Replacing items on the pull list

For anyone who has been following my blog, you may have noticed some changes to the pull list.  Many of the titles that were listed on my list half a year ago, are now gone from it, and new titles have been added.  The general pattern has been for me to drop a DC title and pick up a non-DC title by an independent company.  I'm going to summarize the last year in comic-book collecting and pull list modification below.

Issue Review: Worlds' Finest 15 (New 52)

Power Girl hurtles through DeSaad's boom tube in search of her friend Huntress.  She arrives in a bunker-like base, where she battles para-daemons and tries to beat Helena's location out of them. Meanwhile, DeSaad usess a lightning wand to try and extract fear and pain emotions from Helena, which seem to fuel his power.  He realizes Power Girl is in his base, and heads off to confront her, giving Huntress a chance to pick her locks and escape.  Huntress defeats a strong-man slave of DeSaad's and joins Power Girl in the fight against him. But DeSaad says he has extracted what he needs from Power Girl, and uses another boom tube to return them to England.  When they arrive, Power Girl says DeSaad has "screwed up" her powers -- her costume is torn and she is cut and bleeding (both of which should be impossible due to her Kryptonian physique).

New Comic-book Night - 02-27-13

It's "New Comic-book Night" once again (Wednesday). As happens sometimes, nothing on my pull list came out today, so I bought myself a bunch of back-issues. It's the end of the month and I had a little spare money in the budget (spent $50 less on groceries than I thought I would).  I'm still mostly getting my comics digitally, so I didn't need to go to the comic-book shop at all.  Instead, I went to +comiXology and spent about $28 on digital comics.  I pulled in quite a haul for that amount, since most digital comics are only $1.99, compared to $3.99 in most cases (or $2.99 for some books).  I can't snap pictures of online comics the way I can hard copies, but I decided to make a small collage of the ones I bought:

For those needing to squint, the top two rows are Earth-2 #4-6, #0 and Worlds' Finest #4-6, #0.  On the recommendation of my friend, +Stuart Johnson, I have started reading these two series. I read the first three last week, and now I am working on the next four.  These two series are only on issue #9, so if I keep liking them, I will complete these series and add them to my pull list next week.

The other issues showing in the image are the covers of Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja - She-devil with a Sword issues #7-12, which is the second story arc of that series.  I was a big Red Sonja fan back in the 70s/80s as a youth, so I picked up the first couple of issues on a whim, and it has turned out to be an excellent series. I will do a Year 1 review of it when I complete these issues.

Again this is quite a haul for $28, and I am looking forward to having lots of great weekend reading to do.  I'm also rather optimistic about adding either Earth-2 or Worlds' Finest to my regular pull list, since both are very good so far -- much better than the New 52 series I have dropped recently (Action Comics and Superman).  My "regular monthly pull list" might be starting to shape up, finally.