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.
Ultimate Wolverine #16 (Marvel, $4.99): Christopher Condon and Alessandro Cappuccio bring another Ultimate Universe series to a close with a trip into Limbo. Wolverine and Phoenix track Magik into her demonic dimension for a showdown that demands a final, devastating sacrifice. The ending feeds directly into Ultimate Endgame #5.
The Hab #1 (Bad Idea, $5.99): Writer Joshua Dysart teams with artists David Lapham, Bill Sienkiewicz and Jacob Phillips for a horror series about a billionaire’s doomsday bunker built atop an ancient glacial cave and whatever has been sleeping down there for a very long time.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero — Sssilent Missions: Zartan #1 (Image, $3.99): The silent missions series of one-shots continues with writer Tom DeFalco and artist Pat Olliffe — the iconic Spider-Girl creative team — turning their attention to Zartan, the master of disguise caught between Cobra and G.I. Joe in his most dangerous undercover assignment yet.
Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living #1 (Dynamite, $4.99): Declan Shalvey and Rapha Lobosco deliver the second chapter of the ThunderCats X SilverHawks crossover event as they pull back the curtain on Mumm-Ra’s ancient origins. The story heads back to Egypt during the reign of the pharaohs, where a nameless slave’s chance discovery and selfish act of cruelty set him on the path to becoming one of pop culture’s most enduring villains.
Fireborn #1 (Image, $4.99): Curt Pires, Franklin Jonas and Patrick Mulholland launch a new series set in the Lost Fantasy universe, where rich-kid failson Aaron Hillburg has a mysterious floating dragon egg bond to him, igniting an ancient magical lineage he had no idea he carried. Now every violent outlaw wizard, biker cultist and supernatural warlord between New York and the World Beneath wants him dead.
Venom #257 (Marvel, $4.99): Charles Soule and Javier Pina present Death Spiral‘s eighth chapter, as Anna Watson and May Parker are caught in the crossfire, Flash Thompson is somehow their best hope, and the Mary Jane and Peter dynamic is threatening to fracture everything at the worst possible moment.
Resident Alien: One More for the Road (Dark Horse, $4.99): Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse bring their long-running, deeply loved sci-fi series to a close in this one-shot finale. Harry is covering for Ethan at the clinic in Patience while former federal agent Jones works to bring more nations into an interstellar alliance. But danger is closing in, and Harry’s secret may finally be exposed.
Darkness vs. Angelus (Image/Top Cow, $5.99): Mark Silvestri, Matt Hawkins, Ryan Cady, Pat Boutin and Agustin Padilla dig into the history of one of the Darkness universe’s most powerful forces, with three stories spanning the past, present and inner life of the Angelus, the primordial supernatural being who has watched countless Darkness bearers come and go.
Lenore: Muffin Else Matter #1 (Titan, $4.99): Roman Dirge delivers the third of four Lenore one-shots, this one built around Lenore’s cats, a depleted “cat battery” and an ancient witch who spins the origin story of Lenore’s feline history, which holds the key to the truth about her mother.
Absolute Batman #19 (DC, $4.99): Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta kick off a new arc with the debut of the Absolute Universe’s version of Scarecrow. Joker has decided that targeting Batman requires a particular kind of weapon, and Dr. Jonathan Crane, one of ARK M’s most terrifying doctors, is exactly what he has in mind.
Spawn: The Scorched #50 (Image, $4.99): Todd McFarlane, Stephen Segovia and Carlo Barberi bring the Spawn universe’s crossover event to its conclusion with the third part of an oversized trilogy that has run through King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and now The Scorched, all in their respective issue #50.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — Lost Contact #1 (IDW, $4.99): Layne Morgan and Corali Espuna spin off from Paramount’s Starfleet Academy streaming series with a debut issue that sends a group of cadets on what should be a routine survey simulation, but a storm cuts them off from their ship and something impossible appears on a supposedly lifeless planet.
The Adequates #1 (ComiXology Originals, $2.99): Writers Lee Loughridge and Marz Jr. send five high school freshmen on a haunted field trip to Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery, and the return home with half-baked superpowers they have absolutely no idea what to do with. Their first order of business: taking down the school’s bullies. Their bigger problem: their favorite teacher has been possessed by a demon.
Amelia Shadows and the New Head Ghost (Papercutz, $17.99): Matthew Dow Smith brings his Amelia Shadows character, the daughter of the world’s most powerful dark magician, resident of a house full of ghosts and dangerous magical objects, and genuinely delightful protagonist, into this new original graphic novel. Amelia’s comfortable supernatural life is upended when her dad hires an opinionated new head ghost named Hans who has very strong feelings about how things should be run.
Ghost-Spider: Broken Chords (Scholastic, $14.99): This one may have actually come out last week, but it’s shwoing up on this week’s list for comic shops. Author Roseanne A. Brown teams with artists Diobelle Cerna and Nabi H. Ali to send Gwen Stacy, aka Ghost Spider, into a multidimensional conspiracy. When a spider-powered villain named Arachnid shows up from another dimension, Gwen must team up with Spider-Punk to bring him down.
Twin Lotuses (Oni Press, $29.99): Zhang Xiaoyu sets this haunting story in war-torn China in 1937. A grieving engineer, devastated by the loss of his opera-performer wife, builds an extraordinary automaton to replace her at the theater, while the city crumbles around him and orphaned children, local potentates and an American airman all circle the mysterious figure.
Leo Da Vinci: Renaissance Kid (Papercutz, $12.99): Richard Hamilton and Marco Matrone reimagine a young Leonardo Da Vinci as a bold, troublemaking kid dragged to an apprenticeship far from home, where he stumbles into a conspiracy threatening the entire city. Armed only with his genius, two new friends and an instinct for elaborate pranks, Leo and his pals must grab everyone’s attention the only way they know how.
Karl Lagerfeld (Abrams, $25.99): Writer Alfons Kaiser, an FAZ editor who knew Lagerfeld personally, and artist Simon Schwartz team for this graphic novel biography of one of fashion’s most singular figures. From a precocious outsider in northern Germany to an urbane genius in Paris, Kaiser draws on previously unknown sources to paint a portrait of Lagerfeld as designer, illustrator, photographer, book collector, and a human being behind the larger-than-life persona.
Hotel Limbo (Top Shelf/IDW, $19.99): Writer Ben Harel and a rotating cast of 28 international artists bring the fan-favorite webcomic to print in a gorgeous debut graphic novel. BB, a young man who wakes up in the middle of nowhere and finds himself conscripted as bellboy at the Hotel Limbo, quickly discovers that helping guests with their “baggage” takes on a very different meaning when all the guests are dead.
My Sister the Freak (HarperCollins, $15.99): Dani Jones makes her graphic novel debut with a story about two very different sisters — one who is sci-fi-obsessed and chaos-generating, and the other who is cool, collected and popularity-conscious. Their small-town life is upended by an actual alien invasion.