Comics: Pull List Mar.23, 2022 – Be Yourself (And Read Comic Books)
Indie graphic novels about coming of age and figuring out who you are? Totally my weak spot. That and more on my pull list for Mar. 23, 2022.
If you’re a comic book or manga reader, chances are Wednesday is your favorite day of the week. Whether you run to your local comic book shop or check your digital subscriptions as soon as you get home, it’s New Comic Book Day. Rejoice!
Here’s what’s on my pull list for Mar. 23, 2022!
Pull List for March 23, 2022: Single Issues
Saga #57 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
Long-term relationships are easy? LYING.
Monstress #38 by Marjorie M. Liu & Sana Takeda
Tense reunions are in the air as Kippa, Corvin, and Tuya arrive at the Dusk Court – where the Ancients wait to begin their own experiments on Maika.
Shang-Chi #10 by Gene Luen Yang, Marcus To, & Leinil Francis Yu
Shang-Chi’s family is in pieces, but when the going gets tough, family sticks together. It’s time for the family to reunite…and that means everybody! For the only way to protect each other from certain death is together! But will Shang-Chi’s siblings be able to forgive him and forget the past?
Ms. Marvel Beyond the Limit #4 by Samira Ahmed, Genolet, Andres, & Mashal Ahmed
Qarin is a girl who crash-landed on Earth and started to take over Kamala Khan’s life – but who is she really? How did she get her new doppelganger powers? Why does she want revenge on Kamala? And can Ms. Marvel stop her before it’s too late?
Pull List for March 23, 2022: Graphic Novels
Secret Passages by Axelle Lenoir
Ever since my cosmic twin disappeared, nothing makes sense anymore. Friends, work, life-well, you get the picture.
For all of five minutes I thought therapy might be the answer. But then I remembered: I’m a cartoonist. Why waste a skilled professional’s time when I could just spend 10 years of my life making an autobiographical comic and call it a “voyage of self-discovery”?
So here it is: the opening chapter of my life. It’s 1985 in a small Quebec town called Notre-Dame du Lac. We’re going to get to know a little girl who enjoys chatting with the forest (that’s me!), a younger brother with demonic tendencies, a tyrannical older brother, and two marvelous parents who may or may not be aliens.
And please, PLEASE, take my advice, dear reader. If you ever find yourself in the midst of an existential crisis, don’t make a comic about it. See a therapist instead. Much love!
Dear Sophie, Love Sophie by Sophie Lucido Johnson
What would you say to your teenage self if you could? Inspired by the journals she kept growing up, Sophie Lucido Johnson began an interactive conversation between her younger self and her current self. When she began the exercise, Sophie envisioned sharing important lessons on what it means to love your body, navigate relationships, and discover what fulfills you, no matter where life takes you. But as these “exchanges” deepened, adult Sophie discovered she had much to learn about life from young Sophie as well. Fully illustrated with handwritten text, Dear Sophie, Love Sophie deftly explores topics like queer identity, body image, inherited trauma, belonging, privilege, heartbreak, first love, and much more in a unique and captivating way. Charming, witty, and poignant, it reminds us that wisdom is not limited by age.
My Badly Drawn Life by Gipi
This coming-of-age graphic memoir is a relentless and exhilarating journey to the depths of the human condition, rendered with precision and verve by one of the world’s greatest living cartoonists.
“You’ve always got to laugh at tragedy. That’s why I laugh about my ailment. Ailments. About being a sexual spastic. About my perennial, cowardly, tantalizing desire to die. You can laugh about anything. Almost.” Spoken by his self-depiction, these bitter words set the tone for Gipi’s pitch-black humor in this unvarnished and uncompromising autobiographical tale. A young adult adrift in the world, Gipi’s stand-in grapples with sexuality, insecurity, deception, depression, drug use, fading friendships, and the capricious cruelties of the world as he struggles to determine whether his life is worth living.
Drawn in Gipi’s signature elegantly scribbled ink style and punctuated by vivid watercolor splashes, My Badly Drawn Life weaves through the past and present, through narratives both real and imagined, to create an impressionistic account of his complex inner life. In this kaleidoscopic journey into the depths of his psyche, Gipi processes the shadowy traumas of his upbringing; in doing so, he produces a gripping work of utter cartooning mastery.
Previews: Comics Releasing 3/23/22
What’s on your pull list this week? Tell us down below in the comments. We respect your choice to collect digitally– a comic book library? In this economy?
But if you see something you absolutely need to own in the meatspace, be sure to head to your local comic book shop!
