Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week. It’s Halloween week, and there’s lot of spooky stuff this week — and plenty of non-spooky stuff, too.
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.
Absolute Batman 2025 Annual #1 (DC, $5.99): Some of the most interesting names in comics take a turn in the Absolute Universe as Daniel Warren Johnson, James Harren and Meredith McClaren deliver tales from Batman’s early days. This anthology explores the formative moments of the Absolute Universe’s Dark Knight, filling in the gaps of his origin with stories that show how this version of Bruce Wayne became the brutal vigilante readers have come to know in Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’s ongoing series.
X-Men: Age of Revelation various titles (Marvel, $3.99 each): We’ve made it to week four of Marvel’s latest X-event, Age of Revelation, with the entire X-Men line replaced with three-issue miniseries set 10 years later in a future ruled by Doug Ramsey, the Heir of Apocalypse, who is now known as Revelation. This week brings us Undeadpool, which surely is a title Marvel has used before, haven’t they? Maybe not, but it’s been right there this whole time. Also the Cloak or Dagger concept is born from how the characters interact in Marvel Rivals, and then of course there’s X-Vengers, which brings together several members of the X-Men and Avengers.
Return to Sleepy Hollow #1 (IDW Publishing, $4.99): Casey Gilly and Savanna Mayer continue the story of Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow in this mature tale of buried truths, decaying bodies and rotting gods. More than a decade after the Headless Horseman last haunted the valley, a deeper evil stirs in the town’s roots. When Ichabod Crane receives a frantic letter, he must reunite with his estranged love Katrina Van Tassel to investigate a string of mysterious murders.
Supernatural #1 (Dynamite, $4.99): The Winchesters ride again—and yes, that means Baby is back on the road—in a new series set between the first and second seasons of the TV show. Writer Greg Pak and artist Eder Messias send Sam and Dean cruising the backroads in their beloved ’67 Chevy Impala to investigate a string of eerie fires in a dying Rust Belt town—blazes that leave both buildings and employees of the mysterious Windler Industries in ashes. With a sinister CEO and something unholy lurking beneath the smoke, this one’s pure vintage Supernatural: classic rock on the tape deck, gallows humor in the air and monsters in the headlights.
Dick Tracy Halloween Special #1 (Mad Cave Studios, $6.99): Alex Segura, Michael Moreci and Chantelle Aimee Osman bring ghouls, ghosts and some of Dick Tracy’s deadliest rogues out to play in this holiday one-shot. Featuring the Mad Cave debut of one of the most iconic Dick Tracy characters ever—The Kid—this special blends noir crime with Halloween horror.
Universal Monsters: Dracula Black & White Special #1 (Skybound, $6.99): Skybound resurrects James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds’ Eisner-nominated series in a black-and-white edition that pays homage to the 1931 horror movie. Collecting the first two issues of the series, this remastered special strips away the color to spotlight Simmonds’ haunting artwork.
Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special #1 (Oni Press, $7.99): Alex Paknadel and Troy Little deliver an all-new 48-page special expanding the story from the crowdfunding phenomenon/comic book adaptation of the hit video game. In it, Lamb continues the bloody quest to defeat the Bishops of the Old Faith, as the One Who Waits becomes weary of his earthly vessel’s resistance to the full power and responsibility of the Red Crown. When famine strikes and a challenger to Lamb’s mantle emerges, a new struggle begins for control of the cult.
Batman: The Long Halloween—The Last Halloween #10 (DC, $4.99): Just in time for Halloween, Jeph Loeb and Matteo Scalera bring the highly anticipated sequel series to its conclusion. After 10 issues building to this issue, all the threads come together in a finale that promises to deliver answers to the mystery that’s been unfolding month by month.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Annual 2025 (IDW, $5.99): Kenny Porter and Michael Shelfer deliver an oversized story about reforming bonds after a year apart. After a brutal war against D.A. Hale and his Foot Patrol, the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are finally back together, but shadows hang over them from their lost year. Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael will share details of their lost year to help Donatello find his second wind as they reflect on the past and begin to reforge their brotherly bonds.
Disney Villains: Maleficent #1 (Dynamite, $4.99): Paulina Ganucheau and Theo Stultz deliver an all-new tale set just after the vengeful Maleficent leveled her curse against Princess Aurora. The power-hungry regent sets out to build up her arsenal of magical energy to the point that she’ll be invulnerable to any force that would dare challenge her reign, and when her goblin minions return from a raid bearing a mysterious glowing grimoire, the Queen senses an ancient and otherworldly presence between its covers—a force that could deliver nearly unlimited power.
Imperial #4 (Marvel, $6.99): Jonathan Hickman, Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini bring their four-part cosmic event to its explosive conclusion. Galactic War! Conspiracies! Skrulls! The Inhumans! But mostly I just wanted to share the image of Lockjaw chewing on Ronan’s Universal Weapon …
Barbaric: The Black Knight #1 (Vault Comics, $6.99): Michael Moreci, Guilherme Balbi and Nathan Gooden deliver an oversized one-shot featuring Flail, the talking…well, flail. After their misadventures in Queen of Swords, Deadheart, Serra and Ka return to defeat the evil witch Doxon once and for all. Too bad a familiar face—on a spiked ball at the end of a vicious weapon wielded by an ancient knight—has other plans.
Marvel Rivals: King in Black #1 (Marvel, $5.99): Paul Allor and Nico Leon’s Marvel Rivals Infinity Comics come to print as a galactic vacation goes horribly wrong. When Jeff, Rocket Raccoon, Thing and Squirrel Girl find themselves on the symbiotic shores of Klyntar, allies are transformed and their darker halves join the symbiote-bonded Hela and her growing symbiotic army — with only Phoenix and Blade able to defeat the symbiotes.
Cheetara: Worldbreaker #1 (Dynamite, $5.99): Nate Cosby and David Cousens head back Thundera’s “Golden Age” for an adventure featuring young Cheetara’s developing mystical connection to the Sixth Sense — and the shattering discovery of who else is sharing their psychic link.
Superman Red & Blue 2025 Special #1 (DC, $5.99): The Eisner-nominated anthology returns for a one-shot celebration of the Man of Steel’s milestone movie year. This issue features stories from Paul Dini, Dan Abnett, Michael Walsh, Rainbow Rowell, Caitlin Yarsky, Cian Tormey and more. Each tale once again explores the heart and humanity of Superman through his iconic colors—red for passion, blue for hope.
Godzilla vs. America: Kansas City (IDW, $7.99): The Godzilla vs. America tour continues through the heartland with the kind of local flavor and destruction that’s made this series a love letter to regional comics scenes. Join a group of Kansas City-based creators as Godzilla smashes his smallest city yet in this anthology featuring stories by Buster Moody, Freddie E. Williams II, Baldemar Rivas, Jake Smith and more.
Synthetics Volume One #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): J. Michael Straczynski and Tony Parker launch a new science fiction story set on a dying Earth filled with expanding dead zones. Humans form rage gangs to vent their anger at futures lost or escape into the cyber-void to avoid thinking about what’s coming. Our only hope of survival rests with a new kind of human, and the team explores what happens when humanity’s last hope might also be its greatest fear in this four-issue series.
My Dad Fights Demons (SelfMade Hero, $19.99): From Bobby Joseph and Abbigayle Bircham comes a wild, heartfelt Young Adult graphic novel about a teenager stuck between real-life drama and supernatural chaos. Rye’s life already feels cursed—absent parents, bad relationships, and a stepdad who can’t stand them—but things get truly weird when their estranged father returns… as a dimension-hopping sorcerer.
Indoor Kid (Oni Press, $14.99): Mat Heagerty and Lisa DuBois-Thompson deliver a sports story about staying true to yourself. In Muscletown, if you’re not a jock, you’re nobody—you’re an “Indoor Kid.” Air-ball Arnie (worst nickname ever) couldn’t be worse at sports, and he lives in a city full of the best athletes, especially the Brohemians, the town’s star athletes/biggest bullies. But everything changes when Arnie discovers a magical medal that gives him superhuman sports powers. Now he can slam dunk better than anyone, and he’s determined to put the Brohemians in their place.
Facing Feelings: Inside the World of Raina Telgemeier (Graphix/Scholastic, $26.99): Spend an afternoon with Raina Telgemeier as she shares her artwork and tells stories spanning from her childhood to the creation of her graphic novels Smile, Sisters, Guts, Drama and Ghosts. Born from an exhibition at The Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, this book explores how the cartoonist developed into a middle-grade graphic novel legend, with a look at rare artwork, an interview, special commentary from Raina and more.
Wish We Weren’t Here: Postcards From the Apocalypse (Fantagraphics, $19.99): Veteran cartoonist Peter Kuper turns his eye toward the climate-crisis era in this 100-page silent comic-strip graphic novel. Through vivid, wordless four-panel sequences originally serialized in Charlie Hebdo, Kuper skewers business-as-usual, oligarchy and the accelerating collapse of our planet’s systems.