Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what comics are arriving in comic book stores, bookstores and on digital.
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.
Summer of Superman #1 (DC, $5.99): With James Gunn’s Superman film arriving this summer, it’s no surprise that the Man of Steel is front and center in DC’s publishing plans for the year. The “Summer of Superman” officially kicks off with this special featuring stories by incoming Superman Unlimited writer Dan Slott, current Superman writer Joshua Williamson and Justice League Unlimited writer Mark Waid. They’ll be joined by artist Jorge Jiménez for a three-act story that will feature the wedding of Lana Lang and John Henry Irons.
Godzilla vs. Hulk (Marvel, $4.99): Gerry Duggan and Giuseppe Camuncoli cotninue the series of one-shots featuring Godzilla taking on different Marvel characters at different points in time, with this one featuring Thunderbolt Ross forming an anti-kaiju task force and two green monsters going head-to-head.
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero: Spirit (Skybound, $3.99): Leonardo Romero and Matheus Lopes tell another dialogue-less G.I. Joe story as part of Skybound’s “Silent Missions” celebration, with this issue featuring Spirit Ironknife and his eagle Freedom.
Giant-Size Wacky Races (Dynamite, $4.99): Penelope Pitstop, Peter Perfect, Dick Dastardly, Muttley and more are back in this comic book one-shot by Ivan Cohen and Mariano Benitiz Chapo, as they bring the Hanna Barbera cartoon to comics.
Superior Avengers #1 (Marvel, $4.99): In the spirit of Dark Avengers, Doctor Doom assembles his own team of Avengers as part of the One World Under Doom crossover event. This six-issue series by Steve Foxe and Luca Maresca brings together a team sporting the names of familiar villains, as they help implement Doom’s new world order.
Buried Long, Long Ago #1 (Mad Cave Studios, $4.99): Anthony Cleveland and Alex Cormack present this “based on a true story” miniseries about a single mother in the early 1900s who would lure men to her farm and kill them for their money.
Web of Venomverse: Fresh Brains (Marvel, $4.99): The path to May’s Spider-Verse vs. Venomverse continues in this anthology one-shot that includes stories by Matt Groom, Erica Schultz, Chris Allen, Juan Jose Ryp and more.
Hey, Mary! (Oni Press, $17.99): Andrew Wheeler and Rye Hickman tell the story of Mark, who is struggling to reconcile being a good Catholic boy with the realization that he’s gay.
Legion of Super-Heroes: Five Years Later Omnibus (DC, $150): The future shown in DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes, up until the late 1980s, was one filled with hope and inspiration, but that all changed in 1989 with the introduction of the “Five Years Later” storyline. Keith Giffen, Mary Bierbaum, Tom Bierbaum and Al Gordon introduced a bleak chapter in the team’s history, one where they had disbanded following a war between science and magic. Five years later, Chameleon Boy puts the wheels in motion to reunite the team. This well-regarded story gets collected in omnibus form, with this first volume including Legion of Super-Heroes #1-39, Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #1-3, The Adventures of Superman #478 and Timber Wolf #1-5.