Welcome to the New Number Ones!
Each week we bring you the list of new series and special editions coming this week. We are highlighting what you need to put in your cart at the comic shop or digital marketplace.
It is officially Spooky Season and our comic publishers are filling the racks with new series and specials that fit right in with this time of the year.
We have an alphabetical list with cover art and the official solicitation text from the publishers of some of the cool new comics that are coming out this week. Check below for our PCS NOTES to find out what we just have to tell you about the new comics in question.
We have books on this week’s list from: DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Mad Cave Studios, Archie Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Boom! Studios, Magma Comix, Oni Press, and Image Comics.
We will bring you reviews of these debut issues as they come out, and don’t forget to use the comments section to let us know what you think of this list.
New Series
New One-Shots and Special Editions
New Series This Week
Barbarella #1
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by Blake Northcutt
Art by Anna Morozova
Cover Art by Joseph Michael Linsner
Fresh off saving the universe (yeah, she works big) from being enslaved by self-proclaimed gods in Barbarella: The Center Cannot Hold, Barbs and Vix are ready for a little R&R – but they’re about to discover that not all pleasure planets are created equal. In fact, some are downright unreal!
Meanwhile, in another quadrant of the galaxy, something is off with Earth’s oldest and most venerable colony – something that only Barbarella’s uniquely well-rounded skills can resolve!
New faces, new locales, and new adventures await in Barbarella #1, brought to you by the new creative team of writer BLAKE NORTHCOTT (Vampirella, Catwoman, Evanescence: Echoes From the Void) and artist ANNA MOROZOVA (Judge Dredd, 2000 AD, Brail for Dummies) – all enhanced by form-fitting covers from JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER, ANNIE WU, RICHARD PACE, and cosplay by RACHEL HOLLON!
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: We are always interested to see what a new creative team has in store for this character.
The Creeping Below #1
Boom! Studios
Written by Brian Azzarello
Art by Vanesa R. Del Rey & Hilary Jenkins
Letters by AndWorld Design
Cover Art by Del Rey
In nature there are gods older than the devil… Nothing can prepare you for what’s coming in this violent, electrifying descent into this bloody, black metal infused revenge saga.
Val, an American metalhead attending a festival in Oslo, begins her penumbrous pilgrimage into the vast depths of vengeance.
After her victimization at the hands of a charismatically vile local band, the Old Gods of Norse Mythology guide her along her path in the name of women everywhere.
Will she walk a warrior’s path… or become a behemoth beyond human recognition?
Harvey and Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling Brian Azzarello brings metal, magic, and mayhem to a revenge story akin to Swamp Thing by way of The Crow, brought to life with breathtaking imagery by acclaimed artist Vanesa R. Del Rey (The Empty Man, Redlands).
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: What a terrific combination of comics creators for this horror tale!!??
DC Horror Presents: Creature Commandos #1
DC Comics
Written by David Dastmalchian
Art by Jesús Hervás
Cover Art by Tirso Cons
A VAMPIRE, A WEREWOLF, A GORGON, AND AN UNDEAD SOLDIER WALK INTO A GROCERY STORE…AND ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE! This is the Creature Unit, a team of misfits assembled by a mad…ly talented scientist for a dangerous military mission. In this brand-new era of Creature Commandos penned by Count Crowley creator David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad and Late Night with the Devil), the claws are out, fangs are bared, and blood is spilled–lots of it!
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: We are looking forward to seeing how these characters work.
Hyde Street #1
Image Comics / Ghost Machine
Written by Geoff Johns
Art by Ivan Reis, Danny Miki, & Brad Anderson
Letters by Rob Leigh
Cover Art by Reis, Miki, & Anderson
SERIES PREMIERE
A new epic era in character-centered horror begins as GHOST MACHINE launches HYDE STREET, its newest ongoing series from creators GEOFF JOHNS and IVAN REIS (Blackest Night, Green Lantern, Aquaman)!
In every city and town, off every country road and metropolis avenue, if you make a wrong turn…you might find yourself on Hyde Street. But be careful who you talk to and what you do because the consequences make death itself seem like the easy way out. Introducing MR. X-RAY! PRANKY, THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS SCOUT! MISS GOODBODY! AND MANY MORE…out to delight, fright, and say good night. What is their secret and that of Hyde Street? Only they know. For now.
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: Horror was not what I was expecting from Ghost Machine, but I can’t wait to check this out.
Night of the Slashers #1
Magma Comix
Written by Cavan Scott
Art by Paul Fry
Cover Art by Fry
Hill Creek is a lovely place to visit… except the one night of the year its citizens transform into bloodthirsty maniacs! Of course, that’s the very night Lara’s bus breaks down, stranding the disillusioned teen and her classmates in the secluded town. Secrets uncovered, terror at every turn — will anyone survive the night? New York Times bestselling writer Cavan Scott (Union Jack the Ripper, Star Wars: The High Republic) and Paul Fry (Spider-Man 2099, Green Arrow & Black Canary) bring the gore in the ultimate horror-loving slasher-fest
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: This is an excellent creative team on this book.
Skin Police #1
Oni Press
Written by Jason Thomas
Art by Daniel Gete & Jason Wordie
Letters by Jeff Powell
Cover Art by Gete & Wordie
From writer Jordan Thomas (The Man from Maybe) and artist Daniel Gete (Über) comes a sci-fi/action spectacle that will force you to trust no one . . . In the year 2142, fertility levels around the globe plummeted, and a black market for illegal clone babies emerged. Millions of parents used their own genetic material to welcome these new children, only realizing the horrific consequences far too late. At some point in their life cycle, three in four of these genetic duplicates transform into psychologically unstable killing machines known as Dupes.Fortunately, the United Nations of Europe has decided to take an active role in containing the growing threat. Their specialized task force has taken up the unenviable task of hunting Dupes before their violence can spread. To the government, they’re the Duplicate Identification and Capture Division. To everyone else, they’re the Skin Police. The worst part of the job? It’s always the one you least suspect . . .
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: This one look fun.
Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Alex Segura
Art by Leonard Kirk & Rachelle Rosenberg
Letters by Joe Caramagna
Cover Art by Phil Noto
IN THE WAKE OF THE BATTLE OF ENDOR, CAN LUKE, LEIA AND THE NASCENT NEW REPUBLIC STAVE OFF AN UNEXPECTED — AND DEADLY — NEW THREAT? A DEFIANT IMPERIAL takes center stage — and goes on the offensive against the NEW REPUBLIC! LEIA makes a startling discovery in the forests of ENDOR! Who are the mysterious and deadly ACOLYTES OF THE BEYOND?! What is the new villain’s connection to DARTH VADER? All this as the post-Return of the Jedi storytelling BEGINS!
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: We love seeing well known creators getting a chance to tell Star Wars stories.
Storm #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Murewa Ayodele
Art by Lucas Werneck & Alex Guimarães
Cover Art by Mateus Manhanini
EARTH’S MIGHTIEST MUTANT, NOW HEADLINING HER OWN SOLO SERIES! Ororo Munroe has lived many lives. She’s been a thief, a goddess, an X-Man, a queen and now an Avenger! She is the most prominent, most respected and most powerful mutant on the world stage — and in that role, she intends to be a force for positive change! First up: A major meltdown at a nuclear facility in Oklahoma City draws Storm from her Sanctuary in Atlanta — and into a moral conflict that will test her iron resolve! Guest-starring X-FACTOR’s FRENZY!
LEGACY #12
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: Storm in her own series is a must try.
New One-Shots and Specials
Archie Halloween Spectacular 2024
Archie Comics
Written by Ian Flynn
Art by Steven Butler, Lily Butler, & Glenn Whitmore
Letters by Jack Morelli
Cover Art by Butler, Butler, & Rosario Peña
BRAND NEW STORY:
“Party Hardly!” A Halloween party at Lodge Manor turns into a real battle of good vs. evil thanks to Amber Nightstone!
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: Halloween in Riverdale is the best.
Blacking Out HC
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Chip Mosher
Art by Josie Weaver, Peter Krause & Giulia Brusco
Letters by Ed Dukeshire
Cover Art by Krause & Brusco
A disgraced ex-cop, Conrad, seeks redemption by unraveling an unsolved murder during Southern California’s fire season. Conrad follows a lone clue — a discarded crucifix — to unravel the death of Karen Littleton, whose body was found amid a blaze that scorched 10,000 acres. The search leads him to clash with the victim’s father and prime suspect, Robert Littleton, as well as hostile former colleagues on the local police force. All the while, Conrad combats his consuming alcoholism and fading faculties.
Will his “questionable” methods net him a murderer, or will the grizzled detective be brought to his knees by heartbreak and addiction? Find out, in this all-new edition of Blacking Out, a scorching crime noir comic set in a small town in the dry California desert.
From the minds of comics industry veteran and writer Chip Mosher (Left On Mission) and legendary artist Peter Krause (The Power of Shazam!, Irredeemable) with colors by the amazing Giulia Brusco (Scalped, Django Unchained), and letterers from Ed Dukeshire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Basilisk).
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: I got nothing to say other than, “I want this!”
DC All In Special #1
DC Comics
Written by Scott Snyder & Josh Williamson
Art by Daniel Sampere, Dan Mora, Wes Craig, Tamra Bonvillain, Alejandro Sánchez, & Mike Spicer
Letters by Steve Wands
Cover Art by Sampere & Sánchez
Following the events of Absolute Power, the heroes of the core DC Universe have fought against the deep divisions in the world around them to usher in a new era of unity.
And it’s just in time, too — because Darkseid has returned! Superman gathers every DC Super Hero on Earth to hold the line against a vastly different version of the Lord of Apokolips as they raise our cosmic defenses and prepare for war. And when the first blows land, the shock waves will ripple across DC’s core series, shaking the nature of their realities to their very foundation!
But a greater threat looms on the horizon in the Absolute Universe. Here, DC’s biggest icons come of age with fewer advantages while facing greater opposition than ever before and retaining the immutable heroism that continues to inspire and entertain fans. But can they really protect the light that shines inside them when the world in which they live is hurtling toward a terrible destiny?
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: The next chapter of the DC Universe starts here.
DC’s I Know What You Did Last Crisis #1
DC Comics
Written by Cavan Scott, Nathan Cayanan, Ashley Allen, Matthew Levine, Dan Didio, Rachel Pinnelas, Dave Wielgosz, & Rex Ogle
Art by Ario Anidito, Carrie Strachan, V. Ken Marion, Andrew Dalhouse, Jonas Trindade, Jordi Tarragona, Luis Guerrero, Will Robson, Sid Kotian, Patricio Delpeche, Adam Graphite, & Ivan Plascencia
Letters by Ariana Maher, Josh Reed, Carlos M. Mangual, Dave Sharpe, Clayton Cowles, Tom Napolitano, & Ferran Delgado
Cover Art by Dan Hipp
EIGHT CHILLING TALES SET ACROSS THE MULTIVERSE! In the blackest night, when the darkness feels infinite, the very fabric of the universe begins to tear… as every major crisis in DCU history rises once again! These eight chilling tales, set during the events of crises past, serve to warn you, dear reader: when in crisis, watch your back. In the fractured world of Flashpoint, Professor Pyg is stalking Gotham City’s nightclubs, sniffing out victims! During Blackest Night, Scarecrow lurks outside a movie theater, recruiting new test subjects to perfect his fear toxin! Even heroes like Nightwing aren’t safe when his death might just have the power to reverse the damage of Infinite Crisis! All these, plus new stories from Crisis on Infinite Earths, Millennium, Zero Hour, The Final Night, and Final Crisis are collected in DC’s I Know What You Did Last Crisis, a deadly new horror anthology coming to haunt you this fall!
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: Lots of multiversal halloween hijinks abound in this book.
Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Carlos Hernandez
Art by Moisés Hidalgo
Cover Art by Humberto Ramos & Edgar Delgado
REV YOUR ENGINES AND GET READY TO RIDE! Robbie Reyes, A.K.A. GHOST RIDER, burst into the Marvel Universe and has been blazing his own trail ever since! Celebrate Hispanic & Latin American Heritage Month with three brand-new tales from a host of talented writers, including Carlos Hernandez, Melissa Flores and the return of Felipe Smith (one of Robbie’s original creators), as they put Robbie through his paces and he races through the Marvel Universe! PLUS, the print debut of an ALL-NEW Ghost Rider!
Release Date: October 2, 2024
The Midnight: Shadows TP
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Zack Kaplan
Art by Stephen Thompson, Jahnoy Lindsey, & Thiago Rocha
Letters by DC Hopkins
Join THE MIDNIGHT, one of the world’s top synthwave bands, comprised of Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan, on an electrifying and original sci-fi graphic novel adventure inspired by the poetic storytelling and the neon-soaked aesthetics of their music.
Jason has spent his life running from his problems, but now he and his childhood sweetheart are on the precipice of parenthood, and he’s struggling with the loss of his adolescence. Then he re-discovers his favorite old video game, THE MIDNIGHT, a nostalgic 1980s fantasy adventure about a helmeted hero who travels to a cyberpunk world to save the people from eternal darkness. Seeking to repair his broken game, Jason ends up at a mysterious arcade in an abandoned 1980s mall, where he plays the old arcade game of The Midnight and suddenly he’s transported to…
…a post-apocalyptic Neverland in the year 2085. A world of perpetual night where time stands still. A final bastion of humanity in a glistening futuristic city. And a shocking reveal – they know him as the hero who once vanquished the shadow monsters, and they believe he’s returned to his true reality to do it again. More surprising, his wife is here, but only with a memory of Jason as this world’s hero. As this lost boy tries to embrace his new hero powers, with the help of his true love and her cyberpunk warriors, he must face the responsibility of protecting an entire world from danger and discover which world he truly belongs to.
For The Midnight fans and newcomers, created by rising comics writer, Zack Kaplan (Break Out, Mindset), artist Stephen Thompson (Star Trek, Batman Beyond), artist Jahnoy Lindsay (Superboy) and The Midnight, follow your dreams to a visually stunning cyberpunk metropolis, find love in the darkness, defeat shadow monsters and explore what happens when we hide in our fantasies. Are we escaping life’s monsters or simply escaping ourselves? The answers lie in the Midnight Graphic Novel.
Release Date: October 1, 2024
PCS NOTES: We are intrigued.
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Halloween Special #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Tate Brombal, Nick Robles, Soo Lee, & James Tynion IV
Art by Robles, Lee, Isaac Goodheart, Morgan Breem, & Phil Jimenez
Cover Art by David Talaski
A very special Halloween celebration with Christopher Chaos’s best friends… and fiercest foes!
James Tynion and Isaac Goodhart tell a story of family and loss with Adam Frankenstein and Viveka.
Tate Brombal and superstar Phil Jimenez introduce a wild new monster far above the Arctic Circle… and back in Briar City, Brombal brings us a sweet and spooky story of young Christopher during a Halloween long past.
And finally, the brilliant Soo Lee (Carmilla: The First Vampire) and fabulous Nick Robles (Sandman Universe — The Dreaming: Waking Hours) each write and draw their own bewitching stories that will leave you breathless and terrified for All Hallow’s Eve!
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: We love this property and are excited to see it get a Halloween special.
Strange Case of Harleen and Harley TP
DC Comics
Written by Melissa Marr
Art by Jenn St. Onge & Jeremy Lawson
Letters by Lucas Gattoni
Cover Art by St. Onge
Harleen Quinzel is many things, a gymnast, anxious, broke…but the last thing anyone would call her is evil. Harley Quinn on the other hand…
“Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.”
– The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Harleen Quinzel is many things, a gymnast, anxious, broke…but the last thing anyone would call her is evil. Harley Quinn on the other hand…
When Harleen signs up to participate in a clinical research trial with her girlfriend, Pamela, the most she can hope for is extra cash in her wallet and a chance to get her anxiety under control. But what she gets instead are increasingly larger gaps in her memory and stolen mementos from some guy named Jack she’s never met. Soon, Harleen discovers she’s sharing her life with Harley—a take-no-prisoners, who-cares-about attendance, maybe-we-oughtta-save-the-bunnies kind of girl. She is the opposite of Harleen in many ways. She is anarchy in a cute dress. And although she’s throwing Harleen’s life completely off track, maybe she ain’t so bad either…
New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr, teams up with celebrated artist Jenn St-Onge to tell the story of a girl who will learn good and evil are not black and white (and red)…as long as she doesn’t get caught.
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: More Harley seems like a winning combination.
This Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story TP
DC Comics
Written by Julio Anta
Art by Jacoby Salcedo
Cover Art by Salcedo
Writer Julio Anta and artist Jacoby Salcedo take readers on a gripping and inspiring journey filled with both high stakes and heart as Jaime embraces his new calling as Blue Beetle!
Jaime Reyes is an ordinary high school student in El Paso, Texas, with a deep love for his family, culture, and home. Whether it’s working with his dad at the auto shop or a multi-generational barbecue filled with music and dance, Jaime loves nothing more than his neighborhood’s spontaneous gatherings that go late into the night. But lately he’s begun to realize that he and his border community are being used as pawns in an increasingly toxic immigration debate.
The last few months have seen armed troops deployed along the U.S. and Mexico border, manufactured crackdowns at official border crossings, and now at the community level, a mounting resentment amongst a group of disaffected and reactionary youth who believe they’re being “replaced” by El Paso’s growing immigrant population. And to make matters worse, one of Jaime’s oldest friends, Riley, has bought into the propaganda. What started off as innocent web searches has now led Riley down a path to joining an unabashed hate group with a chapter in El Paso looking to cause some real-world violence.
But Jaime’s problems get even more complicated when he finds an odd bug-like artifact while stargazing. He starts feeling a little different—like there’s another voice in his head pushing him towards his most base instincts. And to make matters worse, he’s been having surreal dreams that show him that the true threat El Paso faces isn’t “illegal aliens,” but actual aliens known as the Reach. In fact, according to his dreams, Jaime is meant to pave the way for the Reach’s impending invasion!
Release Date: October 2, 2024
PCS NOTES: This book has our attention.
