Hey Squad Members!
New Number Ones is back! Did you miss us? We missed you. After a too long hiatus this regular column returns to your feed. Comics has continued without this weekly primer on the new debut issues, but we want to share the new comics with our readers and point out the cool stuff coming out each week.
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, there is not a huge list, but it is filled with interesting book after interesting book.
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, Dark Horse Comics, Mad Cave Studios, Dynamite Entertainment, Fantagraphics Books, Titan Comics, 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
Concrete: Stars Over Sand #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Paul Chadwick
Art by Chadwick
Cover Art by Chadwick
The Eisner, Harvey and Reuben Award-winning Concrete is back with a 5-part story of amnesia, wilderness, and suspense.
Concrete has entered the desert and not come back. Larry and Maureen are frantic. Reports come that he is wandering the nearby arid mountains, covered with blood, attacking people. Concrete, lightning-struck, confused, roams a frightening world he can’t understand. Roars tear across the sky. A strange globe rises. His body is sheathed in stone. He thinks he is being hunted. People are a threat.
His journey back to life, and his friends’ dire search against a looming deadline, is as strange and tense as any Concrete story ever told.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: What an amazing gift to have in the return of this column. New Concrete comics is a massive event in the medium. We are so excited to see what this comic has to offer new and old fans.
Gun Honey: Doubles Down #1
Titan Comics
Written by Charles Ardai
Art by Ang Hor Kheng & Asifur Rahman
Letters by David Leach
Cover Art by Stanley Lau
When a botched attack on the dictator of Russia sends three identical-looking men fleeing Moscow for Siberia, Finland, and the Black Sea, Gun Honey Joanna Tan is offered $10 million to separate the real target from his doubles — and make sure the right man dies.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: This property has always been entertaining. That is because of the subversion of Charles Ardai imbedding smart crime stories in the trappings of an eye-candy comic book. We look forward to more.
Hellboy in Love: Obsidian #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden
Art by Alex Nieto
Letters by Clem Robbins
Cover Art by Nieto
Anastasia is called to Crete when an excavation team unearths a tomb with striking similarities to the engraved skull stolen from her by a witch in India. The trail for proof of the mysterious Suaren Artea society may not have gone as cold as she thought, but danger still lurks behind every turn.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: Another classic creator-owned character returns this week with a new story. The Hellboy in Love comics have been a lot of fun and this looks like more of the same.
Land of Never #1
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Steve Orlando
Art by Miguel Mora & Jorge Fares Maese Ramirez
Letters by Micah Myers
Cover Art by Mora
Six months ago, Jim Hoke’s daughter Wendy disappeared from her room. All Jim caught was a glimpse of a hulking figure at the window—the kind of late night vision that’s easily written off as a hallucination. No one believes Jim’s story—and six months later, the retired pathologist is just looking for anyone who’ll still listen. And even if he finds someone, should they believe him? Jim already retired early for planting evidence against an alleged killer. His word doesn’t mean much—and it means even less with him as a suspect in Wendy’s disappearance. He can’t leave town, he can’t forget what he saw, and he get any sleep thanks to the nightmares.
With Wendy’s disappearance declared the coldest of cases, Jim believes he’s the only one who cares about finding his daughter. And he’s got a withered Father’s Day card in his pocket to remind him—all he can do is his best. So he better step it up. Jim goes into business for himself, tracking leads and harassing anyone who’s polite enough to listen to his story. He dives into rabbit hole after rabbit hole, until he meets someone else like him. Then another, then another, a whole community of people who’ve lost someone to a cryptid they call the Floating Man—just like the huge creature Jim saw take Wendy. Suddenly, Wendy’s abductor has a name—the Floating Man. And Jim’s obsession has direction—he’s got to track down the Floating Man, uncover his crimes and free not just his daughter Wendy, but everyone who’s been lost.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: The solicitation to this book has me hooked. I was going to read it anyway, because Steve Orlando is one of the best comics writers out there, but I am excited to see what this story has to say.
Spider-Man: Long Way Home #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Jonathan Hickman & Adam Kubert
Art by Adam Kubert & Arthur Hesli
Letters by Ariana Maher
Cover Art by Kubert & Frank Martin
A DARK HOMECOMING AWAITS…
It’s a world before the Punisher. A world where the existence of the Hulk is but a whisper of a rumor. A world where A.I.M. has just developed a Cosmic Cube in the jungles of South America. Frank Castle, Bruce Banner and Peter Parker are all on a mission to keep the Cube out of the wrong hands — including each other’s. In this three-way free-for-all for the power of the cosmos, who will come out on top?
Legendary creators Jonathan Hickman and Adam Kubert team up to tell the grittiest Spider-Man story of the ages!
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: This is a great creative team to take on this intriguing premise for everyone’s favorite wall crawler.
The Trillion Dollar Kid #1
Image Comics / Ghost Machine
Written by Geoff Johns & Peter J. Tomasi
Art by Stefano Simeone
Letters by Rob Leigh
Cover Art by Francis Manapul
Among us are…The Unbelievables, and Tommy Townsend III—the world’s first 13-year-old trillionaire—wants to find them! His world abounds with wonder and spectacle, including a robot bodyguard named Sterling, all trying to make the world a better place. But Tommy learns quickly that money can’t buy everything…and propels himself on a journey that sets the stage for this entire new universe!
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: This is the beginning of a big crossover event in the Ghost Machine universe. It has been percolating for a while and we are looking forward to this book and the event as well.
New One-Shots and Specials
Memories of Giselle TP
Image Comics
Written by Katia Vecchio
Art by Vecchio
Cover Art by Vecchio
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
A coming-of-age, slice-of-life graphic novel that explores the psychological journey of a young woman carrying the weight of childhood trauma.
As the Memories of Giselle unfolds with quiet inevitability, a brother and sister move through the fragile terrain of a childhood marked by hidden abuse, silence, and loss. Giselle is pursued by the memory of her late grandmother and by a single, recurring image—an empty boat—an emblem of the truth she has spent years repressing. As adolescence draws her into the bewildering realms of desire, vulnerability, and trust, the fractured pieces of her past begin to align, revealing a story long buried and the shadow it has cast over her and her brother’s present-day lives.
Memories of Giselle is a haunting, deeply compassionate coming-of-age novel that explores the slippery nature of memory, the psychological wounds we walk with, and the fierce, quiet bravery required to reclaim a life shaped by trauma.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: Well, this book looks like it should come with a box of tissues, and that sounds fantastic to us.
Pear Shape TP
Fantagraphics Books
Written by Nick Thorburn
Art by Thorburn
Cover Art by Thorburn
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
A good old fashioned underground comic for our current times: a heady bouillabaisse of humor, philosophy, profanity, absurdism, and existentialism. From the pen of multi-talented indie musician (Islands, Unicorns) and cartoonist (Penguins) Nick Thorburn comes this perfect object of the comic book form. A 64-page color one-shot menagerie of interconnected comic strips that smartly channels the tradition of underground comix.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: I have been on a bit of a classic underground kick lately, so this new book is right up my alley.
The Phantom vs. the Red Dragons #1
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Ray Fawkes
Art by Lynne Yoshii & Juancho Vélez
Letters by Taylor Esposito
Cover Art by Alessio Zonno
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
THE PHANTOM MUST DIE!
But how do you kill a Ghost? The Red Dragons are gonna try—and anyone who gets in the way is just collateral damage! When someone in The Phantom’s familiar cowl starts sinking the Dragons’ pirate operations, Princess Sin goes on the warpath. The South China Sea belongs to the Red Dragons—and they’re not afraid of one man in a mask. Not yet. Another thrilling installment in Ray Fawkes’ action-packed adventure with guest artist Lynne Yoshii!
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: Ray Fawkes has proven he can write really good Phantom stories, and we are excited to see Lynne Yoshii’s art in this book.
The Stitch Book: Top Secret Adventures HC
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by Jeff Parker
Art by Parker
Cover Art by Parker
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
The first in a series of exceedingly silly original graphic novels about Stitch, as told by Lilo (and drawn by Stitch). Pleakley receives an interplanetary message: The United Galactic Federation wants to build a series of journals that explain the life and times of Experiment 626, a.k.a. Stitch. Pleakley humbly agrees to take on the task…but the Federation doesn’t want HIM to write the journals…they want Lilo to write them! Lilo agrees, and thinks the best way to tell Stitch’s story is for Lilo to write it, and Stitch himself illustrate it.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: This is a great concept and we are excited that it is out in the wild this week. We spoke with Jeff Parker about what went into the making of this book on a recent SquadCAST. Check it out here.
What If…? Thor #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Torunn Grønbekk
Art by Sergio Fernández Dávila, Aure Jimenez, & Bryan Valenza
Letters by Joe Sabino
Cover Art by Lucas Werneck
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
WHAT IF… THOR GOT SPIDER-MAN’S SYMBIOTE SUIT?
Amid the chaos, there comes a costume — but not to the hero you know! Legend has it that bonding with the symbiote suit made Thor mightier still. But what shadows lurking in the Ten Realms would take interest in such a powerful pairing?
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: I love the concept of this What If?. We spoke to Torunn Grønbekk about how she came up with this idea on the Pop Culture SquadCAST in March.
