Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week. The last week of the year is typically a very light one for new comics, and this week is no exception. There’s nothing from DC, for instance, and only a few titles from most other publishers, but Marvel does have a few big releases this week.
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.
Ultimate Endgame #1 (Marvel, $5.99): It’s the moment the Ultimate Universe has been building toward for the past two years, as Deniz Camp, Terry Dodson and Jonas Scharf bring the Maker back for a final confrontation with the world’s revived heroes. This four-issue miniseries will spell the end of the Ultimate Universe, but no doubt it will go out with a bang.
Ultimates #19 (Marvel, $4.99): Speaking of which, the Ultimate line still has a few things to wrap up before the end. In this issue, Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri deliver the Wasp’s ultimate sting, as the double agent for the Maker’s Council finds her treachery must be answered for.
Sorcerer Supreme #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Steve Orlando and Bernard Chang launch an all-new series spinning out of the recent One World Under Doom event. After rescuing the Cloak of Levitation and the Eye of Agamotto from the ashes of Doom’s fall, the Scarlet Witch has chosen to claim a new title: Sorcerer Supreme of Earth. Wanda’s never been one to rest on ceremony, and now she’s using her chaos magic to chart a new path that the Vishanti aren’t happy about.
X-Men: Age of Revelation Finale #1 (Marvel, $5.99): Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman bring the Age of Revelation event to its conclusion in this oversized issue, carving a path for a return to the present and the launch of Shadows of Tomorrow.
Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories—The Bad Batch: Rogue Agents #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): Michael Moreci, Reese Hannigan and Elisabetta D’Amico bring back the Bad Batch in this four-issue miniseries. When a Separatist scientist goes missing during the Clone Wars, Clone Force 99 is sent to track him down and prevent his invention from falling into the wrong hands.
Queen Kodiak (Mad Cave Studios, $14.99): Christopher Greenslate and Riccardo Faccini deliver a kaiju tale about a monstrous grizzly bear who survived the Ice Age and became super-charged thanks to a mysterious geo-thermal energy in the depths of its Alaskan ice cave. After thousands of years of hibernation, melting ice and tectonic activity wake her up, only to find her cub is missing. There’s also Joey Fox, a 17-year-old girl who recently lost her own mom and has been forced to move to Alaska with her estranged dad — where she meets and bonds with Queen Kodiak’s cub.