Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez bring a ‘very superhero-forward kind of take’ to ‘Batman’

Check out new comics and graphic novels arriving this week by J.M. DeMatteis and Jim Towe, Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips, Jordan Thomas and Daniel Gete, Maria Llovet, Sean Peacock, Chip Zdarsky and Rachael Stott, Melissa Mendes and more.

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:

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.

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‘Ultimate Universe: Two Years In’ goes cosmic with Guardians, Daredevil + more

Deniz Camp, Alex Paknadel and more will help set up the upcoming battle with the Maker in ‘Ultimate Endgame.’

Marvel has announced a follow-up Ultimate Universe special tp last year’s Ultimate Universe: One Year In. Appropriately titled Ultimate Universe: Two Years In, the special will focus on the Ultimate Guardians of the Galaxy, who were introduced earlier this year in The Ultimates #8.

The Ultimates writer Deniz Camp, along with co-writer Alex Paknadel, will bring the team to the forefront as they continue looking for new members to join in the fight against the Maker. That will include a cosmic-level Ultimate Daredevil:

“Getting to write in the Ultimate Universe—especially as it reaches its climax—is so fun, it should be illegal,” Paknadel said. “It’s a license to rethink and reinvent your favorite characters, and Deniz and I have certainly done that here. Like all the best Ultimate versions of these characters, our Daredevil retains the essence of the original—he’s still a something without fear—but he’s been scaled up to a cosmic-level hero. I can’t wait for readers to meet him.”

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Let’s you and him fight: DC reveals all the ‘DC K.O.’ tournament participants

Dan Mora’s variant cover for the first issue of the event series reveals both expected and surprising entrants.

DC has revealed all the participants in the DC K.O. tournament, a big storyline that begins this fall and finds DC’s heroes (and some villains) competing for the honor of becoming King Omega.

Scott Snyder and Joshua Williamson are tag-teaming on the storyline, with Snyder writing the main event and Williamson working on the undercard in titles like Superman and Knightfight. Snyder will be joined by Javi Fernandez on the main miniseries, while Dan Mora did the tournament bracket cover that reveals who is all in for the fight:

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BRZRKR returns in ‘The Bleeding Tide’ this November

Marjorie Liu and Garry Brown set sail on the high seas for a story featuring BRZRKR and a crew of pirates.

BRZRKR will return this fall with another one-shot set in the immortal warrior’s past. BRZRKR: The Bleeding Tide will feature “B.”, as he’s called, being saved from the depths of the ocean by a pirate captain with a lot of secrets.

Monstress co-creator Marjorie Liu teams with artist Garry Brown of Babyteeth and The Massive fame on the title, which is the latest in a series of one-shots featuring the Keanu Reeves-created immortal warrior. It follows 2024’s BRZRKR: A Faceful of Bullets, 2023’s BRZRKR: Poetry of Madness and the original BRZRKR series co-written by the John Wick and Bill & Ted actor and his writing partner Matt Kindt.

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