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.
Star Wars: Rogue One — Cassian Andor #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Benjamin Percy and Luke Ross celebrate 10 years of Rogue One with a prequel espionage thriller that has Cassian Andor alone in the lawless maze of Kafrene, racing against troopers, bounty hunters and time itself before the heist that shook the galaxy. May the 4th — err, force — be with him.
Fall of the House of Slaughter #1 (BOOM! Studios, $4.99): Tate Brombal and Adriano Turtulici expand the Something Is Killing the Children universe with a new miniseries set inside the House of Slaughter, as the Old Dragon is dying, the Heads are gathering and the deadly politics of succession are about to get very messy. With Erica Slaughter’s return unfolding in the main series simultaneously, this is a big time for the SIKTC universe.
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1 (DC, $5.99): Gerry Duggan and Matteo Lolli, who worked together on Deadpool, reunite for a Guy Gardner one-shot that pits the Corps’ most abrasive member against Manhunter androids, space apes, the Guardians and his fellow Lantern John Stewart.
She-Spawn #1 (Image, $3.99): Gail Simone and Ig Guara enter the Spawn Universe with this five-issue miniseries about Jessica Priest, a soldier, assassin, superhero and mother who now has to add “savior” to her resume when an Angelic Cult targets a small child for sacrifice.
Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Kyoshi Warriors #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): Brandon Hoàng and BellBessa fill in one of the gaps in Avatar lore, showing what happened when Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors left their island home to join the wider war against the Fire Nation. The series bridges the gap between the warriors’ first two animated appearances.
Jubilee: Deadly Reunion #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Gene Luen Yang and Michael YG send Jubilation Lee on a mission to save a cousin she never knew who is suddenly in danger. The catch is that her cousin harbors secrets and a mutant power that may make him more dangerous than the threat she came to stop.
DC x Sonic the Hedgehog: The Metal Legion #1 (DC, $3.99): Ian Flynn and Adam Bryce Thomas bring the Justice League and the Sonic gang back together as mysterious mechanical rings link the two universes, causing all sorts of chaos and fun.
Dog Tag #1 (Mad Cave, $4.99): Mark Russell and PJ Holden take on World War II through the eyes of Corporal Tom Fuller, following him from the invasion of Normandy to the surrender of Japan across the conflict’s final year. The creative team frames it as a fictional story built from real-world events and little-known moments of the war, asking questions about the nature of heroism and sacrifice through the lens of an ordinary soldier.
Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus — To Lose Is to Win #1 (Titan, $4.99): Horror writer Nancy A. Collins and Mariano Taibo plunge back into the neon-soaked Tokyo of the Blade Runner universe in this new miniseries. Mead and Stix are still alive, their old commanding officer Uldren wants them dead and a Blade Runner dispatched by Tyrell is hunting everyone connected to the rogue Cheshire Corporation.
Ben 10 #1 (Dynamite, $4.99): Man of Action, the creative team that invented Ben Tennyson, is back for a modern, definitive reimagining of the classic series, with writer Joe Casey and artist Robert Carey navigating this first story. Ben discovers the Omnitrix, the alien gauntlet that lets him transform into incredible alien forms, and the question of whether he can control that power is back on the table. The solicit promises this isn’t quite the story you remember.
Astonishing Miles Morales: Spider-Man — The Art of Thwip #1 (Marvel, $5.99): Cody Ziglar, Alessandro Miracolo and Ig Guara’s Infinity Comics series comes to print, showcasing Miles and his super-powered friends and frenemies taking on art thief Bumbler, the speedster Hightail and Frost Pharaoh’s assault on Brooklyn Visions Academy.
Excommunicated #1 (Vault, $3.99): Jeremy Robinson and Tiago Palma present this unlikely buddy comedy about a faithful nun and a festering demon, both excommunicated from their respective institutions after a botched exorcism. They’re forced into an uneasy alliance to uncover a sinister plot that threatens them both and possibly the world.
If Destruction Be Our Lot #1 (Image, $4.99): Brothers Matthew and Mark Elijah Rosenberg team with artist Andy MacDonald to launch this science fiction fable about an Abraham Lincoln robot in a world where humanity has gone extinct, convinced there must be something more out there than just processing without a purpose.
Civil War: Unmasked #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Christos Gage and Edgar Salazar mark the 20th anniversary of Marvel’s Civil War with a five-issue miniseries filling in the untold stories of Iron Man, Spider-Man, Goliath, Tigra and Captain America before, during, and after the event. This issue features Tony Stark, as a mission from the X-Man Bishop sends him to the Days of Future Past, where what he sees about the consequences of the Superhuman Registration Act changes everything he thought he knew.
Energon Universe Special 2026 (Image/Skybound, $3.99): If you missed Free Comic Book Day this past weekend, Skybound’s issue is available this week for $3.99, with new stories from Transformers, G.I. Joe, Void Rivals and beyond by Robert Kirkman, Joshua Williamson and more.
Supergirl’s Family Vacation: A Supergirl Graphic Novel (DC, $12.99): Brandon T. Snider and Sarah Leuver send Kara Zor-El on what should be a triumphant summer trip to Argo, the one place where she’s the expert and Clark is the newcomer. Then a detour to a strange and beautiful planet with a dark secret puts Superman at the center of the story again, and Kara has to figure out how to save the day on her own terms.
Superpunk (Oni Press, $14.99): Mirtes Santana and Guilherme Petreca introduce Violeta, a 13-year-old skateboarder, podcaster and self-described punk who accidentally plays a cassette tape backward and unleashes a horde of monsters on her town. Luckily it also gives her superpowers.
Into the Bewilderness (HarperCollins, $15.99): Gus Gordon introduces Luis and Pablo, a large furry dreamer and his small, grumpy, loyal best friend, as they go on on a journey from their cozy corner of the Bewilderness to the big city. Along the way they encounter laser-eyed gargoyles, zombie chickens, quicksand and very important questions.
Galaxy: As the World Falls Down (DC, $16.99): Jadzia Axelrod and Rye Hickman reunite for the sequel to Galaxy: The Prettiest Star. Taylor Barzelay, now living openly as herself, follows girlfriend Kat on a college tour of Metropolis just as the alien race that destroyed her home planet arrives on Earth looking for her. With Superman outmatched, it falls to Taylor to become the hero she’s always been afraid to be.
Ghoul (Top Shelf, $19.99): Kasey Iris writes and draws this graphic novel about Lyn, a lonely 15-year-old Filipino American girl grieving her childhood best friend Meg when a monstrous cartoon ghoul climbs out of a comic book and into her life. Together they start uncovering the secrets hidden inside the walls of their new apartment building.