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.
The biggest news of this week is the second of the planned DC/Marvel crossovers. Along with that, there are some really interesting new series kicking off.
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, Dark Horse Comics, Mad Cave Studios, IDW Entertainment, Dynamite Entertainment, Boom! Studios, Archie Comic, 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
Ferocious #1
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Luke Piotrowski
Art by Emanuela Ercolani & Paolo Raiteri
Letters by Carlos M. Mangual
Cover Art by Andy Clarke & Jose Villarrubia
A tavern boy’s sheltered life is overturned by the arrival of a towering, draconic woman, a wayward soldier from a distant war who single-handedly lays waste to his entire village. He swears an oath of righteous vengeance but in order to fulfill it he’ll have to seek training… from the warrior woman herself. Ferocious is epic fantasy on an intimate scale, a revenge thriller like no other, one that stirs the heart as it goes for the jugular.
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: We are interested in this new original series from Mad Cave Studios.
Final Boss #1
Image Comics
Written by Tyler Kirkham
Art by Kirkham, David Miller, & Ifansyah Noor
Cover Art by Kirkham
From the dynamic creator and artist, Tyler Kirkham (Amazing Spider-Man, Green Lantern), comes a thrilling new action hero: Tommy Brazen in FINAL BOSS! Get ready for an over-the-top adventure that’s a high-octane nod to classic action stories. Trying to forge a new path, Tommy uses his newfound powers for various paid enforcer gigs and street fights, only to uncover a past far more complex than he ever imagined.
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: Tyler Kirkham is super talented, and we are excited to see what he has been up to.
John le Carré’s The Circus: Losing Control #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Matt Kindt
Art by Ibrahim Moustafa & Brad Simpson
Letters by Simon Bowland
Cover Art by Moustafa
Every day, the intelligence agents of the Circus are enmeshed in high-stakes, high-wire acts that the average citizen would never notice. They protect Britain’s most sensitive secrets — and in modern Britain, secrets are everything. At the head of it all is Control: the all-powerful puppet master who decides who goes where, who does what, and sometimes, of necessity, who lives and who dies. But now, Control has vanished.
He doesn’t show up at the office. He misses his meetings. He won’t — or can’t — answer his phone. He is, simply, nowhere. Control’s assistant Maggie is the only one who knows he’s gone, and with an imminent and critical mission in Vienna, the clock is ticking. Maggie knows every protocol, every password, and every operative — but whether something has happened to Control or whether this is part of his plan, she has no idea. Either way, she can’t trust anyone with the knowledge of his absence. Can she even trust him?
Secrets within the Circus have a way of coming unraveled, and Maggie will have to act fast… or risk the walls tumbling down around her.
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: This looks like an interesting adaptation of this material.
The Lion King #1
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by Edwin Galmon
Art by Galmon
Cover Art by Galmon
THE ONCE AND FUTURE KINGS! Get ready to return to the sweeping plains of Africa for a brand-new series of adventures starring Mufasa and Simba!
Written and illustrated by acclaimed talent EDWIN GALMON and set in the golden time before the rise of Scar, The Lion King follows the ruler of the Pride Lands and his young heir as they navigate the complex network of relationships that make up their kingdom — and learn firsthand how to defend it against the forces that threaten it both from the outside and from within.
Featuring appropriately epic covers by GALMON, MEGHAN HETRICK, JACOB EDGAR, and GIULIA LOMURNO, The Lion King #1 deepens the bond between father and son that lies at the heart of one of the greatest animated films ever made!
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: I would love to read a story about Simba with his father.
Nova: Centurion #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Jed MacKay
Art by Alvaro Lopez & Mattia Iacono
Letters by Cory Petit
Cover Art by Alessandro Cappuccio & Rachelle Rosenberg
GOT A PROBLEM? NOVA CAN HELP — FOR A PRICE! With the Xandarian Worldmind, the sentient repository of an entire extinct people’s culture and history, relying on regular (and expensive) energy infusions, Richard Rider is for hire. A deep-space drifter weighed down with the truth of the terrible lie that the new Galactic Union was built upon, Nova is a corps of one. But how long can he keep his hands clean handling dirty money?
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is definitely one of the most exciting things for me to come out of Imperial.
Spawn: The Dark Ages #1
Image Comics
Written by Liam Sharp
Art by Sharp
Cover Art by Sharp
Saxon barbarians harry Britain from the east. In the North, the Pictish threat looms. From the West, Hibernians send raiders from the land that shall one day be called Ireland. Aurelianus, newly anointed king, must defend Britain against all of these threats, whilst also dealing with the growing rebellion amongst his own people. For there are stories of another, more worthy king. One anointed by the old Celtic gods — whom the Christians refer to as the Devil Spawn…
An exciting new miniseries from acclaimed Artist and Writer, Liam Sharp. Epic brutality comes to the Spawn Universe.
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: Liam Sharp doing fantastically Liam Sharp things. Can’t wait to see it.
X-Men of Apocalypse #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Jeph Loeb
Art by Simone Di Meo
Cover Art by Di Meo
THE X-MEN OF APOCALYPSE VS. THE UNCANNY X-MEN!
The X-Men of Apocalypse are here in the Marvel Universe — and that’s a very bad thing for the Uncanny X-Men!
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: I am ready for this cross-timeline interaction.
New One-Shots and Specials
Abuzz TP
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Amy Chase
Art by Stelladia & Ellie Wright
Letters by Taylor Esposito
Cover Art by Stelladia
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Sparks and stingers will fly in this modern queer reimagining of Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing!
Shakespeare’s beloved romcom Much Ado About Nothing gets a modern update with an LGBTQ cast and the same classic miscommunications! Feuding senior students Ben and Beatriz drag half of Messina High into their never-ending arguments, making things difficult as budding sweethearts Hero and Claudio are asked to pick sides in the battle. All the while, the bad kids, led by outcast DJ, are plotting to capitalize on the chaos and rule the school for themselves. With college letters and prom night on the horizon, will these students find their happy ending or feel the sting of total rejection?
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: Maverick making good choices and bringing us books like this.
Anzuelo TP
Image Comics
Written by Emma Rios
Art by Rios
Cover Art by Rios
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
A gorgeous and brutal story that revolts against the notion of violence as the only response to a life without hope.
The Sea, secretly more complex than anyone imagined, rises one day. The horizon folds as the Sea absorbs the world and transforms everything that’s been pulled inside it. Three kids find themselves unmoored and lost, but brought together by the physical and mental changes wrought by the tides and a desire to avoid harming any living creature.
Anzuelo is the new hand-watercolored graphic novel by the Eisner award-winning cartoonist Emma Ríos (Pretty Deadly, Mirror, I.D.).
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: Emma Freaking Rios!!!! AAAHHHH!!!!
DC / Marvel: Batman / Deadpool #1
DC Comics
Written by G.Willow Wilson, Grant Morrison, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson, Mariko Tamaki, Scott Snyder, & Tom Taylor
Art by Dan Mora, Hayden Sherman, Bruno Redondo, Amanda Conner, & Denys Cowan
Cover Art by Dan Mora
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
The Dark Knight and the Merc with a Mouth team up for an adventure so mind-bending you’ll think you’re in a dream! Brought to you by legendary creators Grant Morrison and Dan Mora! And be sure not to miss these incredible extra stories:
Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, and Joshua Williamson team up with Hayden Sherman for a magical Constantine/Doctor Strange tale! Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo bring you an epic Nightwing/Dick Grayson and Laura Kinney/Wolverine story! Mariko Tamaki and Amanda Conner smash Harley Quinn and the Hulk together! G. Willow Wilson and Denys Cowan tell an electrifying Static and Ms. Marvel yarn!
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: There are so many fantastic creative talents and amazing story ideas in this one shot.
In Bloom TP
Boom! Studios
Written by Michael W. Conrad
Art by John Pearson & Lola Bonato
Letters by Pat Brosseau
Cover Art by Pearson
COLLECTED EDITION
43% of the cells within a healthy human body belong to something other than the human host. Microbiomes, invasive bacteria, fungal and viral agents, and something else, something… more.
When the BLOOM happened, humanity was changed forever, transformed by symbiotic fungal megasystems that infected their bodies.
Some affected people grew new body parts, some found their personalities changed in radical new ways, while others reported contact with some… other intelligence not their own.
In this revolutionary new world, Agent Spears finds himself investigating a series of mysterious murders, a chain of violence that leads him to a terrifying question on which the fate of every living being rests.
Visionary writer Michael W. Conrad (Wonder Woman, Bizarre Adventures) and Eisner Award-winning illustrator John J. Pearson (The Infernals) present a boundary-pushing science fiction saga that will change the way you see the human body.
Collects In Bloom #1-5.
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is one of our favorite stories of the year now all collected in one volume.
Josie and the Pussycats Annual Spectacular #1
Archie Comics
Written by Dan Parent
Art by Parent, Bob Smith, & Glenn Whitmore
Letters by Jack Morelli
Cover Art by Parent & Vincent Lovallo
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
Halloween may be over, but it‘s monsters vs. Pussycats in this spectacular issue, now packed with over 30 PAGES of content, including a BRAND NEW STORY! The South Side Serpents are once again looking to toughen up their image, and they’re trying to last overnight in a haunted section of the woods, where witches have been rumored to once exist. But when the Pussycats arrive on the scene, more than their musical pasts are called into question!
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: Yep. I’ll take me some Dan Parent writing and drawing Josie any time!
Spider-Man: Holiday Spectacular #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Rainbow Rowell
Art by Paco Medina, Luciano Vecchio, Nathan Stockman, Bob Quinn, & Matt Milla
Letters by Joe Sabino
Cover Art by Vechchio
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
HOLIDAY PLANS NO MORE!
Peter Parker is all alone for the holidays… Luckily, the Spectacular Spider-Man has some amazing friends he can celebrate with! But can the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, the X-Men, Daredevil and more handle winter with the wisecrackin’ Web-Head? Or will the Thing have to send Spidey packing to ensure a silent night? Rainbow Rowell and a bevy of Marvel’s finest artists deliver a holiday romp to all the good boys and girls who read magnificent Marvel mags!
Release Date: November 19, 2025
PCS NOTES: It’s the holiday season!!!
