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Can’t Wait for Wednesday | DC plants a ‘Bad Seed’ in this week’s comics

See what’s arriving at your local comic shop this week by G. Willow Wilson, Matt Fraction, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cliff Rathburn, Leandro Fernandez, Rick Remender, Steve Epting, Ashley Allen, Ram V, Mike Perkins, RL Stine, Bob Burden, Jennifer Dugan, Robin Ha 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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Rick Remender + Steve Epting bring down the ‘Hammerfist’ in August

The ongoing series from Image Comics blends hardboiled crime fiction and splatter horror, as a hitman is forced to fight the supernatural to save his daughter.

Rick Remender and Steve Epting are teaming up on Hammerfist, an ongoing series from Image Comics and Remender’s Giant Generator imprint that will launch in August.

The series is about Mike Denton, a hitman/absentee father who must awaken a supernatural weapon powered by love to save his daughter from an ancient darkness called Black Noon.

“Hammerfist is for people who grew up on those unhinged genre films of the VHS era, over-the-top, hard-R, wildly original, but never forgetting to be fun,” Remender told IGN. “A hardboiled crime story that mutates into an ultra-violent, Raimi-style horror story following a low-rent killer who becomes the only thing standing between us and eternal darkness. Getting to see it come to life in the hands of a master like Steve Epting is a dream come true. I’ve wanted to collaborate with him for years, and the pages speak for themselves, cinematic, brutal, and emotional. Paired with Matt Hollingsworth’s color there just isn’t a better art team.”

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