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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 30
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN hits quadruple digits
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ALIEN VS. X-MEN # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
X-MEN VERSUS XENOMORPHS!
They went looking for a Phoenix egg. They found something else. The X-MEN return to Earth with deadly cargo, and a violent battle between mutant and alien begins. And will an unexpected ally turn the tide in the X-Men’s favour? In this special crossover decades in the making, the next evolution of Marvel’s mightiest mutants begins! Will anyone survive the experience?
Plus: The first chapter of an all-new story by the legendary Chris Claremont featuring Kitty Pryde, the Brood and the Xenomorphs!
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE HUNGER # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
As the dead return in “The City that Never Dies,” an old enemy resurfaces. Hun, Casey Jones’ abusive father, was always quick to anger, and his time in the afterlife has done little to mellow him. Back from the dead, he seeks to reclaim his position as the leader of the Purple Dragons, and the only ones who can stop him are two recent returns from the Battle Nexus: Slash and Ninjara!
THREE WORLDS / THREE MOONS: SHIFT # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner Award-nominated creator of East of West, The Manhattan Projects, Decorum, and more comes this ambitious, science fiction universe presented by comics titan Jonathan Hickman.
Explore the beginnings of the 3 Worlds/3 Moons Universe in this stunning prestige format comic book written by Jonathan Hickman, with art and colors by Mike del Mundo!
Set generations before the current science cycle, in a time when magic is at its peak and Kaoso is thriving, Syg the White Hart eschews the wishes of his family and the will of the Academy, by hitching a ride on a Vojoganto to the center of the universe — Akva — to understand the cause behind what he believes to be the inevitable collapse of the universe as he knows it. Accompanied by his lifelong friend, an accused heretic named Markus, the two set out to unlock the secrets of life and stop the worlds’ collapse. At the same time, there are forces set out to bring about the inevitable change and reawaken the God Machine of Ordo, thereby kickstarting the beginning of the next science cycle and the downfall of magic. Will Syg and Markus be able to complete their mission, or will their time be cut short by the next cosmic shift?
WONDER WOMAN 2026 ANNUAL: WONDER WAR – THE MATRIARCH SPECIAL # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
MATRIARCH’S INFERNO! After the shocking events of Wonder Woman #34, the Matriarch must crawl her way through Hell and back to the land of the living to stop Steve Trevor and Trinity from changing the past. The only thing that stands in her way is a river filled with the souls of heroes and villains alike that perished by her hand. Retribution is coming for the Matriarch. Will she survive it, or is she doomed to fate?
ONGOING SERIES
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 1000
SOLICIT COPY:
THE BIGGEST ISSUE IN AMAZING SPIDER-HISTORY!
Spider-Man faces his greatest fear and his most frightening new villain in decades… RAVAGE! Plus, some of the greatest creative minds on Earth honor one thousand issues of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! NOAH HAWLEY (Alien: Earth, Fargo, LEGION) makes his comic book debut, Frank Miller and Peach Momoko collaborate for the first time, Stuart Immonen and Brian Michael Bendis return to Spider-Man together, and some of the best ASM creators return to the title!
LEGACY #1000
BLEEDING HEARTS # 8
SOLICIT COPY:
Poke knows he can’t keep the secret of his beating heart and changing sympathies forever… but who can he trust without bringing the whole Horde down on his head? And what has Rabbit found in her new hiding place?
HELLO DARKNESS # 25
SOLICIT COPY:
Brace yourself for the 25th issue of the acclaimed horror anthology series Hello Darkness!
Fans of the divine nunsploitation series Marian Heretic from writer Tini Howard are in for a treat as Marian herself makes her first return to the pages of Hello Darkness since the breakout series’ debut! This Marian Heretic four-parter revisits our favorite heathen as she doles out judgment to a whole new host of supernatural opponents.
Then, following the mysterious loss of his son, a father’s attempt to cope takes him on a twisted journey, raising questions for him and his grieving family in “The Hole” written by Robert Menegus with art by Jonathan Marks!
ULTIMATE IMPACT: REBORN # 5
SOLICIT COPY:
TO THE VICTOR… THE ORIGIN BOXES! The greatest powers of the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe clash in a battle that will decide the fate of the Origin Boxes and the world! MILES MORALES and his allies, CAPTAIN AMERICA and IRON MAN, have drawn a line in the sand against HOSTILICUS… Which side will the Origin Box-powered WONDER MAN, SIGHTSEER and MOGUL choose?! And could there be MORE Origin Boxes out there to be claimed?
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
ARCHIE: NEW RIVERDALE COMPACT EDITION
SOLICIT COPY:
The New Riverdale era starts here as Eisner Award winners Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) and Fiona Staples (Saga) bring Archie Andrews to living color in this modern-day retelling of how Riverdale’s fastest friends first came together.
Meet the Riverdale gang as you’ve never seen them before: Archie, the cool, guitar-strumming all-American boy; his oddball but wise best friend, Jughead; girl-next-door cum car mechanic Betty; and the stylishly rebellious new girl Veronica as they conquer high school drama, dating, and so much more in this contemporary new take on the students of Riverdale High!
The first in a new line of compact editions collecting Archie Comics’ most memorable moments, this handy volume collects the best-selling reinvention that io9 calls “absolutely fantastic” — with additional contributions from acclaimed artists Annie Wu (Hawkeye) and Veronica Fish (Spider-Woman).
Collects Archie (2015) #1–6.
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES HC
SOLICIT COPY:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, now adapted into graphic novel format for the first time!
From hot dog carts to Bourbon Street, experience the French Quarter of 1960s New Orleans in stunning visual form through the lens of one of literature’s most unforgettable characters–Ignatius J. Reilly!
Experience John Kennedy Toole’s outrageous, darkly hilarious, and deeply human masterwork of American fiction, reimagined for a new generation of readers and lifelong fans alike.
THE MESS HC
SOLICIT COPY:
When her semi-estranged and penniless hoarder father dies, Erin Messina is tasked with cleaning out his house before the bank forecloses on it. This otherwise thankless task is given a purpose, however, when she remembers the original Picasso drawing her father was gifted in 1964. She enlists her teenage son, Jackson, to spend spring break looking for their possible ticket to long-term financial stability. Jackson, resentful and eager to shirk responsibility, befriends twin skateboarders who live in the hood, and tell him about the violent murder that happened directly across the street from his grandfather’s home — and the murderer who still lives there. Emotional baggage, paranoia, and frayed nerves stretch the Messina’s relationship to the brink, as The Mess careens to a thrilling final act that includes… two-way radio communication with the dead?
Over the past decade, Noah Van Sciver has established himself as the most versatile graphic novelist working today. Whether it be in the service of straight-up satire (Fante Bukowski, Beat It, Rufus!), serious historical nonfiction (Joseph Smith and the Mormons, The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln), autobiography (As a Cartoonist, One Dirty Tree), or books for younger readers (Calamity Before Jane, Johnny Appleseed), Van Sciver’s singular voice and style has proven remarkably malleable to the needs of each project. With The Mess, Van Sciver stakes yet new creative ground as a fiction writer, crafting the most magnetic and literary work of his career. The Mess is a brilliant, original graphic novel infused with drama, laughs, pathos, and suspense, beautifully drawn and colored in Van Sciver’s immersive and intimate style.
MOMO TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Acclaimed actor John Cusack and artist Ignacio Noe bring you a road trip with world-ending cosmic stakes! Two criminals on the lamb form an uneasy alliance to deliver a cryptic artifact to none other than Jackie Gleason—yes, that Jackie Gleason. Their road trip spirals into chaos when they’re confronted by demon-possessed monsters, occult actors, mystical beings with untold power, and buried secrets that lead to a crash course in ancient extraterrestrial tech. Between betrayal, confessions, and cosmic absurdity, they may just save the world—or doom it with a punchline.
Two criminals are thrown together by fate–both running from their pasts–a weathered man and a mysterious young woman who refuses to give her name form an unlikely partnership and take on a mission that could tear reality apart as they make their way through the already decaying barren wasteland of the American Dream and everything it stands for. Their goal? Recover an ancient artifact for Jackie Gleason—yes, that Jackie Gleason, TV legend and rumored connoisseur of all things extraterrestrial. But this isn’t just a strange road trip. There are cosmic forces beyond imagination with a taste for chaos and vengeance and so much more along their route.
As their uneasy alliance unravels mile by mile in a world littered with nuclear secrets and Howard Johnson’s, buried secrets claw to the surface. and betrayals bloom like roadside flowers. And the closer they get to Gleason’s hideaway, the more the lines blur between divine comedy and cosmic horror. The team might manage to reach Jackie, but doing so could cost them their very lives. Still, the mission cannot be put to a halt and our wayward strangers, with the help of the most eclectic cast of characters you’ve ever seen including occult actors and endlessly powerful mystical beings, must retrieve the artifact at all costs. It’s a wild fusion of a road trip, theological noir, and pulpy sci-fi absurdism from acclaimed actor John Cusack and artist Ignacio Noe!
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
DC ALL IN SAGA: DARKSEID VS. THE WORLD # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
SCOTT SNYDER, JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, SANFORD GREENE AND YASMINE PUTRI TELL THE UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF DARKSEID’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE!
Darkseid is… only just the beginning.
The ultimate anti-life in the universe has been at the heart of the DC All In Saga since its beginning… and while the King Omega battle has been won by the forces of good, the war against Darkseid has only just begun! Comics superstars Scott Snyder and Sanford Greene present the hidden past of the being called Uxus , his descent into Darkseid, and his plans for the fate of all creation ! It’s DC’s premier villain as you’ve never seen him before, by the biggest names in comics, in DC All In Saga: Darkseid vs. the World!
DEICIDIUM vol. 1: Returned
SOLICIT COPY:
In a future rebuilt from the ashes of war, belief is no longer sacred — it’s monetized.
Humanity has entered a hard-won age of stability, governed by an unholy alliance between global corporations and newly engineered religions. Worship fuels the economy. Faith is power. Salvation is a product. Welcome to the industry of belief. That fragile balance shatters when the old gods return. Ancient deities of fire, wind, jaguars, love, war, and mischief awaken inside ordinary people, transforming neighbors and strangers into living gods. To the powers that be, they aren’t miracles — they’re threats.
The great faiths of the new world knew the old gods could one day return, and they planned for such an eventuality. 12 orphans were chosen, bestowed with gifts and taught to be faithless, loveless instruments without reward or remorse. The old gods have returned — and the 12 will be unleashed.
As old myths collide with a world built on manufactured faith, a brutal conflict ignites — one that will decide who controls humanity’s future, and whether salvation comes from those placed above us… or from within us. DEICIDIUM is a global epic series from the multi-award-winning collaborations of Ram V, Evan Cagle, Anand Radhakrishnan with Tom Muller, Aditya Bidikar and more.
ROYALS TP
SOLICIT COPY:
You are invited to the shadowy back alleys of Seoul, South Korea, for a thrilling, mind-bending crime caper unlike any other!
Twin brothers Paul and Castor have crafted the perfect poker hustle using their uncanny telepathic connection. Perfect until they’re caught red-handed by the most ruthless criminal syndicate in Seoul. To pay them back, the brothers must pull off a daring heist and use their gift for something bigger than themselves for the first time in their lives… if they don’t kill each other first!
From Eisner Award-winning writer DEREK KIRK KIM (THE LAST MERMAID, Same Difference) and rising-star artist JACOB PEREZ (Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
SCOTT PILGRIM EX: DAWN OF METAL SCOTT # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Multiple Eisner Award winner Bryan Lee O’Malley returns to Scott Pilgrim for the first time since the bestselling series’ conclusion… with a brand-new, one-shot prequel to the hit Scott Pilgrim EX video game!
Scott met Ramona. Sparks flew. The two of them had to work together in order to defeat Ramona’s Seven Evil Exes and their nefarious leader, Gideon Gordon Graves. Some other stuff happened in various media formats that may or may not be canon. That’s all in the past. These days, Scott and Ramona are a happy couple and the Exes have moved on from their unhealthy obsessions. I guess they all got therapy or whatever. Now, after a period of peace, a new threat is about to emerge. Are our heroes ready? Let’s find out!!!
Features the complete 16-page DAWN OF METAL SCOTT prequel comic, plus never-before-seen extras!
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
Divining Comics is also brought to you by the support of the “Friends of Divining Comics”: Comic Book Herald.
If you would like to add your name to the list of friends, best friends, or best friends forever, support this work for less than the cost of one cup of coffee a month at patreon.com/diviningcomics. You can also leave a one-time tip/buy my zines at ko-fi.com/spikestonehand. Or, if you can’t afford to support me financially at this time, simply follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky and share my posts there.
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 30
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN hits quadruple digits
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ALIEN VS. X-MEN # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
X-MEN VERSUS XENOMORPHS!
They went looking for a Phoenix egg. They found something else. The X-MEN return to Earth with deadly cargo, and a violent battle between mutant and alien begins. And will an unexpected ally turn the tide in the X-Men’s favour? In this special crossover decades in the making, the next evolution of Marvel’s mightiest mutants begins! Will anyone survive the experience?
Plus: The first chapter of an all-new story by the legendary Chris Claremont featuring Kitty Pryde, the Brood and the Xenomorphs!
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE HUNGER # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
As the dead return in “The City that Never Dies,” an old enemy resurfaces. Hun, Casey Jones’ abusive father, was always quick to anger, and his time in the afterlife has done little to mellow him. Back from the dead, he seeks to reclaim his position as the leader of the Purple Dragons, and the only ones who can stop him are two recent returns from the Battle Nexus: Slash and Ninjara!
THREE WORLDS / THREE MOONS: SHIFT # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner Award-nominated creator of East of West, The Manhattan Projects, Decorum, and more comes this ambitious, science fiction universe presented by comics titan Jonathan Hickman.
Explore the beginnings of the 3 Worlds/3 Moons Universe in this stunning prestige format comic book written by Jonathan Hickman, with art and colors by Mike del Mundo!
Set generations before the current science cycle, in a time when magic is at its peak and Kaoso is thriving, Syg the White Hart eschews the wishes of his family and the will of the Academy, by hitching a ride on a Vojoganto to the center of the universe — Akva — to understand the cause behind what he believes to be the inevitable collapse of the universe as he knows it. Accompanied by his lifelong friend, an accused heretic named Markus, the two set out to unlock the secrets of life and stop the worlds’ collapse. At the same time, there are forces set out to bring about the inevitable change and reawaken the God Machine of Ordo, thereby kickstarting the beginning of the next science cycle and the downfall of magic. Will Syg and Markus be able to complete their mission, or will their time be cut short by the next cosmic shift?
WONDER WOMAN 2026 ANNUAL: WONDER WAR – THE MATRIARCH SPECIAL # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
MATRIARCH’S INFERNO! After the shocking events of Wonder Woman #34, the Matriarch must crawl her way through Hell and back to the land of the living to stop Steve Trevor and Trinity from changing the past. The only thing that stands in her way is a river filled with the souls of heroes and villains alike that perished by her hand. Retribution is coming for the Matriarch. Will she survive it, or is she doomed to fate?
ONGOING SERIES
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 1000
SOLICIT COPY:
THE BIGGEST ISSUE IN AMAZING SPIDER-HISTORY!
Spider-Man faces his greatest fear and his most frightening new villain in decades… RAVAGE! Plus, some of the greatest creative minds on Earth honor one thousand issues of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! NOAH HAWLEY (Alien: Earth, Fargo, LEGION) makes his comic book debut, Frank Miller and Peach Momoko collaborate for the first time, Stuart Immonen and Brian Michael Bendis return to Spider-Man together, and some of the best ASM creators return to the title!
LEGACY #1000
BLEEDING HEARTS # 8
SOLICIT COPY:
Poke knows he can’t keep the secret of his beating heart and changing sympathies forever… but who can he trust without bringing the whole Horde down on his head? And what has Rabbit found in her new hiding place?
HELLO DARKNESS # 25
SOLICIT COPY:
Brace yourself for the 25th issue of the acclaimed horror anthology series Hello Darkness!
Fans of the divine nunsploitation series Marian Heretic from writer Tini Howard are in for a treat as Marian herself makes her first return to the pages of Hello Darkness since the breakout series’ debut! This Marian Heretic four-parter revisits our favorite heathen as she doles out judgment to a whole new host of supernatural opponents.
Then, following the mysterious loss of his son, a father’s attempt to cope takes him on a twisted journey, raising questions for him and his grieving family in “The Hole” written by Robert Menegus with art by Jonathan Marks!
ULTIMATE IMPACT: REBORN # 5
SOLICIT COPY:
TO THE VICTOR… THE ORIGIN BOXES! The greatest powers of the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe clash in a battle that will decide the fate of the Origin Boxes and the world! MILES MORALES and his allies, CAPTAIN AMERICA and IRON MAN, have drawn a line in the sand against HOSTILICUS… Which side will the Origin Box-powered WONDER MAN, SIGHTSEER and MOGUL choose?! And could there be MORE Origin Boxes out there to be claimed?
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
ARCHIE: NEW RIVERDALE COMPACT EDITION
SOLICIT COPY:
The New Riverdale era starts here as Eisner Award winners Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) and Fiona Staples (Saga) bring Archie Andrews to living color in this modern-day retelling of how Riverdale’s fastest friends first came together.
Meet the Riverdale gang as you’ve never seen them before: Archie, the cool, guitar-strumming all-American boy; his oddball but wise best friend, Jughead; girl-next-door cum car mechanic Betty; and the stylishly rebellious new girl Veronica as they conquer high school drama, dating, and so much more in this contemporary new take on the students of Riverdale High!
The first in a new line of compact editions collecting Archie Comics’ most memorable moments, this handy volume collects the best-selling reinvention that io9 calls “absolutely fantastic” — with additional contributions from acclaimed artists Annie Wu (Hawkeye) and Veronica Fish (Spider-Woman).
Collects Archie (2015) #1–6.
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES HC
SOLICIT COPY:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, now adapted into graphic novel format for the first time!
From hot dog carts to Bourbon Street, experience the French Quarter of 1960s New Orleans in stunning visual form through the lens of one of literature’s most unforgettable characters–Ignatius J. Reilly!
Experience John Kennedy Toole’s outrageous, darkly hilarious, and deeply human masterwork of American fiction, reimagined for a new generation of readers and lifelong fans alike.
THE MESS HC
SOLICIT COPY:
When her semi-estranged and penniless hoarder father dies, Erin Messina is tasked with cleaning out his house before the bank forecloses on it. This otherwise thankless task is given a purpose, however, when she remembers the original Picasso drawing her father was gifted in 1964. She enlists her teenage son, Jackson, to spend spring break looking for their possible ticket to long-term financial stability. Jackson, resentful and eager to shirk responsibility, befriends twin skateboarders who live in the hood, and tell him about the violent murder that happened directly across the street from his grandfather’s home — and the murderer who still lives there. Emotional baggage, paranoia, and frayed nerves stretch the Messina’s relationship to the brink, as The Mess careens to a thrilling final act that includes… two-way radio communication with the dead?
Over the past decade, Noah Van Sciver has established himself as the most versatile graphic novelist working today. Whether it be in the service of straight-up satire (Fante Bukowski, Beat It, Rufus!), serious historical nonfiction (Joseph Smith and the Mormons, The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln), autobiography (As a Cartoonist, One Dirty Tree), or books for younger readers (Calamity Before Jane, Johnny Appleseed), Van Sciver’s singular voice and style has proven remarkably malleable to the needs of each project. With The Mess, Van Sciver stakes yet new creative ground as a fiction writer, crafting the most magnetic and literary work of his career. The Mess is a brilliant, original graphic novel infused with drama, laughs, pathos, and suspense, beautifully drawn and colored in Van Sciver’s immersive and intimate style.
MOMO TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Acclaimed actor John Cusack and artist Ignacio Noe bring you a road trip with world-ending cosmic stakes! Two criminals on the lamb form an uneasy alliance to deliver a cryptic artifact to none other than Jackie Gleason—yes, that Jackie Gleason. Their road trip spirals into chaos when they’re confronted by demon-possessed monsters, occult actors, mystical beings with untold power, and buried secrets that lead to a crash course in ancient extraterrestrial tech. Between betrayal, confessions, and cosmic absurdity, they may just save the world—or doom it with a punchline.
Two criminals are thrown together by fate–both running from their pasts–a weathered man and a mysterious young woman who refuses to give her name form an unlikely partnership and take on a mission that could tear reality apart as they make their way through the already decaying barren wasteland of the American Dream and everything it stands for. Their goal? Recover an ancient artifact for Jackie Gleason—yes, that Jackie Gleason, TV legend and rumored connoisseur of all things extraterrestrial. But this isn’t just a strange road trip. There are cosmic forces beyond imagination with a taste for chaos and vengeance and so much more along their route.
As their uneasy alliance unravels mile by mile in a world littered with nuclear secrets and Howard Johnson’s, buried secrets claw to the surface. and betrayals bloom like roadside flowers. And the closer they get to Gleason’s hideaway, the more the lines blur between divine comedy and cosmic horror. The team might manage to reach Jackie, but doing so could cost them their very lives. Still, the mission cannot be put to a halt and our wayward strangers, with the help of the most eclectic cast of characters you’ve ever seen including occult actors and endlessly powerful mystical beings, must retrieve the artifact at all costs. It’s a wild fusion of a road trip, theological noir, and pulpy sci-fi absurdism from acclaimed actor John Cusack and artist Ignacio Noe!
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
DC ALL IN SAGA: DARKSEID VS. THE WORLD # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
SCOTT SNYDER, JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, SANFORD GREENE AND YASMINE PUTRI TELL THE UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF DARKSEID’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE!
Darkseid is… only just the beginning.
The ultimate anti-life in the universe has been at the heart of the DC All In Saga since its beginning… and while the King Omega battle has been won by the forces of good, the war against Darkseid has only just begun! Comics superstars Scott Snyder and Sanford Greene present the hidden past of the being called Uxus , his descent into Darkseid, and his plans for the fate of all creation ! It’s DC’s premier villain as you’ve never seen him before, by the biggest names in comics, in DC All In Saga: Darkseid vs. the World!
DEICIDIUM vol. 1: Returned
SOLICIT COPY:
In a future rebuilt from the ashes of war, belief is no longer sacred — it’s monetized.
Humanity has entered a hard-won age of stability, governed by an unholy alliance between global corporations and newly engineered religions. Worship fuels the economy. Faith is power. Salvation is a product. Welcome to the industry of belief. That fragile balance shatters when the old gods return. Ancient deities of fire, wind, jaguars, love, war, and mischief awaken inside ordinary people, transforming neighbors and strangers into living gods. To the powers that be, they aren’t miracles — they’re threats.
The great faiths of the new world knew the old gods could one day return, and they planned for such an eventuality. 12 orphans were chosen, bestowed with gifts and taught to be faithless, loveless instruments without reward or remorse. The old gods have returned — and the 12 will be unleashed.
As old myths collide with a world built on manufactured faith, a brutal conflict ignites — one that will decide who controls humanity’s future, and whether salvation comes from those placed above us… or from within us. DEICIDIUM is a global epic series from the multi-award-winning collaborations of Ram V, Evan Cagle, Anand Radhakrishnan with Tom Muller, Aditya Bidikar and more.
ROYALS TP
SOLICIT COPY:
You are invited to the shadowy back alleys of Seoul, South Korea, for a thrilling, mind-bending crime caper unlike any other!
Twin brothers Paul and Castor have crafted the perfect poker hustle using their uncanny telepathic connection. Perfect until they’re caught red-handed by the most ruthless criminal syndicate in Seoul. To pay them back, the brothers must pull off a daring heist and use their gift for something bigger than themselves for the first time in their lives… if they don’t kill each other first!
From Eisner Award-winning writer DEREK KIRK KIM (THE LAST MERMAID, Same Difference) and rising-star artist JACOB PEREZ (Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
SCOTT PILGRIM EX: DAWN OF METAL SCOTT # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Multiple Eisner Award winner Bryan Lee O’Malley returns to Scott Pilgrim for the first time since the bestselling series’ conclusion… with a brand-new, one-shot prequel to the hit Scott Pilgrim EX video game!
Scott met Ramona. Sparks flew. The two of them had to work together in order to defeat Ramona’s Seven Evil Exes and their nefarious leader, Gideon Gordon Graves. Some other stuff happened in various media formats that may or may not be canon. That’s all in the past. These days, Scott and Ramona are a happy couple and the Exes have moved on from their unhealthy obsessions. I guess they all got therapy or whatever. Now, after a period of peace, a new threat is about to emerge. Are our heroes ready? Let’s find out!!!
Features the complete 16-page DAWN OF METAL SCOTT prequel comic, plus never-before-seen extras!
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
Divining Comics is also brought to you by the support of the “Friends of Divining Comics”: Comic Book Herald.
If you would like to add your name to the list of friends, best friends, or best friends forever, support this work for less than the cost of one cup of coffee a month at patreon.com/diviningcomics. You can also leave a one-time tip/buy my zines at ko-fi.com/spikestonehand. Or, if you can’t afford to support me financially at this time, simply follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky and share my posts there.
#art #books #ComicBooks #comics #DC #dcComics #fantasticFour #marvel #marvelComics #MarvelousMarket #NewComicDay -
Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 30
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN hits quadruple digits
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ALIEN VS. X-MEN # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
X-MEN VERSUS XENOMORPHS!
They went looking for a Phoenix egg. They found something else. The X-MEN return to Earth with deadly cargo, and a violent battle between mutant and alien begins. And will an unexpected ally turn the tide in the X-Men’s favour? In this special crossover decades in the making, the next evolution of Marvel’s mightiest mutants begins! Will anyone survive the experience?
Plus: The first chapter of an all-new story by the legendary Chris Claremont featuring Kitty Pryde, the Brood and the Xenomorphs!
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE HUNGER # 1
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As the dead return in “The City that Never Dies,” an old enemy resurfaces. Hun, Casey Jones’ abusive father, was always quick to anger, and his time in the afterlife has done little to mellow him. Back from the dead, he seeks to reclaim his position as the leader of the Purple Dragons, and the only ones who can stop him are two recent returns from the Battle Nexus: Slash and Ninjara!
THREE WORLDS / THREE MOONS: SHIFT # 1
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From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner Award-nominated creator of East of West, The Manhattan Projects, Decorum, and more comes this ambitious, science fiction universe presented by comics titan Jonathan Hickman.
Explore the beginnings of the 3 Worlds/3 Moons Universe in this stunning prestige format comic book written by Jonathan Hickman, with art and colors by Mike del Mundo!
Set generations before the current science cycle, in a time when magic is at its peak and Kaoso is thriving, Syg the White Hart eschews the wishes of his family and the will of the Academy, by hitching a ride on a Vojoganto to the center of the universe — Akva — to understand the cause behind what he believes to be the inevitable collapse of the universe as he knows it. Accompanied by his lifelong friend, an accused heretic named Markus, the two set out to unlock the secrets of life and stop the worlds’ collapse. At the same time, there are forces set out to bring about the inevitable change and reawaken the God Machine of Ordo, thereby kickstarting the beginning of the next science cycle and the downfall of magic. Will Syg and Markus be able to complete their mission, or will their time be cut short by the next cosmic shift?
WONDER WOMAN 2026 ANNUAL: WONDER WAR – THE MATRIARCH SPECIAL # 1
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MATRIARCH’S INFERNO! After the shocking events of Wonder Woman #34, the Matriarch must crawl her way through Hell and back to the land of the living to stop Steve Trevor and Trinity from changing the past. The only thing that stands in her way is a river filled with the souls of heroes and villains alike that perished by her hand. Retribution is coming for the Matriarch. Will she survive it, or is she doomed to fate?
ONGOING SERIES
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 1000
SOLICIT COPY:
THE BIGGEST ISSUE IN AMAZING SPIDER-HISTORY!
Spider-Man faces his greatest fear and his most frightening new villain in decades… RAVAGE! Plus, some of the greatest creative minds on Earth honor one thousand issues of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! NOAH HAWLEY (Alien: Earth, Fargo, LEGION) makes his comic book debut, Frank Miller and Peach Momoko collaborate for the first time, Stuart Immonen and Brian Michael Bendis return to Spider-Man together, and some of the best ASM creators return to the title!
LEGACY #1000
BLEEDING HEARTS # 8
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Poke knows he can’t keep the secret of his beating heart and changing sympathies forever… but who can he trust without bringing the whole Horde down on his head? And what has Rabbit found in her new hiding place?
HELLO DARKNESS # 25
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Brace yourself for the 25th issue of the acclaimed horror anthology series Hello Darkness!
Fans of the divine nunsploitation series Marian Heretic from writer Tini Howard are in for a treat as Marian herself makes her first return to the pages of Hello Darkness since the breakout series’ debut! This Marian Heretic four-parter revisits our favorite heathen as she doles out judgment to a whole new host of supernatural opponents.
Then, following the mysterious loss of his son, a father’s attempt to cope takes him on a twisted journey, raising questions for him and his grieving family in “The Hole” written by Robert Menegus with art by Jonathan Marks!
ULTIMATE IMPACT: REBORN # 5
SOLICIT COPY:
TO THE VICTOR… THE ORIGIN BOXES! The greatest powers of the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe clash in a battle that will decide the fate of the Origin Boxes and the world! MILES MORALES and his allies, CAPTAIN AMERICA and IRON MAN, have drawn a line in the sand against HOSTILICUS… Which side will the Origin Box-powered WONDER MAN, SIGHTSEER and MOGUL choose?! And could there be MORE Origin Boxes out there to be claimed?
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
ARCHIE: NEW RIVERDALE COMPACT EDITION
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The New Riverdale era starts here as Eisner Award winners Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) and Fiona Staples (Saga) bring Archie Andrews to living color in this modern-day retelling of how Riverdale’s fastest friends first came together.
Meet the Riverdale gang as you’ve never seen them before: Archie, the cool, guitar-strumming all-American boy; his oddball but wise best friend, Jughead; girl-next-door cum car mechanic Betty; and the stylishly rebellious new girl Veronica as they conquer high school drama, dating, and so much more in this contemporary new take on the students of Riverdale High!
The first in a new line of compact editions collecting Archie Comics’ most memorable moments, this handy volume collects the best-selling reinvention that io9 calls “absolutely fantastic” — with additional contributions from acclaimed artists Annie Wu (Hawkeye) and Veronica Fish (Spider-Woman).
Collects Archie (2015) #1–6.
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES HC
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, now adapted into graphic novel format for the first time!
From hot dog carts to Bourbon Street, experience the French Quarter of 1960s New Orleans in stunning visual form through the lens of one of literature’s most unforgettable characters–Ignatius J. Reilly!
Experience John Kennedy Toole’s outrageous, darkly hilarious, and deeply human masterwork of American fiction, reimagined for a new generation of readers and lifelong fans alike.
THE MESS HC
SOLICIT COPY:
When her semi-estranged and penniless hoarder father dies, Erin Messina is tasked with cleaning out his house before the bank forecloses on it. This otherwise thankless task is given a purpose, however, when she remembers the original Picasso drawing her father was gifted in 1964. She enlists her teenage son, Jackson, to spend spring break looking for their possible ticket to long-term financial stability. Jackson, resentful and eager to shirk responsibility, befriends twin skateboarders who live in the hood, and tell him about the violent murder that happened directly across the street from his grandfather’s home — and the murderer who still lives there. Emotional baggage, paranoia, and frayed nerves stretch the Messina’s relationship to the brink, as The Mess careens to a thrilling final act that includes… two-way radio communication with the dead?
Over the past decade, Noah Van Sciver has established himself as the most versatile graphic novelist working today. Whether it be in the service of straight-up satire (Fante Bukowski, Beat It, Rufus!), serious historical nonfiction (Joseph Smith and the Mormons, The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln), autobiography (As a Cartoonist, One Dirty Tree), or books for younger readers (Calamity Before Jane, Johnny Appleseed), Van Sciver’s singular voice and style has proven remarkably malleable to the needs of each project. With The Mess, Van Sciver stakes yet new creative ground as a fiction writer, crafting the most magnetic and literary work of his career. The Mess is a brilliant, original graphic novel infused with drama, laughs, pathos, and suspense, beautifully drawn and colored in Van Sciver’s immersive and intimate style.
MOMO TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Acclaimed actor John Cusack and artist Ignacio Noe bring you a road trip with world-ending cosmic stakes! Two criminals on the lamb form an uneasy alliance to deliver a cryptic artifact to none other than Jackie Gleason—yes, that Jackie Gleason. Their road trip spirals into chaos when they’re confronted by demon-possessed monsters, occult actors, mystical beings with untold power, and buried secrets that lead to a crash course in ancient extraterrestrial tech. Between betrayal, confessions, and cosmic absurdity, they may just save the world—or doom it with a punchline.
Two criminals are thrown together by fate–both running from their pasts–a weathered man and a mysterious young woman who refuses to give her name form an unlikely partnership and take on a mission that could tear reality apart as they make their way through the already decaying barren wasteland of the American Dream and everything it stands for. Their goal? Recover an ancient artifact for Jackie Gleason—yes, that Jackie Gleason, TV legend and rumored connoisseur of all things extraterrestrial. But this isn’t just a strange road trip. There are cosmic forces beyond imagination with a taste for chaos and vengeance and so much more along their route.
As their uneasy alliance unravels mile by mile in a world littered with nuclear secrets and Howard Johnson’s, buried secrets claw to the surface. and betrayals bloom like roadside flowers. And the closer they get to Gleason’s hideaway, the more the lines blur between divine comedy and cosmic horror. The team might manage to reach Jackie, but doing so could cost them their very lives. Still, the mission cannot be put to a halt and our wayward strangers, with the help of the most eclectic cast of characters you’ve ever seen including occult actors and endlessly powerful mystical beings, must retrieve the artifact at all costs. It’s a wild fusion of a road trip, theological noir, and pulpy sci-fi absurdism from acclaimed actor John Cusack and artist Ignacio Noe!
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
DC ALL IN SAGA: DARKSEID VS. THE WORLD # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
SCOTT SNYDER, JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, SANFORD GREENE AND YASMINE PUTRI TELL THE UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF DARKSEID’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE!
Darkseid is… only just the beginning.
The ultimate anti-life in the universe has been at the heart of the DC All In Saga since its beginning… and while the King Omega battle has been won by the forces of good, the war against Darkseid has only just begun! Comics superstars Scott Snyder and Sanford Greene present the hidden past of the being called Uxus , his descent into Darkseid, and his plans for the fate of all creation ! It’s DC’s premier villain as you’ve never seen him before, by the biggest names in comics, in DC All In Saga: Darkseid vs. the World!
DEICIDIUM vol. 1: Returned
SOLICIT COPY:
In a future rebuilt from the ashes of war, belief is no longer sacred — it’s monetized.
Humanity has entered a hard-won age of stability, governed by an unholy alliance between global corporations and newly engineered religions. Worship fuels the economy. Faith is power. Salvation is a product. Welcome to the industry of belief. That fragile balance shatters when the old gods return. Ancient deities of fire, wind, jaguars, love, war, and mischief awaken inside ordinary people, transforming neighbors and strangers into living gods. To the powers that be, they aren’t miracles — they’re threats.
The great faiths of the new world knew the old gods could one day return, and they planned for such an eventuality. 12 orphans were chosen, bestowed with gifts and taught to be faithless, loveless instruments without reward or remorse. The old gods have returned — and the 12 will be unleashed.
As old myths collide with a world built on manufactured faith, a brutal conflict ignites — one that will decide who controls humanity’s future, and whether salvation comes from those placed above us… or from within us. DEICIDIUM is a global epic series from the multi-award-winning collaborations of Ram V, Evan Cagle, Anand Radhakrishnan with Tom Muller, Aditya Bidikar and more.
ROYALS TP
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You are invited to the shadowy back alleys of Seoul, South Korea, for a thrilling, mind-bending crime caper unlike any other!
Twin brothers Paul and Castor have crafted the perfect poker hustle using their uncanny telepathic connection. Perfect until they’re caught red-handed by the most ruthless criminal syndicate in Seoul. To pay them back, the brothers must pull off a daring heist and use their gift for something bigger than themselves for the first time in their lives… if they don’t kill each other first!
From Eisner Award-winning writer DEREK KIRK KIM (THE LAST MERMAID, Same Difference) and rising-star artist JACOB PEREZ (Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
SCOTT PILGRIM EX: DAWN OF METAL SCOTT # 1
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Multiple Eisner Award winner Bryan Lee O’Malley returns to Scott Pilgrim for the first time since the bestselling series’ conclusion… with a brand-new, one-shot prequel to the hit Scott Pilgrim EX video game!
Scott met Ramona. Sparks flew. The two of them had to work together in order to defeat Ramona’s Seven Evil Exes and their nefarious leader, Gideon Gordon Graves. Some other stuff happened in various media formats that may or may not be canon. That’s all in the past. These days, Scott and Ramona are a happy couple and the Exes have moved on from their unhealthy obsessions. I guess they all got therapy or whatever. Now, after a period of peace, a new threat is about to emerge. Are our heroes ready? Let’s find out!!!
Features the complete 16-page DAWN OF METAL SCOTT prequel comic, plus never-before-seen extras!
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 30
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN hits quadruple digits
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ALIEN VS. X-MEN # 1
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X-MEN VERSUS XENOMORPHS!
They went looking for a Phoenix egg. They found something else. The X-MEN return to Earth with deadly cargo, and a violent battle between mutant and alien begins. And will an unexpected ally turn the tide in the X-Men’s favour? In this special crossover decades in the making, the next evolution of Marvel’s mightiest mutants begins! Will anyone survive the experience?
Plus: The first chapter of an all-new story by the legendary Chris Claremont featuring Kitty Pryde, the Brood and the Xenomorphs!
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE HUNGER # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
As the dead return in “The City that Never Dies,” an old enemy resurfaces. Hun, Casey Jones’ abusive father, was always quick to anger, and his time in the afterlife has done little to mellow him. Back from the dead, he seeks to reclaim his position as the leader of the Purple Dragons, and the only ones who can stop him are two recent returns from the Battle Nexus: Slash and Ninjara!
THREE WORLDS / THREE MOONS: SHIFT # 1
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From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner Award-nominated creator of East of West, The Manhattan Projects, Decorum, and more comes this ambitious, science fiction universe presented by comics titan Jonathan Hickman.
Explore the beginnings of the 3 Worlds/3 Moons Universe in this stunning prestige format comic book written by Jonathan Hickman, with art and colors by Mike del Mundo!
Set generations before the current science cycle, in a time when magic is at its peak and Kaoso is thriving, Syg the White Hart eschews the wishes of his family and the will of the Academy, by hitching a ride on a Vojoganto to the center of the universe — Akva — to understand the cause behind what he believes to be the inevitable collapse of the universe as he knows it. Accompanied by his lifelong friend, an accused heretic named Markus, the two set out to unlock the secrets of life and stop the worlds’ collapse. At the same time, there are forces set out to bring about the inevitable change and reawaken the God Machine of Ordo, thereby kickstarting the beginning of the next science cycle and the downfall of magic. Will Syg and Markus be able to complete their mission, or will their time be cut short by the next cosmic shift?
WONDER WOMAN 2026 ANNUAL: WONDER WAR – THE MATRIARCH SPECIAL # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
MATRIARCH’S INFERNO! After the shocking events of Wonder Woman #34, the Matriarch must crawl her way through Hell and back to the land of the living to stop Steve Trevor and Trinity from changing the past. The only thing that stands in her way is a river filled with the souls of heroes and villains alike that perished by her hand. Retribution is coming for the Matriarch. Will she survive it, or is she doomed to fate?
ONGOING SERIES
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 1000
SOLICIT COPY:
THE BIGGEST ISSUE IN AMAZING SPIDER-HISTORY!
Spider-Man faces his greatest fear and his most frightening new villain in decades… RAVAGE! Plus, some of the greatest creative minds on Earth honor one thousand issues of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! NOAH HAWLEY (Alien: Earth, Fargo, LEGION) makes his comic book debut, Frank Miller and Peach Momoko collaborate for the first time, Stuart Immonen and Brian Michael Bendis return to Spider-Man together, and some of the best ASM creators return to the title!
LEGACY #1000
BLEEDING HEARTS # 8
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Poke knows he can’t keep the secret of his beating heart and changing sympathies forever… but who can he trust without bringing the whole Horde down on his head? And what has Rabbit found in her new hiding place?
HELLO DARKNESS # 25
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Brace yourself for the 25th issue of the acclaimed horror anthology series Hello Darkness!
Fans of the divine nunsploitation series Marian Heretic from writer Tini Howard are in for a treat as Marian herself makes her first return to the pages of Hello Darkness since the breakout series’ debut! This Marian Heretic four-parter revisits our favorite heathen as she doles out judgment to a whole new host of supernatural opponents.
Then, following the mysterious loss of his son, a father’s attempt to cope takes him on a twisted journey, raising questions for him and his grieving family in “The Hole” written by Robert Menegus with art by Jonathan Marks!
ULTIMATE IMPACT: REBORN # 5
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TO THE VICTOR… THE ORIGIN BOXES! The greatest powers of the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe clash in a battle that will decide the fate of the Origin Boxes and the world! MILES MORALES and his allies, CAPTAIN AMERICA and IRON MAN, have drawn a line in the sand against HOSTILICUS… Which side will the Origin Box-powered WONDER MAN, SIGHTSEER and MOGUL choose?! And could there be MORE Origin Boxes out there to be claimed?
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
ARCHIE: NEW RIVERDALE COMPACT EDITION
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The New Riverdale era starts here as Eisner Award winners Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) and Fiona Staples (Saga) bring Archie Andrews to living color in this modern-day retelling of how Riverdale’s fastest friends first came together.
Meet the Riverdale gang as you’ve never seen them before: Archie, the cool, guitar-strumming all-American boy; his oddball but wise best friend, Jughead; girl-next-door cum car mechanic Betty; and the stylishly rebellious new girl Veronica as they conquer high school drama, dating, and so much more in this contemporary new take on the students of Riverdale High!
The first in a new line of compact editions collecting Archie Comics’ most memorable moments, this handy volume collects the best-selling reinvention that io9 calls “absolutely fantastic” — with additional contributions from acclaimed artists Annie Wu (Hawkeye) and Veronica Fish (Spider-Woman).
Collects Archie (2015) #1–6.
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES HC
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, now adapted into graphic novel format for the first time!
From hot dog carts to Bourbon Street, experience the French Quarter of 1960s New Orleans in stunning visual form through the lens of one of literature’s most unforgettable characters–Ignatius J. Reilly!
Experience John Kennedy Toole’s outrageous, darkly hilarious, and deeply human masterwork of American fiction, reimagined for a new generation of readers and lifelong fans alike.
THE MESS HC
SOLICIT COPY:
When her semi-estranged and penniless hoarder father dies, Erin Messina is tasked with cleaning out his house before the bank forecloses on it. This otherwise thankless task is given a purpose, however, when she remembers the original Picasso drawing her father was gifted in 1964. She enlists her teenage son, Jackson, to spend spring break looking for their possible ticket to long-term financial stability. Jackson, resentful and eager to shirk responsibility, befriends twin skateboarders who live in the hood, and tell him about the violent murder that happened directly across the street from his grandfather’s home — and the murderer who still lives there. Emotional baggage, paranoia, and frayed nerves stretch the Messina’s relationship to the brink, as The Mess careens to a thrilling final act that includes… two-way radio communication with the dead?
Over the past decade, Noah Van Sciver has established himself as the most versatile graphic novelist working today. Whether it be in the service of straight-up satire (Fante Bukowski, Beat It, Rufus!), serious historical nonfiction (Joseph Smith and the Mormons, The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln), autobiography (As a Cartoonist, One Dirty Tree), or books for younger readers (Calamity Before Jane, Johnny Appleseed), Van Sciver’s singular voice and style has proven remarkably malleable to the needs of each project. With The Mess, Van Sciver stakes yet new creative ground as a fiction writer, crafting the most magnetic and literary work of his career. The Mess is a brilliant, original graphic novel infused with drama, laughs, pathos, and suspense, beautifully drawn and colored in Van Sciver’s immersive and intimate style.
MOMO TP
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Acclaimed actor John Cusack and artist Ignacio Noe bring you a road trip with world-ending cosmic stakes! Two criminals on the lamb form an uneasy alliance to deliver a cryptic artifact to none other than Jackie Gleason—yes, that Jackie Gleason. Their road trip spirals into chaos when they’re confronted by demon-possessed monsters, occult actors, mystical beings with untold power, and buried secrets that lead to a crash course in ancient extraterrestrial tech. Between betrayal, confessions, and cosmic absurdity, they may just save the world—or doom it with a punchline.
Two criminals are thrown together by fate–both running from their pasts–a weathered man and a mysterious young woman who refuses to give her name form an unlikely partnership and take on a mission that could tear reality apart as they make their way through the already decaying barren wasteland of the American Dream and everything it stands for. Their goal? Recover an ancient artifact for Jackie Gleason—yes, that Jackie Gleason, TV legend and rumored connoisseur of all things extraterrestrial. But this isn’t just a strange road trip. There are cosmic forces beyond imagination with a taste for chaos and vengeance and so much more along their route.
As their uneasy alliance unravels mile by mile in a world littered with nuclear secrets and Howard Johnson’s, buried secrets claw to the surface. and betrayals bloom like roadside flowers. And the closer they get to Gleason’s hideaway, the more the lines blur between divine comedy and cosmic horror. The team might manage to reach Jackie, but doing so could cost them their very lives. Still, the mission cannot be put to a halt and our wayward strangers, with the help of the most eclectic cast of characters you’ve ever seen including occult actors and endlessly powerful mystical beings, must retrieve the artifact at all costs. It’s a wild fusion of a road trip, theological noir, and pulpy sci-fi absurdism from acclaimed actor John Cusack and artist Ignacio Noe!
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
DC ALL IN SAGA: DARKSEID VS. THE WORLD # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
SCOTT SNYDER, JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, SANFORD GREENE AND YASMINE PUTRI TELL THE UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF DARKSEID’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE!
Darkseid is… only just the beginning.
The ultimate anti-life in the universe has been at the heart of the DC All In Saga since its beginning… and while the King Omega battle has been won by the forces of good, the war against Darkseid has only just begun! Comics superstars Scott Snyder and Sanford Greene present the hidden past of the being called Uxus , his descent into Darkseid, and his plans for the fate of all creation ! It’s DC’s premier villain as you’ve never seen him before, by the biggest names in comics, in DC All In Saga: Darkseid vs. the World!
DEICIDIUM vol. 1: Returned
SOLICIT COPY:
In a future rebuilt from the ashes of war, belief is no longer sacred — it’s monetized.
Humanity has entered a hard-won age of stability, governed by an unholy alliance between global corporations and newly engineered religions. Worship fuels the economy. Faith is power. Salvation is a product. Welcome to the industry of belief. That fragile balance shatters when the old gods return. Ancient deities of fire, wind, jaguars, love, war, and mischief awaken inside ordinary people, transforming neighbors and strangers into living gods. To the powers that be, they aren’t miracles — they’re threats.
The great faiths of the new world knew the old gods could one day return, and they planned for such an eventuality. 12 orphans were chosen, bestowed with gifts and taught to be faithless, loveless instruments without reward or remorse. The old gods have returned — and the 12 will be unleashed.
As old myths collide with a world built on manufactured faith, a brutal conflict ignites — one that will decide who controls humanity’s future, and whether salvation comes from those placed above us… or from within us. DEICIDIUM is a global epic series from the multi-award-winning collaborations of Ram V, Evan Cagle, Anand Radhakrishnan with Tom Muller, Aditya Bidikar and more.
ROYALS TP
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You are invited to the shadowy back alleys of Seoul, South Korea, for a thrilling, mind-bending crime caper unlike any other!
Twin brothers Paul and Castor have crafted the perfect poker hustle using their uncanny telepathic connection. Perfect until they’re caught red-handed by the most ruthless criminal syndicate in Seoul. To pay them back, the brothers must pull off a daring heist and use their gift for something bigger than themselves for the first time in their lives… if they don’t kill each other first!
From Eisner Award-winning writer DEREK KIRK KIM (THE LAST MERMAID, Same Difference) and rising-star artist JACOB PEREZ (Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
SCOTT PILGRIM EX: DAWN OF METAL SCOTT # 1
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Multiple Eisner Award winner Bryan Lee O’Malley returns to Scott Pilgrim for the first time since the bestselling series’ conclusion… with a brand-new, one-shot prequel to the hit Scott Pilgrim EX video game!
Scott met Ramona. Sparks flew. The two of them had to work together in order to defeat Ramona’s Seven Evil Exes and their nefarious leader, Gideon Gordon Graves. Some other stuff happened in various media formats that may or may not be canon. That’s all in the past. These days, Scott and Ramona are a happy couple and the Exes have moved on from their unhealthy obsessions. I guess they all got therapy or whatever. Now, after a period of peace, a new threat is about to emerge. Are our heroes ready? Let’s find out!!!
Features the complete 16-page DAWN OF METAL SCOTT prequel comic, plus never-before-seen extras!
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
Divining Comics is also brought to you by the support of the “Friends of Divining Comics”: Comic Book Herald.
If you would like to add your name to the list of friends, best friends, or best friends forever, support this work for less than the cost of one cup of coffee a month at patreon.com/diviningcomics. You can also leave a one-time tip/buy my zines at ko-fi.com/spikestonehand. Or, if you can’t afford to support me financially at this time, simply follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky and share my posts there.
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AIPT Comics Podcast Ep 397: Ryan North talks ‘Doomquest,’ ‘The Flash,’ Fantastic Four, and superhero problem-solving
Ryan North joins the AIPT Comics Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about Doctor Doom, Wally West, the Fantastic Four, superhero horror, and the problem with putting too many speedsters in one universe.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/27/aipt-comics-podcast-397-ryan-north/ -
AIPT Comics Podcast Ep 397: Ryan North talks ‘Doomquest,’ ‘The Flash,’ Fantastic Four, and superhero problem-solving
Ryan North joins the AIPT Comics Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about Doctor Doom, Wally West, the Fantastic Four, superhero horror, and the problem with putting too many speedsters in one universe.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/27/aipt-comics-podcast-397-ryan-north/ -
AIPT Comics Podcast Ep 397: Ryan North talks ‘Doomquest,’ ‘The Flash,’ Fantastic Four, and superhero problem-solving
Ryan North joins the AIPT Comics Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about Doctor Doom, Wally West, the Fantastic Four, superhero horror, and the problem with putting too many speedsters in one universe.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/27/aipt-comics-podcast-397-ryan-north/ -
Marvel Preview: The Fantastic Four: First Foes – Dragon Man #1
FROM THE WORLD OF THE BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE!
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/25/marvel-preview-the-fantastic-four-first-foes-dragon-man-1/ -
Marvel Preview: The Fantastic Four: First Foes – Dragon Man #1
FROM THE WORLD OF THE BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE!
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Marvel Preview: The Fantastic Four: First Foes – Dragon Man #1
FROM THE WORLD OF THE BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE!
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Marvel Preview: Fantastic Four #17
The Fantastic Four find themselves in a strange environment, with no memory of how they got there…
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Marvel Preview: Fantastic Four #17
The Fantastic Four find themselves in a strange environment, with no memory of how they got there…
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Marvel Preview: Fantastic Four #17
The Fantastic Four find themselves in a strange environment, with no memory of how they got there…
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Marvel dishes details on new ‘Incursions’ one-shots
Untold stories from when time ran out!
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/24/marvel-incursions-one-shots-secret-wars/ -
Marvel dishes details on new ‘Incursions’ one-shots
Untold stories from when time ran out!
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/24/marvel-incursions-one-shots-secret-wars/ -
Marvel dishes details on new ‘Incursions’ one-shots
Untold stories from when time ran out!
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Marvel’s ‘Midnight’ launch tops 1 million orders, second printings already planned
The million-copy milestone comes just two weeks before readers get their first full taste of the new universe, which Marvel is positioning as a long-term interconnected publishing line rather than a short-lived event.
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Marvel’s ‘Midnight’ launch tops 1 million orders, second printings already planned
The million-copy milestone comes just two weeks before readers get their first full taste of the new universe, which Marvel is positioning as a long-term interconnected publishing line rather than a short-lived event.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/23/marvel-midnight-sells-out/ -
Marvel’s ‘Midnight’ launch tops 1 million orders, second printings already planned
The million-copy milestone comes just two weeks before readers get their first full taste of the new universe, which Marvel is positioning as a long-term interconnected publishing line rather than a short-lived event.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/23/marvel-midnight-sells-out/ -
Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 23
*Checks notes* The Muppets meet Marvel?
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
CRIMES AGAINST NATURE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TWO BEST FRIENDS. A MAN AND HIS APE AGAINST THE WORLD.
A famous Hollywood Animal Trainer, Doctor Kermit Groeden, and his only client/best friend — Amigo the Ape, the first gorilla ever nominated for an Academy Award — are framed for a crime they didn’t commit.
Now they’re on the run. And to clear their names and save their lives, Kermit and Amigo will be forced to reveal their darkest secrets and confront each other’s hidden past. Will their friendship be able to survive? A story about secrets, sins, and simians.
THE MUPPETS TAKE THE MARVEL UNIVERSE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TONIGHT’S VERY SPECIAL GUEST STARS — THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of THE MUPPET SHOW… we bring you a crossover no one saw coming! Join EISNER-winning writer and one of the world”s greatest Muppet fans CHIP ZDARSKY along with a cadre of Marvelously talented creators as they unleash The Muppets’ trademark chaos on the MARVEL UNIVERSE. ROWLF THE DOG kidnapped by MOJO? KERMIT THE FROG, MISS PIGGY, FOZZIE BEAR, SPIDER-MAN, BLACK PANTHER and EMMA FROST to the rescue? DR. BUNSEN HONEYDEW and BEAKER experimenting with GAMMA RAYS and PYM PARTICLES? What could go wrong? Find out in this epic tale told in the MIGHTY MARVEL MUPPET MANNER!
STAR TREK # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Their mission is new. Their legacy is not.
From the pen of fan-favorite writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant, Star Trek: Red Shirts) and the brush of psychedelic standout Dennis Menheere (Etheres, Little Nightmares) comes the launch of an all-new flagship… and this time, we’re busting out of the four quadrants.
The Enterprise-G is on a desperate mission beyond the known Galaxy to relocate the dying Avuran people when its crew finds a perfect new home in a region of unknown space called the Epsilon Corridor. Three pristine Class-M worlds — the Trinity — await the refugees. No signs of civilization. No detectable threats. A colonist’s dream. But the dream fractures fast.
When Captain Seven of Nine and her divided, fast-tracked crew begin exploring the Trinity, they uncover disturbing contradictions: vanished structures, inexplicable artifacts, time skips, and evidence of a presence Starfleet’s century-old probes never detected. Each world houses a different ecosystem, different physics problems, and different secrets — as if they’ve been curated… or quarantined. But from who? Or what?
The first arc of Star Trek delivers a prestige, mystery-driven, high-stakes psychological thriller of an opening salvo — new worlds, new species, new existential threats — anchored by Seven, Jack, and Crash La Forge fighting to keep the mission together as the Galaxy’s oldest ghosts awaken.
THAT TEXAS BLOOD: HELL COMES TO ALLISON RANCH # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
THE ACCLAIMED FAN-FAVORITE SERIES RETURNS WITH A JAM-PACKED NEW NUMBER ONE, PERFECT FOR NEW READERS!
On March 19, 2003, Sheriff Joe Bob Coates and Deputy Wilson Hart are called to the Allison Ranch — the largest and richest ranch in the United States — where family grievances are blooming into full-blown war. This first issue will be loaded with bonus materials including behind the scenes peeks, newly conducted interviews, essays, cartoons, and MORE!
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE BATMAN # 24
SOLICIT COPY:
WITHOUT THE BADGE… WITHOUT HER FATHER… ABSOLUTE BAT ENTERS THE SCENE. In the battle of self, of Batman versus Batman, there can be only one. Everyone Bruce has ever known, ever cared about, or ever loved will face their ultimate inner demons.
BLACK TOWER: THE RAVEN CONSPIRACY # 2
SOLICIT COPY:
Daniel Burroughs, a young American CIA trainee, is acclimating to his new London lifestyle … but it’s not easy to get used to his strange new coworkers at Black Tower. His boss is getting buddy-buddy with the Russians, his colleague is a witch who’s sleeping with a demon, and there’s an assassin circling their sorcerous spy agency … one who can slip in and out of his targets’ dreams!
THOR # 801
SOLICIT COPY:
THE QUEST FOR THOR BEGINS! Sigurd Jarlson is an ordinary man — but he alone can call Asgard’s greatest hero back to life. But to rebuild the bridge between humanity and the gods, he must begin his quest in the worst place of all. Somewhere in Hel, a man with a hammer begins a journey into mystery…
VOID RIVALS # 34
SOLICIT COPY:
ROM vs. the dreaded PREDACRON — everyone’s favorite bounty-hunter! Wait a minute! Whose book is this, anyway?
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK CAT NYANGO vol. 2 TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Though Nyango has proved just how useful sky magic is through his pawsitive attitude and unwavering determination, he’s still a long way off from being a full-fledged adventurer. The next step is to explore the possibilities of combining his bestowed attribute with a new form of power—seal magic!
DEAD GIRLS HC
SOLICIT COPY:
The teen daughter of an infamous serial killer must prove she isn’t the one behind recent copycat murders in this “tongue-in-cheek” (Booklist, starred review) graphic novel that’s a campy, feminist send-up of slashers that both celebrates and subverts classic tropes.
In the cozy town of Clossdale, a serial killer rampages! Five girls missing in as many weeks! Bodies turning up on the forest floor! And all fingers point to one vile fiend: Ash Hargreeves.
Except Ash didn’t do it. She may be the daughter of the infamous Clossdale Killer, and these copycat killings aren’t exactly convincing proof of her innocence—and okay, she’s kind of a weirdo who has two friends total, but when the murders strike a little too close to home, Ash decides to take a stand.
With the help of her besties, Ash is going to hunt down the killer, clear her mother’s name, and stop there from being any more dead girls—now and forever. After all, WWJLCD: what would Jamie Lee Curtis do?
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE MIRAGE YEARS 1984-1987 IDW Classics Collections TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Go back to where it all started in this pocket-sized collection that includes the first 10 issues of Eastman & Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the four Micro-Series one-shots by Mirage Studios in one convenient-to-read book!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles burst onto the comics scene in 1984 and made history! Now is your chance to read the first 10 issues, plus the Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo Micro-Series one-shots by co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Presented as they first appeared in black and white, new readers can experience the comics that started the phenomenon while longtime fans can revisit the series in an all-new format!
Along with Eastman and Laird’s early work, see the first work of Michael Dooney, Ryan Brown, Jim Lawson, and Steve Bissette, who would become longtime contributors to the TMNT series.
This IDW Classic Collection presents readers the chance to see where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles phenomenon started in a convenient 6 x 9 format!
ULTIMATE ENDGAME TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Marvel’s Boldest Experiment Concludes in an Unbelievable, Era‑Defining Finale for the Ultimate Universe!
Two years have passed in the Ultimate Universe — but inside the City, the Maker has had thousands of years to prepare for his return! With the barrier around the City finally gone, the world’s new heroes — including Spider-Man, America Chavez, Killmonger and Doom — must mobilize to defeat the Maker before it’s game over. For everyone. Inside the City, the desperate group battles the terrifying Children of Tomorrow — and discovers some surprising allies! Meanwhile, the rest of the world wages World War III, and Iron Lad makes a stunning and heartbreaking discovery that could change the fate of the Ultimate Universe forever. With shocking twists, painful deaths and massive reveals, this is the century’s ultimate super-hero event!
COLLECTING: Ultimate Endgame (2025) #1-5
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
ARCHIE IN HELL # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TO BE SAVED… HE MUST BE DAMNED! In the bloodstained tradition of AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE, something wicked this way comes to Riverdale in an infernal new ongoing series from multiple Eisner Award winner Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) and Russ Manning Award winner Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Harrow County)!
They say that every small town has a secret. Well, in the case of Riverdale, it’s one heck of a humdinger: An ancient order of cultists has infiltrated its townspeople, bent on using human sacrifice to usher a demon lord into our mortal plane. And they’ve finally identified the final target they need to bring a century’s worth of planning to fruition: hometown football champion and all-around good guy Archie Andrews. But this secret cabal never dreamed that actual witches walk Riverdale’s streets… and when cult and coven clash in the final stages of Archie’s secret-ritual sacrifice, the consequences will be cosmic… and young Archie Andrews will find himself damned to something far worse than Hell’s inner circle.
Unstuck from time and space. Bound to a terrible curse. Late for school. Things are about to go from bad to downright diabolical as Horvath and Crook unleash the most malevolently merciless Archie Comics tale ever told… and, truly, you’ll never, ever expect what happens next.
BEN 10 vol. 1: Event Arrival
SOLICIT COPY:
Fan-favorite animation hero Ben 10 returns in an all-new series, collected here for the first time! When a mysterious meteor crashes to Earth, 10-year-old Ben Tennyson discovers the Omnitrix, a high-tech alien gauntlet of incredible power and potential. With this device on his wrist, Ben has the power to transform into incredible alien forms. But can he control this power?
This is the modern, definitive take on Ben 10 from the team that created him – Man of Action – including the introductions of numerous alien foes in an epic retelling and expansion of his original story, written by Joe Casey. Then, writer Steven T. Seagle steps in as things take a turn for the creepy. In a rainy Northwest stop on their endless summer vacation, the Tennyson family is drawn to a circus where the crowds aren’t cheering, the clowns aren’t laughing, and the ringmaster has plans for a frightful future well beyond his broken big top. Can Ben master the Omnitrix in time to find the right alien to stop the bizarre ZOMBOZO from making Grandpa Max his next death-defying act?
Collecting BEN 10 #1 – 5 with a complete gallery of covers.
MAD SCIENCE DIVISION # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
It’s no secret Archimedes Anderson is a nepo hire. Assigned chief-coordinator of R&D at the American arm of genetic engineering and bioweapons development company Miyashi-Smith, everyone knows he’s here for one purpose: to slash the budget and trim the fat. If he can cut 30% from the unaffectionately nicknamed “Mad Science Division” budget, he’ll earn a cushy, high-level job at HQ.
He goes in with a move-fast-and-break-stuff attitude, knowing absolutely nothing about the dangerous genetic experiments taking place in the division. When he upsets the delicate equilibrium of the department factions and removes guard rails which protect the workers and the public, he winds up exposing them to terrible, evil experiments.
From the twisted minds of Dan Watters (Nightwing; TMNT: Shredder) and Brian Level (Venom: Black, White & Blood) comes a comedic, sci-fi horror series that asks, “What if DOGE dismantled the SCP Foundation?”
STARTSHIP GODZILLA: FIRST WARS Manga Style Edition TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Join a crew of cosmic misfits as they soar through the stars in Mechagodzilla in this series that ties in with the all-new Kai-Sei Era of Godzilla comics in a black-and-white edition!
You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?
In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju… and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!
This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll… uh… do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy, and our crew members may not all land on the same side of this fight.
A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Starship Godzilla from Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp)! Part of the new Godzilla connected comic book universe with Godzilla (Kai-Sei Era) and Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone!
What did I miss?
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 23
*Checks notes* The Muppets meet Marvel?
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
CRIMES AGAINST NATURE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TWO BEST FRIENDS. A MAN AND HIS APE AGAINST THE WORLD.
A famous Hollywood Animal Trainer, Doctor Kermit Groeden, and his only client/best friend — Amigo the Ape, the first gorilla ever nominated for an Academy Award — are framed for a crime they didn’t commit.
Now they’re on the run. And to clear their names and save their lives, Kermit and Amigo will be forced to reveal their darkest secrets and confront each other’s hidden past. Will their friendship be able to survive? A story about secrets, sins, and simians.
THE MUPPETS TAKE THE MARVEL UNIVERSE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TONIGHT’S VERY SPECIAL GUEST STARS — THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of THE MUPPET SHOW… we bring you a crossover no one saw coming! Join EISNER-winning writer and one of the world”s greatest Muppet fans CHIP ZDARSKY along with a cadre of Marvelously talented creators as they unleash The Muppets’ trademark chaos on the MARVEL UNIVERSE. ROWLF THE DOG kidnapped by MOJO? KERMIT THE FROG, MISS PIGGY, FOZZIE BEAR, SPIDER-MAN, BLACK PANTHER and EMMA FROST to the rescue? DR. BUNSEN HONEYDEW and BEAKER experimenting with GAMMA RAYS and PYM PARTICLES? What could go wrong? Find out in this epic tale told in the MIGHTY MARVEL MUPPET MANNER!
STAR TREK # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Their mission is new. Their legacy is not.
From the pen of fan-favorite writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant, Star Trek: Red Shirts) and the brush of psychedelic standout Dennis Menheere (Etheres, Little Nightmares) comes the launch of an all-new flagship… and this time, we’re busting out of the four quadrants.
The Enterprise-G is on a desperate mission beyond the known Galaxy to relocate the dying Avuran people when its crew finds a perfect new home in a region of unknown space called the Epsilon Corridor. Three pristine Class-M worlds — the Trinity — await the refugees. No signs of civilization. No detectable threats. A colonist’s dream. But the dream fractures fast.
When Captain Seven of Nine and her divided, fast-tracked crew begin exploring the Trinity, they uncover disturbing contradictions: vanished structures, inexplicable artifacts, time skips, and evidence of a presence Starfleet’s century-old probes never detected. Each world houses a different ecosystem, different physics problems, and different secrets — as if they’ve been curated… or quarantined. But from who? Or what?
The first arc of Star Trek delivers a prestige, mystery-driven, high-stakes psychological thriller of an opening salvo — new worlds, new species, new existential threats — anchored by Seven, Jack, and Crash La Forge fighting to keep the mission together as the Galaxy’s oldest ghosts awaken.
THAT TEXAS BLOOD: HELL COMES TO ALLISON RANCH # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
THE ACCLAIMED FAN-FAVORITE SERIES RETURNS WITH A JAM-PACKED NEW NUMBER ONE, PERFECT FOR NEW READERS!
On March 19, 2003, Sheriff Joe Bob Coates and Deputy Wilson Hart are called to the Allison Ranch — the largest and richest ranch in the United States — where family grievances are blooming into full-blown war. This first issue will be loaded with bonus materials including behind the scenes peeks, newly conducted interviews, essays, cartoons, and MORE!
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE BATMAN # 24
SOLICIT COPY:
WITHOUT THE BADGE… WITHOUT HER FATHER… ABSOLUTE BAT ENTERS THE SCENE. In the battle of self, of Batman versus Batman, there can be only one. Everyone Bruce has ever known, ever cared about, or ever loved will face their ultimate inner demons.
BLACK TOWER: THE RAVEN CONSPIRACY # 2
SOLICIT COPY:
Daniel Burroughs, a young American CIA trainee, is acclimating to his new London lifestyle … but it’s not easy to get used to his strange new coworkers at Black Tower. His boss is getting buddy-buddy with the Russians, his colleague is a witch who’s sleeping with a demon, and there’s an assassin circling their sorcerous spy agency … one who can slip in and out of his targets’ dreams!
THOR # 801
SOLICIT COPY:
THE QUEST FOR THOR BEGINS! Sigurd Jarlson is an ordinary man — but he alone can call Asgard’s greatest hero back to life. But to rebuild the bridge between humanity and the gods, he must begin his quest in the worst place of all. Somewhere in Hel, a man with a hammer begins a journey into mystery…
VOID RIVALS # 34
SOLICIT COPY:
ROM vs. the dreaded PREDACRON — everyone’s favorite bounty-hunter! Wait a minute! Whose book is this, anyway?
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK CAT NYANGO vol. 2 TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Though Nyango has proved just how useful sky magic is through his pawsitive attitude and unwavering determination, he’s still a long way off from being a full-fledged adventurer. The next step is to explore the possibilities of combining his bestowed attribute with a new form of power—seal magic!
DEAD GIRLS HC
SOLICIT COPY:
The teen daughter of an infamous serial killer must prove she isn’t the one behind recent copycat murders in this “tongue-in-cheek” (Booklist, starred review) graphic novel that’s a campy, feminist send-up of slashers that both celebrates and subverts classic tropes.
In the cozy town of Clossdale, a serial killer rampages! Five girls missing in as many weeks! Bodies turning up on the forest floor! And all fingers point to one vile fiend: Ash Hargreeves.
Except Ash didn’t do it. She may be the daughter of the infamous Clossdale Killer, and these copycat killings aren’t exactly convincing proof of her innocence—and okay, she’s kind of a weirdo who has two friends total, but when the murders strike a little too close to home, Ash decides to take a stand.
With the help of her besties, Ash is going to hunt down the killer, clear her mother’s name, and stop there from being any more dead girls—now and forever. After all, WWJLCD: what would Jamie Lee Curtis do?
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE MIRAGE YEARS 1984-1987 IDW Classics Collections TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Go back to where it all started in this pocket-sized collection that includes the first 10 issues of Eastman & Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the four Micro-Series one-shots by Mirage Studios in one convenient-to-read book!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles burst onto the comics scene in 1984 and made history! Now is your chance to read the first 10 issues, plus the Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo Micro-Series one-shots by co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Presented as they first appeared in black and white, new readers can experience the comics that started the phenomenon while longtime fans can revisit the series in an all-new format!
Along with Eastman and Laird’s early work, see the first work of Michael Dooney, Ryan Brown, Jim Lawson, and Steve Bissette, who would become longtime contributors to the TMNT series.
This IDW Classic Collection presents readers the chance to see where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles phenomenon started in a convenient 6 x 9 format!
ULTIMATE ENDGAME TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Marvel’s Boldest Experiment Concludes in an Unbelievable, Era‑Defining Finale for the Ultimate Universe!
Two years have passed in the Ultimate Universe — but inside the City, the Maker has had thousands of years to prepare for his return! With the barrier around the City finally gone, the world’s new heroes — including Spider-Man, America Chavez, Killmonger and Doom — must mobilize to defeat the Maker before it’s game over. For everyone. Inside the City, the desperate group battles the terrifying Children of Tomorrow — and discovers some surprising allies! Meanwhile, the rest of the world wages World War III, and Iron Lad makes a stunning and heartbreaking discovery that could change the fate of the Ultimate Universe forever. With shocking twists, painful deaths and massive reveals, this is the century’s ultimate super-hero event!
COLLECTING: Ultimate Endgame (2025) #1-5
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
ARCHIE IN HELL # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TO BE SAVED… HE MUST BE DAMNED! In the bloodstained tradition of AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE, something wicked this way comes to Riverdale in an infernal new ongoing series from multiple Eisner Award winner Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) and Russ Manning Award winner Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Harrow County)!
They say that every small town has a secret. Well, in the case of Riverdale, it’s one heck of a humdinger: An ancient order of cultists has infiltrated its townspeople, bent on using human sacrifice to usher a demon lord into our mortal plane. And they’ve finally identified the final target they need to bring a century’s worth of planning to fruition: hometown football champion and all-around good guy Archie Andrews. But this secret cabal never dreamed that actual witches walk Riverdale’s streets… and when cult and coven clash in the final stages of Archie’s secret-ritual sacrifice, the consequences will be cosmic… and young Archie Andrews will find himself damned to something far worse than Hell’s inner circle.
Unstuck from time and space. Bound to a terrible curse. Late for school. Things are about to go from bad to downright diabolical as Horvath and Crook unleash the most malevolently merciless Archie Comics tale ever told… and, truly, you’ll never, ever expect what happens next.
BEN 10 vol. 1: Event Arrival
SOLICIT COPY:
Fan-favorite animation hero Ben 10 returns in an all-new series, collected here for the first time! When a mysterious meteor crashes to Earth, 10-year-old Ben Tennyson discovers the Omnitrix, a high-tech alien gauntlet of incredible power and potential. With this device on his wrist, Ben has the power to transform into incredible alien forms. But can he control this power?
This is the modern, definitive take on Ben 10 from the team that created him – Man of Action – including the introductions of numerous alien foes in an epic retelling and expansion of his original story, written by Joe Casey. Then, writer Steven T. Seagle steps in as things take a turn for the creepy. In a rainy Northwest stop on their endless summer vacation, the Tennyson family is drawn to a circus where the crowds aren’t cheering, the clowns aren’t laughing, and the ringmaster has plans for a frightful future well beyond his broken big top. Can Ben master the Omnitrix in time to find the right alien to stop the bizarre ZOMBOZO from making Grandpa Max his next death-defying act?
Collecting BEN 10 #1 – 5 with a complete gallery of covers.
MAD SCIENCE DIVISION # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
It’s no secret Archimedes Anderson is a nepo hire. Assigned chief-coordinator of R&D at the American arm of genetic engineering and bioweapons development company Miyashi-Smith, everyone knows he’s here for one purpose: to slash the budget and trim the fat. If he can cut 30% from the unaffectionately nicknamed “Mad Science Division” budget, he’ll earn a cushy, high-level job at HQ.
He goes in with a move-fast-and-break-stuff attitude, knowing absolutely nothing about the dangerous genetic experiments taking place in the division. When he upsets the delicate equilibrium of the department factions and removes guard rails which protect the workers and the public, he winds up exposing them to terrible, evil experiments.
From the twisted minds of Dan Watters (Nightwing; TMNT: Shredder) and Brian Level (Venom: Black, White & Blood) comes a comedic, sci-fi horror series that asks, “What if DOGE dismantled the SCP Foundation?”
STARTSHIP GODZILLA: FIRST WARS Manga Style Edition TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Join a crew of cosmic misfits as they soar through the stars in Mechagodzilla in this series that ties in with the all-new Kai-Sei Era of Godzilla comics in a black-and-white edition!
You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?
In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju… and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!
This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll… uh… do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy, and our crew members may not all land on the same side of this fight.
A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Starship Godzilla from Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp)! Part of the new Godzilla connected comic book universe with Godzilla (Kai-Sei Era) and Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone!
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 23
*Checks notes* The Muppets meet Marvel?
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
CRIMES AGAINST NATURE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TWO BEST FRIENDS. A MAN AND HIS APE AGAINST THE WORLD.
A famous Hollywood Animal Trainer, Doctor Kermit Groeden, and his only client/best friend — Amigo the Ape, the first gorilla ever nominated for an Academy Award — are framed for a crime they didn’t commit.
Now they’re on the run. And to clear their names and save their lives, Kermit and Amigo will be forced to reveal their darkest secrets and confront each other’s hidden past. Will their friendship be able to survive? A story about secrets, sins, and simians.
THE MUPPETS TAKE THE MARVEL UNIVERSE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TONIGHT’S VERY SPECIAL GUEST STARS — THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of THE MUPPET SHOW… we bring you a crossover no one saw coming! Join EISNER-winning writer and one of the world”s greatest Muppet fans CHIP ZDARSKY along with a cadre of Marvelously talented creators as they unleash The Muppets’ trademark chaos on the MARVEL UNIVERSE. ROWLF THE DOG kidnapped by MOJO? KERMIT THE FROG, MISS PIGGY, FOZZIE BEAR, SPIDER-MAN, BLACK PANTHER and EMMA FROST to the rescue? DR. BUNSEN HONEYDEW and BEAKER experimenting with GAMMA RAYS and PYM PARTICLES? What could go wrong? Find out in this epic tale told in the MIGHTY MARVEL MUPPET MANNER!
STAR TREK # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Their mission is new. Their legacy is not.
From the pen of fan-favorite writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant, Star Trek: Red Shirts) and the brush of psychedelic standout Dennis Menheere (Etheres, Little Nightmares) comes the launch of an all-new flagship… and this time, we’re busting out of the four quadrants.
The Enterprise-G is on a desperate mission beyond the known Galaxy to relocate the dying Avuran people when its crew finds a perfect new home in a region of unknown space called the Epsilon Corridor. Three pristine Class-M worlds — the Trinity — await the refugees. No signs of civilization. No detectable threats. A colonist’s dream. But the dream fractures fast.
When Captain Seven of Nine and her divided, fast-tracked crew begin exploring the Trinity, they uncover disturbing contradictions: vanished structures, inexplicable artifacts, time skips, and evidence of a presence Starfleet’s century-old probes never detected. Each world houses a different ecosystem, different physics problems, and different secrets — as if they’ve been curated… or quarantined. But from who? Or what?
The first arc of Star Trek delivers a prestige, mystery-driven, high-stakes psychological thriller of an opening salvo — new worlds, new species, new existential threats — anchored by Seven, Jack, and Crash La Forge fighting to keep the mission together as the Galaxy’s oldest ghosts awaken.
THAT TEXAS BLOOD: HELL COMES TO ALLISON RANCH # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
THE ACCLAIMED FAN-FAVORITE SERIES RETURNS WITH A JAM-PACKED NEW NUMBER ONE, PERFECT FOR NEW READERS!
On March 19, 2003, Sheriff Joe Bob Coates and Deputy Wilson Hart are called to the Allison Ranch — the largest and richest ranch in the United States — where family grievances are blooming into full-blown war. This first issue will be loaded with bonus materials including behind the scenes peeks, newly conducted interviews, essays, cartoons, and MORE!
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE BATMAN # 24
SOLICIT COPY:
WITHOUT THE BADGE… WITHOUT HER FATHER… ABSOLUTE BAT ENTERS THE SCENE. In the battle of self, of Batman versus Batman, there can be only one. Everyone Bruce has ever known, ever cared about, or ever loved will face their ultimate inner demons.
BLACK TOWER: THE RAVEN CONSPIRACY # 2
SOLICIT COPY:
Daniel Burroughs, a young American CIA trainee, is acclimating to his new London lifestyle … but it’s not easy to get used to his strange new coworkers at Black Tower. His boss is getting buddy-buddy with the Russians, his colleague is a witch who’s sleeping with a demon, and there’s an assassin circling their sorcerous spy agency … one who can slip in and out of his targets’ dreams!
THOR # 801
SOLICIT COPY:
THE QUEST FOR THOR BEGINS! Sigurd Jarlson is an ordinary man — but he alone can call Asgard’s greatest hero back to life. But to rebuild the bridge between humanity and the gods, he must begin his quest in the worst place of all. Somewhere in Hel, a man with a hammer begins a journey into mystery…
VOID RIVALS # 34
SOLICIT COPY:
ROM vs. the dreaded PREDACRON — everyone’s favorite bounty-hunter! Wait a minute! Whose book is this, anyway?
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK CAT NYANGO vol. 2 TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Though Nyango has proved just how useful sky magic is through his pawsitive attitude and unwavering determination, he’s still a long way off from being a full-fledged adventurer. The next step is to explore the possibilities of combining his bestowed attribute with a new form of power—seal magic!
DEAD GIRLS HC
SOLICIT COPY:
The teen daughter of an infamous serial killer must prove she isn’t the one behind recent copycat murders in this “tongue-in-cheek” (Booklist, starred review) graphic novel that’s a campy, feminist send-up of slashers that both celebrates and subverts classic tropes.
In the cozy town of Clossdale, a serial killer rampages! Five girls missing in as many weeks! Bodies turning up on the forest floor! And all fingers point to one vile fiend: Ash Hargreeves.
Except Ash didn’t do it. She may be the daughter of the infamous Clossdale Killer, and these copycat killings aren’t exactly convincing proof of her innocence—and okay, she’s kind of a weirdo who has two friends total, but when the murders strike a little too close to home, Ash decides to take a stand.
With the help of her besties, Ash is going to hunt down the killer, clear her mother’s name, and stop there from being any more dead girls—now and forever. After all, WWJLCD: what would Jamie Lee Curtis do?
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE MIRAGE YEARS 1984-1987 IDW Classics Collections TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Go back to where it all started in this pocket-sized collection that includes the first 10 issues of Eastman & Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the four Micro-Series one-shots by Mirage Studios in one convenient-to-read book!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles burst onto the comics scene in 1984 and made history! Now is your chance to read the first 10 issues, plus the Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo Micro-Series one-shots by co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Presented as they first appeared in black and white, new readers can experience the comics that started the phenomenon while longtime fans can revisit the series in an all-new format!
Along with Eastman and Laird’s early work, see the first work of Michael Dooney, Ryan Brown, Jim Lawson, and Steve Bissette, who would become longtime contributors to the TMNT series.
This IDW Classic Collection presents readers the chance to see where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles phenomenon started in a convenient 6 x 9 format!
ULTIMATE ENDGAME TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Marvel’s Boldest Experiment Concludes in an Unbelievable, Era‑Defining Finale for the Ultimate Universe!
Two years have passed in the Ultimate Universe — but inside the City, the Maker has had thousands of years to prepare for his return! With the barrier around the City finally gone, the world’s new heroes — including Spider-Man, America Chavez, Killmonger and Doom — must mobilize to defeat the Maker before it’s game over. For everyone. Inside the City, the desperate group battles the terrifying Children of Tomorrow — and discovers some surprising allies! Meanwhile, the rest of the world wages World War III, and Iron Lad makes a stunning and heartbreaking discovery that could change the fate of the Ultimate Universe forever. With shocking twists, painful deaths and massive reveals, this is the century’s ultimate super-hero event!
COLLECTING: Ultimate Endgame (2025) #1-5
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
ARCHIE IN HELL # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TO BE SAVED… HE MUST BE DAMNED! In the bloodstained tradition of AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE, something wicked this way comes to Riverdale in an infernal new ongoing series from multiple Eisner Award winner Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) and Russ Manning Award winner Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Harrow County)!
They say that every small town has a secret. Well, in the case of Riverdale, it’s one heck of a humdinger: An ancient order of cultists has infiltrated its townspeople, bent on using human sacrifice to usher a demon lord into our mortal plane. And they’ve finally identified the final target they need to bring a century’s worth of planning to fruition: hometown football champion and all-around good guy Archie Andrews. But this secret cabal never dreamed that actual witches walk Riverdale’s streets… and when cult and coven clash in the final stages of Archie’s secret-ritual sacrifice, the consequences will be cosmic… and young Archie Andrews will find himself damned to something far worse than Hell’s inner circle.
Unstuck from time and space. Bound to a terrible curse. Late for school. Things are about to go from bad to downright diabolical as Horvath and Crook unleash the most malevolently merciless Archie Comics tale ever told… and, truly, you’ll never, ever expect what happens next.
BEN 10 vol. 1: Event Arrival
SOLICIT COPY:
Fan-favorite animation hero Ben 10 returns in an all-new series, collected here for the first time! When a mysterious meteor crashes to Earth, 10-year-old Ben Tennyson discovers the Omnitrix, a high-tech alien gauntlet of incredible power and potential. With this device on his wrist, Ben has the power to transform into incredible alien forms. But can he control this power?
This is the modern, definitive take on Ben 10 from the team that created him – Man of Action – including the introductions of numerous alien foes in an epic retelling and expansion of his original story, written by Joe Casey. Then, writer Steven T. Seagle steps in as things take a turn for the creepy. In a rainy Northwest stop on their endless summer vacation, the Tennyson family is drawn to a circus where the crowds aren’t cheering, the clowns aren’t laughing, and the ringmaster has plans for a frightful future well beyond his broken big top. Can Ben master the Omnitrix in time to find the right alien to stop the bizarre ZOMBOZO from making Grandpa Max his next death-defying act?
Collecting BEN 10 #1 – 5 with a complete gallery of covers.
MAD SCIENCE DIVISION # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
It’s no secret Archimedes Anderson is a nepo hire. Assigned chief-coordinator of R&D at the American arm of genetic engineering and bioweapons development company Miyashi-Smith, everyone knows he’s here for one purpose: to slash the budget and trim the fat. If he can cut 30% from the unaffectionately nicknamed “Mad Science Division” budget, he’ll earn a cushy, high-level job at HQ.
He goes in with a move-fast-and-break-stuff attitude, knowing absolutely nothing about the dangerous genetic experiments taking place in the division. When he upsets the delicate equilibrium of the department factions and removes guard rails which protect the workers and the public, he winds up exposing them to terrible, evil experiments.
From the twisted minds of Dan Watters (Nightwing; TMNT: Shredder) and Brian Level (Venom: Black, White & Blood) comes a comedic, sci-fi horror series that asks, “What if DOGE dismantled the SCP Foundation?”
STARTSHIP GODZILLA: FIRST WARS Manga Style Edition TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Join a crew of cosmic misfits as they soar through the stars in Mechagodzilla in this series that ties in with the all-new Kai-Sei Era of Godzilla comics in a black-and-white edition!
You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?
In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju… and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!
This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll… uh… do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy, and our crew members may not all land on the same side of this fight.
A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Starship Godzilla from Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp)! Part of the new Godzilla connected comic book universe with Godzilla (Kai-Sei Era) and Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone!
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
Divining Comics is also brought to you by the support of the “Friends of Divining Comics”: Comic Book Herald.
If you would like to add your name to the list of friends, best friends, or best friends forever, support this work for less than the cost of one cup of coffee a month at patreon.com/diviningcomics. You can also leave a one-time tip/buy my zines at ko-fi.com/spikestonehand. Or, if you can’t afford to support me financially at this time, simply follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky and share my posts there.
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 23
*Checks notes* The Muppets meet Marvel?
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
CRIMES AGAINST NATURE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TWO BEST FRIENDS. A MAN AND HIS APE AGAINST THE WORLD.
A famous Hollywood Animal Trainer, Doctor Kermit Groeden, and his only client/best friend — Amigo the Ape, the first gorilla ever nominated for an Academy Award — are framed for a crime they didn’t commit.
Now they’re on the run. And to clear their names and save their lives, Kermit and Amigo will be forced to reveal their darkest secrets and confront each other’s hidden past. Will their friendship be able to survive? A story about secrets, sins, and simians.
THE MUPPETS TAKE THE MARVEL UNIVERSE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TONIGHT’S VERY SPECIAL GUEST STARS — THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of THE MUPPET SHOW… we bring you a crossover no one saw coming! Join EISNER-winning writer and one of the world”s greatest Muppet fans CHIP ZDARSKY along with a cadre of Marvelously talented creators as they unleash The Muppets’ trademark chaos on the MARVEL UNIVERSE. ROWLF THE DOG kidnapped by MOJO? KERMIT THE FROG, MISS PIGGY, FOZZIE BEAR, SPIDER-MAN, BLACK PANTHER and EMMA FROST to the rescue? DR. BUNSEN HONEYDEW and BEAKER experimenting with GAMMA RAYS and PYM PARTICLES? What could go wrong? Find out in this epic tale told in the MIGHTY MARVEL MUPPET MANNER!
STAR TREK # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Their mission is new. Their legacy is not.
From the pen of fan-favorite writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant, Star Trek: Red Shirts) and the brush of psychedelic standout Dennis Menheere (Etheres, Little Nightmares) comes the launch of an all-new flagship… and this time, we’re busting out of the four quadrants.
The Enterprise-G is on a desperate mission beyond the known Galaxy to relocate the dying Avuran people when its crew finds a perfect new home in a region of unknown space called the Epsilon Corridor. Three pristine Class-M worlds — the Trinity — await the refugees. No signs of civilization. No detectable threats. A colonist’s dream. But the dream fractures fast.
When Captain Seven of Nine and her divided, fast-tracked crew begin exploring the Trinity, they uncover disturbing contradictions: vanished structures, inexplicable artifacts, time skips, and evidence of a presence Starfleet’s century-old probes never detected. Each world houses a different ecosystem, different physics problems, and different secrets — as if they’ve been curated… or quarantined. But from who? Or what?
The first arc of Star Trek delivers a prestige, mystery-driven, high-stakes psychological thriller of an opening salvo — new worlds, new species, new existential threats — anchored by Seven, Jack, and Crash La Forge fighting to keep the mission together as the Galaxy’s oldest ghosts awaken.
THAT TEXAS BLOOD: HELL COMES TO ALLISON RANCH # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
THE ACCLAIMED FAN-FAVORITE SERIES RETURNS WITH A JAM-PACKED NEW NUMBER ONE, PERFECT FOR NEW READERS!
On March 19, 2003, Sheriff Joe Bob Coates and Deputy Wilson Hart are called to the Allison Ranch — the largest and richest ranch in the United States — where family grievances are blooming into full-blown war. This first issue will be loaded with bonus materials including behind the scenes peeks, newly conducted interviews, essays, cartoons, and MORE!
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE BATMAN # 24
SOLICIT COPY:
WITHOUT THE BADGE… WITHOUT HER FATHER… ABSOLUTE BAT ENTERS THE SCENE. In the battle of self, of Batman versus Batman, there can be only one. Everyone Bruce has ever known, ever cared about, or ever loved will face their ultimate inner demons.
BLACK TOWER: THE RAVEN CONSPIRACY # 2
SOLICIT COPY:
Daniel Burroughs, a young American CIA trainee, is acclimating to his new London lifestyle … but it’s not easy to get used to his strange new coworkers at Black Tower. His boss is getting buddy-buddy with the Russians, his colleague is a witch who’s sleeping with a demon, and there’s an assassin circling their sorcerous spy agency … one who can slip in and out of his targets’ dreams!
THOR # 801
SOLICIT COPY:
THE QUEST FOR THOR BEGINS! Sigurd Jarlson is an ordinary man — but he alone can call Asgard’s greatest hero back to life. But to rebuild the bridge between humanity and the gods, he must begin his quest in the worst place of all. Somewhere in Hel, a man with a hammer begins a journey into mystery…
VOID RIVALS # 34
SOLICIT COPY:
ROM vs. the dreaded PREDACRON — everyone’s favorite bounty-hunter! Wait a minute! Whose book is this, anyway?
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK CAT NYANGO vol. 2 TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Though Nyango has proved just how useful sky magic is through his pawsitive attitude and unwavering determination, he’s still a long way off from being a full-fledged adventurer. The next step is to explore the possibilities of combining his bestowed attribute with a new form of power—seal magic!
DEAD GIRLS HC
SOLICIT COPY:
The teen daughter of an infamous serial killer must prove she isn’t the one behind recent copycat murders in this “tongue-in-cheek” (Booklist, starred review) graphic novel that’s a campy, feminist send-up of slashers that both celebrates and subverts classic tropes.
In the cozy town of Clossdale, a serial killer rampages! Five girls missing in as many weeks! Bodies turning up on the forest floor! And all fingers point to one vile fiend: Ash Hargreeves.
Except Ash didn’t do it. She may be the daughter of the infamous Clossdale Killer, and these copycat killings aren’t exactly convincing proof of her innocence—and okay, she’s kind of a weirdo who has two friends total, but when the murders strike a little too close to home, Ash decides to take a stand.
With the help of her besties, Ash is going to hunt down the killer, clear her mother’s name, and stop there from being any more dead girls—now and forever. After all, WWJLCD: what would Jamie Lee Curtis do?
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE MIRAGE YEARS 1984-1987 IDW Classics Collections TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Go back to where it all started in this pocket-sized collection that includes the first 10 issues of Eastman & Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the four Micro-Series one-shots by Mirage Studios in one convenient-to-read book!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles burst onto the comics scene in 1984 and made history! Now is your chance to read the first 10 issues, plus the Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo Micro-Series one-shots by co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Presented as they first appeared in black and white, new readers can experience the comics that started the phenomenon while longtime fans can revisit the series in an all-new format!
Along with Eastman and Laird’s early work, see the first work of Michael Dooney, Ryan Brown, Jim Lawson, and Steve Bissette, who would become longtime contributors to the TMNT series.
This IDW Classic Collection presents readers the chance to see where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles phenomenon started in a convenient 6 x 9 format!
ULTIMATE ENDGAME TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Marvel’s Boldest Experiment Concludes in an Unbelievable, Era‑Defining Finale for the Ultimate Universe!
Two years have passed in the Ultimate Universe — but inside the City, the Maker has had thousands of years to prepare for his return! With the barrier around the City finally gone, the world’s new heroes — including Spider-Man, America Chavez, Killmonger and Doom — must mobilize to defeat the Maker before it’s game over. For everyone. Inside the City, the desperate group battles the terrifying Children of Tomorrow — and discovers some surprising allies! Meanwhile, the rest of the world wages World War III, and Iron Lad makes a stunning and heartbreaking discovery that could change the fate of the Ultimate Universe forever. With shocking twists, painful deaths and massive reveals, this is the century’s ultimate super-hero event!
COLLECTING: Ultimate Endgame (2025) #1-5
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
ARCHIE IN HELL # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
TO BE SAVED… HE MUST BE DAMNED! In the bloodstained tradition of AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE, something wicked this way comes to Riverdale in an infernal new ongoing series from multiple Eisner Award winner Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) and Russ Manning Award winner Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Harrow County)!
They say that every small town has a secret. Well, in the case of Riverdale, it’s one heck of a humdinger: An ancient order of cultists has infiltrated its townspeople, bent on using human sacrifice to usher a demon lord into our mortal plane. And they’ve finally identified the final target they need to bring a century’s worth of planning to fruition: hometown football champion and all-around good guy Archie Andrews. But this secret cabal never dreamed that actual witches walk Riverdale’s streets… and when cult and coven clash in the final stages of Archie’s secret-ritual sacrifice, the consequences will be cosmic… and young Archie Andrews will find himself damned to something far worse than Hell’s inner circle.
Unstuck from time and space. Bound to a terrible curse. Late for school. Things are about to go from bad to downright diabolical as Horvath and Crook unleash the most malevolently merciless Archie Comics tale ever told… and, truly, you’ll never, ever expect what happens next.
BEN 10 vol. 1: Event Arrival
SOLICIT COPY:
Fan-favorite animation hero Ben 10 returns in an all-new series, collected here for the first time! When a mysterious meteor crashes to Earth, 10-year-old Ben Tennyson discovers the Omnitrix, a high-tech alien gauntlet of incredible power and potential. With this device on his wrist, Ben has the power to transform into incredible alien forms. But can he control this power?
This is the modern, definitive take on Ben 10 from the team that created him – Man of Action – including the introductions of numerous alien foes in an epic retelling and expansion of his original story, written by Joe Casey. Then, writer Steven T. Seagle steps in as things take a turn for the creepy. In a rainy Northwest stop on their endless summer vacation, the Tennyson family is drawn to a circus where the crowds aren’t cheering, the clowns aren’t laughing, and the ringmaster has plans for a frightful future well beyond his broken big top. Can Ben master the Omnitrix in time to find the right alien to stop the bizarre ZOMBOZO from making Grandpa Max his next death-defying act?
Collecting BEN 10 #1 – 5 with a complete gallery of covers.
MAD SCIENCE DIVISION # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
It’s no secret Archimedes Anderson is a nepo hire. Assigned chief-coordinator of R&D at the American arm of genetic engineering and bioweapons development company Miyashi-Smith, everyone knows he’s here for one purpose: to slash the budget and trim the fat. If he can cut 30% from the unaffectionately nicknamed “Mad Science Division” budget, he’ll earn a cushy, high-level job at HQ.
He goes in with a move-fast-and-break-stuff attitude, knowing absolutely nothing about the dangerous genetic experiments taking place in the division. When he upsets the delicate equilibrium of the department factions and removes guard rails which protect the workers and the public, he winds up exposing them to terrible, evil experiments.
From the twisted minds of Dan Watters (Nightwing; TMNT: Shredder) and Brian Level (Venom: Black, White & Blood) comes a comedic, sci-fi horror series that asks, “What if DOGE dismantled the SCP Foundation?”
STARTSHIP GODZILLA: FIRST WARS Manga Style Edition TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Join a crew of cosmic misfits as they soar through the stars in Mechagodzilla in this series that ties in with the all-new Kai-Sei Era of Godzilla comics in a black-and-white edition!
You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?
In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju… and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!
This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll… uh… do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy, and our crew members may not all land on the same side of this fight.
A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Starship Godzilla from Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp)! Part of the new Godzilla connected comic book universe with Godzilla (Kai-Sei Era) and Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone!
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
Divining Comics is also brought to you by the support of the “Friends of Divining Comics”: Comic Book Herald.
If you would like to add your name to the list of friends, best friends, or best friends forever, support this work for less than the cost of one cup of coffee a month at patreon.com/diviningcomics. You can also leave a one-time tip/buy my zines at ko-fi.com/spikestonehand. Or, if you can’t afford to support me financially at this time, simply follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky and share my posts there.
#art #books #ComicBooks #comics #DC #dcComics #fantasticFour #marvel #marvelComics #MarvelousMarket #NewComicDay -
Wow, pues sin duda Galactus se ve imponente
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Wow, pues sin duda Galactus se ve imponente
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/693364/ Alex Perez 9/2026 Q&A#1: ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ & ‘Secret Wars’ #AgathaHarkness #Avengers:Doomsday #Avengers:SecretWars #BlackPanther #CaptainAmerica #CaptainMarvel #Éire #Entertainment #FantasticFour #IE #Ireland #Movies #SpiderMan #YoungAvengers
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The X-Men and Fantastic Four crossover begins today! https://www.howtolovecomics.com/2026/08/16/dnx-reading-order-checklist/
#Comics #ComicBooks #Marvel #MarvelComics #XMen #FantasticFour
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The X-Men and Fantastic Four crossover begins today! https://www.howtolovecomics.com/2026/08/16/dnx-reading-order-checklist/
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The X-Men and Fantastic Four crossover begins today! https://www.howtolovecomics.com/2026/08/16/dnx-reading-order-checklist/
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The X-Men and Fantastic Four crossover begins today! https://www.howtolovecomics.com/2026/08/16/dnx-reading-order-checklist/
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 16
Marvel’s X-Men Event Begins
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ABSOLUTE CASSANDRA CAIN # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
SPINNING OUT FROM ABSOLUTE CATWOMAN COMES THE ABSOLUTE DEMON’S HAND! Years ago, The Joker trained with the League of Assassins, and when he learned all he could, he slaughtered everyone. But out of the wreckage of what was left came Lady Shiva and her daughter, CASSANDRA CAIN. Learn the origin of the Absolute Universe’s most formidable assassin and how her story is one that is intertwined with the world’s greatest thief, Selina Kyle, Catwoman!
THE BIG SHAKEDOWN # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
The Big One, the earthquake to end all earthquakes, has finally struck Los Angeles. The government decides not to rebuild and the city becomes a no man’s land for those that refuse to leave it. But hey, you can’t beat the weather.
Five years later Ester Blanco, a down on her luck former P.I., is willing to do anything to escape the City of Angels. She believes she’s found her ticket out when a desperate father hires her to solve a missing person’s case in a city where a third of the population is already missing. Instead, the trail of this lost girl leads Ester to uncover a dark web of cults, conspiracy and corruption that threatens every Angeleno that stayed behind.
THE BIG SHAKEDOWN is a sunbaked LA noir in the vein of Chinatown and The Long Goodbye and set in the post-apocalyptic remains of the most beloved/hated city in the world. From writers Jordan Blum (Minor Threats) Tim Seeley (Local Man) and artist Scott Koblish (The Despicable Deadpool) comes a pulpy tale of murder, destruction and traffic.
DNX # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
THE X-VIRUS UNLEASHED!
The X-Men and 3K. Each steered by an original heir of Xavier, each with their own vision for the mutant people. Each at one another’s throats. Cyclops and the Chairman both experienced the future of the Age of Revelation and came home with a renewed mission: the X-Men to prevent that future. 3K to own it. While the X-Men seek out the Fantastic Four to help save one of their own, the White Beast begins his plan to unleash the X-Virus in a major populated area! EVOLUTION IS CONTAGIOUS!
OFIUSA # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
BE CAREFUL WHEN DIVING INTO THE WATERS OF OFIUSA.
Writer and artist GUILLEM MARCH, well known for his work on Batman, The Joker, and Catwoman, returns as a solo creator after his acclaimed KARMEN in this new, edgy six-part series.
The romance between the irresistible Marand the young entrepreneur Joan gets off to a flying start. In another timeline, Joan meets the enigmatic Isla on a paradise island. A love triangle in which everyone is hiding something, while a dark secret from the past awaits to be revealed.
With exquisite artwork that evokes paradise and a story that gradually lays bare the characters’ souls — while also leaving room for fun, seduction, and the search for truth. What happens in Ofiusa stays in Ofiusa.
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW # 5
SOLICIT COPY:
WHO WILL BE SACRIFICED? At the mercy of Hector Hammond, Black Canary and the Green Arrow Killer finally bear witness to the depraved horrors Hammond has been hiding. But when a horrible sacrifice evens the odds … will Dinah have traded one threat for an even more terrifying danger?
BATMAN OF TWO WORLDS # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Matt Fraction’s Dark Knight meets Scott Snyder’s Absolute Batman in this Batman Day 2026 one-shot.
G.I. JOE # 26
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ROUND TWO: G.I. JOE AND NIGHT FORCE WON’T BACK DOWN! The epic battle between the two teams takes a dangerous turn as a new Joe enters the fight! Can Baroness’s secret mission stop the war?
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURLES # 22
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The hunt for the Ujigami door knocker continues! It’s the Hungry Ghost Festival, a time when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest, bringing back both Turtle friend and foe! With Karai and Stockman attempting to raise an army of undead ninja, it’s the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ last chance to close the door before the dead come back for good. Can they do it in time?!
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
BATMAN: GARGOYLE OF GOTHAM Deluxe Edition HC
SOLICIT COPY:
WHEN YOU CASE YOUR OWN SHADOW… IT LEADS YOU INTO THE ABYSS.
Batman knows intimately even the darkest and most irredeemable streets of Gotham City, but when an all-new rogues gallery of depraved villains emerges from its murky depths, he will come to find that he hardly knows himself. A serial killer is on the loose, and while the murder victims seem random at first, every clue draws Batman closer to the terrifying truth—that they are all connected, not just to each other…but to him. Batman will have to contend with the very nature of evil— including that which lurks inside in the darkest corners of his own heart—to face what’s coming for his city. Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham brings Eisner Award-winning creator Rafael Grampá’s twisted vision of both the Dark Knight and Gotham City to life in this thrilling deluxe edition that will reach its icy black tendrils into the rotting heart of human nature and leave you gasping for breath—and for more!
Collects Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #1-4.
THE DISSIDENTS: AUTOCRATS! VIGILANTES! COMMUNISTS! . . . AND CARTOONISTS! HC
SOLICIT COPY:
From the award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Kent State comes a timely graphic novel about racism, violence, and political turmoil in the early 20th century, when a handful of cartoonists and journalists pushed back against a corrupt administration to defend the rights of free speech
“WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE . . . BUT WE FORGOT.”
It’s 1916. President Woodrow Wilson―a deeply divisive authoritarian who is also a white supremacist with open contempt for constitutional rights―sits in the Oval Office.
Racial tensions, unprecedented economic inequality, a groundswell of support for unionization, and the rise of both a reactionary far right militia and a growing radical opposition shake the very foundations of American society. A pandemic is two years away. And the 1900s have only just gotten started.
GILDED SEVEN vol. 1 TP
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A historical action with a supernatural twist that comes highly recommended from ONE—creator of One Punch Man! Take a trip to an unknown timeline where Abraham Lincoln didn’t die, and the wild west is wilder than ever! From the creator of No Guns Life.
State trooper Keigo Westwood tracks down the La Llorona gang to Yellowstone National Park. Just as he’s about to arrest their leader, an eruption throws him back to the frontier times in 1865. Law and order have yet to be established, and Keigo finds himself still locked in battle with the six La Llorona members who traveled back in time alongside him. However, Kiego has a powerful ally in the greatest president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln! Throw out your history books and get ready to see the Wildest West!
INTO THE UNBEING Library Edition HC
SOLICIT COPY:
The entire terrifying journey of four scientists lost within a giant eldritch corpse is collected in this deluxe hardcover graphic novel volume. It’s a cosmic body-horror epic from acclaimed author Zac Thompson and Eisner-winning artist Hayden Sherman!
Find yourself in its innards.
A group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback discover an impossible landform. Led by botanist Hildur Johansson, the team sets out to conduct a routine exploratory mission to map the terrain, record their observations, and try to understand this anomalous landscape. But this is no landscape. This is the Unbeing.
The team discovers a sprawling eldritch corpse that threatens to upend everything they understand about the natural world. Propelled by hubris and the intoxicating charm of forbidden knowledge, the research team descends into a hostile alien environment allowed to thrive without human interference. The beautiful yet unforgiving landscape hosts strange flora, gorgeous fauna, and dangerous predators lurking in the darkness.
Into The Unbeing is a journey centuries in the making, chronicling the many lives who’ve been lost to the seemingly malevolent corpse. As they navigate the sprawling Lovecraftian labyrinth, the climate scientists must form a distrustful and desperate alliance with a mysterious humanoid known only as the Stranger. This incomprehensible Stranger claims to be a nineteenth-century British explorer. It claims to know the way back to the surface. It claims a new world is on its way. Perhaps if you listen closely, you can hear it breathing. But what is the cost of this new world? And who will be left to live in it?
Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Alien: Romulus) and Eisner-winning artist Hayden Sherman (Batman: Dark Patterns, Absolute Wonder Woman).
Collects Into the Unbeing Part 1 #1–#4 and Into the Unbeing Part 2 #1–#4.Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE Deluxe Edition HC
SOLICIT COPY:
R.I.P. Riverdale! Once in a generation, a story so potent, so powerful, so horrifying rises from the grave to redefine the comics medium’s greatest icons. Enter: The first-ever deluxe collection of Afterlife with Archie — collecting the totality of the groundbreaking, cemetery-shaking comics masterpiece from Harvey Award–winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Stephen King’s The Stand: American Nightmare) and Eisner Award–winning artist Francesco Francavilla (Batman: The Black Mirror) that first introduced Riverdale’s teenage icons into a merciless world of ritual magic, undead terror, and survival at any cost!
When a tragic death befalls Jughead Jones’s closest companion, his grief drives him to the doorstep of Sabrina the Teenage Witch… and into the thrall of a dark magic that will soon turn the whole of Riverdale into a ravenous pack of undead zombies fueled by a desire for human flesh. Hunted by the reanimated corpses of their friends and loved ones, can Archie, Betty, Veronica, and the rest of America’s most beloved teenagers battle back by a legion of the dead… and live long enough to stop the entire world from being consumed by the same unholy hunger? Pal vs. pal. Classmate vs. classmate. Living vs. dead. They swore to be friends until the end… but they never expected the end to look quite like this.
This definitive hardcover collection of the riveting and relentless milestone that the New York Times calls “gruesome [and] masterly” re-presents the entirety of the Afterlife with Archie saga—including the never-before-collected issues #6–10—in an oversized format that also features a complete cover gallery and behind-the-scenes materials on the development of Archie Comics’ first all-out horror epic.
Collecting Afterlife with Archie #1–10.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: HALLOWEEN SPECIAL # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
HAPPY SPIDER-WEEN! Treat yourself with tricks in this epic Halloween adventure! The TRICK — Hallows’ Eve tries to pull off her biggest heist yet, and Spider-Man’s gotta stop her before she imperils the ENTIRE 616! The TREAT — a new costume for Spidey?!
PLUS, WE HAVE SOME SPIDEY SECRETS HIDDEN AWAY IN THIS ISSUE, TOO!
IN YOUR SKIN TP
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Bollywood body horror collides with erotic obsession as a die-hard fan resolves to replace her retiring screen idol, blurring fantasy and flesh in a dark, intoxicating debut.
Priyanka is a Bollywood uber-fan who has been obsessed with film star Ayesha Sen since she was a kid — she’s watched her movies over and over, and knows her dances beat for beat. But after a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet her idol goes awry, and Ayesha announces her impending retirement from movies, Priyanka decides that if Ayesha isn’t going to live the life she’s supposed to, Priyanka would be more than happy to take over for her…
Aditya Bidikar (The Department of Truth, Blue in Green) and rising star artist Som (Crocodile Black) present a twisted exploration of celebrity culture, identity, and image that’s perfect for fans of The Substance, Perfect Blue, Black Swan and David Cronenberg.
Collects #1-4.
MAFALDA Book Two HC
SOLICIT COPY:
As good a place as any to enter the madcap world of Mafalda and friends, Book Two of Mafalda finds the gang up to new antics. Mafalda heads off on a beach vacation, where she meets a curious stranger: Miguelito, a mop-headed philosopher who happens to live right down the street back at home. Susanita, Manolito, and Felipe, meanwhile, continue to tussle over all matter of issues, romp around the neighborhood, and execute physical feats of great proportions. Only this time, Quino brings everyone together in an alien environment: elementary school.
Quino’s legendary comic fuses political incisiveness with all sorts of gags and hijinks. Mafalda notes the peculiar effects of consumerism and globalization, the ironies of sexism, and the injustices of poverty. Her clear-sighted antiwar beliefs will inspire a new generation of thinkers and activists. All the while young readers will fall in love with Quino’s drawings which evoke all the humor, irritation, ponderousness, and energy of childhood.
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 16
Marvel’s X-Men Event Begins
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ABSOLUTE CASSANDRA CAIN # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
SPINNING OUT FROM ABSOLUTE CATWOMAN COMES THE ABSOLUTE DEMON’S HAND! Years ago, The Joker trained with the League of Assassins, and when he learned all he could, he slaughtered everyone. But out of the wreckage of what was left came Lady Shiva and her daughter, CASSANDRA CAIN. Learn the origin of the Absolute Universe’s most formidable assassin and how her story is one that is intertwined with the world’s greatest thief, Selina Kyle, Catwoman!
THE BIG SHAKEDOWN # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
The Big One, the earthquake to end all earthquakes, has finally struck Los Angeles. The government decides not to rebuild and the city becomes a no man’s land for those that refuse to leave it. But hey, you can’t beat the weather.
Five years later Ester Blanco, a down on her luck former P.I., is willing to do anything to escape the City of Angels. She believes she’s found her ticket out when a desperate father hires her to solve a missing person’s case in a city where a third of the population is already missing. Instead, the trail of this lost girl leads Ester to uncover a dark web of cults, conspiracy and corruption that threatens every Angeleno that stayed behind.
THE BIG SHAKEDOWN is a sunbaked LA noir in the vein of Chinatown and The Long Goodbye and set in the post-apocalyptic remains of the most beloved/hated city in the world. From writers Jordan Blum (Minor Threats) Tim Seeley (Local Man) and artist Scott Koblish (The Despicable Deadpool) comes a pulpy tale of murder, destruction and traffic.
DNX # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
THE X-VIRUS UNLEASHED!
The X-Men and 3K. Each steered by an original heir of Xavier, each with their own vision for the mutant people. Each at one another’s throats. Cyclops and the Chairman both experienced the future of the Age of Revelation and came home with a renewed mission: the X-Men to prevent that future. 3K to own it. While the X-Men seek out the Fantastic Four to help save one of their own, the White Beast begins his plan to unleash the X-Virus in a major populated area! EVOLUTION IS CONTAGIOUS!
OFIUSA # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
BE CAREFUL WHEN DIVING INTO THE WATERS OF OFIUSA.
Writer and artist GUILLEM MARCH, well known for his work on Batman, The Joker, and Catwoman, returns as a solo creator after his acclaimed KARMEN in this new, edgy six-part series.
The romance between the irresistible Marand the young entrepreneur Joan gets off to a flying start. In another timeline, Joan meets the enigmatic Isla on a paradise island. A love triangle in which everyone is hiding something, while a dark secret from the past awaits to be revealed.
With exquisite artwork that evokes paradise and a story that gradually lays bare the characters’ souls — while also leaving room for fun, seduction, and the search for truth. What happens in Ofiusa stays in Ofiusa.
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW # 5
SOLICIT COPY:
WHO WILL BE SACRIFICED? At the mercy of Hector Hammond, Black Canary and the Green Arrow Killer finally bear witness to the depraved horrors Hammond has been hiding. But when a horrible sacrifice evens the odds … will Dinah have traded one threat for an even more terrifying danger?
BATMAN OF TWO WORLDS # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Matt Fraction’s Dark Knight meets Scott Snyder’s Absolute Batman in this Batman Day 2026 one-shot.
G.I. JOE # 26
SOLICIT COPY:
ROUND TWO: G.I. JOE AND NIGHT FORCE WON’T BACK DOWN! The epic battle between the two teams takes a dangerous turn as a new Joe enters the fight! Can Baroness’s secret mission stop the war?
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURLES # 22
SOLICIT COPY:
The hunt for the Ujigami door knocker continues! It’s the Hungry Ghost Festival, a time when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest, bringing back both Turtle friend and foe! With Karai and Stockman attempting to raise an army of undead ninja, it’s the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ last chance to close the door before the dead come back for good. Can they do it in time?!
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
BATMAN: GARGOYLE OF GOTHAM Deluxe Edition HC
SOLICIT COPY:
WHEN YOU CASE YOUR OWN SHADOW… IT LEADS YOU INTO THE ABYSS.
Batman knows intimately even the darkest and most irredeemable streets of Gotham City, but when an all-new rogues gallery of depraved villains emerges from its murky depths, he will come to find that he hardly knows himself. A serial killer is on the loose, and while the murder victims seem random at first, every clue draws Batman closer to the terrifying truth—that they are all connected, not just to each other…but to him. Batman will have to contend with the very nature of evil— including that which lurks inside in the darkest corners of his own heart—to face what’s coming for his city. Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham brings Eisner Award-winning creator Rafael Grampá’s twisted vision of both the Dark Knight and Gotham City to life in this thrilling deluxe edition that will reach its icy black tendrils into the rotting heart of human nature and leave you gasping for breath—and for more!
Collects Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #1-4.
THE DISSIDENTS: AUTOCRATS! VIGILANTES! COMMUNISTS! . . . AND CARTOONISTS! HC
SOLICIT COPY:
From the award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Kent State comes a timely graphic novel about racism, violence, and political turmoil in the early 20th century, when a handful of cartoonists and journalists pushed back against a corrupt administration to defend the rights of free speech
“WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE . . . BUT WE FORGOT.”
It’s 1916. President Woodrow Wilson―a deeply divisive authoritarian who is also a white supremacist with open contempt for constitutional rights―sits in the Oval Office.
Racial tensions, unprecedented economic inequality, a groundswell of support for unionization, and the rise of both a reactionary far right militia and a growing radical opposition shake the very foundations of American society. A pandemic is two years away. And the 1900s have only just gotten started.
GILDED SEVEN vol. 1 TP
SOLICIT COPY:
A historical action with a supernatural twist that comes highly recommended from ONE—creator of One Punch Man! Take a trip to an unknown timeline where Abraham Lincoln didn’t die, and the wild west is wilder than ever! From the creator of No Guns Life.
State trooper Keigo Westwood tracks down the La Llorona gang to Yellowstone National Park. Just as he’s about to arrest their leader, an eruption throws him back to the frontier times in 1865. Law and order have yet to be established, and Keigo finds himself still locked in battle with the six La Llorona members who traveled back in time alongside him. However, Kiego has a powerful ally in the greatest president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln! Throw out your history books and get ready to see the Wildest West!
INTO THE UNBEING Library Edition HC
SOLICIT COPY:
The entire terrifying journey of four scientists lost within a giant eldritch corpse is collected in this deluxe hardcover graphic novel volume. It’s a cosmic body-horror epic from acclaimed author Zac Thompson and Eisner-winning artist Hayden Sherman!
Find yourself in its innards.
A group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback discover an impossible landform. Led by botanist Hildur Johansson, the team sets out to conduct a routine exploratory mission to map the terrain, record their observations, and try to understand this anomalous landscape. But this is no landscape. This is the Unbeing.
The team discovers a sprawling eldritch corpse that threatens to upend everything they understand about the natural world. Propelled by hubris and the intoxicating charm of forbidden knowledge, the research team descends into a hostile alien environment allowed to thrive without human interference. The beautiful yet unforgiving landscape hosts strange flora, gorgeous fauna, and dangerous predators lurking in the darkness.
Into The Unbeing is a journey centuries in the making, chronicling the many lives who’ve been lost to the seemingly malevolent corpse. As they navigate the sprawling Lovecraftian labyrinth, the climate scientists must form a distrustful and desperate alliance with a mysterious humanoid known only as the Stranger. This incomprehensible Stranger claims to be a nineteenth-century British explorer. It claims to know the way back to the surface. It claims a new world is on its way. Perhaps if you listen closely, you can hear it breathing. But what is the cost of this new world? And who will be left to live in it?
Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Alien: Romulus) and Eisner-winning artist Hayden Sherman (Batman: Dark Patterns, Absolute Wonder Woman).
Collects Into the Unbeing Part 1 #1–#4 and Into the Unbeing Part 2 #1–#4.Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE Deluxe Edition HC
SOLICIT COPY:
R.I.P. Riverdale! Once in a generation, a story so potent, so powerful, so horrifying rises from the grave to redefine the comics medium’s greatest icons. Enter: The first-ever deluxe collection of Afterlife with Archie — collecting the totality of the groundbreaking, cemetery-shaking comics masterpiece from Harvey Award–winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Stephen King’s The Stand: American Nightmare) and Eisner Award–winning artist Francesco Francavilla (Batman: The Black Mirror) that first introduced Riverdale’s teenage icons into a merciless world of ritual magic, undead terror, and survival at any cost!
When a tragic death befalls Jughead Jones’s closest companion, his grief drives him to the doorstep of Sabrina the Teenage Witch… and into the thrall of a dark magic that will soon turn the whole of Riverdale into a ravenous pack of undead zombies fueled by a desire for human flesh. Hunted by the reanimated corpses of their friends and loved ones, can Archie, Betty, Veronica, and the rest of America’s most beloved teenagers battle back by a legion of the dead… and live long enough to stop the entire world from being consumed by the same unholy hunger? Pal vs. pal. Classmate vs. classmate. Living vs. dead. They swore to be friends until the end… but they never expected the end to look quite like this.
This definitive hardcover collection of the riveting and relentless milestone that the New York Times calls “gruesome [and] masterly” re-presents the entirety of the Afterlife with Archie saga—including the never-before-collected issues #6–10—in an oversized format that also features a complete cover gallery and behind-the-scenes materials on the development of Archie Comics’ first all-out horror epic.
Collecting Afterlife with Archie #1–10.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: HALLOWEEN SPECIAL # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
HAPPY SPIDER-WEEN! Treat yourself with tricks in this epic Halloween adventure! The TRICK — Hallows’ Eve tries to pull off her biggest heist yet, and Spider-Man’s gotta stop her before she imperils the ENTIRE 616! The TREAT — a new costume for Spidey?!
PLUS, WE HAVE SOME SPIDEY SECRETS HIDDEN AWAY IN THIS ISSUE, TOO!
IN YOUR SKIN TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Bollywood body horror collides with erotic obsession as a die-hard fan resolves to replace her retiring screen idol, blurring fantasy and flesh in a dark, intoxicating debut.
Priyanka is a Bollywood uber-fan who has been obsessed with film star Ayesha Sen since she was a kid — she’s watched her movies over and over, and knows her dances beat for beat. But after a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet her idol goes awry, and Ayesha announces her impending retirement from movies, Priyanka decides that if Ayesha isn’t going to live the life she’s supposed to, Priyanka would be more than happy to take over for her…
Aditya Bidikar (The Department of Truth, Blue in Green) and rising star artist Som (Crocodile Black) present a twisted exploration of celebrity culture, identity, and image that’s perfect for fans of The Substance, Perfect Blue, Black Swan and David Cronenberg.
Collects #1-4.
MAFALDA Book Two HC
SOLICIT COPY:
As good a place as any to enter the madcap world of Mafalda and friends, Book Two of Mafalda finds the gang up to new antics. Mafalda heads off on a beach vacation, where she meets a curious stranger: Miguelito, a mop-headed philosopher who happens to live right down the street back at home. Susanita, Manolito, and Felipe, meanwhile, continue to tussle over all matter of issues, romp around the neighborhood, and execute physical feats of great proportions. Only this time, Quino brings everyone together in an alien environment: elementary school.
Quino’s legendary comic fuses political incisiveness with all sorts of gags and hijinks. Mafalda notes the peculiar effects of consumerism and globalization, the ironies of sexism, and the injustices of poverty. Her clear-sighted antiwar beliefs will inspire a new generation of thinkers and activists. All the while young readers will fall in love with Quino’s drawings which evoke all the humor, irritation, ponderousness, and energy of childhood.
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
Divining Comics is also brought to you by the support of the “Friends of Divining Comics”: Comic Book Herald.
If you would like to add your name to the list of friends, best friends, or best friends forever, support this work for less than the cost of one cup of coffee a month at patreon.com/diviningcomics. You can also leave a one-time tip/buy my zines at ko-fi.com/spikestonehand. Or, if you can’t afford to support me financially at this time, simply follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky and share my posts there.
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 16
Marvel’s X-Men Event Begins
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ABSOLUTE CASSANDRA CAIN # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
SPINNING OUT FROM ABSOLUTE CATWOMAN COMES THE ABSOLUTE DEMON’S HAND! Years ago, The Joker trained with the League of Assassins, and when he learned all he could, he slaughtered everyone. But out of the wreckage of what was left came Lady Shiva and her daughter, CASSANDRA CAIN. Learn the origin of the Absolute Universe’s most formidable assassin and how her story is one that is intertwined with the world’s greatest thief, Selina Kyle, Catwoman!
THE BIG SHAKEDOWN # 1
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The Big One, the earthquake to end all earthquakes, has finally struck Los Angeles. The government decides not to rebuild and the city becomes a no man’s land for those that refuse to leave it. But hey, you can’t beat the weather.
Five years later Ester Blanco, a down on her luck former P.I., is willing to do anything to escape the City of Angels. She believes she’s found her ticket out when a desperate father hires her to solve a missing person’s case in a city where a third of the population is already missing. Instead, the trail of this lost girl leads Ester to uncover a dark web of cults, conspiracy and corruption that threatens every Angeleno that stayed behind.
THE BIG SHAKEDOWN is a sunbaked LA noir in the vein of Chinatown and The Long Goodbye and set in the post-apocalyptic remains of the most beloved/hated city in the world. From writers Jordan Blum (Minor Threats) Tim Seeley (Local Man) and artist Scott Koblish (The Despicable Deadpool) comes a pulpy tale of murder, destruction and traffic.
DNX # 1
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THE X-VIRUS UNLEASHED!
The X-Men and 3K. Each steered by an original heir of Xavier, each with their own vision for the mutant people. Each at one another’s throats. Cyclops and the Chairman both experienced the future of the Age of Revelation and came home with a renewed mission: the X-Men to prevent that future. 3K to own it. While the X-Men seek out the Fantastic Four to help save one of their own, the White Beast begins his plan to unleash the X-Virus in a major populated area! EVOLUTION IS CONTAGIOUS!
OFIUSA # 1
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BE CAREFUL WHEN DIVING INTO THE WATERS OF OFIUSA.
Writer and artist GUILLEM MARCH, well known for his work on Batman, The Joker, and Catwoman, returns as a solo creator after his acclaimed KARMEN in this new, edgy six-part series.
The romance between the irresistible Marand the young entrepreneur Joan gets off to a flying start. In another timeline, Joan meets the enigmatic Isla on a paradise island. A love triangle in which everyone is hiding something, while a dark secret from the past awaits to be revealed.
With exquisite artwork that evokes paradise and a story that gradually lays bare the characters’ souls — while also leaving room for fun, seduction, and the search for truth. What happens in Ofiusa stays in Ofiusa.
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW # 5
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WHO WILL BE SACRIFICED? At the mercy of Hector Hammond, Black Canary and the Green Arrow Killer finally bear witness to the depraved horrors Hammond has been hiding. But when a horrible sacrifice evens the odds … will Dinah have traded one threat for an even more terrifying danger?
BATMAN OF TWO WORLDS # 1
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Matt Fraction’s Dark Knight meets Scott Snyder’s Absolute Batman in this Batman Day 2026 one-shot.
G.I. JOE # 26
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ROUND TWO: G.I. JOE AND NIGHT FORCE WON’T BACK DOWN! The epic battle between the two teams takes a dangerous turn as a new Joe enters the fight! Can Baroness’s secret mission stop the war?
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURLES # 22
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The hunt for the Ujigami door knocker continues! It’s the Hungry Ghost Festival, a time when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest, bringing back both Turtle friend and foe! With Karai and Stockman attempting to raise an army of undead ninja, it’s the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ last chance to close the door before the dead come back for good. Can they do it in time?!
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
BATMAN: GARGOYLE OF GOTHAM Deluxe Edition HC
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WHEN YOU CASE YOUR OWN SHADOW… IT LEADS YOU INTO THE ABYSS.
Batman knows intimately even the darkest and most irredeemable streets of Gotham City, but when an all-new rogues gallery of depraved villains emerges from its murky depths, he will come to find that he hardly knows himself. A serial killer is on the loose, and while the murder victims seem random at first, every clue draws Batman closer to the terrifying truth—that they are all connected, not just to each other…but to him. Batman will have to contend with the very nature of evil— including that which lurks inside in the darkest corners of his own heart—to face what’s coming for his city. Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham brings Eisner Award-winning creator Rafael Grampá’s twisted vision of both the Dark Knight and Gotham City to life in this thrilling deluxe edition that will reach its icy black tendrils into the rotting heart of human nature and leave you gasping for breath—and for more!
Collects Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #1-4.
THE DISSIDENTS: AUTOCRATS! VIGILANTES! COMMUNISTS! . . . AND CARTOONISTS! HC
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From the award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Kent State comes a timely graphic novel about racism, violence, and political turmoil in the early 20th century, when a handful of cartoonists and journalists pushed back against a corrupt administration to defend the rights of free speech
“WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE . . . BUT WE FORGOT.”
It’s 1916. President Woodrow Wilson―a deeply divisive authoritarian who is also a white supremacist with open contempt for constitutional rights―sits in the Oval Office.
Racial tensions, unprecedented economic inequality, a groundswell of support for unionization, and the rise of both a reactionary far right militia and a growing radical opposition shake the very foundations of American society. A pandemic is two years away. And the 1900s have only just gotten started.
GILDED SEVEN vol. 1 TP
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A historical action with a supernatural twist that comes highly recommended from ONE—creator of One Punch Man! Take a trip to an unknown timeline where Abraham Lincoln didn’t die, and the wild west is wilder than ever! From the creator of No Guns Life.
State trooper Keigo Westwood tracks down the La Llorona gang to Yellowstone National Park. Just as he’s about to arrest their leader, an eruption throws him back to the frontier times in 1865. Law and order have yet to be established, and Keigo finds himself still locked in battle with the six La Llorona members who traveled back in time alongside him. However, Kiego has a powerful ally in the greatest president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln! Throw out your history books and get ready to see the Wildest West!
INTO THE UNBEING Library Edition HC
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The entire terrifying journey of four scientists lost within a giant eldritch corpse is collected in this deluxe hardcover graphic novel volume. It’s a cosmic body-horror epic from acclaimed author Zac Thompson and Eisner-winning artist Hayden Sherman!
Find yourself in its innards.
A group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback discover an impossible landform. Led by botanist Hildur Johansson, the team sets out to conduct a routine exploratory mission to map the terrain, record their observations, and try to understand this anomalous landscape. But this is no landscape. This is the Unbeing.
The team discovers a sprawling eldritch corpse that threatens to upend everything they understand about the natural world. Propelled by hubris and the intoxicating charm of forbidden knowledge, the research team descends into a hostile alien environment allowed to thrive without human interference. The beautiful yet unforgiving landscape hosts strange flora, gorgeous fauna, and dangerous predators lurking in the darkness.
Into The Unbeing is a journey centuries in the making, chronicling the many lives who’ve been lost to the seemingly malevolent corpse. As they navigate the sprawling Lovecraftian labyrinth, the climate scientists must form a distrustful and desperate alliance with a mysterious humanoid known only as the Stranger. This incomprehensible Stranger claims to be a nineteenth-century British explorer. It claims to know the way back to the surface. It claims a new world is on its way. Perhaps if you listen closely, you can hear it breathing. But what is the cost of this new world? And who will be left to live in it?
Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Alien: Romulus) and Eisner-winning artist Hayden Sherman (Batman: Dark Patterns, Absolute Wonder Woman).
Collects Into the Unbeing Part 1 #1–#4 and Into the Unbeing Part 2 #1–#4.Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE Deluxe Edition HC
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R.I.P. Riverdale! Once in a generation, a story so potent, so powerful, so horrifying rises from the grave to redefine the comics medium’s greatest icons. Enter: The first-ever deluxe collection of Afterlife with Archie — collecting the totality of the groundbreaking, cemetery-shaking comics masterpiece from Harvey Award–winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Stephen King’s The Stand: American Nightmare) and Eisner Award–winning artist Francesco Francavilla (Batman: The Black Mirror) that first introduced Riverdale’s teenage icons into a merciless world of ritual magic, undead terror, and survival at any cost!
When a tragic death befalls Jughead Jones’s closest companion, his grief drives him to the doorstep of Sabrina the Teenage Witch… and into the thrall of a dark magic that will soon turn the whole of Riverdale into a ravenous pack of undead zombies fueled by a desire for human flesh. Hunted by the reanimated corpses of their friends and loved ones, can Archie, Betty, Veronica, and the rest of America’s most beloved teenagers battle back by a legion of the dead… and live long enough to stop the entire world from being consumed by the same unholy hunger? Pal vs. pal. Classmate vs. classmate. Living vs. dead. They swore to be friends until the end… but they never expected the end to look quite like this.
This definitive hardcover collection of the riveting and relentless milestone that the New York Times calls “gruesome [and] masterly” re-presents the entirety of the Afterlife with Archie saga—including the never-before-collected issues #6–10—in an oversized format that also features a complete cover gallery and behind-the-scenes materials on the development of Archie Comics’ first all-out horror epic.
Collecting Afterlife with Archie #1–10.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: HALLOWEEN SPECIAL # 1
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HAPPY SPIDER-WEEN! Treat yourself with tricks in this epic Halloween adventure! The TRICK — Hallows’ Eve tries to pull off her biggest heist yet, and Spider-Man’s gotta stop her before she imperils the ENTIRE 616! The TREAT — a new costume for Spidey?!
PLUS, WE HAVE SOME SPIDEY SECRETS HIDDEN AWAY IN THIS ISSUE, TOO!
IN YOUR SKIN TP
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Bollywood body horror collides with erotic obsession as a die-hard fan resolves to replace her retiring screen idol, blurring fantasy and flesh in a dark, intoxicating debut.
Priyanka is a Bollywood uber-fan who has been obsessed with film star Ayesha Sen since she was a kid — she’s watched her movies over and over, and knows her dances beat for beat. But after a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet her idol goes awry, and Ayesha announces her impending retirement from movies, Priyanka decides that if Ayesha isn’t going to live the life she’s supposed to, Priyanka would be more than happy to take over for her…
Aditya Bidikar (The Department of Truth, Blue in Green) and rising star artist Som (Crocodile Black) present a twisted exploration of celebrity culture, identity, and image that’s perfect for fans of The Substance, Perfect Blue, Black Swan and David Cronenberg.
Collects #1-4.
MAFALDA Book Two HC
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As good a place as any to enter the madcap world of Mafalda and friends, Book Two of Mafalda finds the gang up to new antics. Mafalda heads off on a beach vacation, where she meets a curious stranger: Miguelito, a mop-headed philosopher who happens to live right down the street back at home. Susanita, Manolito, and Felipe, meanwhile, continue to tussle over all matter of issues, romp around the neighborhood, and execute physical feats of great proportions. Only this time, Quino brings everyone together in an alien environment: elementary school.
Quino’s legendary comic fuses political incisiveness with all sorts of gags and hijinks. Mafalda notes the peculiar effects of consumerism and globalization, the ironies of sexism, and the injustices of poverty. Her clear-sighted antiwar beliefs will inspire a new generation of thinkers and activists. All the while young readers will fall in love with Quino’s drawings which evoke all the humor, irritation, ponderousness, and energy of childhood.
What did I miss?
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 16
Marvel’s X-Men Event Begins
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
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New Issue # 1s
ABSOLUTE CASSANDRA CAIN # 1
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SPINNING OUT FROM ABSOLUTE CATWOMAN COMES THE ABSOLUTE DEMON’S HAND! Years ago, The Joker trained with the League of Assassins, and when he learned all he could, he slaughtered everyone. But out of the wreckage of what was left came Lady Shiva and her daughter, CASSANDRA CAIN. Learn the origin of the Absolute Universe’s most formidable assassin and how her story is one that is intertwined with the world’s greatest thief, Selina Kyle, Catwoman!
THE BIG SHAKEDOWN # 1
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The Big One, the earthquake to end all earthquakes, has finally struck Los Angeles. The government decides not to rebuild and the city becomes a no man’s land for those that refuse to leave it. But hey, you can’t beat the weather.
Five years later Ester Blanco, a down on her luck former P.I., is willing to do anything to escape the City of Angels. She believes she’s found her ticket out when a desperate father hires her to solve a missing person’s case in a city where a third of the population is already missing. Instead, the trail of this lost girl leads Ester to uncover a dark web of cults, conspiracy and corruption that threatens every Angeleno that stayed behind.
THE BIG SHAKEDOWN is a sunbaked LA noir in the vein of Chinatown and The Long Goodbye and set in the post-apocalyptic remains of the most beloved/hated city in the world. From writers Jordan Blum (Minor Threats) Tim Seeley (Local Man) and artist Scott Koblish (The Despicable Deadpool) comes a pulpy tale of murder, destruction and traffic.
DNX # 1
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THE X-VIRUS UNLEASHED!
The X-Men and 3K. Each steered by an original heir of Xavier, each with their own vision for the mutant people. Each at one another’s throats. Cyclops and the Chairman both experienced the future of the Age of Revelation and came home with a renewed mission: the X-Men to prevent that future. 3K to own it. While the X-Men seek out the Fantastic Four to help save one of their own, the White Beast begins his plan to unleash the X-Virus in a major populated area! EVOLUTION IS CONTAGIOUS!
OFIUSA # 1
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BE CAREFUL WHEN DIVING INTO THE WATERS OF OFIUSA.
Writer and artist GUILLEM MARCH, well known for his work on Batman, The Joker, and Catwoman, returns as a solo creator after his acclaimed KARMEN in this new, edgy six-part series.
The romance between the irresistible Marand the young entrepreneur Joan gets off to a flying start. In another timeline, Joan meets the enigmatic Isla on a paradise island. A love triangle in which everyone is hiding something, while a dark secret from the past awaits to be revealed.
With exquisite artwork that evokes paradise and a story that gradually lays bare the characters’ souls — while also leaving room for fun, seduction, and the search for truth. What happens in Ofiusa stays in Ofiusa.
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW # 5
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WHO WILL BE SACRIFICED? At the mercy of Hector Hammond, Black Canary and the Green Arrow Killer finally bear witness to the depraved horrors Hammond has been hiding. But when a horrible sacrifice evens the odds … will Dinah have traded one threat for an even more terrifying danger?
BATMAN OF TWO WORLDS # 1
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Matt Fraction’s Dark Knight meets Scott Snyder’s Absolute Batman in this Batman Day 2026 one-shot.
G.I. JOE # 26
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ROUND TWO: G.I. JOE AND NIGHT FORCE WON’T BACK DOWN! The epic battle between the two teams takes a dangerous turn as a new Joe enters the fight! Can Baroness’s secret mission stop the war?
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURLES # 22
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The hunt for the Ujigami door knocker continues! It’s the Hungry Ghost Festival, a time when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest, bringing back both Turtle friend and foe! With Karai and Stockman attempting to raise an army of undead ninja, it’s the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ last chance to close the door before the dead come back for good. Can they do it in time?!
Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
BATMAN: GARGOYLE OF GOTHAM Deluxe Edition HC
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WHEN YOU CASE YOUR OWN SHADOW… IT LEADS YOU INTO THE ABYSS.
Batman knows intimately even the darkest and most irredeemable streets of Gotham City, but when an all-new rogues gallery of depraved villains emerges from its murky depths, he will come to find that he hardly knows himself. A serial killer is on the loose, and while the murder victims seem random at first, every clue draws Batman closer to the terrifying truth—that they are all connected, not just to each other…but to him. Batman will have to contend with the very nature of evil— including that which lurks inside in the darkest corners of his own heart—to face what’s coming for his city. Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham brings Eisner Award-winning creator Rafael Grampá’s twisted vision of both the Dark Knight and Gotham City to life in this thrilling deluxe edition that will reach its icy black tendrils into the rotting heart of human nature and leave you gasping for breath—and for more!
Collects Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #1-4.
THE DISSIDENTS: AUTOCRATS! VIGILANTES! COMMUNISTS! . . . AND CARTOONISTS! HC
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From the award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Kent State comes a timely graphic novel about racism, violence, and political turmoil in the early 20th century, when a handful of cartoonists and journalists pushed back against a corrupt administration to defend the rights of free speech
“WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE . . . BUT WE FORGOT.”
It’s 1916. President Woodrow Wilson―a deeply divisive authoritarian who is also a white supremacist with open contempt for constitutional rights―sits in the Oval Office.
Racial tensions, unprecedented economic inequality, a groundswell of support for unionization, and the rise of both a reactionary far right militia and a growing radical opposition shake the very foundations of American society. A pandemic is two years away. And the 1900s have only just gotten started.
GILDED SEVEN vol. 1 TP
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A historical action with a supernatural twist that comes highly recommended from ONE—creator of One Punch Man! Take a trip to an unknown timeline where Abraham Lincoln didn’t die, and the wild west is wilder than ever! From the creator of No Guns Life.
State trooper Keigo Westwood tracks down the La Llorona gang to Yellowstone National Park. Just as he’s about to arrest their leader, an eruption throws him back to the frontier times in 1865. Law and order have yet to be established, and Keigo finds himself still locked in battle with the six La Llorona members who traveled back in time alongside him. However, Kiego has a powerful ally in the greatest president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln! Throw out your history books and get ready to see the Wildest West!
INTO THE UNBEING Library Edition HC
SOLICIT COPY:
The entire terrifying journey of four scientists lost within a giant eldritch corpse is collected in this deluxe hardcover graphic novel volume. It’s a cosmic body-horror epic from acclaimed author Zac Thompson and Eisner-winning artist Hayden Sherman!
Find yourself in its innards.
A group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback discover an impossible landform. Led by botanist Hildur Johansson, the team sets out to conduct a routine exploratory mission to map the terrain, record their observations, and try to understand this anomalous landscape. But this is no landscape. This is the Unbeing.
The team discovers a sprawling eldritch corpse that threatens to upend everything they understand about the natural world. Propelled by hubris and the intoxicating charm of forbidden knowledge, the research team descends into a hostile alien environment allowed to thrive without human interference. The beautiful yet unforgiving landscape hosts strange flora, gorgeous fauna, and dangerous predators lurking in the darkness.
Into The Unbeing is a journey centuries in the making, chronicling the many lives who’ve been lost to the seemingly malevolent corpse. As they navigate the sprawling Lovecraftian labyrinth, the climate scientists must form a distrustful and desperate alliance with a mysterious humanoid known only as the Stranger. This incomprehensible Stranger claims to be a nineteenth-century British explorer. It claims to know the way back to the surface. It claims a new world is on its way. Perhaps if you listen closely, you can hear it breathing. But what is the cost of this new world? And who will be left to live in it?
Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Alien: Romulus) and Eisner-winning artist Hayden Sherman (Batman: Dark Patterns, Absolute Wonder Woman).
Collects Into the Unbeing Part 1 #1–#4 and Into the Unbeing Part 2 #1–#4.Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE Deluxe Edition HC
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R.I.P. Riverdale! Once in a generation, a story so potent, so powerful, so horrifying rises from the grave to redefine the comics medium’s greatest icons. Enter: The first-ever deluxe collection of Afterlife with Archie — collecting the totality of the groundbreaking, cemetery-shaking comics masterpiece from Harvey Award–winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Stephen King’s The Stand: American Nightmare) and Eisner Award–winning artist Francesco Francavilla (Batman: The Black Mirror) that first introduced Riverdale’s teenage icons into a merciless world of ritual magic, undead terror, and survival at any cost!
When a tragic death befalls Jughead Jones’s closest companion, his grief drives him to the doorstep of Sabrina the Teenage Witch… and into the thrall of a dark magic that will soon turn the whole of Riverdale into a ravenous pack of undead zombies fueled by a desire for human flesh. Hunted by the reanimated corpses of their friends and loved ones, can Archie, Betty, Veronica, and the rest of America’s most beloved teenagers battle back by a legion of the dead… and live long enough to stop the entire world from being consumed by the same unholy hunger? Pal vs. pal. Classmate vs. classmate. Living vs. dead. They swore to be friends until the end… but they never expected the end to look quite like this.
This definitive hardcover collection of the riveting and relentless milestone that the New York Times calls “gruesome [and] masterly” re-presents the entirety of the Afterlife with Archie saga—including the never-before-collected issues #6–10—in an oversized format that also features a complete cover gallery and behind-the-scenes materials on the development of Archie Comics’ first all-out horror epic.
Collecting Afterlife with Archie #1–10.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: HALLOWEEN SPECIAL # 1
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HAPPY SPIDER-WEEN! Treat yourself with tricks in this epic Halloween adventure! The TRICK — Hallows’ Eve tries to pull off her biggest heist yet, and Spider-Man’s gotta stop her before she imperils the ENTIRE 616! The TREAT — a new costume for Spidey?!
PLUS, WE HAVE SOME SPIDEY SECRETS HIDDEN AWAY IN THIS ISSUE, TOO!
IN YOUR SKIN TP
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Bollywood body horror collides with erotic obsession as a die-hard fan resolves to replace her retiring screen idol, blurring fantasy and flesh in a dark, intoxicating debut.
Priyanka is a Bollywood uber-fan who has been obsessed with film star Ayesha Sen since she was a kid — she’s watched her movies over and over, and knows her dances beat for beat. But after a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet her idol goes awry, and Ayesha announces her impending retirement from movies, Priyanka decides that if Ayesha isn’t going to live the life she’s supposed to, Priyanka would be more than happy to take over for her…
Aditya Bidikar (The Department of Truth, Blue in Green) and rising star artist Som (Crocodile Black) present a twisted exploration of celebrity culture, identity, and image that’s perfect for fans of The Substance, Perfect Blue, Black Swan and David Cronenberg.
Collects #1-4.
MAFALDA Book Two HC
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As good a place as any to enter the madcap world of Mafalda and friends, Book Two of Mafalda finds the gang up to new antics. Mafalda heads off on a beach vacation, where she meets a curious stranger: Miguelito, a mop-headed philosopher who happens to live right down the street back at home. Susanita, Manolito, and Felipe, meanwhile, continue to tussle over all matter of issues, romp around the neighborhood, and execute physical feats of great proportions. Only this time, Quino brings everyone together in an alien environment: elementary school.
Quino’s legendary comic fuses political incisiveness with all sorts of gags and hijinks. Mafalda notes the peculiar effects of consumerism and globalization, the ironies of sexism, and the injustices of poverty. Her clear-sighted antiwar beliefs will inspire a new generation of thinkers and activists. All the while young readers will fall in love with Quino’s drawings which evoke all the humor, irritation, ponderousness, and energy of childhood.
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
Divining Comics is also brought to you by the support of the “Friends of Divining Comics”: Comic Book Herald.
If you would like to add your name to the list of friends, best friends, or best friends forever, support this work for less than the cost of one cup of coffee a month at patreon.com/diviningcomics. You can also leave a one-time tip/buy my zines at ko-fi.com/spikestonehand. Or, if you can’t afford to support me financially at this time, simply follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky and share my posts there.
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Return to the world of Fantastic Four: First Steps for the debut of the Frightful Four in Fantastic Four: First Foes - The Wizard #1 #comics #comicbooks #fantasticfour #firststeps
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Return to the world of Fantastic Four: First Steps for the debut of the Frightful Four in Fantastic Four: First Foes - The Wizard #1 #comics #comicbooks #fantasticfour #firststeps
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Return to the world of Fantastic Four: First Steps for the debut of the Frightful Four in Fantastic Four: First Foes - The Wizard #1 #comics #comicbooks #fantasticfour #firststeps
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Return to the world of Fantastic Four: First Steps for the debut of the Frightful Four in Fantastic Four: First Foes - The Wizard #1 #comics #comicbooks #fantasticfour #firststeps
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‘Fantastic Four: First Foes’ finale introduces the Wizard and Frightful Four
‘Fantastic Four: First Foes – The Wizard’ #1 arrives this December with a cover by Phil Noto.
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‘Fantastic Four: First Foes’ finale introduces the Wizard and Frightful Four
‘Fantastic Four: First Foes – The Wizard’ #1 arrives this December with a cover by Phil Noto.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/14/fantastic-four-first-foes-finale/ -
‘Fantastic Four: First Foes’ finale introduces the Wizard and Frightful Four
‘Fantastic Four: First Foes – The Wizard’ #1 arrives this December with a cover by Phil Noto.
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#FantasticFour: First Steps Review http://dlvr.it/TVQFyw
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Here is my Review of Fantastic Four #16 2025 w/ Spoilers:
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 2
NEW ARCHIE NEW ARCHIE NEW ARCHIE…and also a bunch of DC
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ARCHIE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
BEING YOUNG NEVER GETS OLD! THE MILESTONE COMICS PUBLISHING EVENT OF THE YEAR STARTS HERE AS ONI PRESS AND ARCHIE COMICS PROUDLY PRESENT A GROUNDBREAKING NEW ONGOING SERIES FOR THE MOST JOYOUS COMIC BOOK ICON OF ALL!
A new day is dawning in Riverdale as New York Times bestselling writer, Edgar Award and Philip K. Dick Award winner, and Eisner Award nominee Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, Benjamin) joins multiple Eisner Award–winning artist Fábio Moon (Daytripper, Casanova) to reintroduce America’s favorite teenager — and begin a star-studded countdown to Archie’s 85th anniversary — with a 21st-century testament to teenage idealism and the limitless joy of Archie Comics!
For his entire life, 17-year-old Archie Andrews has had it all: adoring friends, football glory, and a natural charm that always seems to make him the center of attention. Now, through his eyes, experience the warmth and wonder of Riverdale and its near-infinite roster of residents — the popular kids, the endearing oddballs, and everyone in between — as Archie embarks on a whirlwind, all-star adventure through his town’s past, present, and future… beginning with a local film festival that’s about to turn everything upside down!
And, at the center of it all, lies an enigmatic paradox that only Archie’s pal Jughead Jones can possibly unravel…
Plus: Puzzles! Pin-ups! Bountiful bonus stories! And a veritable sweet shop of surprises that all link to the same inextricable mystery… Finally, your antidote for postmodern malaise has arrived. Welcome to the all-new ARCHIE #1!
CROWBOUND # 1
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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale meets Cormac McCarthy’s The Road with echoes of Kill Bill and Pan’s Labyrinth when a noncompliant mother makes a dark pact with an ancient, violent Scarecrow Queen to stop a totalitarian government from taking her daughter.
Rose isn’t special. She works in the Factory just like everyone else — a dark, sprawling monolithic structure that runs along the coast and cuts the world in two. All that’s left now are desolate settlements that exist in its shadow, made up of submerged villages, derelict woods, and deadly swamps. No one knows what’s left of the world on the other side…
But when Rose’s young daughter Ava is violently taken from their shanty town home a year before she is meant to join the work force, Rose will come face-to-face with the surreal, harrowing forces outside the Factory’s walls — including a terrifying figure called the Scarecrow Queen, who has an offer: one last chance to save her daughter, in exchange for her soul.
PRIMA APPARATA # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Welcome to the Conservatory.
After Earth was shattered into surviving pockets across the galaxy, humanity’s most talented young women train at this prestigious celestial boarding school to become the next generation of mech pilots.
But these students aren’t soldiers, they’re ballerinas; and the mechs aren’t built for battle, but performance. All engineered in body and mind to entertain a ruling class of cosmic patrons in an annual life-or-death recital of mankind’s only unifying story: the saga of Appolyta the Huntress, a goddess whose pursuit of one last elusive prey ends in heartbreak.
This year’s top recruits, the quietly ambitious Mar and rebellious Rhea, endure a cutthroat curriculum to compete for the crowning title of Prima Apparata. As their bond deepens and Mar’s obsessive quest puts her under the wing of Appolyta herself, the line between art and indoctrination blurs—and the great personal cost of perfection will transform their lives.
Black Swan and Never Let Me Go meet Pacific Rim in this groundbreaking space opera from rising debut writer Olivia Dufault (Love Ignited, FX’s Legion) and fan-favorite veteran illustrator Rebekah Isaacs (BRZRKR: Fallen Empire, Money Shot)!
SUPERMAN: THE STRANGER # 1
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Step into the Golden Age and witness the first adventures of Superman! During the day, Clark Kent does what he can to make ends meet in the bustling city of Metropolis, but when the sun goes down, he leaps into action to keep the city streets safe! As Superman, Clark fights for a better tomorrow, but he feels like he’s not affecting change. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor struggle to survive. Can Superman truly save the downtrodden? The next Superman epic brought to you by superstar creator Wes Craig!
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN # 18
SOLICIT COPY:
THE HORRORS OF THE UNIVERSE! After Jo’s showdown with Sinestro and the Blackstars , she understands the harsh reality of this intergalactic war she finds herself in the middle of. But even with more knowledge of her powers and place in the universe, is she ready for the horrors that lurk in the unseen?
ESCAPE # 9
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History begins small — in a broken home, in lies, in fear, a man pushed to insanity — and grows outward. Once small weeds invade other gardens, and choke every green thing with its thorns. The choices of one man, trapped in a nightmare, will shape the world to come.
M.A.S.K. # 4
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Dusty Hayes — are you ready to save the world? When an out-of-control V.E.N.O.M. agent sets fire to New Orleans, can Dusty Hayes and Matt Trakker stop the destruction without the loss of lives?
MINOR ARCANA # 18
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The truth behind Theresa leaving Limberlost is revealed!
A dreamlike visit to the Liminal Space and Edgewater Hotel drudges up the past, along with Theresa’s reasons for leaving home in the first place.
But a secret source of power makes itself known, threatening to topple Theresa’s resolve to stay in Limberlost this time around.
Will coming face-to-face with her past and the painful circumstances of the present prove to be too much for her?Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
BILLY BAT vol. 2 TP
SOLICIT COPY:
From superstar creators comes one of the most anticipated manga–a millennia-sprawling conspiracy thriller. All the Light We Cannot See meets historical figures you all know: Einstein, Walt Disney, Lee Harvey Oswald, and even Jesus Christ
Who is the mysterious Billy Bat? Fifty years ago, he reunited two lovers in New York City. Sixty years ago, he roamed the darkest night of the postwar era. Two thousand years ago, he wove through the fate of one hailed as a savior.
Well, Billy Bat? Who are you really? And…why are you here?
This is the second thrilling volume in the sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, beautifully packaged and available for the first time in English.
Chapters 10-18
A GHOST ARM MADE OF ANGRY GHOSTS HC
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From writer and colorist extraordinaire Oliver Mertz (The Monuments, First Law of Mad Science) and acclaimed artist Alex Diotto (Youth, Indigo Children) comes a weird tale of conspiracy, faded superheroics, and suburban angst in ’90s Washington, D.C.
Sixteen-year-old Ari Ackerman just witnessed a murder. Or two. Or maybe he didn’t. He’s not quite sure. What he does know is that he loves the Washington, D.C., punk scene and is trying very hard to process the perpetual impending death (and frequent resurrections) of his cancer-stricken father. Ari’s best friend, Maya Meng, just wants to hang out and go see Jawbox play at the Black Cat. But sadly, an escalating series of unexplained deaths can really ruin a perfectly good day.
For readers who like What’s the Furthest Place from Here?, Love and Rockets, David Lynch, Daniel Clowes, Seinfeld, Agatha Christie, Powers, Fugazi, and Wes Anderson, A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts is sure to evoke all the feelings that come with being an outsider, making sense of the world around you, and finding your place in it.
KALI TP
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From Daniel Freedman (Raiders) and Mondo and DICE artist Robert Sammelin comes an original graphic novel that’s a nonstop, high-octane existential action spectacle that perfect for Mad Max: Fury Road fans.
Stabbed in the back, poisoned, and left for dead by her own gang, Kali sets off on a one-way road of vengeance across a war-torn desert battlefield. With impending death coursing through her veins and a despotic army hot on her tail, Kali will stop at nothing to get her revenge, even if its the last thing she ever does. A nonstop high octane existential action spectacle from writer Daniel Freedman and artist Robert Sammelin.
Includes new expansive creator interview conducted by Brandon Graham and an art gallery featuring new work by some of today’s most acclaimed artists.
MARVEL DIMENSIONS HC
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Alex Ross, the award-winning and bestselling creator of Marvels, Kingdom Come, and Fantastic Four: Full Circle, takes readers through the Marvel Universe — but all is not as it seems.
Marvel Dimensions is legendary artist Alex Ross’ second book in the Marvel Arts series, following the national bestselling, critically acclaimed, and award-winning Fantastic Four: Full Circle.
The story opens with a sweeping tour through the classic origins of Marvel’s most iconic characters. Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Wolverine, and many others appear in dramatic, fully painted spreads that echo their earliest stories. A narrator describes each moment with confidence, guiding the reader through these touchstones of Marvel’s history. But as the story moves forward, the tone begins to shift. The voice behind the narration is not who the readers expect and carries a motive that slowly pushes the narrative somewhere darker and far more unpredictable.
Once this change becomes clear, the book expands into something larger and more surprising. Storylines twist in on themselves, characters behave in unexpected ways, and events ripple across the Marvel Universe with growing tensions. Ross uses the structure of the book to create anticipation and pull the reader deeper into a mystery that keeps widening. Every new sequence reveals another layer, building toward a final act that reframes everything that came before it. A bonus 32-page comic book is included that is pivotal to the storyline.
With Marvel Dimensions, Ross approaches the Marvel Universe from a new angle with new character invention that invites readers to question what they think and what they know. Marvel Dimensions may be the latest title in the Marvel Arts line… but it is only the beginning.
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
ARCHIE: NEW RIVERDALE Compact Edition TP
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The New Riverdale era starts here as Eisner Award winners Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) and Fiona Staples (Saga) bring Archie Andrews to living color in this modern-day retelling of how Riverdale’s fastest friends first came together.
Meet the Riverdale gang as you’ve never seen them before: Archie, the cool, guitar-strumming all-American boy; his oddball but wise best friend, Jughead; girl-next-door cum car mechanic Betty; and the stylishly rebellious new girl Veronica as they conquer high school drama, dating, and so much more in this contemporary new take on the students of Riverdale High!
The first in a new line of compact editions collecting Archie Comics’ most memorable moments, this handy volume collects the best-selling reinvention that io9 calls “absolutely fantastic” — with additional contributions from acclaimed artists Annie Wu (Hawkeye) and Veronica Fish (Spider-Woman).
Collects Archie (2015) #1–6.
HELLO HALLOWEEN # 2
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Get ready for another installment of the fan favorite horror anthology series—this time with our second annual Halloween special issue, full of tricks AND treats to ensure maximum seasonal chills and thrills!
A Halloween game of D&D takes a hellish turn when the dungeon master decides to host the game in an actual haunted house! Roll Incentive to NOT DIE in ‘The Funeral Party” by Len Gog and Dimitrios Pantazis.
Bestselling cartoonist Jeffrey Brown dishes out full-sized grossouts with “Smell My Feet.”
And duo infernale Chrisof Bogacas and Marie Enger revel in the plight of a hapless trick or treater who delves into a retro videogame handed out instead of candy in “Evermaze.”
IS TED OK? TP
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Is Ted OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of Severance with the cosmic sci-fi of Akira while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong.
This is a story about Ted and Sarah.
Ted, isolated and paranoid, works for a mega corporation owned by the world’s only trillionaire. He suffers from night terrors, obsessively draws the same mysterious figures again and again, all while listening to one track of music on repeat–oh, and the only “person” he ever talks to is a stray cat. His humanity is hanging by a thread. Sarah is a new arrival to the city, fighting her own demons, and her job is to remotely spy on Ted to ensure he doesn’t hurt anyone…or himself. When Ted’s mental state begins to crack, Sarah compassionately intervenes to help, and things go catastrophically wrong. Is Ted OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of Severance with the cosmic sci-fi of Akira while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong.
From creator Dave Chisholm (Spectrum, Miles Davis & The Search for the Sound), Is Ted OK? is a spectacularly unpredictable yarn–each successive issue shatters the scope of the previous, all without losing its core: a search for human connection in an oppressive, paranoid world.STARSHIP GODZILLA: INVASION # 1
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Starship Godzilla receives a massive upgrade as a galactic invasion begins!
The crew of Starship Godzilla may have won their first battle against the Xiliens, but in doing so they’ve started the war. As they reckon with their actions, they find themselves in need of upgrades for their ship… with bounty-seeking M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens hot on their trail. Meanwhile, the Xiliens put together the final pieces for their new cosmic kaiju weapon…
Join Chris Gooch and Oliver Ono in this five-issue follow-up to the fan-favorite Starship Godzilla series.
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 2
NEW ARCHIE NEW ARCHIE NEW ARCHIE…and also a bunch of DC
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ARCHIE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
BEING YOUNG NEVER GETS OLD! THE MILESTONE COMICS PUBLISHING EVENT OF THE YEAR STARTS HERE AS ONI PRESS AND ARCHIE COMICS PROUDLY PRESENT A GROUNDBREAKING NEW ONGOING SERIES FOR THE MOST JOYOUS COMIC BOOK ICON OF ALL!
A new day is dawning in Riverdale as New York Times bestselling writer, Edgar Award and Philip K. Dick Award winner, and Eisner Award nominee Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, Benjamin) joins multiple Eisner Award–winning artist Fábio Moon (Daytripper, Casanova) to reintroduce America’s favorite teenager — and begin a star-studded countdown to Archie’s 85th anniversary — with a 21st-century testament to teenage idealism and the limitless joy of Archie Comics!
For his entire life, 17-year-old Archie Andrews has had it all: adoring friends, football glory, and a natural charm that always seems to make him the center of attention. Now, through his eyes, experience the warmth and wonder of Riverdale and its near-infinite roster of residents — the popular kids, the endearing oddballs, and everyone in between — as Archie embarks on a whirlwind, all-star adventure through his town’s past, present, and future… beginning with a local film festival that’s about to turn everything upside down!
And, at the center of it all, lies an enigmatic paradox that only Archie’s pal Jughead Jones can possibly unravel…
Plus: Puzzles! Pin-ups! Bountiful bonus stories! And a veritable sweet shop of surprises that all link to the same inextricable mystery… Finally, your antidote for postmodern malaise has arrived. Welcome to the all-new ARCHIE #1!
CROWBOUND # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale meets Cormac McCarthy’s The Road with echoes of Kill Bill and Pan’s Labyrinth when a noncompliant mother makes a dark pact with an ancient, violent Scarecrow Queen to stop a totalitarian government from taking her daughter.
Rose isn’t special. She works in the Factory just like everyone else — a dark, sprawling monolithic structure that runs along the coast and cuts the world in two. All that’s left now are desolate settlements that exist in its shadow, made up of submerged villages, derelict woods, and deadly swamps. No one knows what’s left of the world on the other side…
But when Rose’s young daughter Ava is violently taken from their shanty town home a year before she is meant to join the work force, Rose will come face-to-face with the surreal, harrowing forces outside the Factory’s walls — including a terrifying figure called the Scarecrow Queen, who has an offer: one last chance to save her daughter, in exchange for her soul.
PRIMA APPARATA # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Welcome to the Conservatory.
After Earth was shattered into surviving pockets across the galaxy, humanity’s most talented young women train at this prestigious celestial boarding school to become the next generation of mech pilots.
But these students aren’t soldiers, they’re ballerinas; and the mechs aren’t built for battle, but performance. All engineered in body and mind to entertain a ruling class of cosmic patrons in an annual life-or-death recital of mankind’s only unifying story: the saga of Appolyta the Huntress, a goddess whose pursuit of one last elusive prey ends in heartbreak.
This year’s top recruits, the quietly ambitious Mar and rebellious Rhea, endure a cutthroat curriculum to compete for the crowning title of Prima Apparata. As their bond deepens and Mar’s obsessive quest puts her under the wing of Appolyta herself, the line between art and indoctrination blurs—and the great personal cost of perfection will transform their lives.
Black Swan and Never Let Me Go meet Pacific Rim in this groundbreaking space opera from rising debut writer Olivia Dufault (Love Ignited, FX’s Legion) and fan-favorite veteran illustrator Rebekah Isaacs (BRZRKR: Fallen Empire, Money Shot)!
SUPERMAN: THE STRANGER # 1
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Step into the Golden Age and witness the first adventures of Superman! During the day, Clark Kent does what he can to make ends meet in the bustling city of Metropolis, but when the sun goes down, he leaps into action to keep the city streets safe! As Superman, Clark fights for a better tomorrow, but he feels like he’s not affecting change. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor struggle to survive. Can Superman truly save the downtrodden? The next Superman epic brought to you by superstar creator Wes Craig!
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN # 18
SOLICIT COPY:
THE HORRORS OF THE UNIVERSE! After Jo’s showdown with Sinestro and the Blackstars , she understands the harsh reality of this intergalactic war she finds herself in the middle of. But even with more knowledge of her powers and place in the universe, is she ready for the horrors that lurk in the unseen?
ESCAPE # 9
SOLICIT COPY:
History begins small — in a broken home, in lies, in fear, a man pushed to insanity — and grows outward. Once small weeds invade other gardens, and choke every green thing with its thorns. The choices of one man, trapped in a nightmare, will shape the world to come.
M.A.S.K. # 4
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Dusty Hayes — are you ready to save the world? When an out-of-control V.E.N.O.M. agent sets fire to New Orleans, can Dusty Hayes and Matt Trakker stop the destruction without the loss of lives?
MINOR ARCANA # 18
SOLICIT COPY:
The truth behind Theresa leaving Limberlost is revealed!
A dreamlike visit to the Liminal Space and Edgewater Hotel drudges up the past, along with Theresa’s reasons for leaving home in the first place.
But a secret source of power makes itself known, threatening to topple Theresa’s resolve to stay in Limberlost this time around.
Will coming face-to-face with her past and the painful circumstances of the present prove to be too much for her?Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
BILLY BAT vol. 2 TP
SOLICIT COPY:
From superstar creators comes one of the most anticipated manga–a millennia-sprawling conspiracy thriller. All the Light We Cannot See meets historical figures you all know: Einstein, Walt Disney, Lee Harvey Oswald, and even Jesus Christ
Who is the mysterious Billy Bat? Fifty years ago, he reunited two lovers in New York City. Sixty years ago, he roamed the darkest night of the postwar era. Two thousand years ago, he wove through the fate of one hailed as a savior.
Well, Billy Bat? Who are you really? And…why are you here?
This is the second thrilling volume in the sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, beautifully packaged and available for the first time in English.
Chapters 10-18
A GHOST ARM MADE OF ANGRY GHOSTS HC
SOLICIT COPY:
From writer and colorist extraordinaire Oliver Mertz (The Monuments, First Law of Mad Science) and acclaimed artist Alex Diotto (Youth, Indigo Children) comes a weird tale of conspiracy, faded superheroics, and suburban angst in ’90s Washington, D.C.
Sixteen-year-old Ari Ackerman just witnessed a murder. Or two. Or maybe he didn’t. He’s not quite sure. What he does know is that he loves the Washington, D.C., punk scene and is trying very hard to process the perpetual impending death (and frequent resurrections) of his cancer-stricken father. Ari’s best friend, Maya Meng, just wants to hang out and go see Jawbox play at the Black Cat. But sadly, an escalating series of unexplained deaths can really ruin a perfectly good day.
For readers who like What’s the Furthest Place from Here?, Love and Rockets, David Lynch, Daniel Clowes, Seinfeld, Agatha Christie, Powers, Fugazi, and Wes Anderson, A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts is sure to evoke all the feelings that come with being an outsider, making sense of the world around you, and finding your place in it.
KALI TP
SOLICIT COPY:
From Daniel Freedman (Raiders) and Mondo and DICE artist Robert Sammelin comes an original graphic novel that’s a nonstop, high-octane existential action spectacle that perfect for Mad Max: Fury Road fans.
Stabbed in the back, poisoned, and left for dead by her own gang, Kali sets off on a one-way road of vengeance across a war-torn desert battlefield. With impending death coursing through her veins and a despotic army hot on her tail, Kali will stop at nothing to get her revenge, even if its the last thing she ever does. A nonstop high octane existential action spectacle from writer Daniel Freedman and artist Robert Sammelin.
Includes new expansive creator interview conducted by Brandon Graham and an art gallery featuring new work by some of today’s most acclaimed artists.
MARVEL DIMENSIONS HC
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Alex Ross, the award-winning and bestselling creator of Marvels, Kingdom Come, and Fantastic Four: Full Circle, takes readers through the Marvel Universe — but all is not as it seems.
Marvel Dimensions is legendary artist Alex Ross’ second book in the Marvel Arts series, following the national bestselling, critically acclaimed, and award-winning Fantastic Four: Full Circle.
The story opens with a sweeping tour through the classic origins of Marvel’s most iconic characters. Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Wolverine, and many others appear in dramatic, fully painted spreads that echo their earliest stories. A narrator describes each moment with confidence, guiding the reader through these touchstones of Marvel’s history. But as the story moves forward, the tone begins to shift. The voice behind the narration is not who the readers expect and carries a motive that slowly pushes the narrative somewhere darker and far more unpredictable.
Once this change becomes clear, the book expands into something larger and more surprising. Storylines twist in on themselves, characters behave in unexpected ways, and events ripple across the Marvel Universe with growing tensions. Ross uses the structure of the book to create anticipation and pull the reader deeper into a mystery that keeps widening. Every new sequence reveals another layer, building toward a final act that reframes everything that came before it. A bonus 32-page comic book is included that is pivotal to the storyline.
With Marvel Dimensions, Ross approaches the Marvel Universe from a new angle with new character invention that invites readers to question what they think and what they know. Marvel Dimensions may be the latest title in the Marvel Arts line… but it is only the beginning.
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
ARCHIE: NEW RIVERDALE Compact Edition TP
SOLICIT COPY:
The New Riverdale era starts here as Eisner Award winners Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) and Fiona Staples (Saga) bring Archie Andrews to living color in this modern-day retelling of how Riverdale’s fastest friends first came together.
Meet the Riverdale gang as you’ve never seen them before: Archie, the cool, guitar-strumming all-American boy; his oddball but wise best friend, Jughead; girl-next-door cum car mechanic Betty; and the stylishly rebellious new girl Veronica as they conquer high school drama, dating, and so much more in this contemporary new take on the students of Riverdale High!
The first in a new line of compact editions collecting Archie Comics’ most memorable moments, this handy volume collects the best-selling reinvention that io9 calls “absolutely fantastic” — with additional contributions from acclaimed artists Annie Wu (Hawkeye) and Veronica Fish (Spider-Woman).
Collects Archie (2015) #1–6.
HELLO HALLOWEEN # 2
SOLICIT COPY:
Get ready for another installment of the fan favorite horror anthology series—this time with our second annual Halloween special issue, full of tricks AND treats to ensure maximum seasonal chills and thrills!
A Halloween game of D&D takes a hellish turn when the dungeon master decides to host the game in an actual haunted house! Roll Incentive to NOT DIE in ‘The Funeral Party” by Len Gog and Dimitrios Pantazis.
Bestselling cartoonist Jeffrey Brown dishes out full-sized grossouts with “Smell My Feet.”
And duo infernale Chrisof Bogacas and Marie Enger revel in the plight of a hapless trick or treater who delves into a retro videogame handed out instead of candy in “Evermaze.”
IS TED OK? TP
SOLICIT COPY:
Is Ted OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of Severance with the cosmic sci-fi of Akira while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong.
This is a story about Ted and Sarah.
Ted, isolated and paranoid, works for a mega corporation owned by the world’s only trillionaire. He suffers from night terrors, obsessively draws the same mysterious figures again and again, all while listening to one track of music on repeat–oh, and the only “person” he ever talks to is a stray cat. His humanity is hanging by a thread. Sarah is a new arrival to the city, fighting her own demons, and her job is to remotely spy on Ted to ensure he doesn’t hurt anyone…or himself. When Ted’s mental state begins to crack, Sarah compassionately intervenes to help, and things go catastrophically wrong. Is Ted OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of Severance with the cosmic sci-fi of Akira while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong.
From creator Dave Chisholm (Spectrum, Miles Davis & The Search for the Sound), Is Ted OK? is a spectacularly unpredictable yarn–each successive issue shatters the scope of the previous, all without losing its core: a search for human connection in an oppressive, paranoid world.STARSHIP GODZILLA: INVASION # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Starship Godzilla receives a massive upgrade as a galactic invasion begins!
The crew of Starship Godzilla may have won their first battle against the Xiliens, but in doing so they’ve started the war. As they reckon with their actions, they find themselves in need of upgrades for their ship… with bounty-seeking M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens hot on their trail. Meanwhile, the Xiliens put together the final pieces for their new cosmic kaiju weapon…
Join Chris Gooch and Oliver Ono in this five-issue follow-up to the fan-favorite Starship Godzilla series.
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
Divining Comics is also brought to you by the support of the “Friends of Divining Comics”: Comic Book Herald.
If you would like to add your name to the list of friends, best friends, or best friends forever, support this work for less than the cost of one cup of coffee a month at patreon.com/diviningcomics. You can also leave a one-time tip/buy my zines at ko-fi.com/spikestonehand. Or, if you can’t afford to support me financially at this time, simply follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky and share my posts there.
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 2
NEW ARCHIE NEW ARCHIE NEW ARCHIE…and also a bunch of DC
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ARCHIE # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
BEING YOUNG NEVER GETS OLD! THE MILESTONE COMICS PUBLISHING EVENT OF THE YEAR STARTS HERE AS ONI PRESS AND ARCHIE COMICS PROUDLY PRESENT A GROUNDBREAKING NEW ONGOING SERIES FOR THE MOST JOYOUS COMIC BOOK ICON OF ALL!
A new day is dawning in Riverdale as New York Times bestselling writer, Edgar Award and Philip K. Dick Award winner, and Eisner Award nominee Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, Benjamin) joins multiple Eisner Award–winning artist Fábio Moon (Daytripper, Casanova) to reintroduce America’s favorite teenager — and begin a star-studded countdown to Archie’s 85th anniversary — with a 21st-century testament to teenage idealism and the limitless joy of Archie Comics!
For his entire life, 17-year-old Archie Andrews has had it all: adoring friends, football glory, and a natural charm that always seems to make him the center of attention. Now, through his eyes, experience the warmth and wonder of Riverdale and its near-infinite roster of residents — the popular kids, the endearing oddballs, and everyone in between — as Archie embarks on a whirlwind, all-star adventure through his town’s past, present, and future… beginning with a local film festival that’s about to turn everything upside down!
And, at the center of it all, lies an enigmatic paradox that only Archie’s pal Jughead Jones can possibly unravel…
Plus: Puzzles! Pin-ups! Bountiful bonus stories! And a veritable sweet shop of surprises that all link to the same inextricable mystery… Finally, your antidote for postmodern malaise has arrived. Welcome to the all-new ARCHIE #1!
CROWBOUND # 1
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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale meets Cormac McCarthy’s The Road with echoes of Kill Bill and Pan’s Labyrinth when a noncompliant mother makes a dark pact with an ancient, violent Scarecrow Queen to stop a totalitarian government from taking her daughter.
Rose isn’t special. She works in the Factory just like everyone else — a dark, sprawling monolithic structure that runs along the coast and cuts the world in two. All that’s left now are desolate settlements that exist in its shadow, made up of submerged villages, derelict woods, and deadly swamps. No one knows what’s left of the world on the other side…
But when Rose’s young daughter Ava is violently taken from their shanty town home a year before she is meant to join the work force, Rose will come face-to-face with the surreal, harrowing forces outside the Factory’s walls — including a terrifying figure called the Scarecrow Queen, who has an offer: one last chance to save her daughter, in exchange for her soul.
PRIMA APPARATA # 1
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Welcome to the Conservatory.
After Earth was shattered into surviving pockets across the galaxy, humanity’s most talented young women train at this prestigious celestial boarding school to become the next generation of mech pilots.
But these students aren’t soldiers, they’re ballerinas; and the mechs aren’t built for battle, but performance. All engineered in body and mind to entertain a ruling class of cosmic patrons in an annual life-or-death recital of mankind’s only unifying story: the saga of Appolyta the Huntress, a goddess whose pursuit of one last elusive prey ends in heartbreak.
This year’s top recruits, the quietly ambitious Mar and rebellious Rhea, endure a cutthroat curriculum to compete for the crowning title of Prima Apparata. As their bond deepens and Mar’s obsessive quest puts her under the wing of Appolyta herself, the line between art and indoctrination blurs—and the great personal cost of perfection will transform their lives.
Black Swan and Never Let Me Go meet Pacific Rim in this groundbreaking space opera from rising debut writer Olivia Dufault (Love Ignited, FX’s Legion) and fan-favorite veteran illustrator Rebekah Isaacs (BRZRKR: Fallen Empire, Money Shot)!
SUPERMAN: THE STRANGER # 1
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Step into the Golden Age and witness the first adventures of Superman! During the day, Clark Kent does what he can to make ends meet in the bustling city of Metropolis, but when the sun goes down, he leaps into action to keep the city streets safe! As Superman, Clark fights for a better tomorrow, but he feels like he’s not affecting change. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor struggle to survive. Can Superman truly save the downtrodden? The next Superman epic brought to you by superstar creator Wes Craig!
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN # 18
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THE HORRORS OF THE UNIVERSE! After Jo’s showdown with Sinestro and the Blackstars , she understands the harsh reality of this intergalactic war she finds herself in the middle of. But even with more knowledge of her powers and place in the universe, is she ready for the horrors that lurk in the unseen?
ESCAPE # 9
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History begins small — in a broken home, in lies, in fear, a man pushed to insanity — and grows outward. Once small weeds invade other gardens, and choke every green thing with its thorns. The choices of one man, trapped in a nightmare, will shape the world to come.
M.A.S.K. # 4
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Dusty Hayes — are you ready to save the world? When an out-of-control V.E.N.O.M. agent sets fire to New Orleans, can Dusty Hayes and Matt Trakker stop the destruction without the loss of lives?
MINOR ARCANA # 18
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The truth behind Theresa leaving Limberlost is revealed!
A dreamlike visit to the Liminal Space and Edgewater Hotel drudges up the past, along with Theresa’s reasons for leaving home in the first place.
But a secret source of power makes itself known, threatening to topple Theresa’s resolve to stay in Limberlost this time around.
Will coming face-to-face with her past and the painful circumstances of the present prove to be too much for her?Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
BILLY BAT vol. 2 TP
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From superstar creators comes one of the most anticipated manga–a millennia-sprawling conspiracy thriller. All the Light We Cannot See meets historical figures you all know: Einstein, Walt Disney, Lee Harvey Oswald, and even Jesus Christ
Who is the mysterious Billy Bat? Fifty years ago, he reunited two lovers in New York City. Sixty years ago, he roamed the darkest night of the postwar era. Two thousand years ago, he wove through the fate of one hailed as a savior.
Well, Billy Bat? Who are you really? And…why are you here?
This is the second thrilling volume in the sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, beautifully packaged and available for the first time in English.
Chapters 10-18
A GHOST ARM MADE OF ANGRY GHOSTS HC
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From writer and colorist extraordinaire Oliver Mertz (The Monuments, First Law of Mad Science) and acclaimed artist Alex Diotto (Youth, Indigo Children) comes a weird tale of conspiracy, faded superheroics, and suburban angst in ’90s Washington, D.C.
Sixteen-year-old Ari Ackerman just witnessed a murder. Or two. Or maybe he didn’t. He’s not quite sure. What he does know is that he loves the Washington, D.C., punk scene and is trying very hard to process the perpetual impending death (and frequent resurrections) of his cancer-stricken father. Ari’s best friend, Maya Meng, just wants to hang out and go see Jawbox play at the Black Cat. But sadly, an escalating series of unexplained deaths can really ruin a perfectly good day.
For readers who like What’s the Furthest Place from Here?, Love and Rockets, David Lynch, Daniel Clowes, Seinfeld, Agatha Christie, Powers, Fugazi, and Wes Anderson, A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts is sure to evoke all the feelings that come with being an outsider, making sense of the world around you, and finding your place in it.
KALI TP
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From Daniel Freedman (Raiders) and Mondo and DICE artist Robert Sammelin comes an original graphic novel that’s a nonstop, high-octane existential action spectacle that perfect for Mad Max: Fury Road fans.
Stabbed in the back, poisoned, and left for dead by her own gang, Kali sets off on a one-way road of vengeance across a war-torn desert battlefield. With impending death coursing through her veins and a despotic army hot on her tail, Kali will stop at nothing to get her revenge, even if its the last thing she ever does. A nonstop high octane existential action spectacle from writer Daniel Freedman and artist Robert Sammelin.
Includes new expansive creator interview conducted by Brandon Graham and an art gallery featuring new work by some of today’s most acclaimed artists.
MARVEL DIMENSIONS HC
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Alex Ross, the award-winning and bestselling creator of Marvels, Kingdom Come, and Fantastic Four: Full Circle, takes readers through the Marvel Universe — but all is not as it seems.
Marvel Dimensions is legendary artist Alex Ross’ second book in the Marvel Arts series, following the national bestselling, critically acclaimed, and award-winning Fantastic Four: Full Circle.
The story opens with a sweeping tour through the classic origins of Marvel’s most iconic characters. Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Wolverine, and many others appear in dramatic, fully painted spreads that echo their earliest stories. A narrator describes each moment with confidence, guiding the reader through these touchstones of Marvel’s history. But as the story moves forward, the tone begins to shift. The voice behind the narration is not who the readers expect and carries a motive that slowly pushes the narrative somewhere darker and far more unpredictable.
Once this change becomes clear, the book expands into something larger and more surprising. Storylines twist in on themselves, characters behave in unexpected ways, and events ripple across the Marvel Universe with growing tensions. Ross uses the structure of the book to create anticipation and pull the reader deeper into a mystery that keeps widening. Every new sequence reveals another layer, building toward a final act that reframes everything that came before it. A bonus 32-page comic book is included that is pivotal to the storyline.
With Marvel Dimensions, Ross approaches the Marvel Universe from a new angle with new character invention that invites readers to question what they think and what they know. Marvel Dimensions may be the latest title in the Marvel Arts line… but it is only the beginning.
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
ARCHIE: NEW RIVERDALE Compact Edition TP
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The New Riverdale era starts here as Eisner Award winners Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) and Fiona Staples (Saga) bring Archie Andrews to living color in this modern-day retelling of how Riverdale’s fastest friends first came together.
Meet the Riverdale gang as you’ve never seen them before: Archie, the cool, guitar-strumming all-American boy; his oddball but wise best friend, Jughead; girl-next-door cum car mechanic Betty; and the stylishly rebellious new girl Veronica as they conquer high school drama, dating, and so much more in this contemporary new take on the students of Riverdale High!
The first in a new line of compact editions collecting Archie Comics’ most memorable moments, this handy volume collects the best-selling reinvention that io9 calls “absolutely fantastic” — with additional contributions from acclaimed artists Annie Wu (Hawkeye) and Veronica Fish (Spider-Woman).
Collects Archie (2015) #1–6.
HELLO HALLOWEEN # 2
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Get ready for another installment of the fan favorite horror anthology series—this time with our second annual Halloween special issue, full of tricks AND treats to ensure maximum seasonal chills and thrills!
A Halloween game of D&D takes a hellish turn when the dungeon master decides to host the game in an actual haunted house! Roll Incentive to NOT DIE in ‘The Funeral Party” by Len Gog and Dimitrios Pantazis.
Bestselling cartoonist Jeffrey Brown dishes out full-sized grossouts with “Smell My Feet.”
And duo infernale Chrisof Bogacas and Marie Enger revel in the plight of a hapless trick or treater who delves into a retro videogame handed out instead of candy in “Evermaze.”
IS TED OK? TP
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Is Ted OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of Severance with the cosmic sci-fi of Akira while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong.
This is a story about Ted and Sarah.
Ted, isolated and paranoid, works for a mega corporation owned by the world’s only trillionaire. He suffers from night terrors, obsessively draws the same mysterious figures again and again, all while listening to one track of music on repeat–oh, and the only “person” he ever talks to is a stray cat. His humanity is hanging by a thread. Sarah is a new arrival to the city, fighting her own demons, and her job is to remotely spy on Ted to ensure he doesn’t hurt anyone…or himself. When Ted’s mental state begins to crack, Sarah compassionately intervenes to help, and things go catastrophically wrong. Is Ted OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of Severance with the cosmic sci-fi of Akira while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong.
From creator Dave Chisholm (Spectrum, Miles Davis & The Search for the Sound), Is Ted OK? is a spectacularly unpredictable yarn–each successive issue shatters the scope of the previous, all without losing its core: a search for human connection in an oppressive, paranoid world.STARSHIP GODZILLA: INVASION # 1
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Starship Godzilla receives a massive upgrade as a galactic invasion begins!
The crew of Starship Godzilla may have won their first battle against the Xiliens, but in doing so they’ve started the war. As they reckon with their actions, they find themselves in need of upgrades for their ship… with bounty-seeking M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens hot on their trail. Meanwhile, the Xiliens put together the final pieces for their new cosmic kaiju weapon…
Join Chris Gooch and Oliver Ono in this five-issue follow-up to the fan-favorite Starship Godzilla series.
What did I miss?
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Marvelous Market: Best New Comics September 2
NEW ARCHIE NEW ARCHIE NEW ARCHIE…and also a bunch of DC
Hello and welcome to the Marvelous Market, my weekly guide for anyone interested in going to a comic book store today. In addition to a full list of new # 1s and new volume 1s, I’ll be giving you my top 4 recommendations in 4 categories. Like Houston legend Mike Jones rapped, “We’re still tippin’ on four-fours.” I’m going to give you the top four new comics, top four ongoing comics, the top four graphic novels, and the top 4 preorders.
The work going into this curation is made possible by readers like you. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month, you can help make this work possible.
New Issue # 1s
ARCHIE # 1
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BEING YOUNG NEVER GETS OLD! THE MILESTONE COMICS PUBLISHING EVENT OF THE YEAR STARTS HERE AS ONI PRESS AND ARCHIE COMICS PROUDLY PRESENT A GROUNDBREAKING NEW ONGOING SERIES FOR THE MOST JOYOUS COMIC BOOK ICON OF ALL!
A new day is dawning in Riverdale as New York Times bestselling writer, Edgar Award and Philip K. Dick Award winner, and Eisner Award nominee Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, Benjamin) joins multiple Eisner Award–winning artist Fábio Moon (Daytripper, Casanova) to reintroduce America’s favorite teenager — and begin a star-studded countdown to Archie’s 85th anniversary — with a 21st-century testament to teenage idealism and the limitless joy of Archie Comics!
For his entire life, 17-year-old Archie Andrews has had it all: adoring friends, football glory, and a natural charm that always seems to make him the center of attention. Now, through his eyes, experience the warmth and wonder of Riverdale and its near-infinite roster of residents — the popular kids, the endearing oddballs, and everyone in between — as Archie embarks on a whirlwind, all-star adventure through his town’s past, present, and future… beginning with a local film festival that’s about to turn everything upside down!
And, at the center of it all, lies an enigmatic paradox that only Archie’s pal Jughead Jones can possibly unravel…
Plus: Puzzles! Pin-ups! Bountiful bonus stories! And a veritable sweet shop of surprises that all link to the same inextricable mystery… Finally, your antidote for postmodern malaise has arrived. Welcome to the all-new ARCHIE #1!
CROWBOUND # 1
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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale meets Cormac McCarthy’s The Road with echoes of Kill Bill and Pan’s Labyrinth when a noncompliant mother makes a dark pact with an ancient, violent Scarecrow Queen to stop a totalitarian government from taking her daughter.
Rose isn’t special. She works in the Factory just like everyone else — a dark, sprawling monolithic structure that runs along the coast and cuts the world in two. All that’s left now are desolate settlements that exist in its shadow, made up of submerged villages, derelict woods, and deadly swamps. No one knows what’s left of the world on the other side…
But when Rose’s young daughter Ava is violently taken from their shanty town home a year before she is meant to join the work force, Rose will come face-to-face with the surreal, harrowing forces outside the Factory’s walls — including a terrifying figure called the Scarecrow Queen, who has an offer: one last chance to save her daughter, in exchange for her soul.
PRIMA APPARATA # 1
SOLICIT COPY:
Welcome to the Conservatory.
After Earth was shattered into surviving pockets across the galaxy, humanity’s most talented young women train at this prestigious celestial boarding school to become the next generation of mech pilots.
But these students aren’t soldiers, they’re ballerinas; and the mechs aren’t built for battle, but performance. All engineered in body and mind to entertain a ruling class of cosmic patrons in an annual life-or-death recital of mankind’s only unifying story: the saga of Appolyta the Huntress, a goddess whose pursuit of one last elusive prey ends in heartbreak.
This year’s top recruits, the quietly ambitious Mar and rebellious Rhea, endure a cutthroat curriculum to compete for the crowning title of Prima Apparata. As their bond deepens and Mar’s obsessive quest puts her under the wing of Appolyta herself, the line between art and indoctrination blurs—and the great personal cost of perfection will transform their lives.
Black Swan and Never Let Me Go meet Pacific Rim in this groundbreaking space opera from rising debut writer Olivia Dufault (Love Ignited, FX’s Legion) and fan-favorite veteran illustrator Rebekah Isaacs (BRZRKR: Fallen Empire, Money Shot)!
SUPERMAN: THE STRANGER # 1
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Step into the Golden Age and witness the first adventures of Superman! During the day, Clark Kent does what he can to make ends meet in the bustling city of Metropolis, but when the sun goes down, he leaps into action to keep the city streets safe! As Superman, Clark fights for a better tomorrow, but he feels like he’s not affecting change. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor struggle to survive. Can Superman truly save the downtrodden? The next Superman epic brought to you by superstar creator Wes Craig!
ONGOING SERIES
ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN # 18
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THE HORRORS OF THE UNIVERSE! After Jo’s showdown with Sinestro and the Blackstars , she understands the harsh reality of this intergalactic war she finds herself in the middle of. But even with more knowledge of her powers and place in the universe, is she ready for the horrors that lurk in the unseen?
ESCAPE # 9
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History begins small — in a broken home, in lies, in fear, a man pushed to insanity — and grows outward. Once small weeds invade other gardens, and choke every green thing with its thorns. The choices of one man, trapped in a nightmare, will shape the world to come.
M.A.S.K. # 4
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Dusty Hayes — are you ready to save the world? When an out-of-control V.E.N.O.M. agent sets fire to New Orleans, can Dusty Hayes and Matt Trakker stop the destruction without the loss of lives?
MINOR ARCANA # 18
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The truth behind Theresa leaving Limberlost is revealed!
A dreamlike visit to the Liminal Space and Edgewater Hotel drudges up the past, along with Theresa’s reasons for leaving home in the first place.
But a secret source of power makes itself known, threatening to topple Theresa’s resolve to stay in Limberlost this time around.
Will coming face-to-face with her past and the painful circumstances of the present prove to be too much for her?Trade Paperbacks, Hardcovers, and OGNs
BILLY BAT vol. 2 TP
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From superstar creators comes one of the most anticipated manga–a millennia-sprawling conspiracy thriller. All the Light We Cannot See meets historical figures you all know: Einstein, Walt Disney, Lee Harvey Oswald, and even Jesus Christ
Who is the mysterious Billy Bat? Fifty years ago, he reunited two lovers in New York City. Sixty years ago, he roamed the darkest night of the postwar era. Two thousand years ago, he wove through the fate of one hailed as a savior.
Well, Billy Bat? Who are you really? And…why are you here?
This is the second thrilling volume in the sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, beautifully packaged and available for the first time in English.
Chapters 10-18
A GHOST ARM MADE OF ANGRY GHOSTS HC
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From writer and colorist extraordinaire Oliver Mertz (The Monuments, First Law of Mad Science) and acclaimed artist Alex Diotto (Youth, Indigo Children) comes a weird tale of conspiracy, faded superheroics, and suburban angst in ’90s Washington, D.C.
Sixteen-year-old Ari Ackerman just witnessed a murder. Or two. Or maybe he didn’t. He’s not quite sure. What he does know is that he loves the Washington, D.C., punk scene and is trying very hard to process the perpetual impending death (and frequent resurrections) of his cancer-stricken father. Ari’s best friend, Maya Meng, just wants to hang out and go see Jawbox play at the Black Cat. But sadly, an escalating series of unexplained deaths can really ruin a perfectly good day.
For readers who like What’s the Furthest Place from Here?, Love and Rockets, David Lynch, Daniel Clowes, Seinfeld, Agatha Christie, Powers, Fugazi, and Wes Anderson, A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts is sure to evoke all the feelings that come with being an outsider, making sense of the world around you, and finding your place in it.
KALI TP
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From Daniel Freedman (Raiders) and Mondo and DICE artist Robert Sammelin comes an original graphic novel that’s a nonstop, high-octane existential action spectacle that perfect for Mad Max: Fury Road fans.
Stabbed in the back, poisoned, and left for dead by her own gang, Kali sets off on a one-way road of vengeance across a war-torn desert battlefield. With impending death coursing through her veins and a despotic army hot on her tail, Kali will stop at nothing to get her revenge, even if its the last thing she ever does. A nonstop high octane existential action spectacle from writer Daniel Freedman and artist Robert Sammelin.
Includes new expansive creator interview conducted by Brandon Graham and an art gallery featuring new work by some of today’s most acclaimed artists.
MARVEL DIMENSIONS HC
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Alex Ross, the award-winning and bestselling creator of Marvels, Kingdom Come, and Fantastic Four: Full Circle, takes readers through the Marvel Universe — but all is not as it seems.
Marvel Dimensions is legendary artist Alex Ross’ second book in the Marvel Arts series, following the national bestselling, critically acclaimed, and award-winning Fantastic Four: Full Circle.
The story opens with a sweeping tour through the classic origins of Marvel’s most iconic characters. Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Wolverine, and many others appear in dramatic, fully painted spreads that echo their earliest stories. A narrator describes each moment with confidence, guiding the reader through these touchstones of Marvel’s history. But as the story moves forward, the tone begins to shift. The voice behind the narration is not who the readers expect and carries a motive that slowly pushes the narrative somewhere darker and far more unpredictable.
Once this change becomes clear, the book expands into something larger and more surprising. Storylines twist in on themselves, characters behave in unexpected ways, and events ripple across the Marvel Universe with growing tensions. Ross uses the structure of the book to create anticipation and pull the reader deeper into a mystery that keeps widening. Every new sequence reveals another layer, building toward a final act that reframes everything that came before it. A bonus 32-page comic book is included that is pivotal to the storyline.
With Marvel Dimensions, Ross approaches the Marvel Universe from a new angle with new character invention that invites readers to question what they think and what they know. Marvel Dimensions may be the latest title in the Marvel Arts line… but it is only the beginning.
Preorders on Final Order Cutoff
ARCHIE: NEW RIVERDALE Compact Edition TP
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The New Riverdale era starts here as Eisner Award winners Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) and Fiona Staples (Saga) bring Archie Andrews to living color in this modern-day retelling of how Riverdale’s fastest friends first came together.
Meet the Riverdale gang as you’ve never seen them before: Archie, the cool, guitar-strumming all-American boy; his oddball but wise best friend, Jughead; girl-next-door cum car mechanic Betty; and the stylishly rebellious new girl Veronica as they conquer high school drama, dating, and so much more in this contemporary new take on the students of Riverdale High!
The first in a new line of compact editions collecting Archie Comics’ most memorable moments, this handy volume collects the best-selling reinvention that io9 calls “absolutely fantastic” — with additional contributions from acclaimed artists Annie Wu (Hawkeye) and Veronica Fish (Spider-Woman).
Collects Archie (2015) #1–6.
HELLO HALLOWEEN # 2
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Get ready for another installment of the fan favorite horror anthology series—this time with our second annual Halloween special issue, full of tricks AND treats to ensure maximum seasonal chills and thrills!
A Halloween game of D&D takes a hellish turn when the dungeon master decides to host the game in an actual haunted house! Roll Incentive to NOT DIE in ‘The Funeral Party” by Len Gog and Dimitrios Pantazis.
Bestselling cartoonist Jeffrey Brown dishes out full-sized grossouts with “Smell My Feet.”
And duo infernale Chrisof Bogacas and Marie Enger revel in the plight of a hapless trick or treater who delves into a retro videogame handed out instead of candy in “Evermaze.”
IS TED OK? TP
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Is Ted OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of Severance with the cosmic sci-fi of Akira while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong.
This is a story about Ted and Sarah.
Ted, isolated and paranoid, works for a mega corporation owned by the world’s only trillionaire. He suffers from night terrors, obsessively draws the same mysterious figures again and again, all while listening to one track of music on repeat–oh, and the only “person” he ever talks to is a stray cat. His humanity is hanging by a thread. Sarah is a new arrival to the city, fighting her own demons, and her job is to remotely spy on Ted to ensure he doesn’t hurt anyone…or himself. When Ted’s mental state begins to crack, Sarah compassionately intervenes to help, and things go catastrophically wrong. Is Ted OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of Severance with the cosmic sci-fi of Akira while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong.
From creator Dave Chisholm (Spectrum, Miles Davis & The Search for the Sound), Is Ted OK? is a spectacularly unpredictable yarn–each successive issue shatters the scope of the previous, all without losing its core: a search for human connection in an oppressive, paranoid world.STARSHIP GODZILLA: INVASION # 1
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Starship Godzilla receives a massive upgrade as a galactic invasion begins!
The crew of Starship Godzilla may have won their first battle against the Xiliens, but in doing so they’ve started the war. As they reckon with their actions, they find themselves in need of upgrades for their ship… with bounty-seeking M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens hot on their trail. Meanwhile, the Xiliens put together the final pieces for their new cosmic kaiju weapon…
Join Chris Gooch and Oliver Ono in this five-issue follow-up to the fan-favorite Starship Godzilla series.
What did I miss?
If there are some great comics, collected or in single issues, that you think I should be reading, tell me about them! And if you do try out any of these series, let me know how you liked them, or didn’t. This is a safe space for haters. If you enjoy this service, please share this article on social media or tell someone that you know reads comics about it.
Divining Comics is brought to you by generous support from the “Best Friends of Divining Comics”: Alex Seubert. Dustin Commet
Divining Comics is also brought to you by the support of the “Friends of Divining Comics”: Comic Book Herald.
If you would like to add your name to the list of friends, best friends, or best friends forever, support this work for less than the cost of one cup of coffee a month at patreon.com/diviningcomics. You can also leave a one-time tip/buy my zines at ko-fi.com/spikestonehand. Or, if you can’t afford to support me financially at this time, simply follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky and share my posts there.
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‘Fantastic Four Vol. 2: The Invincible Woman’ review: Sue Storm, Ender of Worlds
A great display about what makes this era of Fantastic Four so special.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/02/fantastic-four-vol-2-the-invincible-woman-review/ -
‘Fantastic Four Vol. 2: The Invincible Woman’ review: Sue Storm, Ender of Worlds
A great display about what makes this era of Fantastic Four so special.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/02/fantastic-four-vol-2-the-invincible-woman-review/ -
‘Fantastic Four Vol. 2: The Invincible Woman’ review: Sue Storm, Ender of Worlds
A great display about what makes this era of Fantastic Four so special.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/02/fantastic-four-vol-2-the-invincible-woman-review/ -
‘Fantastic Four’ #16 makes a perilous, dangerous discovery
Marvel’s First Family makes First Contact and things go up in flames – literally.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/02/fantastic-four-16-review-2/ -
‘Fantastic Four’ #16 makes a perilous, dangerous discovery
Marvel’s First Family makes First Contact and things go up in flames – literally.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/02/fantastic-four-16-review-2/ -
‘Fantastic Four’ #16 makes a perilous, dangerous discovery
Marvel’s First Family makes First Contact and things go up in flames – literally.
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Stan Goldberg, who died OTD in 2014, was a #MarvelComics colorist who in the 1960s helped design the original color schemes of #SpiderMan, the #FantasticFour, and other major characters https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-marvel/?s=mb #travel #NewYorkCity