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 is an excellent list of new releases from some of the smaller publishers and there are some enormous collections in the special edition section this week.
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, Dark Horse Comics, DSTLRY Media, Oni Press, Fantagraphics 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
Assassin’s Creed Mirage: A Soar of Eagles #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Michael Avon Oeming
Art by Mirko Colak & Lauren Affe
Cover Art by Julie Dillon
Years before the events of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, a young Fuladh must return to his homeland to investigate political unrest that could point to a secret Order of the Ancients’ stronghold. But in order to discover what’s behind the chaos and violence in Adulis, Fuladh and Roshan will have to confront a more immediate danger.
Join writer Michael Avon Oeming and artist Mirko Colak as they explore a mysterious new tale from the world of Assassin’s Creed, created in partnership with Ubisoft.
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: What a fantastic creative team coming together to tell this interesting story.
Assorted Crisis Events #1
Image Comics
Written by Deniz Camp
Art by Eric Zawadzki & Jordie Bellaire
Letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Cover Art by Zawadski
Time is having a crisis. Mingling in the red-light district, you can find actual cavemen, medieval knights, and cyborg soldiers on leave from World War IV. Victorian debutantes amble their way into cell phone stores, confused and bewildered (what is a data plan?). On their way to work, bleary-eyed commuters get trapped in time-loops, assaulted by alternate-reality versions of themselves, and try to avoid post-apocalyptic wastelands. And LOOK: the 3:15 bus just took a wrong turn… into the neolithic era.
Rising stars Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadzki and Eisner-winners Jordie Bellaire and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou are proud to present Assorted Crisis Events, an ongoing, zig-zagging anthology series about the compromised clicks of our clocks-full of one-shot stories both beautiful and ugly, tragic and redemptive, surreal and somehow all too familiar.
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is the book that has me most intrigued this week. Looking forward to checking it out.
Dark Pyramid #1
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Paul Tobin
Art by P.J. Holden
Cover Art by Holden
Hooky Hidalgo, adventurist and popular live streamer, has gone missing while climbing Mt. Denali in Alaska! When his girlfriend, Becca, arrives at the base of the mountain to retrace his steps, she soon discovers something beyond the dreamy and impressive landscape. There’s a conspiracy deep within the heart of Denali itself — a dark pyramid, silent, waiting. Becca — and the scores of Hooky fans determined to either find him or find some fun — will face death, avalanches… and monsters to find the truth.
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: Mt. Denali lives in this book!!!
Defiant #1
DSTLRY Media
Written by Chuck Austen
Art by Pat Oliffe
Cover Art by Oliffe
NEW DSTLRY SCIENCE-FICTION DEBUT FROM CHUCK AUSTEN (Edgeworld, X-Men, Superman) and prolific Marvel and DC artist PATRICK OLLIFFE!
On his final mission, Sandusky returns to the stars to reclaim his son Devon’s body and uncover the truth surrounding his death. Light years from home, among a cascade of twisted metal, Sandusky finds Devon – his body entombed in the remains of his ship, The Defiant-lost in a massive battle that sparked an intergalactic war. But nothing is what it seems, as Sandusky digs deeper, he and his allies are drawn into a galaxy-spanning mystery, one that holds secrets far darker and more complex than anticipated.
Every issue from DSTLRY is presented in our perfect bound Prestige format, featuring wraparound covers with spot gloss on robust cover stock, complemented by 48 pages of exquisite interior stock. It’s the DSTLRY difference.
For fans of DUNE, FIRELY, and ANDOR.
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: This book has me excited for a wild sci-fi adventure.
From the World of Minor Threats: Welcome to Twilight #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Matt Fraction
Story by Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Fraction
Art by Michael Allred
Letters by Nate Piekos
Cover Art by Scott Hampton
Twilight City may be home to the Minor Threats but they’re not the only down-on-their-luck super villains and heroes struggling to find their way. Comic book superstars Matt Fraction and Mike Allred reunite to tell a twisted noir tale about fame, dames and homunculus-faced mobsters in Minor Threats: Welcome to Twilight.
Benjamin “Brock” Bronkowicz is a washed up, bird-winged actor who is not a superhero, but he once played one on TV. Now Brock spends his time on the superhero convention circuit-trying to cash in on his fleeting fame, drinking away his problems as he fades into obscurity. But a chance encounter with a mysterious woman empowers Brock to fight for a life he once thought was over. Can Brock learn to fly again? Or will his vices and the ruthless gangsters on his tail clip his wings for good?
Find out in the exciting first issue of a miniseries that explores the Minor Threats universe through the eyes of legendary comic creators.
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: You had me at Fraction and Allred! Take my money!!!
New One-Shots and Specials
Baby Blue TP
Fantagraphics Books
Written by Bim Erikkson
Art by Erikkson
Cover Art by Erikkson
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Set in a not-so-distant future where the State polices people’s emotions, this dystopian graphic novel explores themes of mental health, queer identity, and the dangers of unchecked fascism.
In the not-so-distant future, twenty-something Betty lives in a fascistic society that polices feelings. When her depression causes her to have an emotional episode in public, she is taken to an Orwellian health facility to “fix” her mental illness. There, she meets Berina, a fiery woman who opens her eyes to an alternative reality: The Resistance. If she can navigate a deviant underworld and band together with a queer, ragtag crew of resistance fighters, she just might have a chance to oppose the regime.
The English debut of Swedish comics artist Bim Eriksson, Baby Blue is a haunting dystopian thriller. Drawn in a delightfully twisted, sad girl style, and suffused with pop music and other cultural touchstones, this graphic novel feels fresh and contemporary. Ultimately, a bold and vital tale of queerness, love, rebellion, and the value of being different.
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: Fantagraphics doesn’t let you down when they bring artists from around the world to North American comics.
Chew: The Nomnibus Edition TP
Image Comics
Written by John Layman
Art by Rob Guillory
Cover Art by Guillory
COLLECTED EDITION
Collecting all 60 issues of the New York Times bestselling, Harvey and multiple Eisner Award-winning series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals, and clairvoyants in a single massive volume.
Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he’s a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn’t mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He’s been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and most bizarre cases.
Also included are the blockbuster one-shots featuring everybody’s favorite homicidal rooster, SECRET AGENT POYO, WARRIOR CHICKEN POYO, DEMON CHICKEN POYO.
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: Holy Forking Chicken, Poyo! That’s a lot of trees in that book. This is an amazing collection for fans of one of the best series of this century so far.
Deadman Omibus HC
DC Comics
Written by Neal Adams, Len Wein, Bob Haney, Gerry Conway, Andrew Helfer, et al.
Art by Adams, Jim Apara, Jose` Luis Garcia-Lopez, and more (like you really need it.)
Cover Art by Adams
COLLECTED EDITION
Originally introduced in 1967, Deadman was a circus performer known as Boston Brand who was murdered while on the high wire. In the afterlife, a mysterious being known as Rama Kushna gifted his spirit with the ability to possess the bodies of the living, so he could discover the identity of his killer and bring THEM to justice!
Featuring spectacular art by Neal Adams, José Luis García-López, and others, these tales take Deadman across the DC Universe in search of justice. This massive hardcover collects Strange Adventures #205-216; The Brave and the Bold #79, #86, #104, and #133; Aquaman #50-52; Challengers of the Unknown #74 and #84-87; Justice League of America #94; World’s Finest Comics #223 and #227; The Phantom Stranger #33 and #39-41; Superman Family #183; DC Super-Stars #18; DC Special Series #8; Adventure Comics #459-466; DC Comics Presents #94; Detective Comics #500; Deadman #1-4 (1986); and Secret Origins #15.
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: One of the most beloved characters in the DC Universe getting the omnibus treatment is a fantastic thing.
El Fuego HC
Oni Press
Written by David Rubín
Art by Rubín
Cover Art by Rubín
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
A mass-extinction event is imminent as a giant meteorite is hurtling toward the Earth. Renowned architect Alexander Yorba, entrusted to design a citadel on the Moon which would ensure the survival of humanity, is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Thrust into an existential crisis, Alexander begins to question the validity of his successes, having colluded with the world’s elite to spare only the wealthiest members of society, and grapples with what it means to be a decent person in a decaying world. His spiritual and moral journey will take him from the Moon to Madrid, by way of New York, Helsinki, Amsterdam, and Rome, where he will have to confront his past choices with those who were his greatest influences, in hopes of finding his way . . . before the end comes.
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: This looks really interesting.
Nick Fury vs. Fing Fang Foom #1
Marvel Comics
Written by J. Michael Straczynksi
Art by Elena Casagrande & Mattia Iacono
Letters by Travis Lanham
Cover Art by Gary Frank & Alex Sinclair
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
THE HOWLING COMMANDOS TAKE ON FIN FANG FOOM! NICK FURY knows how to handle problems, no matter the size — but he’s never faced a foe THIS big before! Witness the next chapter in J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI’s team-up event as he is joined by Marvel Stormbreaker ELENA CASAGRANDE to bring you one of the most wild pairings in Marvel History!
Release Date: March 12, 2025
PCS NOTES: You can’t say that JMS is playing it safe with these one-shot mashups.
