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.
This week has a smaller list than most, but it is filled with high quality entries at every level.
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: Marvel Comics, Storm King Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Entertainment, Oni Press, Fantagraphics Books, and Archie 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
John Carpenter’s Tales of Science Fiction: Pause #1
Storm King Comics
Written by Matthew K. Manning
Art by Conor Boyle
Letters by Janice Chiang
Cover Art by Tim Bradstreet
What if time stopped for everyone but you? Would you stay in the nicest Manhattan penthouse, ignoring the frozen owner standing in the corner of the room? Would you eat at the finest restaurants, their food paused in time and still hot on the plates? And if you could unfreeze anyone with just a touch, would you? Or would you keep this newfound playground for yourself? You could live anywhere. Take anything. The world would be yours. Unless, of course, you unpaused the wrong people…
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: Storm King Comics presents a new series that has me questioning everything.
Jumpscare #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Cullen Bunn
Art by Danny Luckert
Letters by Jim Campbell
Cover Art by Luckert
From the co-creator of The Sixth Gun and Harrow County comes a new action horror superhero event that ties into the hit Beyond Mortal series!
In a world rife with crime, horror, and bloodshed, Jumpscare is the hero we deserve! Strong, fast, violent, and able to conjure any weapon from any horror movie she’s seen (and she’s seen a lot of horror movies), Jumpscare hacks her way through ne’er-do-wells and monsters alike. Not only is she the bloodiest hero of Empire City — she is the most popular! No wonder her enemies want her dead.
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is an excellent premise from a great group of comic book creators.
Pop Kill #1
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Dave Johnson & Jimmy Palmiotti
Art by Juan Santacruz & Brian Reber
Letters by Sean Konot
Cover Art by Johnson
Imagine a world where the two dominant and competing Cola companies, each worth billions, are owned by former Siamese twins who are now separated and have grown to hate each other so much they hire assassins, saboteurs, and espionage personnel to meddle with each other on a daily basis. This is the story about brotherly love run afoul, and the people they enlist to do their dirty work.
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: Paper Films is bringing there crowdfunded books to retail outlets with Mad Cave Studios. This is a great story. Don’t miss it.
Red Hulk #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Benjamin Percy
Art by Geoff Shaw & Bryan Valenza
Letters by Cory Petit
Cover Art by Shaw & Marte Gracia
RED HULK RAGES INTO ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM! THUNDERBOLT ROSS — in a cell deep below the ground — is a prisoner of DOCTOR DOOM And he is not alone. Brilliant military, criminal and political minds have been gathered against their will in a prison complex that serves as a “THINK TANK” to help carry out Doom’s plan for global domination. But the RED HULK has other plans! Guest starring MACHINE MAN and DEATHLOK!
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: This looks like a fun book with an excellent creative team.
New One-Shots and Specials
Captain America & Volstagg #1
Marvel Comics
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Art by Bernard Chang & Marcelo Maiolo
Letters by Joe Caramagna
Cover Art by Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI’S TEAM-UP EVENT CONTINUES AS VOLSTAGG RECRUITS THE SENTINEL OF LIBERTY! When a war breaks out in the Nine Realms, Volstagg of the Warriors Three turns to the only man skilled enough to end it: Steve Rogers, Captain America! JMS teams with visionary artist Bernard Chang for the second in a series of one-shots bringing unlikely Marvel characters together for tales unlike any other!
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: A team-up I didn’t know would make me curious.
Chilling Adventures Presents… The Nine Lives of Salem #1
Archie Comics
Written by Cullen Bunn
Art by Dan Schoening, Ben Galvin, & Matt Herms
Letters by Jack Morelli
Cover Art by Schoening
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
Even with nine lives, can you ever truly outrun the horrors in your past? What happens when those familiar faces finally catch up to you? These are the questions Salem, Sabrina’s felonious feline, is asking himself… and he fears the answers.
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: More Chilling Adventures is always a good thing.
Crocodile Black TP
Boom! Studios
Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Art by Somnath Pal & Patricio Delpeche
Letters by Becca Carey
Cover Art by Andrea Sorrentino
COLLECTED EDITION
Walk a mile in a dead man’s shoes… and you’ll never come back…
Danny is a seemingly normal young man, getting lost in escapism on the regular to withdraw from the mundane droll of working his delivery job in the midst of a pandemic, and the soul-crushing lack of control over his own life.
One day he discovers something on the job that would be horrifying to most… but is tantalizing to a guy like Danny. The smell of death and the black glisten of a victim’s crocodile skin boots will leave him changed forever, leaving chaos in his wake.
In this deadly thriller for fans of Kill Or Be Killed and A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance from Eisner-nominated writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Superman, Incredible Hulk) and rising star artist SOM (Brigands), witness the birth of an iconic new noir killer for the modern era.
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is the collection of one of the most interesting Indie comics series from last year.
Godzilla vs. America: Chicago #1
IDW Entertainment
Written by Mike Costa, Ezra Claytan Daniels, & Tim Seeley
Art by Seeley, Ryan Browne, & Caroline Cash
Cover Art by Browne
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
Godzilla is coming to America, and its first stop? CHICAGO! Join a star-studded crew of Chicago comics creators through four epic stories across the Windy City. The L train experiences its worst delays yet, Godzilla interrupts a major sporting event, and a new Chicago-based superhero reaches the end of her rope.
This issue features a superstar lineup of creators including Tim Seeley (The Local Man, Grayson), Mike Costa (God is Dead) and Ryan Browne (Eight Billion Genies, Curse Words), Caroline Cash (PeePee PooPoo Comics), and Ezra Clayton Daniels (Upgrade Soul, BTTM FDRS)! Join us at the start of a new anthology series that follows Godzilla across the United States!
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: Godzilla in Chicago… I’m in.
Life Drawing HC
Fantagraphics Books
Written by Jamie Hernandez
Art by Hernandez
Cover Art by Hernandez
Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez’s newest graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love—both young and middle-aged. Life Drawing darts primarily between the youthful Tonta and the venerable Maggie. Tonta has a crush on her art teacher, Ray, as well as an axe to grind with an older woman in the neighborhood. When Tonta finds that the woman, Maggie, is married to Ray, things get complicated. And Tonta does not handle complications well.
Life Drawing showcases Hernandez’s brilliant talent for character, weaving relationships, rejections, infidelities, and adventures involving: Tonta’s self-involved sisters Vivian, Violet, and Muñeca; her colorful pals Gomez, Judy Fair, and Brown Alice; her mother, the infamous ‘Black Widow of the Valley’; and of course, the two great loves of Maggie’s life, Ray and Hopey. There’s also a forest spirit, two weddings, some cosplay, a little pole dancing, and page after page of breathtaking comics by the medium’s most wide-eyed romantic. Did we mention the weddings?
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: You know you want this. Just add it to the list already.
Soma TP
Oni Press
Written by Fernando Llor
Art by Carles Dalmau
Cover Art by Delmau
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Maya is a comic book artist in the middle of a creative crisis. She’s constantly stressed about deadlines and feels like she’s not doing the type of work she loves. In between trying to fight her writer’s block and doling out advice to her best friend on how to finally land a date, Maya receives an unexpected visitor: Soma, an extraterrestrial alien who crashlands in Maya’s living room. Soma delivers a message to Maya, warning her that an alien invasion from his own kind is fast approaching, and he needs her help to stop it!
From writer Fernando Llor (Ojos Grises, Subnormal: Una Historia de Acoso Escolar) and writer/illustrator Carles Dalmau (Lucid Lucy, Cult of the Lamb) comes Soma, a science-fiction adventure about creativity and companionship during times of peril.
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: This looks very interesting.
Women of Marvel: She-Devils #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Stephanie Phillips, Cherie Dimaline, Alison Sampson
Art by Federica Muzzo, Rachelle Rosenberg, Kelsey Ramsay, Fabi Marques, Chris Peter, & Sampson
Letters by Ariana Maher
Cover Art by Nina Vakueva & Sonia Oback
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
THE CLAWS ARE OUT! Marvel’s street-level heroines break out of the shadows in a fight for the record books! When Shanna the She-Devil undercovers a dark conspiracy, she’ll call on international allies put their fists, sai, katanas and gauntlets together and stop a bomb before it can explode. Your favorite devilish women of Marvel and some of the hottest creators in the industry in one ass-kicking anthology — what’re you waiting for?! Call your shop and collect your boots and heels, ladies. We’ve got work to do.
Release Date: February 26, 2025
PCS NOTES: All women, all Marvelous.
