could be trouble afoot in Sherlock Holmes vs. Harry Houdini #1.

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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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