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.
Conan: Scourge of the Serpent #1 (Titan Comics, $4.99): This spinoff miniseries from Titan’s successful Conan series is also helmed by writer Jim Zub, who is joined by artist Ivan Gil. Together they pit Conan against “the true unspeakable power” of Set.
The Phantom #1 (Mad Cave, $4.99): The Ghost Who Walks returns to comics in this new series by Ray Fawkes and Russell Olson. In this first issue, the pulp hero must protect a village in the African nation of Bangalla from a group of violent smugglers
Skinbreaker #1 (Skybound, $4.99): The Walking Dead co-creator and Skybound chief Robert Kirkman teams with artist David Finch of Batman and New Avengers fame on this new ongoing series. The fantasy epic is about a tribal chief who attempts to pass his mighty sword, Skinbreaker, down to his reluctant heir.
Battleworld #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Christos Gage and Marcus To bring together Hank Pym, the Maestro, Starbrand and more random Marvel characters for a ‘Secret Wars’ style battle royale in this five-issue miniseries.
The Twilight Zone #1 (IDW, $4.99): Dan Watters and Morgan Beam unlock the door with the key of imagination to another dimension, a dimension of … well, you know the rest. This new anthology series based on the weird black-and-white TV show will feature new stories told in black-and-white. And, hopefully, just as weird as the originals.
Masters of the Universe: The Sword of Flaws #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): Tim Seeley and Freddie E. Williams II team up for this new He-Man miniseries that features our hero and his allies searching for a fabled weapon — and trying to outrace Skeletor and his minions before they can claim the prize for themselves.
Ultimate Hawkeye #1 (Marvel, $5.99): Deniz Camp teams up with Taboo and B. Earl to co-write this one-shot featuring the Ultimate Universe’s take on Hawkeye, drawn by Juan Frigeri.
Street Sharks #1 (IDW, $4.99): Oh hey, it’s another excuse for me to drop down a Wikipedia rabbit hole and research a cartoon featuring anthropomorphic characters based on a cartoon. Last week it was cows, this time it’s sharks — Street Sharks, to be exact! They ran for 40 episodes back in the 1990s, and they even had a spinoff series called Extreme Dinosaurs featuring their dinosaur buddies. This one is by Stephanie Williams and Ariel Medel.
Viking Moon #1 (Image, $3.99): Joe Pruett and Marcelo Frusin combine werewolves and vikings into an awesome package that explains why the vikings fled “Vneland” and didn’t settle in North America.
Star Trek: The Last Starship #1 (IDW, $5.99): Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Adrián Bonilla are behind this apocalyptic-style Star Trek comic featuring a resurrected James T. Kirk helming the last working starship in a quest to uphold Starfleet’s mission of unity across a universe in chaos.
X-Men #22 (Marvel, $4.99): Marvel’s next big X-Men crossover unofficially begins here, as Doug Ramsey, aka Revelation (like in “Age of Revelation,” the name of said crossover) shows up in Alaska looking for the X-Men’s help. Good thing they’re home, or else the next three months of X-Men comics might have been uneventful. It’s by Jed MacKay and CF Villa, and it sets up next month’s Age of Revelation Overture #1.
Kid Maroon (Vault Comics, $24.99): I could have sworn this very “meta” graphic novel by Christopher Cantwell and Victor Santos had already come out as single issues, but maybe that was just another trick by the marketing team, which would have you believe this new graphic novel is based on a “lost” comic strip from the 1940s. You can read more about the story — and the fake history behind it — here.
Little Visitor & Other Abductions (Oni Press, $24.99): This graphic novel collects three stories by Adam Szym, a “triptych of otherworldly science fiction horror stories about alien abduction and the negligence and malice that allows it to happen,” including the Ignatz-nominated “A Cordial Invitation.”