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Exclusive | Take a look at the cover for ‘Babs: The Black Road South’ #6, the finale of Garth Ennis + Jacen Burrows’ barbarian comedy

The six-issue series from Ahoy Comics wraps up in June in a fittingly volcanic fashion.

Courtesy of Ahoy Comics, we’ve got an exclusive first look at the cover of Babs: The Black Road South #6, the finale of the second Babs miniseries from writer Garth Ennis and artist Jacen Burrows. The issue arrives June 24.

Babs: The Black Road South is the follow-up to last year’s Babs, which introduced sharp-tongued, sharper-sworded barbarian Babs and her partner-in-barbarism Izzy. The new six-issue series picks up after a gladiator arena victory lands the pair an unexpected windfall, which has even more unexpected consequences.

The finale’s solicit promises an intense showdown, with Babs inside a live volcano, dodging flame and steel while facing an infinitely powerful artifact, an undead swordswoman and what the solicit describes only as “one distressingly kinky hobbit.” The cover is by Burrows, which you can see below:

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Can’t Wait for Wednesday | ‘Avengers’ celebrates 800 issues

Check out new comics arriving this week by Jed MacKay, Brian Michael Bendis, Farid Karami, Mark Bagley, Scott Snyder, Javier Fernandez, Todd McFarlane, Peach Momoko and more.

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:

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.

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Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Enter the ‘Houses of the Unholy’ with Ed Brubaker + Sean Phillips

Check out what comics and graphic novels will arrive in stores this week by James Kochalka, Jen Wang, Mark Russell, Bob Quinn, Joe Casey, Sebastián Piriz, Matt Kindt, Margie Kindt, Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows, Fell Hound, Caroline Cash and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what comics are arriving in comic book stores, bookstores and on digital. I flipped the script on you this week, starting with this week’s graphic novels before getting into comics. When Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jen Wang and James Kochalka have new books out, it just feels like the right thing to do.

I’ve pulled out some of the other 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:

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 always check with your comics retailer for the final word on availability.

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Ennis + Burrows bring ‘deeply disrespectful humor’ to the fantasy genre in ‘Babs’

The new miniseries debuts from Ahoy Comics in July.

Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows’ partnership is going on about 20 years now, having started at Avatar with 303 and continued into Crossed, Punisher: Soviet and the upcoming Get Fury. But the duo will head into a different direction this summer in Babs, a sword-and-sorcery satire coming from Ahoy Comics.

This sounds like something that will appeal to fans of Ennis’ work on titles like Hitman and Dicks.

“Writing Babs was an absolute hoot,” said Ennis. “The character is one of my favorite types—good at the job but crap at life, with a lousy attitude to boot—and the world of ‘Sword & Sorcery’ provides endless opportunities for deeply disrespectful humor. Having our heroine smash her way through goblins, ogres, imps, incels and other vermin was extremely satisfying; nobody’s going to be Making Middle Earth Great Again while she’s around.”

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