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.
This week brings more of DC’s Absolute Universe into the light, and there are a bunch of highly anticipated new series debuting this week from the smaller publishers, as well.
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, IDW Publishing, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Boom! Studios, Magma Comix, Oni Press, Ahoy Comics, Alien Books, 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
Absolute Batman #1
DC Comics
Written by Scott Snyder
Art by Nick Dragotta & Frank Martin
Letters by Clayton Cowles
Cover Art by Dragotta
BATMAN LEGEND SCOTT SNYDER AND ICONIC ARTIST NICK DRAGOTTA TRANSFORM THE DARK KNIGHT’S TALE FOR THE MODERN AGE! Without the mansion… without the money… without the butler… what’s left is the Absolute Dark Knight!
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: Well, from what we can tell, about half the comic community has read this and said good things about it. We will check it out this week.
Conquest 2099 #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Steve Orlando
Art by Ibraim Roberson & Jose Luis
Cover Art by Leinil Francis Yu & Romulo Fajardo Jr.
THE IMPALER SCORNED! DRACULA has conquered a world determined to quash him! Now, with an army at his back, he sets his sights on the new vampire homeworld — DOMUS DRACONUM! What he discovers will shatter his dark heart!!! What tragic event sets him on a collision course with NOVA, SPIDER-MAN… and the SPIDER-WOMAN of 2099?! Featuring the first appearance of SPIDERCIDE 2099!
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: Steve Orlando continues his excellent work in the 2099 Marvel Universe with this new series.
Day of the Dead Girl #1
Magma Comix
Written by Aimee Garcia & AJ Mendez
Art by Belén Culebras
Cover Art by Culebras
Death is never the end of the story. Coroner Sam Castillo will learn this the hard way, when a supernatural serial killer targets her hometown just as she moves back. A skeptical woman of science, Sam butts heads with her spiritual mother Ana, a leader of a witch coven specializing in Brujeria. But when the coven’s Brujas start turning up murdered, Sam and Ana must work together to find the killer and save their town’s Day of the Dead festival from turning into an occult bloodbath. As if sharing a bathroom with her mom wasn’t hard enough.
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: Magma keeps giving us interesting new series.
Murder Kingdom #1
Mad Cave Comics
Written by Fred Van Lente
Art by Chris Panda
Letters by Becca Carey
Cover Art by Paulina Ganucheau
You must be this tall…to DIE! Once upon a time, in a strange land called Florida, a masked psycho starts murdering cast members of the Storybook Kingdom theme park in ways identical to the gory original Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princess-turned-detective Tanith is the only person who can unmask the killer before she and her friends are all Dying Unhappily Never After! Toon-themed terror from six-time New York Times bestselling writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies), artist Chris Panda (Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors: Night Shift, Rom: First Strike), and letterer Becca Carey (Radiant Black, Golden Rage).
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: We have been looking forward to this one for a while.
Séance in the Asylum #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Clay McLeod Chapman
Art by Andrea Mutti
Letter by Frank Cvetkovic
Cover Art by Mutti
1865. Defrauded spiritual medium Alicia Wilkinson is brought to The Ashcroft Hospital at the behest of Dr. John James Templeton. He offers Alicia a second chance to revive her once-thriving career: perform a séance amongst the patients in order to draw out their mental maladies. Alicia performs her first series of séances with the patients — including traumatized soldiers returning from the Civil War and women whose sanity has slipped through their fingers — only to realize their sessions might work all too well. What no one knows is Alicia is a fake. A liar. A cheat… So why are the patients suddenly acting possessed?
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: This should fit in very nicely for an October debut.
Sentinels #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Alex Paknadel
Art by Justin Mason
Cover Art by Mason
WHO ARE THE NEW SENTINELS? The original Sentinel Program was human supremacy and fear coded into circuitry. But now their legacy falls into the hands of mutantkind! Powered by cutting-edge nanotech, this new generation of Sentinels protects a fragile peace between mutants and humans. But when being a Sentinel is your job — your life — is it possible to stay human? Mount up as Alex Paknadel (CARNAGE) and Justin Mason (SPIDER-PUNK) bring you a brand-new team of heroes that will take on the most heinous mutants! Their first mission: Capture Omega Red!
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: This series has been percolating on the Marvel Unlimited app for a while and now will be printed for universal release.
Star Wars: Ewoks #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Steve Orlando
Art by Laura Braga, Álvaro López, & Antonio Fabela
Letters by Joe Caramagna
Cover Art by Pete Woods
CELEBRATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF CARAVAN OF COURAGE, THE EWOKS RETURN IN AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES SET AFTER THE EVENTS OF RETURN OF THE JEDI! A team of Imperial-led BOUNTY HUNTERS and scavengers arrive on the Forest Moon of Endor searching for a secret cache of Imperial weaponry! Are they prepared to face off against the battle-ready Ewoks who took down so many of their ranks? Who is the mysterious new warrior Ewok returning to Bright Tree village, and what is their connection to WICKET W. WARRICK?
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: We talked to Steve Orlando about this book on one of our latest Squadcast Episodes.
The Terminator #1
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by Declan Shalvey & Sal Crivelli
Art by Colin Craker & Luke Sparrow
Cover Art by Shalvey
The plans to kill Sarah Connor and her son John have failed, but the genocidal Skynet isn’t out of options yet. There are still a few more avenues into the past that will allow it to destroy the human resistance that is poised to smash its processors into silicon shrapnel — it just needs to expand its theater of operations.
Opening a new front in the war, Terminators are dispatched across the globe and throughout time to target current resistance fighters, their ancestors, and anyone else unlucky enough to be in the strike zones. And while none of these secondary assignments are as straightforward as the missions of the first T-800 and T-1000, time is literally on the machines’ side. When all of history becomes a war zone, nowhere — and nowhen — is safe!
Acclaimed creator DECLAN SHALVEY (THUNDERCATS, OLD DOG) returns to the present for another blockbuster Dynamite series, joining rising star artist LUKE SPARROW (STAR TREK) for all-new tales of Skynet and its nigh-unstoppable mechanical assassins — all supported by algorithmically perfect covers from SHALVEY, EDWIN GALMON, SWAY, and DAVID COUSENS!
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: Declan Shalvey has a track record of making engaging, respectful, and interesting new comics for classic properties.
The Toxic Avenger #1
Ahoy Comics
Written by Matt Bors
Art by Fred Harper
Cover Art by Harper
You remember him from the classic films, animated series, and action figures — now America’s grossest icon returns to comics! A train hauling chemical waste derails in Tromaville, NJ, transforming bullied teenager Melvin Junko into the massive, mop-wielding Toxic Avenger. Pulitzer finalist Matt Bors (The Nib, JUSTICE WARRIORS) and artist Fred Harper (HIGHBALL) deliver a TOXIE reboot brewed especially for the 21st century!
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: The Toxic Avenger in new comics sounds great!
New One-Shots and Specials
Dwellings: All Hallows’ Eve Special #1
Oni Press
Written by Jay Stephens
Art by Stephens
Cover Art by Stephens
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
WELCOME BACK TO ELWICH, THE TOWN WHERE EVERY PIECE OF CANDY IS JUST A RAZOR BLADE WAITING TO BE REVEALED! This Halloween, return to the terrifyingly tranquil streets that Dwellings calls home—as seen through the eyes of visitor Wolfgang LeGant! But Wolfgang is no ordinary tourist: He’s convinced he’s actually a seasoned vampire hunter, and this delusion has drawn him to Elwich to drive a stake through the once-unassuming town’s thriving “Saguinarian” goth subculture. But when Wolfgang meets Emmaline Momenta, a young woman similarly possessed by the idea that she’s a real vampire, irrational faith may be the only thing capable of stopping a mass murder in the making . . . TRICK OR TREAT! LIVE OR DIE! Emmy Award–winning, Eisner Award–nominated comics master Jay Stephens (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) captures the Halloween spirit in all of its blood-spattered, candy-colored glory in the first-ever standalone, double-sized Dwellings special . . . before the series makes its much-demanded return in 2025!
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: Spooky Dwellings for you Halloween enjoyment.
Green Lantern Civil Corps Special #1
DC Comics
Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson & Jeremy Adams
Art by Salvador Larroca
Cover Art by Brad Walker
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
THE WAR FOR THE FATE OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS STARTS HERE! Lord Premier Thaaros sends a surprising foe to retrieve the Dark Star Ring from John Stewart, which leads to a desperate plan to expose the United Planets as a force of evil. Allies and enemies will join this special issue to launch the Green Lanterns in a direction that will change the DC cosmos forever!
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: The new state of the Lanterns starts here,
Monster High: Halloween Special #1
IDW Publishing
Written by KerylBrown Ahmed
Art by Naomi Franquiz
Cover Art by Celia Lowenthal
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
In the words of some famous old manster, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Well, no offense to that boo, but… I disagree. I mean, each Hallow’s Eve normies wrap themselves in toilet paper and bedsheets and call themselves monsters? As if their flannel rags could touch our Clawdeen Wolf booriginal designs… Ghouls, there is nothing scarier than a bad costume.
Luckily, Headmaster Frankenstein and Draculaura are throwing a carnival for the real monsters guaranteed to genuinely send chills down their spines. Monster High is packed with booths: whack-a-molar, pin the wing on the dragon, spiderweb candy, and even a maze of frightmares. Halloween may be a boring normie howliday, but you never know what, or who, might be lurking around the coroner. Happy Halloween, ghouls.
— XOXO CryptCrier
Release Date: October 9, 2024
Naked City HC
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Eric Drooker
Art by Drooker
Cover Art by Drooker
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
In this long-awaited graphic comedy from an esteemed illustrator and storyteller, three bohemians struggle to answer the question: “Is it possible for an artist to survive in the 21st Century?”
A young singer poses for a painter who has shifted from landscapes to nudes, and both of them learn a thing or two about the purpose of art and the meaning of success. The original graphic novel Naked City takes us inside the head of native New York artist, Eric Drooker (frequent cover artist for The New Yorker). His award-winning graphic novels — beginning with Flood — have charted new terrain for the form, and Blood Song is soon to be a major motion picture. Don’t miss this epic meditation on art and life.
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: This looks pretty good.
The Night Mother Vol. 1 TP
Oni Press
Written by Jeremy Lambert
Art by Alexa Sharpe
Cover Art by Sharpe
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Endless night befalls a sleepy seaside town, leaving it to young Madeline Tock to save her community from a threat known only as the Night Mother . . . The moon is stuck like a broken clock in the midnight sky, the sun a distant memory. No one in this quiet seaside town can remember how long this unnatural darkness has lasted. No one, that is, except for the curious girl who lives in the graveyard, caring for the dead: twelve-year-old Madeline Tock. In gratitude, the departed whisper their worries to her, sounding just like her overprotective but loving father: beware this endless night and she who causes it. Because there’s someone else who can hear the whispers, too . . . someone whose gown is a map of the cosmos, hair a tangled constellation, eyes like the lights of faraway stars. The Night Mother. Her elemental duty is to gather the souls of the dead in her lantern, then send them to their eternal rest as beautiful moonlight. But when her hunger for power drives her to take souls from the living, Madeline bravely stands up to defend her town and those she loves. Can Madeline help bring back the sun, or will she be lured by the starry promises of this mysterious woman? Written by Jeremy Lambert (Doom Patrol, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Goosebumps) and richly illustrated by Alexa Sharpe (Lumberjanes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Uncanny Magazine), The Night Mother is a lush gothic tale perfect for readers of all ages who relish in the wonder of the night sky.
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: We are definitely interested in this book.
Pirate Princess TP
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Luca Frigerio
Art by Lorenza Pigliamosche
Cover Art by Pigliamosche
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Set sail with Julie, daughter of the mysterious Pirate King, as she journeys across oceans to reconnect with her father and become the best pirate that has ever existed! Julie has two goals in life: to make things explode and to become the best pirate who has ever existed! She joins the crew of the Golden Dolphin to find her father, The Pirate King, and amidst battles on galleons, ancient curses, and doomed lands, Julie’s path will lead her to uncovering mysteries of her displaced family, and her own place in the world as The Pirate Princess.
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: Another interesting book from the Maverick imprint.
Shadowman & Punk Mambo: Tales from the Deadside #1
Alien Books / Valiant
Written by Aj Ampadu
Art by Sebastián Cabrol, Zulema Scotto, & Jules Maone
Cover Art by Nobi
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
Written by AJ Ampadu (Ninjak vs. Roku), this supernatural adventure explores the darkest corners of the Valiant Universe. Shadowman and the Deadside take center stage in three weird and wild stories. Doctor Mirage and Punk Mambo embark on a fatal road trip through hell, wrapping up events from the Valentine’s Day issue. Hell’s a-poppin’ in this must-read adventure!
Release Date: October 9, 2024
PCS NOTES: Resurgence continues.
