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 smaller number of debut issues than most, but this list is full of high quality entrants.
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, Fantagraphics Books, Abrams Books, Dark Horse 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
Amazing Spider-Man #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Joe Kelly
Art by Pepe Larraz, John Romita Jr. Scott Hanna, Marte Gracia, & Marcio Menyz
Cover Art by Larraz & Gracia
ALIVE & THWIPPING! The next era of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN has arrived! Peter is, shockingly, without a job and looking for gainful employment, but his job search is interrupted by a RAMPAGING RHINO who is but the tip of a sinister iceberg. What major Spider-Villain is working behind the scenes weaponizing other Spider-Villains including one we haven’t seen in OVER SEVEN YEARS?! Also, what is that Goblin-free Norman Osborn up to anyway?
LEGACY #965
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: The next chapter of Spidey’s saga begins here.
Fire & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #1
DC Comics
Written by Joanne Starer
Art by Stephen Byrne
Letters by Ariana Maher
Cover Art by Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson
SPINNING OUT FROM THE PAGES OF ABSOLUTE POWER AND THE DC ALL IN SPECIAL! In the pages of DC’s Absolute Power event, Fire and Ice had finally achieved what Fire always wanted. The dynamic duo made a glorious return to the ranks of the Justice League — and during a major world crisis, no less! But when the crisis was overcome, the smoke had cleared, and all the superpowers were restored, Ice found herself shooting off uncontrollable spurts of fire, and Fire had ice crystals forming at her fingertips. Oops. With their powers switched and no solution in sight, Fire and Ice tuck tail and regroup in Smallville, where they realize their predicament makes them something worse than has-been heroes: menaces to the local community they’ve come to love. But Fire’s always got a plan, no matter how shortsighted! And when she goes digging around in Zatanna’s bag of tricks for a quick fix in the middle of karaoke night… what could possibly go wrong? Aside from, y’know, everything. Again. Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville writer Joanne Starer teams up with fan-favorite artist Stephen Byrne, returning Fire and Ice to Kansas for another raucous romp full of heart and humor in the midst of their own personal hell!
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is my most anticipated book of the week. We are big fans of Joanne Starer’s previous work with these characters and we are looking forward to what she has in store for these ladies.
The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by John Allison
Art by Max Sarin & Sammy Borras
Letters by Jim Campbell
Cover Art by Sarin & Borras
A new cozy mystery from Giant Days’ John Allison and Max Sarin following up to their hit baking murder mystery The Great British Bump-Off.
Surely there is no vacation more drama-free than a boating holiday along the sleepy canals of Yorkshire? Oh, you’d think so. Sadly, for Shauna Wickle, it’s tough to escape poisonous small-town rivalries (and sultry romantic entanglements) when travelling at a steady two to three miles per hour. And to make things worse, she’s about to find out how ruinously expensive a hastily-tied knot can be…
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: The first volume of British Bump-Off was fun. We look forward to more of that.
Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best #1
Image Comics
Written by Chrissy Williams
Art by Lauren Knight & Sophie Dodgson
Letters by Becca Carey
Cover Art by Knight
In a world where old and infertile women are deemed useless to society and abandoned on an island, Golden Rage documents their golden years of making friends, baking dessert, and fighting to the death. Mother Knows Best follows on from the first Golden Rage miniseries for a glorious new adventure. Created by writer Chrissy Williams (editor of Die, The Wicked + The Divine), artist Lauren Knight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and colorist Sofie Dodgson (Bitter Root), this is the first issue of a brand-new five-issue miniseries where Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls.
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: The first Golden Rage series was criminally underrated. We are so happy to get another arc, particularly with this stellar cast of creators.
Valiant Beyond: Tales of the Shadowman #1
Alien Books / Valiant
Written by Aj Ampadu
Art by Sergio Monjes
Cover Art by Damian Connelly
THE NEW ERA OF VALIANT COMICS CONTINUES!
Designed as the ULTIMATE jumping-on point, the Valiant Beyond line of comics are ABSOLUTE must-reads that will ENERGIZE your love for superheroes!
The city of New Orleans is home to a rich history of music, art, and culture that has achieved unparalleled progress and success. It’s the magic capital of the world and home to a hard-nosed detective trained in the ways of Voodoo who has dedicated her life to keeping New Orleans safe! When an ultra-dangerous monster invades her jurisdiction and threatens the peace they’ve fought so hard to protect, she must disobey her orders and summon the mysterious being known as “Shadowman” in order to save the city she loves!
Discover the secrets of the Shadowman in this all-new 28 page story from the fan-favorite team of AJ Ampadu and artist Sergio Monjes (SHADOWMAN: SOUL EATERS) at a special introductory price!
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: Shadowman enters new territory.
Vatican City #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Mark Millar
Art by Per Berg
Cover Art by Berg
The all-new series from New York Times-bestselling author Mark Millar!
The world has been overrun by a vampire apocalypse, every man, woman and child dead except the two thousand tourists safe behind the walls and holy relics of Vatican City.
But as the vampires gather in their millions outside, how long can they hold out? Because the monsters can wait forever.
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: This has an interesting premise.
New One-Shots and Specials
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero – Jinx #1
Image Comics / Skybound
Written by Dan Watters
Art by Dani & Brad Simpson
Cover Art by Dani & Simpson
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
In a standalone silent issue, the chart-topping team of DANI (Arkham City: The Order of the World) and DAN WATTERS (Destro, Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives!) put the iconic G.I. Joe ninja Jinx in the most dangerous mission of her life. She has 20 seconds — and 20 pages of real-time action — to escape a Cobra base on a snowy mountain of death.
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: Seeing the team behind Coffin Bound reunite on this one-shot is very exciting.
One Path TP
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Greg Broadmore
Art by Broadmore
Cover Art by Broadmore
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Hunted by giant primordial beasts, red in tooth and claw, a tribe of cavegirls scratch out a bleak existence in a brutal uncaring world. They cling onto a life where not many make it beyond the first few months, let alone to adulthood. Governed by ancient laws and arcane rituals — the only constants they have — they follow the old ways on pain of death. But One Path, a hunter and warrior, has a plan to change their lives. To free them from the toll the great predators that stalk them charge, and it will overturn everything they know.
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: This sounds fantastic.
Precious Rubbish HC
Fantagraphics Books
Written by kayla e.
Art by kayla e.
Cover Art by kayla e.
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
A landmark graphic novel debut and groundbreaking work of trauma recollection told in the style of post-war children’s comics.
“If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I’ve finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make sense of things: to connect dots and close gaps. To remember.” Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a style that references the aesthetics of mid-century children’s comics and tells the story of a childhood shaped by maternal emotional dysregulation, rural poverty, and incest. The author’s childhood is portrayed as a collection of short-form comics and gag panels punctuated by interactive elements like paper dolls, satirical advertisements, games, and puzzles.
While the work is concerned with violence and a particularly Texan brand of Pentecostal fanaticism, it is presented in a playful visual language with a deadpan humor that elevates the material beyond mere graphic memoir. Precious Rubbish is a landmark work of comics storytelling and graphic medicine.
The debut graphic novel from artist Kayla E., Precious Rubbish asks the reader to do the extratextual work of filling out narrative gaps, which mirrors the challenge of trauma recollection. The reader is invited to co-labor in the meaning-making process, an exercise that facilitates an intimacy (between the author, the subject, and the reader) that is at once horrifying and hilarious.
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: We are very intrigued to get a look at this debut graphic novel from this creator.
Thinking About Thinking: Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings HC
Abrams Books
Written by Grant Snider
Art by Snider
Cover Art by Snider
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
A playful examination of the way we think (and overthink) by cartoonist Grant Snider, creator of Incidental Comics, which appear regularly in the New York Times Book Review
Thinking About Thinking—the latest sly and charming collection of one- and two-page haiku-like comics from cartoonist Grant Snider—explores our inner life, using colorful illustrations and clever visual metaphors to depict the spectrum of our emotions.
Facing self-doubt? Overcoming fears? Grappling with indecision? Snider doesn’t present solutions to these challenges, but he does inspire and encourage, offering thoughtful reassurance and a unique, humorous perspective that’s characteristic of his work—an approach that resonates with millions of readers all over the world.
Emotions can be tricky to navigate. We overthink. We second-guess. And we can’t get out of our own way. The reality is, it’s impossible for any of us to understand our complicated feelings fully. But fear not, because you’ve come to the right place.
Release Date: April 9, 2025
PCS NOTES: This solicitation has us thinking that this will be an interesting reading experience.
