Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop 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.
Immortal Legend Batman #1 (DC, $4.99): The Massive-verse team puts their stakes down in Gotham, as the creators of Inferno Girl Red, including Kyle Higgins, Mat Groom, Erica D’Urso, Igor Monti and Becca Carey, present a science fiction epic starring an Elseworlds version of Batman. Featuring designs by Dan Mora, the new miniseries features a version of the caped crusader “who found a way to access the energy that binds our universe and the shadow universe, transforming him into a cosmic dark knight.”
The Mortal Thor #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Al Ewing and Pasqual Ferry present a shift in tone and story following the end of Immortal Thor. With the God of Thunder gone, Sigurd Jarlson walks the earth – without power, without fame, without memory. “And yet the fate of Asgard and Midgard rests on this mortal man making the journey to return the magic of the Gods to the Earth. And to get there – to even learn the nature of the quest – he’s going to have to fight,” Ewing said.
Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man #1 (Skybound, $4.99): Following his work on Dracula, James Tynion IV brings another Universal Monster to comics as he teams up with artists Dani and Brad Simpson to shed some light on the story of the Invisible Man.
Hellboy and the BPRD: Professor Harvey is Gone (Dark Horse, $3.99): A prose Hellboy story by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden finds new life in comics, as Mignola and artist Giuseppe Manunta team up for this one-shot about the hunt for a missing antiquities professor.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder #1 (IDW, $4.99): Dan Watters and Michele Bandini team to tell the “rags-to-revenge story of the ultimate ronin,” as Shredder returns to comics.
Returned forever changed by a maddening ordeal beyond imagining, the Shredder is a man out of time, betrayed by all around him, without the Foot Clan, and quite possibly insane. When one of his former Foot prodigies forms their own rival clan with infernal designs on New York, a recovering Shredder must quest deep into the criminal underworld, where enemies both old and new will discover what defiance will bring them at the end of the Shredder’s blades.
Imperial War: Planet She-Hulk and Imperial War: Black Panther (Marvel, $4.99 each): Jonathan Hickman, Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini’s Imperial grows in scope, as Marvel has announced the four-issue miniseries will be accompanied by five one-shots that “spotlight individual characters and groups as they navigate the startling developments and explosive conflicts sweeping the stars.”
These first two one-shots will help flesh out Black Panther and She-Hulk’s roles in the story. Hickman will work with co-writer Victor LaValle and artist CAFU on Black Panther, and with co-writer Stephanie Phillips and artist Emilio Laiso on Planet She-Hulk.
Sonja Reborn #1 (Dynamite, $4.99): Christopher Priest and Alessandro Miracolo present a different take on Red Sonja in this new series, as a woman from 2025, Maggie Sutherland, finds herself transported to Hyboria. There. she has been transformed into the warrior known as Red Sonja.
Red Vector #1 (Mad Cave Studios, $4.99): Park Ranger Cora Martinez has her hands full when two opposing forces in a cosmic war crashland in the desert she oversees, in this new serie sby David DB Andry, Tim Daniel and Chris Evenhuis.
Doomed 2099 (Marvel, $4.99): Frank Tieri, Delio Diaz and Frank Alpizar show us what happens when Rachel Summers, Bishop, the Maestro and more future heroes team up to take down the current Sorcerer Supreme — Doom calls in his own reinforcements from the future, Doom 2099.
Masterminds #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): In this new series by Zack Kaplan and Stephen Thompson, a video game programmer auditions for a secret society in the gaming/tech industry and finds himself in a gauntlet of real-life puzzles that quickly turn deadly.
Star Trek: Strange New Words: The Seeds of Salvation #1 (IDW, $4.99): Robbie Thompson and Travis Mercer head into space with the Strange New Worlds crew for a story that combines space exploration and Lovecraftian horror.
Stitch #1 (Dynamite, $4.99): Tom Ratliff and Greta Xella bring us a post-movie adventure featuring everyone’s favorite blue ball of energy, Stitch. When Dr. Jumba Jookiba is in danger of losing his membership in the Evil Genius Group-slash-Syndicate, or E.G.G.S. because he doesn’t have enough evil points, he decides to create a series of dastardly inventions … while Stitch finds a way to ruin each of them in turn.
Bring on the Bad Guys: Dormammu and Bring on the Bad Guys: Mephisto (Marvel, $4.99 each): Marvel wraps up their summer series of one-shots with a double dose this week, as Marc Guggenheim, Alex Paknadel, Michael Sta. Maria and Alvaro Lopez bring Mephisto’s story to its fiery conclusion.
The Knives (Image Comics, $29.99): In the first Criminal story since 2019, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips bring together three stories of three desperate people in L.A. filled with “greed, ambition, heartbreak and blood ties.”
“A few years ago someone reached out to me to return some of my uncle’s lost possessions, after his family estate had been plundered, and bizarrely, that sparked the inspiration for what I hope is the biggest and best Criminal book yet. A crime story about one generation growing up in the life, another growing older and trying to get out of it, and Hollywood, somehow, too,” said Brubaker. “This book is an epic, the longest original graphic novel we’ve ever done, and it’s been a joy to return to this series and these characters, especially after spending most of the last three years watching them come to life on set and screen. I can’t wait to get this book into readers’ hands.”
