You know, I have a massive pile of comics that I haven’t had time to get around to reading. I really just have to put everything aside for an hour a day for the next week and just read. Maybe instead of reading books before I go to sleep, I should read a couple of comics. Does anyone have any decent techniques for powering through a backlog?

Anyhow, there are some interesting comics coming out this week. Browncoats will get the continued adventures of the Serenity in a comic written by Zack Whedon and executive produced by Joss. It’s Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #1 which picks up shortly after the Serenity movie.

Elsewhere, Dynamite’s well-regarded Red Sonja series gets its own one shot kids issue in Li’l Sojna #1. The Green Team’s time in DC’s New 52 comes to an end this week in Green Team: Teen Trillionaires #8. And if you’re looking for a zombie parody, Deadpool has you covered in Night of the Living Deadpool #2.

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It’s not often that well-known celebrities from outside the comic book realm get mentioned in the pull list but when Alyssa Milano launches a new comic, you should probably mention it. In Milano’s new series published by Boom, a pair of social networking entrepreneurs secretly work as leaders of a white knight hacking group in Hacktivist #1.

Elsewhere, some of the big publishers have some intriguing first issues this week. DC Comics has a video game adaptation thanks to their WB corporate tie-in with Scribblenauts Unmasked: Crisis Of Imagination #1. The godfather of all things zombie, George Romero, has a new comic with Marvel called George Romero’s Empire Of Dead: Act One #1. And IDW has a unique crossover comic starring the infamous Lone Gunmen with X-Files: Conspiracy – Ghostbusters #1.

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In this week’s comic book pull list highlights, I want to highlight some more unusual fare that’s coming out this week. For example, I didn’t know that Marvel had a UK set of heroes. Dark Angel is back to save the heroes of Marvel UK in Revolutionary War: Dark Angel #1. And DC’s Injustice comic series hasn’t just because the video game was released. Apparently Injustice is so popular that we’re getting another “season” of Injustice comics starting with Injustice: Year Two #1.

Elsewhere, Dynamite has a special one-shot comic called Lil Battlestar Galactica #1 which includes a two-page activity sheet! Awesomeballs! IDW launches a grindhouse/exploitation themed miniseries with Black Dynamite. And friend of the blog Larime Taylor is back with the third issue of A Voice In The Dark.
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After a week off, the comic book pull list is back. Today, I think I want to do a TV-themed look ahead at the week. I know I’ve previewed Adventure Time series before but Boom Studios has a new series with Finn and Jake called Adventure Time: Flip Side. Nastasha Romanov has been with The Avengers and SHIELD in the Marvel-verse but now she gets her own series in Black Widow #1. And, finally, while we’re used to DC Comics properties getting series on The CW, it’s the other way around now. The CW series The Vampire Diaries gets their own comic series with The Vampire Diaries #1.

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You have one last day to do your Christmas shopping. Because your neighbourhood comic book store is closed tomorrow, all the new releases are out today. Convenient how these things work out.

New releases are going to be in short supply this week unless you’re interested in special edition issues. As far as new releases go, they are few but the big two have a pair each. DC Comics has Forever Evil #4 and a Forever Evil tie-in with Justice League #26. Meanwhile, Marvel launches a new miniseries that begins with the beginnings of Wolverine in Origin II #1. They also start a new arc in Avengers #24.

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Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? You have about week left to do it. I think I’m done but it’s all down to shipping that’s already a week behind schedule. Why do I mention Christmas shopping? Because I think this is our last pull list before Christmas. Unless, I’m wrong. This is my first year writing a geek blog.

Anyway, this is our pull list post so here are our recommendations for the week. Harley Quinn’s new series gets properly underway in Harley Quinn #1. I haven’t been keeping up with recent issues of Superior Spider-Man but the Superior Venom has arrived in Superior Spider-Man #24. And Zoey is back on the air in A Voice in the Dark #2.

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When this week’s set of new comics hits the shelves, we’ll be only two weeks away from Christmas. I hope you’ve been doing your shopping. Personal experience tells me that shopping is nearly impossible beyond this point. I know because I very nearly botched Christmas shopping the last two years.

Anyway, this is a comic book release post so maybe I should talk about that. Marvel’s new Inhumanity series continues with spin-off Inhumanity: Awakening #1. Over at DC, the heroes of the Justice League travel to the year 3,000 or were they taken there in Justice League 3000 #1.

Elsewhere, Professor Moriarty has survived his plummeting down the Reichenbach Falls but he encounters a new foe before he can resume command of his criminal network in Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty Lives #1. Dark Horse continues their video game and sci-fi tendencies with Halo: Escalation #1. I won’t pretend to know what it’s about because I really don’t care for Halo. And the WWE gets a new series written by Mick Foley starting with WWE #1.

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It’s time for the first pull list of the month of December and it’s Marvel leading things off in both a good and bad way. One week after we read the conclusion of Marvel’s Infinity cross-over event, we get another big Avengers event starting in Inhumanity #1. The other notable Marvel release is one that I was warned about by one of the clerk’s at my local comic book shop. He mentioned Marvel was going to cash in on Amazing Spider-Man #700 by releasing special decimaled issues of Amazing Spider-Man. This first is out this week with Amazing Spider-Man #700.1.

Elsewhere, we have a debut and a conclusion for you this week. Debuting is a new Terminator series that chronicles the end of the Machine War, something that will no doubt be of massive interest to Terminator fans, in Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #1. And The Mocking Dead miniseries wraps up this week. I suppose mocking zombie shows was a bit more fun when The Walking Dead still sucked. At least we got the final confrontation with The Governor, even if it was eight episodes too late.

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If you’re a Marvel fan, you’re going to your local comic book store this week. Marvel’s big summer event, Infinity, comes to a close in Infinity #6 as the heroes of Earth do battle with the forces of Thanos. I kind of wonder if we’ll see parts of this story come up in The Avengers 3 when that comes out.

If you’d rather something a bit more geared towards kids, I’m looking forward to Mr. Peabody & Sherman’s new miniseries that starts this week.

I just realized that I always refer to it as the “local comic book store” because we only have the one comic book store in my hometown. I reckon that a good number of you reading actually have more than one comic book store in their towns. Maybe I should start saying “neighbourhood comic book store.”

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Two popular Marvel and DC characters are getting their own series starting this week and they get top billing in the pull list. Nick Fury lays his vengeance upon thee in his new three issue miniseries Cataclysm: The Ultimates. Over at DC, Harley Quinn gets her own monthly series starting with Harley Quinn #0.

At the slightly smaller but still sizable publisher level, IDW brings Cartoon Network’s Ben 10 to print with Ben 10 #1. And Image has my favourite looking new series of the week. Zoey tries to get a fresh start after killing someone when she moves away to college. However, trouble seems to be lurking with anonymous calls to her late night campus radio show in A Voice In The Dark #1. Did I ever tell you guys the story of a guy who interrupted one of my talk show tapings to tell us about his ex-girlfriend’s life of crime and we weren’t sure if we were safe to be in the same room as him? Good times…

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