Welcome to the New Number Ones!
Each week we bring you the list of new series and special editions coming this Wednesday. We are highlighting what you need to put in your cart at the comic shop or digital marketplace.
It’s just about 2025 and we will be there all year to tell you what is coming at the comic shops. This week is super light on NewNumberOnes because NCBD is on New Year’s Day. We hope you enjoy the New Year and find some comics that make you happy.
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, and Boom! Studios.
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
Cable: Love and Chrome #1
Marvel Comics
Written by David Pepose
Art by Mike Henderson & Arif Prianto
Letters by Joe Sabino
Cover Art by Ian Churchill & Morry Hollowell
MARVEL’S MOST EXTREME MUTANT RETURNS! He’s been a soldier. An X-Man. A protector of the timestream. But even from his earliest days, the mutant known as Cable has been living on borrowed time, waging a lonely war against the ravages of the Techno-Organic Virus. Yet when a high-stakes mission in the future goes catastrophically awry, Cable is left stranded in the dystopian city of Salvation Bay — and will find himself caught in the midst of a civil war that will change his life forever. Get ready for big action, bigger threats and the biggest guns in the Marvel Universe, in this epic new series from Ringo Award-winning writer David Pepose (Punisher, Savage Avengers) and superstar artist Mike Henderson (Daredevil, Deadpool vs. Old Man Logan)!
Release Date: January 1, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is a great creative team on a very cool character.
Deadpool / Wolverine #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Benjamin Percy
Art by Joshua Cassara & Guru-eFX
Letters by Joe Sabino
Cover Art by Cassara & Guru-eFX
WADE AND LOGAN – TOGETHER AGAIN! The most unlikely team-up turned most demanded one, DEADPOOL and WOLVERINE are BACK! Together again and ready to blow your minds in this ongoing series that hits like a never-ending action movie – with the fate of the world in the balance! When a fan-favorite VILLAIN is unearthed, you’ll get to see a new side of our heroes and their adversary, as an ages-long plan comes to fruition. And the only thing that stands between the Earth and annihilation is the Best There Is and the Merc With The Mouth. Brought to you by another legendary pairing – writer Benjamin Percy (WOLVERINE, HELLVERINE) and artist Joshua Cassara (X-FORCE, X-MEN) – these comic superstars put your favorite super heroes through their paces in a series chock-full of surprises, twist reveals and a villainous plot that’ll turn long-term and newly arriving X-readers’ heads. This is one for the pull list!
Release Date: January 1, 2025
PCS NOTES: We are looking forward to this one.
Justice League: The Atom Project #1
DC Comics
Written by Ryan Parrott & John Ridley
Art by Mike Perkins & Adriano Lucas
Letters by Wes Abbott
Cover Art by Perkins & Lucas
IT’S THE GREATEST POWER IN THE DC UNIVERSE… AND ALSO ITS DEADLIEST WEAPON. In the wake of Absolute Power, the superpowers of planet Earth are in chaos… and it’s up to the newly reformed Justice League to restore order to that chaos. Enter Ray Palmer and Ryan Choi, together as the heroes called Atom. These brilliant minds get to work crafting the world’s first superpower reallocation and backup system, code named the Atom Project. But not everyone wants their powers back, and Captain Atom is hell-bent on preventing his missing Atomic abilities from ever being found. Join Oscar-winning writer John Ridley, Rogue Sun co-creator Ryan Parrott and Batman: First Knight artist Mike Perkins down the rabbit hole of an intense atomic-fueled spy thriller that will drop change on the DCU like an atomic bomb!
Release Date: January 1, 2025
PCS NOTES: I have to say that I was not a fan of the zany power swap aspects to the end of Absolute Power, but this book is giving me hope that it can be used as a device for good storytelling. Mike Perkins on this book is a genius move.
Sam Wilson: Captain America #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Greg Pak & Evan Narcisse
Art by Valentine De Landro, Edgar Messias, & Fernando Sifuentes
Letters by Joe Caramagna
Cover Art by Taurin Clarke
SAM WILSON SOARS AGAIN! When Captain America attends a birthday party for Isaiah Bradley, he catches wind of a new tech venture that sounds too good to be true: magnificent floating platforms in the sky, where the disenfranchised can apply for land grants and establish their own farms. But after Sam discovers the organization’s dark underbelly, he’ll have to tangle with its head of security: Red Hulk! Greg Pak (INCREDIBLE HULK, WEAPON H), Evan Narcisse (RISE OF THE BLACK PANTHER) and Eder Messias (PHASES OF THE MOON NIGHT) join forces for a high-flying Cap adventure!
Release Date: January 1, 2025
PCS NOTES: Good creative team on this book.
When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee #1
Boom! Studios
Written by Gus Moreno
Art by Jakub Rebelka
Cover Art by Rebelka
Father Barrera is a disgraced priest, haunted by his part in the tragic death of a child. As penance, he is exiled to the remote South American town of Puerto Cristina to apprentice under the enigmatic Father Stygian, controversial exorcist.
Exorcists are normally trained in the Vatican, but Stygian has his own way of handling demons… methods that predate even the Church. And unfortunately for Barrera, Stygian’s last apprentice committed suicide not long ago.
As Barrera seeks to unlock the mysteries of Stygian’s strange practices, he uncovers an island rife with evil and supernatural phenomena.
What do these possessions mean, and how are they connected to a mysterious hospital patient, one who’s been in a coma for nearly half a century without aging a single day…
Rising star author Gus Moreno, whose debut novel This Thing Between Us was awarded a “Best Book of 2021” recognition by NPR, joins forces with visionary artist Jakub Rebelka (Cyberpunk) for a mesmerizing and thrilling descent into Hell itself.
Release Date: January 1, 2025
PCS NOTES: Definitely interesting.
New One-Shots and Specials
DC Versus Marvel: The Amalgam Age Omnibus HC
DC Comics / Marvel Comics
Written by Various
Art by Many
Cover Art by Dave Gibbons
THE MARVEL UNIVERSE BATTLES — AND COMBINES WITH — THE DC UNIVERSE! NOW BACK IN PRINT IN ONE MASSIVE OMNIBUS COLLECTION!
Pitting their world’s greatest superheroes against each other, only the winning universe will be allowed to live! And the loser… will cease to exist. Superman versus the Hulk! Batman versus Captain America! Wolverine versus Lobo!
Fighting against the clock, Access, a new hero traversing both worlds, will attempt victory through another means: The combination of DC and Marvel into one universe! The Amalgam age of comics is born! Batman and Wolverine become Dark Claw! Captain America and Superman become Super Soldier! Wonder Woman and Storm become Amazon! But will the existence of Amalgam prolong the inevitable demise of DC or Marvel? Will the Amalgam Universe fight back when Access attempts to return the universes to their former glory?
This once-in-a-lifetime event is finally collected in a once-in-a-lifetime Omnibus!
Collecting DC VERSUS MARVEL #1-4, THE DC/MARVEL: ALL-ACCESS #1-4, UNLIMITED ACCESS #1-4, AMAZON #1, ASSASSINS #1, BAT-THING #1, BRUCE WAYNE: AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. #1, BULLETS AND BRACELETS #1, CHALLENGERS OF THE FANTASTIC #1, DARK CLAW ADVENTURES #1, DOCTOR STRANGEFATE #1, EXCITING X-PATROL #1, GENERATION HEX #1, IRON LANTERN #1, JLX UNLEASHED #1, LEGEND OF THE DARK CLAW #1, LOBO THE DUCK #1, THE MAGNETIC MEN FEATURING MAGNETO #1, SPEED DEMON #1, SPIDER-BOY #1, SPIDER-BOY TEAM-UP #1, SUPER SOLDIER #1, SUPER SOLDIER: MAN OF WAR #1, THORION OF THE NEW ASGODS #1, X-PATROL #1, and a story from Green Lantern #87. Includes introductions by Ron Marz and Karl Kesel, new afterwords by Mike Carlin and Tom Breevort, the trading cards, and a tome of never-before-seen material!
Release Date: January 1, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is a hefty book with a hefty price tag, but full of amazing stories and comic goodness.
What If… ? Galactus Transformed Hulk
Marvel Comics
Written by Mat Groom
Art by Lan Medina & Juancho Velez
Letters by Travis Lanham
Cover Art by Ron Lim & Israel Silva
The first in a new series of one-shots that asks the question: What if Galactus recruited some of Marvel’s best and brightest heroes as his new cosmic heralds? See how the Power Cosmic transforms these once-familiar champions, twisting and turning all of Marvel history in their wake! In this tale, Galactus has conscripted Earth’s strongest warrior — the Incredible Hulk — into his service. But what will turn out to be the bigger mistake: trying to direct the fury of the Green Goliath… or giving the great mind of Bruce Banner a cosmic problem to solve?
Release Date: January 1, 2025
PCS NOTES: This set of one-shots has my attention.
