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:
- Penguin Random House (Marvel + IDW + Dark Horse + more)
- Lunar Distribution (DC + Image + more)
- Diamond’s PreviewsWorld (BOOM! + Dynamite + more)
- ComicList (Pretty much all of the above)
- Amazon/Kindle new releases (digital comics)
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.
G.I. Joe #1 (Skybound, $4.99): Following the series of miniseries featuring Duke, Cobra Commander, Scarlett and Destro, Skybound launches a new ongoing series featuring the war between G.I. Joe and the villainous Cobra. Set in the Energon Universe alongside Void Rivals and Transformers, this new series is in a different continuity than the A Real American Hero series and is by Joshua Williamson, Tom Reilly and Jordie Bellaire.
Black Lightning #1 (DC, $3.99): Black Lightning takes on the role of leading the Justice League’s new metahuman outreach initiative in this solo series by Brandon Thomas and Fico Ossio. In this first issue, his mission revolves around his own daughter, as he tries to help Thunder adapt to a dangerous new power set.
Amazing Spider-Man #61 (Marvel, $4.99): Following the departure of Zeb Wells, Joe Kelly joins Ed McGuinness to chronicle the life of Peter Parker and his alter ego. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say the deaths of Spider-Man, as this issue kicks off a new storyline that finds the wall-crawler working for Earth’s new sorcerer supreme, Doctor Doom. Y’see, Doom has decided to outsource the whole “protecting reality” thing that comes with his new job, and Peter Parker is just the guy for the task at hand — if he can stay alive. 8 Deaths of Spider-Man starts here.
Power Rangers Prime #1 (BOOM! Studios, $4.99): From the ashes of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series that ended in July comes a brand new series featuring the Power Rangers by Power Rangers TV producer Melissa Flores and Iron Fist artist Michael Yg.
Black Hammer: Spiral City #1 (Dark Horse, $3.99): Jeff Lemire returns to a rearranged Black Hammer universe in this new miniseries, which “follows a new cast of heroes struggling to survive in a chaotic new world.” The miniseries also features artwork by Danish comics artist Teddy Kristiansen, who you probably know from drawing The Sandman, It’s a Bird and a lot of other great-looking comics.
Gatchaman Jun: Apex Heart (Mad Cave Studios, $4.99): Tommy Lee Edwards writes a second Gatchaman one-shot, this time with artist Eric Canete. It features Jun taking on motorcycle-riding death bikers who have hijacked an armored train transporting experimental International Science Organization tech.
Action Comics #1075 (DC, $5.99): DC’s original flagship title hits a milestone this week, and to celebrate they’re releasing an oversized issue. It features chapters of the two current stories running through the title — Superman by Mark Waid and Clayton Henry, and Supergirl by Mariko Tamaki and Michael Shelfer — as well as a Perry White “Election Day” story by Joshua Williamson and Jon Bogdanove.
Psylocke #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Alyssa Wong and Vincenzo Carratù have some “super dark” plans for Psylocke, a.k.a. Kwannon, and her boyfriend John Greycrow, as the X-Men’s psychic ninja breaks out into her first ongoing solo series.
String #1 (Mad Cave Studios, $4.99): This new series by Paul Tobin and Carlos Javier Olivares is about a woman who can see the “strings” that connect people to other people they’ve slept with and murderers to their victims.
Wynd: The Power of the Blood #1 (BOOM! Studios, $5.99): James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas return to the world of Wynd for a final miniseries that involves Faeriekind preparing for war.
Star Trek: Lower Decks #1 (IDW, $4.99): Ryan North and Derek Charm reunite for an ongoing Lower Decks series, based on the Paramount+ streamer. This first arc involves a holodeck adventure and the exploration of a ghost ship.
Heat Seeker: Combustion #1 (Titan, $3.99): The Gun Honey spinoff by Charles Ardai and Ace Continuado returns with a new adventure, as Dahlia Racers tries to save the world from a biological weapon and battles a mercenary impervious to heat, cold, fatigue or pain.
Calavera P.I. #1 (Oni Press, $4.99): A folk hero returns from the dead to solve a kidnapping in this four-issue miniseries written and drawn by Marco Finnegan. Juan Calavera was a private investigator who defended the Chicano barrios in Los Angeles until he was murdered — but on Dia de los Muertos, he returns to continue his mission.
Arcbound #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): Venom actor Tom Hardy teams with writers Scott Snyder and Frank Tieri, and artist Ryan Smallman for this new science fiction series set on a Earth that’s become a barren wasteland and a company called Zynitec that’s asserted its dominion across the stars.
Batman Uncovered #1 (DC, $5.99): This one-shot collects cover art from various issues of Batman by Jim Lee, Mikel Janin, Greg Capullo, David Finch and more, with a main cover of its own by Jorge Jimenez.
Borderlands: Moxxi’s Mysterious Memento #1 (Dark Horse, $3.99): Amy Chu and Mike Norton continue Dark Horse’s line of Borderlands comics with this new miniseries about the mysterious Moxxi recruiting Siren Amara to recover an artifact … and her past glory.
Blacksad: They All Fall Down, Part 2 (Dark Horse, $19.99): Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s noir cat returns in the second part of a story that finds him trying to save a friend who has been sentence to die in the electric chair.
We Called Them Giants (Image Comics, $19.99): The Die team of Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans and Clayton Cowles reunite for this new graphic novel about a girl named Lori who wakes up to find the streets empty and nearly everyone gone — until something new and very big arrives. I believe this one was actually released at the end of October, but a) I somehow missed it and b) Diamond and Amazon both have it as arriving this week, so if you missed it as well, now is a great time to check it out.
Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 1 (Dark Horse, $34.99): Tom Siddell’s award-winning and long-running Gunnerkrigg Court webcomic comes to print again, this time courtesy of Dark Horse. This new collection will include the first two volumes, “Orientation” and “Research,” which amounts to 586 pages of comics.
Teleportation and Other Luxuries (Mad Cave, $14.99): Archie Bongiovanni and Mary Verhoeven team up for this YA graphic novel about four teens in the future who come together at a science competition and uncover the secret to teleportation.