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 the return of Fire & Ice, Golden Rage and Adventure Time, and a new No. 1 for Amazing Spider-Man.
I’ve pulled out some of the 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 check with your retailer to see what’s arriving at their shop this week.
Amazing Spider-Man #1 (Marvel, $5.99): Joe Kelly, John Romita Jr. and Pepe Larraz reboot Marvel’s flagship Spider-Man title, following Peter Parker’s recent run as Doom’s mystical champion in the “8 Deaths of Spider-Man” storyline. According to Marvel, the new title will feature “classic” Spider-Man storytelling, and this first issue features the return of the Rhino.
Fire & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #1 (DC, $3.99): Fire and Ice are back in a new miniseries by Joanne Starer and Stephen Byrne, a follow-up to their work on Welcome to Smallville. In this new series, Fire and Ice find their powers have switched between the two of them after the events of Absolute Power.
Adventure Time #1 (Oni Press, $4.99): The popular Cartoon Network series that spawned a 75-issue comic run at BOOM! Studios about a decade ago returns to comics. The series will feature rotating creative teams, starting with animator and Bloody Mary creator Nick Winn. The comic will bring back Finn, Jake, Marceline, Princess Bubblegum and more for new adventures in The Land Of Ooo.
The Great British Bump-off: Kill or Be Quilt #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): John Allison and Max Sarin team up again for a sequel to The Great British Bump-Off, as they trade the world of competitive baking for the world of quilting.
G.I. Joe Silent Missions: Jinx (Skybound, $3.99): Skybound’s Silent Missions one-shots continue this week, as Dani and Dan Watters put the ninja Jinx through the ringer in a wordless 20-page escape that lasts about 20 seconds in real time.
Vatican City #1 (Dark Horse, $5.99): Mark Millar and Per Berg team for this vampire apocalypse story that finds the world overrun with blood-sucking monsters — except in Vatican City, where a group of tourists find themselves safe for the time being behind the walls and holy relics.
Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best #1 (Image, $3.99): Chrissy Williams and Lauren Knight are back with a sequel to their 2022 miniseries featuring elderly women who are sent to an island to live out the reminder of their lives — and battle to the death.
Station Grand (Oni Press, $17.99): Craig Hurd-McKenney and Noah Bailey tell the story of a scientist overseeing the terraforming of Venus — and as he circles the second planet, he slowly begins to question what’s real as he tries to finish his mission.