Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what comics and graphic novels are arriving this week.
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 + Mad Cave + 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.
Godzilla #1 (IDW, $4.99): The Kai-Sei era of Godzilla stories kicks off this week, as IDW debuts a brand-new shared universe featuring Godzilla and related monsters, along with a whole bunch of new characters. Writer Tim Seeley and artist Nikola Čižmešija team up for the first of three titles as they introduce Jacen, a young boy with the same powers as Godzilla who the United States would like to use in their war against the kaiju.
The Sixth Gun: Battle for the Six #1 (Oni Press, $5.99): To celebrate 15 years since the debut of the long-running, creative-owned series, Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt return to the world of The Sixth Gun for a new series set 30 years after the end of the original. As the fabled six weapons are reborn once more, two opposing sides battle to control them at the turn of the century.
ThunderCats/The Powerpuff Girls #1 (Dynamite, $4.99): Paulina Ganucheau and Coleman Engle will no doubt have a lot of fun bringing together two very different cartoon properties that currently fall under the Dynamite umbrella. The Powerpuff Girls find themselves on Third Earth without their powers, thanks to Mojo Jojo, with Snarf on hand to lend a paw.
The Flash: Bad Moon Rising Special #1 (DC, $5.99): Spinning out of the current The Flash storyline “Bad Moon Rising” comes the appropriately titled The Flash: Bad Moon Rising Special #1 by Alex Paknadel and Daniel Bayliss. The story involves Eclipso trying to black out the sun, and he’s recruited The Flash’s Rogues as his generals — which will be the focus of this special.
Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #10 (Marvel, $4.99): The 10th issue of the current Moon Knight series is also the 250th issue of Moon Knight overall, so Marvel’s celebrating with an oversized issue by Jed MacKay and Devmalya Pramanik. It promises a “decisive showdown with new supervillain, Achilles Fairchild” and “an explosive finale to the series’ current arc and a startling beginning to what’s next for the Midnight Mission.”
Space Ghost Annual #1 (Dynamite, $5.99): Following the end of the year-long first series, David Pepose and Jonathan Lau are back to bridge the gap between what came before and a new series that will launch later this year. This annual features the Space Ghost crew facing the threat of Tempus the Time-Master.
The Voice Said Kill #1 (Image Comics, $4.99): Si Spurrier and Vanesa Del Rey team up for this new miniseries filled with “fever-dream cajun crime.”
“I’ve waited years to make this book,” said Spurrier. “The story arrived in my brain fully formed—that never happens. This perfect, self-contained spiral of murder, moonshine and motherhood, steaming with Cajun chaos and swamp spice. What’s taken so long has been finding the right artist. In my view, the key power of the comic book medium lies in taking something outwardly familiar and infusing it with a sort of transcendent magic. In Vanesa, I’ve found the most exceptional expression of that transformative sorcery. What’s emerged is this visionary, impressionistic fever-dream, which elevates a hardboiled crime thriller into a psychedelic bayou epiphany, unlike anything I’ve ever written or read.”
Texarcanum #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): Television writer/producer Christopher Monfette (Star Trek: Picard, 12 Monkeys) teams with artist Miguel Martos for this “horror in the Heartland” title that makes great use of the city on the Texas/Arkansas border called Texarcana. “Ghosts and gods, angels and demons, horror stories and tall-tales, they’ve traveled from across the globe to collide in the rural Heartland… and cowboy arcanist Avery Belle has spent a very long lifetime amongst them.”
Look Into My Eyes #1 (Mad Cave Studios, $4.99): Rubén Cubiles writes and draws this miniseries about the town of Cravenwood, where a local girl disappears, a new social media app takes the town by storm and a many-eyed monster lurks in the forest.
Storm #10 (Marvel, $3.99): The Thunder War kicks off as Storm faces off with the eldest and most powerful of all the thunder gods, Hadad. It’s by Murewa Ayodele and Lucas Werneck.
Calexit: The Battle for Universal City #1 (Black Mask Studios, $4.99): Matteo Pizzolo and C. Granda return to a United States where California left the United States, causing war to break out between the California Sovereign Republic and U.S. occupying forces.
Superman #31 (DC, $4.99): We saw last year during the DC All In Special that Darkseid had somehow recruited the Legion of Super-Heroes into being his minions, and now that plot point comes back around to hit Superman directly in the face. Joshua Williamson and Dan Mora present a story about the Legion attacking Superman that will lead into this fall’s big DC K.O. event.
Beneath (Mad Cave Studios, $19.99): Mad Cave brings to print the digital graphic novel originally released by Comixology Originals by Steven S. DeKnight and Michael Gaydos. It’s about a deputy sheriff tasked with transporting the sole survivor of a mysterious attack along the Texas-Mexico border to a for-profit immigration detention center closing down due to wide-spread protests, as the detention center becomes a desperate battle ground when something otherworldly emerges from deep below.