Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Paul Chadwick’s ‘Concrete’ returns to comic shops this week

Check out new comics and graphic novels by Tillie Walden, Jonathan Hickman, Adam Kubert, Geoff Johns, Peter J. Tomasi, Stefano Simeone, Mike Mignola, Nick Thorburn, Jeff Parker, Katia Vecchio and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week. This week includes a couple of tie-ins to upcoming big-movie blockbusters, a milestone issue for MAD and much more.

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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Paul Chadwick returns to ‘Concrete’ for the first time since 2012

The five-issue ‘Concrete: Stars Over Sand’ arrives in June from Dark Horse Comics.

Paul Chadwick will return to Concrete, his multiple Eisner, Harvey and Reuben Award-winning series, with Concrete: Stars Over Sand. The five-issue miniseries launches in June from Dark Horse Comics, and marks the first new Concrete material since 2012.

Chadwick described Stars Over Sand as a deeply personal project, roughly a decade in the making. “Covers are wraparound oil paintings; it’s set in places I’ve camped and sketched; I’ve lived, briefly, Concrete’s affliction,” he said. “Everything I know about suspense I’ve tried to do here.”

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