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.
Justice League: Dream Girls — A DC Pride Event #1 (DC, $4.99): Instead of a single-issue anthology, this year DC is celebrating Pride with an event miniseries that spins out of Justice League Intergalactic Special #1. Jadzia Axelrod, Nicole Maines, Nicola Scott, J Bone and more contribute to this first issue, as Dreamer and Galaxy wake up on Themyscira living their best lives as princess and champion of the Amazons, with no memory of how they got there or why it feels subtly wrong. Greg Rucka and Claire Roe provide a Batwoman back-up story.
Adventure Time Pride Special 2026 #1 (Oni Press, $7.99): Rosie Knight and Evgenia Vereli deliver the first-ever Adventure Time Pride Special, a 48-page celebration of Marceline and Princess Bubblegum’s relationship built around a new anniversary mixtape that sends them reeling through memories and old misunderstandings.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 (BOOM! Studios, $4.99): Marguerite Bennett and Andrew Lee Griffith relaunch BOOM! Studios’ flagship Power Rangers series with a new premise: It’s been 10 years since the original Mighty Morphin’ team retired their morphers and went their separate ways, and now they’re being called back to face a new form of Rita Rabiosa. Are they still the heroes they once were? Are they still mighty, and more importantly, is it still morphin’ time? It’s a story about adult identity and legacy, and sets the path for the launch of Power Rangers Unlimited next month, which has its own unique premise.
X-Men ’97: Season Two #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Steve Foxe and Salva Espin bridge the gap between the Disney+ animated series’ first and second seasons. If you watch the show, you know that the X-Men are lost in time, and those left behind are surviving in a world that hunts and hates mutantkind.
“Everyone who watched Season One knows the team left us one heck of an era-spanning cliffhanger, and our prequel for Season Two doesn’t take any cheats or shortcuts around that wild status quo,” Foxe said about the new series. “We got to work closely with the series team to make sure this comic is a vital, additive experience for our mutants — what’s left of the X-Men, anyway.”
If you’re wondering where it’s all going, check out the trailer for season two.
Deadman #1 (DC, $3.99): W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo, the stellar team behind Ice Cream Man and the recent Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum Black Label series, bring their distinctive talents to DC Next Level and Boston Brand, the murdered circus aerialist conscripted by the goddess Rama Kushna to serve as the Custodian of All Souls. This is one of those great character/creative team match-ups, and I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with Deadman.
The Ring: The Man Who Beat the Man #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): Gail Simone and Elisa Romboli get in the ring for this new boxing series created in cooperation with the editors of Ring magazine. It promises to explore both the rich history of the sport and the psychological landscape of those who step into it.
Transformers: The Movie 40th Anniversary Edition #1 (Image/Skybound, $3.99): Ralph Macchio and Don Perlin’s original three-issue comic adaptation for Marvel of the 1986 animated film gets a deluxe anniversary reprint. And it’s not just any reprint, as this one will be on newsprint, with Sean Murphy and Simon Gough providing new covers.
Supergirl: Survive #1 (DC, $4.99): Another timely Supergirl project kicks off this week, as Ethan Parker, Griffin Sheridan and Rod Reis bring us this Elseworlds series with a different take on her origin (as well as Superman’s). On Krypton, teenage Kara is trying to navigate normal adolescent life while her father and Uncle Jor-El argue, and when Zod’s brutality tears the planet apart, Kara and her infant cousin Kal-El find themselves trapped together in a prototype rocket.
What If…? Uncanny X-Men #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Gerry Duggan and Jan Bazaldua ask the question, “What if Cyclops had stayed with Madelyne Pryor, and they raised their son Nathan together?” The solicit teases that this seemingly ideal outcome for Scott and Madelyne would actually become the most terrible thing to ever happen to mutantkind … which is on par for what you can expect from most What If? comics! Rarely do the characters get a happy ending.
Only the Savage Are Left #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): Writer Zack Kaplan and Eisner-nominated artist Stefano Raffaele launch a post-apocalyptic survival series with a compelling moral twist — a strange virus transforms its victims into monsters, and the only cure is killing another infected soul. A nonviolent young man sets out into this brutal world to find his missing love, and the question the series poses — what should we stand for when the world demands savagery — is a genuinely interesting one. Kaplan has strong instincts for high-concept genre work.
Junk Punch #1 (Mad Cave, $4.99): Imagine a world where bizarre compulsions, like painting pigeons pink or telling the truth on dating apps, plague the world. Now imagine there’s one woman whose compulsion is punching people right in the junk. You don’t have to, because Paul Tobin and Carlos Javier Olivares already have in this new series.
Star Wars: Rogue One — Jyn Erso #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Marvel continues their series of one-shots celebrating the 10th anniversary of the film Rogue One with this new one by Ethan Sacks and Ramon Rosanas. They fill in a pivotal chapter of Jyn Erso’s story, detailing her time on the toxic labor fields of Wobani and the desperate escape mission that sets the events of Rogue One in motion.
The Devil in the Herd #1 (Invader Comics, $7.99): Katelyn Windels writes and draws this stark, atmospheric Western horror story about a faceless man with red eyes following a cattle drive through the American Southwest, seeking the soul of one of the cowboys.
JSA #20 (DC, $3.99): If you’ve been wondering what’s up with the Spectre, this is the comic for you. Jeff Lemire and Diego Olortegui put the JSA against the Spectre, who isseeking a new host, and the team has to split up to both fight their former ally and unravel what has happened to the spirit of vengeance.
InvestiGators: Weather or Not (First Second, $12.99): John Patrick Green’s bestselling series of sewer-surfing alligator super-sleuths returns for their 10th adventure, as a dairy disaster has replaced the city’s water supply with milk, the feline agents seem suspiciously unbothered (how can you tell with a cat?) and the rain has turned green.
We Are Pan (Top Shelf/IDW, $19.99): Andre Frattino and Yasmin Flores Montanez tell the true story of Operación Pedro Pan, the joint U.S.-Catholic Welfare Bureau operation that secretly evacuated 14,000 Cuban children to America between 1960 and 1962 as Castro’s revolution took hold. These children, later known as the Pedro Pans, were distributed across the country in foster homes, many never seeing their families again. With a foreword by Alex Segura, this is a historical story about family, sacrifice and the cost of political upheaval.
Truth Is Fragmentary (Uncivilized Books, $19.99): Gabrielle Bell collects her latest comic diaries from travels through France, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Colombia and back to Brooklyn, offering raw, funny and deeply observant dispatches mixing cultural commentary, self-deprecating humor and surreal digressions involving car-driving bears and zombie apocalypses.
Supergirl: The World (DC, $24.99): Creators from 15 countries contribute stories to this global anthology, including Mariko Tamaki, Mahmud Asrar, Francesca Michielin and more, all bringing their own cultural perspectives to Kara Zor-El’s efforts to understand and protect her adopted planet.
October Girl Vol. 2 (Mad Cave, $14.99): Matthew Dow Smith writes and draws more of Autumn Ackerman’s adventures into the world of the Night Folk, the strange, ancient creatures that inspired humanity’s myths. In this volume, she tries to protect herself from the coldly terrifying Mr. Balloon while uncovering the truth about her own past.
Laws of Cultivation Vol. 1 (Vault, $19.99): Vault brings this popular Webtoon series by KrazeKode, Kisai Entertainment and Laurel Pursuit Studio to print. The story’s about Lu Jie, who wakes up in a world of scheming sects and immortality chasers, and accidentally discovers that his scientific curiosity gives him a completely unique path to cultivation.
The Nightlights Collection: A Trilogy of Tales (Flying Eye Books, $30): Lorena Alvarez and Flying Eye Books celebrate 10 years of the beloved Nightlights series with an anniversary hardcover collecting the first two books and a brand-new third story.
DC Super Hero Girls: High School Reunion (DC, $12.99): Shea Fontana and Yancey Labat reunite the DC Super Hero Girls for a 10-year reunion that turns out to be a trap. To escape, they have to revisit their shared past and rediscover what made them a team in the first place.
Encore! (HarperCollins, $18.99): This Young Adult graphic novel by Miles Toriko Burks is about Clay, a senior determined to have a good year whose plans are upended when Aron, the ex-best friend who ghosted him for the cool crowd, reappears in his theater class and they’re paired together for an improv exercise — leading to a slow, complicated rekindling of a friendship (and maybe more).
Just Spectacular Collection #1 (Marvel, $5.99): This 48-page one-shot with a clever name showcases J. Scott Campbell’s variant cover artwork, collecting 28 of his Marvel character portraits in a single issue. It also includes bonus behind-the-scenes pencil and ink artwork alongside Campbell’s own commentary on his Marvel career and the process of assembling the collection.