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.
100 Bullets: The US of Anger #1 (DC/Vertigo, $3.99): Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso return to 100 Bullets, one of the defining crime comics of this century, for an eight-issue, black-and-white miniseries. Happy birthday, America — Lono is back in the United States, dragged out of a years-long international spiral by tragedy touching his former protégé Loop Hughes. Now he’s unleashed on a network of militias, megachurches and millionaires as a kind of dark mirror to the country itself.
Shaolin Cowboy: Staying A.I.Live #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): Legendary artist Geof Darrow returns to the magnificently deranged world of Shaolin Cowboy, as our hero leaves his wasteland retreat on a mission of mercy. Following the advice of a desert swallow and a horned toad (as one does), he finds himself in even more danger than usual in a small American town.
What If…? Secret Wars #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Alex Paknadel and Cafu ask what would have happened if the original Ultimate Universe had survived Secret Wars, rather than the regular Marvel universe. The story focuses on the 616 Peter Parker losing everything and having to reinvent himself in a new place, kind of like Miles Morales did.
Power Rangers Unlimited #1 (BOOM! Studios, $4.99): Joey Esposito, Kenny Porter and Alessio Zonno launch this new ongoing series that pulls 30-plus years of Power Rangers from every season and every comics run into a single story. At a mysterious base on the planet Aquitar, the Operator and the Striking Tiger Unlimited Ranger are assembling elite teams from across time and space to face a rising evil.
Killer Influences #1 (IDW Crime, $4.99): Joey Esposito has a second comic coming out this week, as he teams with artist Valeria Burzo to launch IDW Crime’s second series. It’s about Melvin, a methodical serial killer with a branding problem: no one has connected his crimes). Kylie, meanwhile, is a struggling true crime influencer at a small-town newspaper who figures out what he’s been doing. They make a pact: she’ll give him the iconic identity he needs, he’ll give her the story that makes her famous. Nothing can go wrong here, right?
Starhenge Book Two: A Kiss for Atticus #1 (Image, $3.99): Liam Sharp returns with another tales set in his ambitious time-spanning mythology. Amber, Daryl and Merlin are stranded in strangely familiar realms, stripped of their identities, as they to find each other and unravel the mystery of their captivity.
Challenges of Doom: Mr. Fantastic #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Why, yes, Doctor Doom is appearing in a film later this year and we’ve got a lot of Doom projects coming from Marvel … why do you ask? This one has a stellar creative team, as Al Ewing and Mike Henderson explore the origins of one of Marvel’s greatest rivalries, showing a young Victor Von Doom facing Reed Richards in a battle of minds, the pivotal confrontations that ignited their legendary feud and the fateful events that set Doom on his path.
The Dogsitter #1 (Ignition Press, $4.99): Ignition Press Editor-in-Chief Jamie S. Rich returns to writing comics, as he and artist Megan Levens reunite for a summer rom-com about Gemma Monroe, a vet school dropout juggling a flower shop job and a dogsitting side gig to save for tuition. Her most demanding client is a high-powered executive who treats her like a project, and then a charming man named Neal walks into the picture and complicates everything.
The Beast of Boriken #1 (Dark Horse, $4.99): Julio Anta and Daniel Irizarri present this True Weird tale where they bring the Chupacabra to life in contemporary Puerto Rico. Activist Lola Flores, fighting the overdevelopment of the island by outside investors, witnesses a supernatural force violently interrupt a groundbreaking ceremony and discovers that el Chupacabra is not just folklore, but a brutal protector of the island’s indigenous heritage.
Star Wars: Rogue One — Saw Gerrera #1 (Marvel, $4.99): Marc Bernardin and Gabriel Guzman explore an act of revolution that was too extreme even for the Rebellion … and it’s no surprise it involves Saw Gerrera. He’s on a mission deep into Imperial territory for intelligence that could shift the balance of power, and the price that mission demands is high.
Faceless and the Family: Maze of the Mechanical Aliens #1 (Oni Press, $5.99): Matt Lesniewski returns with another tale of his alien “found family,” as Faceless, an exiled wanderer on an alien planet seeking redemption, returns. While he continues looking for his real family, his crew faces an otherworldly obstacle in the form of a living suit of extraterrestrial armor that bonds with Faceless and refuses to let him go.
Dead Acre #1 (Vault, $3.99): Cullen Bunn and Riley Brown bring Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle’s Audible Black Badge series to comics. It’s about James Crowley, a man who died in a hail of gunfire and now serves the White Throne in purgatory as a Hand of God, hunting demonic beings that have infiltrated the mortal realm, and his arrival in the town of Dead Acre.
Adventure Time: Quadruple Feature #1 (Oni Press, $4.99): Mariko Tamaki and Brenda Hickey deliver a love letter to classic cinema, Adventure Time style. Jake, Marceline, BMO and Lumpy Space Princess all want to see different movies, so they buy four separate tickets and the series follows each of their stories. This first issue follows Jake into What’s Up, Princess?, a screwball 1940s comedy pastiche.
The Last Starfighter #1 (Mad Cave, $4.99): The cult classic 1980s film gets a sequel in comic form by Benjamin Raab and Deric A. Hughes, working in collaboration with original filmmaker Jonathan Betuel. The story picks up where the end credits left off, with Alex Rogan as the sole leader of the Star League, rebuilding humanity’s only defense against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.
Archie Comics Celebrates America’s 250th (Archie Comics, $4.99): Archie and Riverdale mark America’s semiquincentennial (if you Google that you’ll get fireworks) with a celebration of the best U.S. history stories from Archie’s 85-year run.
Absolute Martian Manhunter #12 (DC, $4.99): We just saw the end of Deniz Camp’s run on the Ultimate Universe end last week, and this week brings another ending for the writer, as he and Javier Rodriguez bring their remarkable run on Absolute Martian Manhunter to a close. This was one of my favs of 2025 … and, hell, 2026, too. I can’t wait to see what these two do next.
Marvel Swimsuit Special: Brand New Beach Day #1 (Marvel, $5.99): The Marvel Swimsuit Special is back, with four zany stories from across the Marvel Universe by Cody Ziglar, Daniel Kibblesmith, Pasqual Ferry, Valerio Schiti and more, alongside the kind of pin-up art that made the original 1990s editions so infamous.
Team America Racing: Full Throttle Edition #1 (Comic Shop News, $4.99): It was not on my bingo card to ever expect a new Team America comic, especially one published inside Comic Shop News? But hey, here we are. If you aren’t familiar with Team America, it was a toy line from the early 1980s for which Marvel published a comic, very briefly, before changing the names of the characters to “The Thunderiders” after losing the license. The motorcycle-riding team got a modern revival from Matthew L. Price and Josh Hood, which now gets collected into a comic with a Howard Chaykin cover, to boot. This 48-page issue collects the full story originally serialized in Comic Shop News issues #2000–2005, along with interviews and bonus material.
Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated (Drawn & Quarterly, $15): R. Sikoryak, the cartoonist behind Constitution Illustrated and Masterpiece Comics, applies his visual mash-up genius to the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address, rendered in the styles of more than 100 American comics and cartoons across more than a century.
The War of the Worlds: Thunder Child (Titan Comics, $24.99): Matt Hardy, Rob Jones, Kevin Castaniero and Simon Gough tell the story of the HMS Thunder Child, the ironclad torpedo ram whose heroic final stand against the Martian invaders is one of the most dramatic moments in H.G. Wells’ novel.
Stone of Shiro: The Fall of Shiro (Papercutz, $17.99): Sue Ruffle and Stefano Spaziani introduce Cale, a Mushling — a kind of mushroom person — who just wants to be left alone with his pet Truffles. So of course, he is accidentally thrust into a quest to recover the magical stone that protects his world from alien invaders.
An Iranian Metamorphosis (Uncivilized Books, $19.95): Mana Neyestani writes and draws this graphic memoir about his cartoon that sparked riots, shut down his newspaper and landed him in solitary confinement in Iran’s notorious prison system.
1984: The Graphic Novel (HarperCollins, $29.99): Fido Nesti adapts George Orwell’s novel with immersive, evocative full-color art that both honors the source material and makes it newly accessible. Winston Smith’s doomed rebellion against the Party, his forbidden love with Julia, and his eventual confrontation with the machinery of the Thought Police are rendered with a visual weight that suits Orwell’s unsparing vision. This story is always timely, unfortunately.
School Bus Graveyard Vol. 1 (Ink Pop/Random House, $18.99): The Webtoon hit by the creator known simply as Red makes its print debut. Ashlyn, a confirmed loner, survives a cursed field trip only to discover that she and a handful of classmates can now see murderous phantoms invisible to everyone else, and that at midnight the skies turn red and the ghosts become lethal.
Museum of Mistakes (Uncivilized Books, $29.95): The definitive collection of Julia Wertz’s landmark autobiographical Fart Party comics, long out of print and now gathered in a massive tome alongside unpublished work, early comics, sketchbook pages and more.
George Pérez’s New Teen Titans Artist’s Edition HC (Act 4, $150): Marv Wolfman and George Pérez’s New Teen Titans gets the Artist’s Edition treatment courtesy of Scott Dunbier’s publishing initiative. This Artist’s Edition presents original art from issues #1–40 and beyond, scanned in color to capture every ink gradient and blue pencil mark, at original size. It features an introduction by Wolfman.
Get Jiro: The Complete Collection (DC/Vertigo, $29.99): I was a big fan of this when it was first published, and now the late Anthony Bourdain’s violent, hilarious satire of food culture obsession gets its definitive collected edition. This includes both Get Jiro! and its prequel, Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi, plus an exclusive new cover and never-before-seen development art by the awesome Langdon Foss.