Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what comics are arriving in comic book stores, bookstores and on digital. This week brings a new addition to Marvel’s Ultimate line-up, a new creative team to Action Comics and a fun graphic novel from Rick Geary.
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 (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.
Ultimate Wolverine #1 (Marvel, $5.99): Marvel’s Ultimate Universe gets a new, yet familiar addition, this week, as Chris Condon and Alessandro Cappuccio bring Wolverine, aka “The Winter Soldier” into the mix. I don’t think we know exactly who is under the mask at this point, but this Wolverine isn’t in control of himself — he’s an agent of three members of the Maker’s council: Magik, Colossus and Omega Red. To ensure they maintain control of a world that now has superheroes running around and causing a raucous, they unleash him to do all those things that he’s best at. And what he does ain’t nice.
Shadow of the Golden Crane #1 (Dark Horse, $3.99): Chris Roberson and Michael Avon Oeming continue the story of B.P.R.D. agent Sue Xiang and her family’s connect to the clandestine Golden Crane Society in this new miniseries.
Action Comics #1082 (DC, $4.99): John Ridley and Inaki Miranda team up for a new Superman story that also features Major Disaster, whose descent back into a life of crime catches the eye of reporter Clark Kent.
The Horizon Experiment: Finders Keepers #1 (Image Comics, $3.99): The Horizon Experiment is a new line of one-shots by various creative teams “featuring original protagonists from marginalized backgrounds set in a popular genre and inspired by pop culture icons.” Pornsak Pichetshote is working with co-editor Will Dennis on the line, and this one-shot by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge is a “reverse Indiana Jones adventure that follows archeology grad student Ines Guarua, who steals artifacts from museums to return them to their native cultures.”
Behemoth #1 (Dark Horse, $3.99): Grant Sputore and Ryan Engle, two filmmakers with resumes that include giant monster movies, team up to with artist Jay Martin and letterer Frank Cvetkovic for this giant monster comic. It’s about the people on a bus who get eaten by a Kaiju — and what happens to them next.
Rogue: The Savage Land #1 (Marvel, $4.99): This “retro” miniseries revisits a classic Jim Lee-era X-Men story from Uncanny X-Men #269 and #274-275, when Rogue and Magneto battled a supped up sorceress Zaladane in the Savage Land. Veteran comics writer Tim Seeley teams with artist Zulema Lavina for the five-issue miniseries.
Howl #1 (Ahoy Comics, $3.99): The G.I.L.T. team of Alisa Kwitney and Mauricet reunite for this miniseries set in 1950s New York where all the poets, artists, musicians and writers in Greenwich Village find themselves being taken over by alien spores.
Green Lantern: Fractured Spectrum #1 (DC, $3.99): Jeremy Adams and V Ken Marion team up for this one-shot that kicks off “a new era in Green Lantern mythology.” Hal Jordan and the newly reformed Green Lantern Corps are back on Oa and facing the new threat of the “Fractal lanterns” — beings that manifest uncontrolled parts of the emotional spectrum.
The Immortal Thor #19 (Marvel, $4.99): This “Tales of Asgard” issue will feature various stories of different Asgardians, all written by Al Ewing and featuring artwork by a cavalcade of artists, including Jan Bazaldua, Valerio Schiti, Juann Cabal, Martin Coccolo, CAFU, Steve Skroce, Gavin Guidry and more.
You Won’t Feel a Thing #1 (DSTLRY, $8.99): Two DSTLRY founding creators who have a shared history come together for this new series, as Scott Snyder and Jock reunite for a new three-issue “brutal noir” series, which seems on brand for the creators of Wytches.
Resurgence of the Valiant Universe: Bloodshot One-Shot (Alien Books, $5.99): This is “The Big Fight Issue,” according to the PR I received from Valiant today. In this one-shot, Bloodshot goes head to head (and fist to fist) against his future counterpart Rai. It’s by Fred Van Lente, Leo Lujan and Rodrigo Rocha.
What If … Galactus Transformed Moon Knight? (Marvel, $3.99): When Khonshu and Galactus clash, it’s up to Moon Knight to make peace — by agreeing to become a herald of Galactus. This one is by Alex Segura, Scot Eaton and Chris Campana.
Daisy Goes to the Moon (Fantagraphics, $19.99): Rick Geary has spent decades applying his whimsical art style to stories about serial killers and true crime, but for this new graphic novel he’s adapting an actual, whimsical story — Daisy Goes to the Moon — by Mathew Klickstein. It’s about a girl named Daisy who travels by “rokitship” to the moon with the mysterious Mr. Z, where they encounter many-eyed monsters, time travelers and more.
Billi 99 hardcover (Clover Press, $45): Clover Press crowdfunded this collection of the first major comics work of Tim Sale last year, bringing the story of a teen vigilante, Billi Chadam, who took up her father’s sword to battle corporate greed and a corrupt government back into print. Sale teamed with writer Sarah Byam on the project, which was first published in black and white by Dark Horse back in 1991. Read my interview with Byam here.
Joe Galaxy Comics (Fantagraphics, $34.99): Fantagraphics follows up their collection of Italian underground cartoonist Massimo Mattioli’s Squeak the Mouse with a collection of his 1970s science fiction strip starring the anthropomorphic eagle/swashbuckling space adventurer Joe Galaxy.
Silence Volume 1 (Kana/Abrams, $12.99): Abrams ComicArts’ manga imprint Kana brings Yoann Vornière’s cold, post-apocalyptic story to the U.S. Set in world without a sun, where terrifying monsters are free to roam and hunt humans, the story centers on a boy and his hidden village who must leave their lives behind to search for other humans and find a way to fight the monsters.