Day: November 11, 2024

Can’t Wait for Wednesday | ‘G.I. Joe’ brings its battle against Cobra to the Energon Universe

Check out new comics and graphic novels arriving in stores this week by Joshua Williamson, Tom Reilly, Brandon Thomas, Fico Ossio, Joe Kelly, Ed McGuinness, Melissa Flores, Michael Yg, Ryan North, Derek Charm, Tom Siddell, Alyssa Wong and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what comics are arriving in comic book stores, bookstores and on digital. I don’t have much to say this week, so let’s get to it!

I’ve pulled out some of the other highlights for this week below, but for the complete list of everything you might find at your local comic shop and on digital this week, you’ll want to check out one or more of the following:

As a reminder, things can change and what you find on the above lists may differ from what’s actually arriving in your local shop. So always check with your comics retailer for the final word on availability.

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Oni announces ‘The Goddamn Tragedy’ by Chris Condon + Shawn Kuruneru

The vicious Western draws from the real-life story of the Donner Party.

That Texas Blood writer Chris Condon is teaming up with Fishflies artist Shawn Kuruneru for the Western thriller The Goddamn Tragedy, a new graphic novel that Oni Press will publish next year.

While the story is fiction, it does draw from the real-life tale of the Donner Party in the mid-1800s, whose ill-fated journey from Illinois to California became infamous when members of the party resorted to murder and cannibalism during a harsh winter spent in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

“I had been reading about the tragic Donner Party of 1846 and an idea struck me: there’s a story here to tell, one that could capture the psychological tumult a family endures as they are faced with an impossible decision: kill…or be killed,” Condon said. “We all know how the Donner Party played out, but we don’t know how things work out for the Janson family and that’s a story that the masterful Shawn Kuruneru and I are all too excited to tell. Thankfully, we’ve found a great home for this one-shot of survivalist terror at Oni Press who excels at telling gut-wrenching tales from beyond the pale.”

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Cryptozoic Entertainment is reprinting the DC Heroes RPG for its 40th anniversary

The role-playing game returns via a crowdfunding campaign for ‘definitive archival editions.’

The long out-of-print DC Heroes RPG will return next year from Cryptozoic Entertainment, who are planning to crowdfund a 40th anniversary edition of the popular role-playing game.

Originally published by Mayfair Games, DC Heroes came out during the height of popularity for role-playing games in the 1980s, debuting about a year after TSR’s Marvel Super-Heroes RPG. It coincided with Crisis on Infinite Earths, the event comic that consolidated DC’s multiverse onto one Earth, and it included both pre-Crisis and post-Crisis write-ups of various heroes and villains. It was followed by a Batman-specific version in 1989, when the Tim Burton film was released, with a full second edition coming later that year. A third edition came out around the time of the Death of Superman event in 1993.

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‘Kill Your Darlings’ wins the 2024 Ignyte Award

Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan and Bob Quinn win in the “Outstanding Comics Team” category.

Congratulations to Kill Your Darlings creators Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan and Bob Quinn, who have won the 2024 Ignyte Award in the “Outstanding Comics Team” category.

The annual awards program “celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts toward inclusivity of the genre.” It’s sponsored by FIYAH Magazine, the quarterly Black speculative fiction magazine.

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